Cultural studies
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Cultural studies
Hardback. A collection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, this text provides a resource for scholars and students and an introduction for general readers. Editor(s): De Bary, William Theodore; Cohen, Irene. Series: Introduction to Asian Civilizations. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; HRKN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1589.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 944
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109383
- ISBN
- 9780231109383
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Condition: New
€ 143.38€ 107.87
€ 143.38
€ 107.87
Hardback. Considering issues such as pain and fertility, and exploring both the language of medical discourse and the silence of personal mystery, she reveals the numerous ways in which giving birth is narrated in the contemporary U.S. Pollock draws on cultural criticism, performance studies, and narrative theory to unpack this long-ignored genre. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFHF; JHBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109147
- ISBN
- 9780231109147
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Condition: New
€ 118.50€ 90.75
€ 118.50
€ 90.75
Paperback. Covers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics. Editor(s): Kritzman, Lawrence D. Translator(s): DeBevoise, Malcolm. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 206 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1624.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 816
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231107907
- ISBN
- 9780231107907
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€ 46.99€ 33.76
€ 46.99
€ 33.76
Paperback. Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role reading played in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. The "ubiquitous urban texts"--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs to handbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a new kind of public life that emerged first in New York. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 28 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231107457
- ISBN
- 9780231107457
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.39
€ 37.99
€ 27.39
Hardback. What has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche's famous announcement of the "death of God"? What is the possibility of religion, specifically Christianity, thriving in our postmodern era? This book addresses these questions. Translator(s): D'Isanto, Luca. Series: Italian Academy Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106283
- ISBN
- 9780231106283
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Condition: New
€ 57.19
€ 57.19
Hardback. A leading observer of Chinese literature, society, and politics lifts the veil on the culture wars that have raged between officials and dissidents in the period before and after the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Num Pages: 512 pages, 22 photos; cartoons. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 40. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106146
- ISBN
- 9780231106146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.90€ 100.95
€ 133.90
€ 100.95
Paperback. The first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Reagan revolution on African-American political life. The book also critically assesses the Clinton administration's record on race and the Democratic party response to affirmative action, welfare, and other aspects of the African-American political agenda. Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics into the 21st Century. Num Pages: 544 pages, 80 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; JFC; JFSL3; JPH; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104197
- ISBN
- 9780231104197
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.85
€ 42.99
€ 30.85
Hardback. Lewin explores the intersections of kinship, community, morality, and love bound up in same-sex marriage through the experiences of lesbian and gay couples who have sanctified their relationships in commitment ceremonies. Through detailed profiles, Lewin provides the first comprehensive account of lesbian and gay weddings in America. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231103923
- ISBN
- 9780231103923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.28€ 79.32
€ 104.28
€ 79.32
Paperback. An exploration of the pig in Judeo-Christian culture and European anti-semitism, this work chronicles its cultural and religious character. The author details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans. Translator(s): Volk, Carol. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3: 5,. BIC Classification: HRC; JFC; JFHF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 401
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231103671
- ISBN
- 9780231103671
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Hardback. An exploration of the pig in Judeo-Christian culture and European anti-semitism, this work chronicles its cultural and religious character. The author details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans. Translator(s): Volk, Carol. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3: 5,. BIC Classification: HRC; JFC; JFSR1; JHBT; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231103664
- ISBN
- 9780231103664
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Condition: New
€ 118.50€ 89.70
€ 118.50
€ 89.70
Paperback. A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity. Editor(s): Fried, Albert. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DQ; JFCX; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102353
- ISBN
- 9780231102353
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.50
€ 54.99
€ 39.50
Paperback. Providing an historical and cultural exploration, this text demonstrates the role Japanese cinema played in the 1930s in the construction of a national identity, and in terms of the larger context of Japan's encounter with the West and with modernity. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APFA; JFC; JPFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102315
- ISBN
- 9780231102315
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.85
€ 42.99
€ 30.85
Hardback. A detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JFSK2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231096928
- ISBN
- 9780231096928
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Condition: New
€ 118.50€ 89.70
€ 118.50
€ 89.70
Paperback. Volume 1 addresses the development, through the eighteenth century, of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism. Series: Records of Civilization Sources & Study S. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- (21st)
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231086042
- ISBN
- 9780231086042
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Condition: New
€ 53.32€ 42.10
€ 53.32
€ 42.10
Paperback. This examination of the events of the Iranian Revolution highlights class politics and the contention for power within the context of changing ideological relations between the state and civil society. The author characterizes the post-revolutionay order as a Third World variant of fascism. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBTV; JFC; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078672
- ISBN
- 9780231078672
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.85
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Paperback. In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 307 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231076531
- ISBN
- 9780231076531
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.86
€ 42.99
€ 30.86
Paperback. Wood explores the relationships between narrative form and style and sexual politics, probing the political and sexual ramifications of fascism and cinema, marriage and the couple, romantic love, and representations of women, race and gender in films from the United States, Europe, and Japan. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 film stills. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; 1KBB; APFA; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231076050
- ISBN
- 9780231076050
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Hardback. More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics. Editor(s): Childers, Joseph; Hentzi, Gary. Num Pages: 362 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA; GBC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072427
- ISBN
- 9780231072427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.90€ 100.95
€ 133.90
€ 100.95
Hardback. A reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231070508
- ISBN
- 9780231070508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.28€ 79.32
€ 104.28
€ 79.32
Paperback. Primary sources in the history, philosophy, and religions of South Asia: Volume II focuses on the subcontinent's history from 1498 to 1984, with such topics as the opening of India to the West; Hindu and Muslin social and religious movements; and Pakistan's formation as an Islamic state. Editor(s): Hay, Stephen; De Bary, William Theodore. Series: Introduction to Oriental Civilization. Num Pages: 464 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFCX; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 35. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231064156
- ISBN
- 9780231064156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.50
€ 54.99
€ 39.50