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Paperback. The story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Series: Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations. Num Pages: 576 pages, 36 photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 35. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338413
ISBN
9780822338413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.33

Paperback. An ethnographic consideration of why the Cuban government has allowed criticism of its policies to be expressed in Cuban film, visual art, and music over the past fifteen years. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338918
ISBN
9780822338918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Continuing film lovers' ongoing conversation about the low, the bad, and the sleazy face of cinema, this book examines the ineffable quality of "sleaze" in relation to a range of issues, including the production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the ever-shifting terrain of reception and taste. Editor(s): Sconce, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 352 pages, 59 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339649
ISBN
9780822339649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. Sarah Banet-Weiser explores how the cable network Nickelodeon combines an appeal to kids formidable purchasing power with assertions of their political and cultural power. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
50032nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339939
ISBN
9780822339939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Presents the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum ..the Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342007
ISBN
9780822342007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil. 296 pages, 65 illustrations. Editor(s): Whitehead, Neil L. In 1550, the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. This title tells the story of his nine-month captivity among the Tupi Indians. It presents a dramatic first-person account of his capture, captivity, and eventual escape. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JHMC. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight: 442. Translator(s): Harbsmeier, Michael.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342311
ISBN
9780822342311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Chronicles the history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, from the creation of the local agricultural syndicates in the 1920s through the protests of 1990. This work reveals the central role of women in Indigenous movements and the history of productive collaborations between rural Indigenous activists and urban leftist intellectuals. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; JFC; JFSL9; JHM; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342793
ISBN
9780822342793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343066
ISBN
9780822343066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.98

Paperback. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, this title describes how native peoples are utilizing both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, to advocate for resources and rights, and to preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. Editor(s): Wilson, Pamela; Stewart, Michelle. Num Pages: 376 pages, 30 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343080
ISBN
9780822343080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Explores the multiple meanings of the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and the different reactions it elicited: among the Amsterdam-based artistic and intellectual subculture, the wider Dutch public, the local and international Muslim communities, the radical Islamic movement, and the broader international community. Series: Politics, History, Culture. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JMC; JFC; JKV; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344063
ISBN
9780822344063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. A history of Sosua, a Dominican Republic settlement founded as a refuge for Jews fleeing Nazi Europe, and an analysis of the geopolitics underlying the settlement s formation. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 480 pages, 26 photos, 10 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HRJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344070
ISBN
9780822344070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

Paperback. An argument that tourist literature and U.S. military guides have shaped Americans understanding of Vietnam and projections of U.S. power since the mid-twentieth century. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJF; HBJK; JFC; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344148
ISBN
9780822344148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. An argument that the sensation of speed (made available to many through the mass-produced automobile) was the quintessential way that people experienced modernity. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344421
ISBN
9780822344421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. A critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. It interrogates European discourses on free movement and a utopian unity-in-diversity in light of contemporary debates and practices in Europe, social and cultural theories, historical texts, media representations, and critical art projects. Num Pages: 220 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345794
ISBN
9780822345794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture. 312 pages, 28 illustrations. Assesses the popular literary culture that has developed in the United States. This book describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. It highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346067
ISBN
9780822346067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.87

Paperback. An influential work originally published in Mexico in 1970; the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch seeks to identify and recover indigenous and popular ways of thinking devalued since colonization. Translator(s): Lugones, Maria; Price, Joshua. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 halftones, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HP; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346418
ISBN
9780822346418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. A study of post-Suharto Indonesia that focuses on the role of architecture and urban space in defining social changes, as well the role that such spaces play in forming social and political identities, particularly social memories. It also looks at the roles of architecture and urban development in Indonesia's efforts to move forward. Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AMK; JFCD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346470
ISBN
9780822346470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Feminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the U.S. respond to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades. Editor(s): Fregoso, Rosa Linda; Bejarano, Cynthia L. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 photos, 2 line drawings, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSJ1; JKV; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346814
ISBN
9780822346814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. A memoir recounting a family s efforts to locate and free a young Brazilian activist arrested, imprisoned, and tortured by the military dictatorship. Editor(s): Green, James N. Translator(s): Nielsen, Rex P. Num Pages: 208 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLS; BG; HB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347361
ISBN
9780822347361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348221
ISBN
9780822348221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

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