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Cultural studies

Hardback. In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and cultural pragmatics are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509518128
ISBN
9781509518128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.37

Hardback. This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture. Num Pages: 357 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231082907
ISBN
9780231082907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.57
€ 57.39

Paperback. Collection of essays focusing on cultural policy and production after the Mexican revolution Editor(s): Vaughan, Mary Kay; Lewis, Stephen. Num Pages: 396 pages, 36 illustrations (20 in color). BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336686
ISBN
9780822336686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.67

Hardback. A collection of folk tales from the provinces of Mexico. Series: World Folklore Series. Num Pages: 223 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DQ; JFC; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 764.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781563087035
ISBN
9781563087035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.98

Paperback. This reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career. Editor(s): Regan, Stephen. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631202493
ISBN
9780631202493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.85

Paperback. How can America be so powerful and yet so innocent? How can a nation so clever at business and selling its products overseas be so oblivious to how outsiders regard it? This book explains to Americans what the world really thinks of their nation and why, and to non-Americans why America is the way it is. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and yellowing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KOC0017836
ISBN
9780747563952
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509503728
ISBN
9781509503728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.14

Paperback. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this work, the author seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from the anthropocentric model and its rigid dualistic conception of nature and culture as distinct phenomena. Translator(s): Godbout, Genevieve. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 121 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96. Anthropology and the Question of Nature. 90 pages. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this work, the author seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from the anthropocentric model and its rigid dualistic conception of nature and culture as distinct phenomena. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Dimension: 180 x 121 x 6. Weight: 96. Translator(s): Godbout, Genevieve.
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press
Number of pages
90
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780984201020
ISBN
9780984201020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.59

Paperback. A book about one of the great stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. It documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within an economy of cultural prestige. Num Pages: 432 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674030435
ISBN
9780674030435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.66

Paperback. Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. This book simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099563433
ISBN
9780099563433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Though his subjects were diverse, French social theorist Roger Caillois focused on issues crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer a perspective on many of twentieth-century France's most significant intellectual movements and figures. This book offers an introduction to the writing of Caillois (1913-1978). Editor(s): Frank, Claudine. Translator(s): Naish, Camille. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 624.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330684
ISBN
9780822330684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.70

Paperback. These essays form a saucy picture of how Toronto sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants. Editor(s): Palassio, Christina; Wilcox, Alana. Num Pages: 360 pages, 50 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552452196
ISBN
9781552452196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.11

Paperback. Presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Marcie Cohen Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. Num Pages: 496 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; HBTB; JFCV; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 875.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469629957
ISBN
9781469629957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.26

Hardback. Covers the movements, concepts and figures associated with European modernism. This title provides a ranging resource both to the canon of 'High Modernism' and to theoretical perspectives that have contributed to the renewed interest in Modernism and have lent it renewed range and critical rigour in the early twenty-first century. Editor(s): Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Taxidou, Olga. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH; GBC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748637027
ISBN
9780748637027
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 216.55
€ 208.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: HBTS; JFC; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468853
ISBN
9780226468853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. A study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigration Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335917
ISBN
9780822335917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.67

Paperback. Local, diverse and resilient -- the new culture of food Num Pages: 192 pages, B&W photos, charts. BIC Classification: JFCV; KNAC; TVF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865717732
ISBN
9780865717732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.42

Paperback. Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Series: New French Thought Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFCK; JFCX; JPHV; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691102627
ISBN
9780691102627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 33.80

Paperback. Reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. This book traces how liberal binary concepts of individual freedom and social constraint influence understandings of intimacy in these two worlds. Series: Public Planet S. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 204 x 21. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338895
ISBN
9780822338895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.32

Hardback. During the Chinese Qin-Han period, there arose a regime of textual authority - overlapping but not coinciding with imperial authority. Drawing on research, this work analyzes the early elite culture, particularly in literature and in linguistic, intellectual and institutional history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSB; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847687381
ISBN
9780847687381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.84

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