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Paperback. This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society. Series: Studies in Design. Num Pages: 304 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719041259
ISBN
9780719041259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.03

Hardback. From hunting ethics to animal rights to tensions between hunting sub-groups, this towering collection of essays address important historical and contemporary issues regarding the culture and practice of hunting. Editor(s): Manore, Jean L.; Miner, Dale G. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, 4 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFC; WSXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774812931
ISBN
9780774812931
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.22

Paperback. Having worked for several decades in North Africa, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen is uniquely placed to ask what factors contribute to the continuity and changes characterizing the present-day Muslim world. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBM; HRH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226726151
ISBN
9780226726151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.70

Hardback. * Develops an exciting new cultural approach to the study of markets that helps to explain some of the puzzles and oddities in the way markets work. * Reveals the important and implicit role that cultural dynamics play in the way markets are organized and the way people operate within them. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745647449
ISBN
9780745647449
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Explores the complex constellation of factors that cause rural migration and determine its outcomes. Num Pages: 207 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292705920
ISBN
9780292705920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.04

Hardback. Offers a view of opera buffa in the theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. This book attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide 'sheer' pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. It shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 312 pages, 54 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ADT; AVGC4; AVGC9; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691058122
ISBN
9780691058122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.82

Paperback. Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. Num Pages: 354 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520082762
ISBN
9780520082762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.55

Hardback. 264 pages, 2 tables. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HBTB; JFCX. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 20. Weight: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231147163
ISBN
9780231147163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.35
€ 80.20

Paperback. His new epilogue is partly a guide for new historians to tackle the complexities of Cold War studies. Series: The American Moment. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801851957
ISBN
9780801851957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 24 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 35. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Zone Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
revised and updated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935408451
ISBN
9781935408451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. Num Pages: 416 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; JFCX; JMRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021693
ISBN
9780674021693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.19

Paperback. Explores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender. Editor(s): Jameson, Fredric; Miyoshi, Masao. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 b&w photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JH; JPA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Highlighting, Underlined
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321699
ISBN
9780822321699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.67

Paperback. The language of money has informed medical, psychological and political theories of sexual desire for at least 300 years. Desire, figured as libidinal energy, represented potential work-power and spending-power and hence a form of personal 'capital', an economic resource for both the individual and the collectivity. This book explores how this view Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907103575
ISBN
9781907103575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.83

Paperback. Aims to explore a range of hidden assumptions and attitudes about menstruation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
Revised, Expanded
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252014529
ISBN
9780252014529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.74

Series Editor(s): Shekhovtsov, Anton. Num Pages: 182 pages, tab: 6, b fig: 7, b&w. BIC Classification: 1D; JFC; JPF; JPWQ; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838208169
ISBN
9783838208169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.22
€ 40.69

Paperback. Series Editor(s): Shekhovtsov, Anton. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTV; JFC; JPF; JPWQ; KCP. Dimension: 153 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838207667
ISBN
9783838207667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 23.19

Paperback. Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 458 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638. Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Series: Latin America Otherwise. 458 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps, 2 figures. Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTR; JFC. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 27. Weight: 644.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
458
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350781
ISBN
9780822350781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.99

Hardback. A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, this book offers the reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBH; DSC; DSK; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129800
ISBN
9780231129800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.63

paperback. Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. This title uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; AS; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592137299
ISBN
9781592137299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.18

Hardback. Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. This title uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; AS; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5346 x 3564 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592137282
ISBN
9781592137282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.28

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