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Paperback. Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals how issues are framed and topics are chosen. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JPVN; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099533115
ISBN
9780099533115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. A vivid, subtle and disturbing account of what people do in the aftermath of a major 'natural' disaster, this book will change your way of thinking about such calamities and their impact on the human spirit. Series: Society and History in the Indian Ocean. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JMC; GTB; JKSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 169 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849042871
ISBN
9781849042871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.70

Paperback. Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141187426
ISBN
9780141187426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.73

Hardback. In December 1991, the Soviet Union passed into history as a legal entity, breaking apart into 15 successor states. This work explains why. It points out that support for dissolution was limited to a handful of republics that included only a small portion of the Soviet population. Series: Soviet Bloc and After. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742524521
ISBN
9780742524521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.38

Paperback. In December 1991, the Soviet Union passed into history as a legal entity, breaking apart into 15 successor states. This work explains why. It points out that support for dissolution was limited to a handful of republics that included only a small portion of the Soviet population. Series: Soviet Bloc and After. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742524538
ISBN
9780742524538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.76

Hardcover. This collection attempts to analyze the present problems that face Israel and chart the possible future. The book places these issues in the context of the New World Order, the establishment of which includes Israel's improving international relations and the continuing Middle East peace talks. Editor(s): Karsh, Efraim; Mahler, Gregory S. Num Pages: 256 pages, tables, index. BIC Classification: 1FBH; GTJ; JFSR1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372. Fine copy with original cloth cover.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
I. B. Tauris London
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
SKU
KNH0011485
ISBN
9781850437314
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Hardcover. This collection attempts to analyze the present problems that face Israel and chart the possible future. The book places these issues in the context of the New World Order, the establishment of which includes Israel's improving international relations and the continuing Middle East peace talks. Editor(s): Karsh, Efraim; Mahler, Gregory S. Num Pages: 256 pages, tables, index. BIC Classification: 1FBH; GTJ; JFSR1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372. Fine copy with original cloth cover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
I. B. Tauris London
Number of pages
256
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KNH0011486
ISBN
9781850437314
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Hardback. This work asserts the distinctive place that whites can take in the fight for racial justice, bringing together interviews with white antiracist activists from across North America. These whites show the multitude of ways whites can be proactive in combating modern racism. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742515819
ISBN
9780742515819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.96

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813524948
ISBN
9780813524948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.67

Paperback. The current Arab-Israeli peace process and its historical context Series: Indiana Series in Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 452 pages, 37 b&w illus., 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBX; GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222121
ISBN
9780253222121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.08

Paperback. Editor(s): Barkan, Elazar; Barkey, Karen. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 440 pages, 4 maps and 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: GTJ; HRAM2; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169950
ISBN
9780231169950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.60

Paperback. A Palestinian Melkite priest tells the story of his life spent working for peace and reconciliation among Israeli Jews, Christians and Muslims. From the destruction of his boyhood village to his efforts to build summer camps for children of all religions, his moving story brings hope. Series: Erma Konya Kess Lives of the Just & Virtuous S. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJ; BG; GTJ; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268019631
ISBN
9780268019631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.25

Paperback. Kedourie attributes much of Britain's faulty and disastrous handling of Middle East problems to what he calls the 'Chatham House Version'. The episodes that Kedourie investigates show 'successive and cumulative manifestations of illusion, misjudgement, maladroitness and failure'. Together they point to hard lessons for the Bush admin. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566635615
ISBN
9781566635615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.63

Paperback. Argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; GTB; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345657
ISBN
9780822345657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626372368
ISBN
9781626372368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.12

Paperback. This study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; GTB; JHBD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618156
ISBN
9780748618156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.42

Paperback. When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. She was identified as a Canadian mill worker named Berengera Caswell. This work features two accounts of her death, both fictional, and an introduction that places these accounts in a historical context. Series: True Crime History. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, notes, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BTC; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873389181
ISBN
9780873389181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.28

Hardback. Focuses on the impact on women's land rights from the contemporary drive towards the formulation and implementation of land tenure reforms which aim primarily at the private registration of land. This title features local level research that demonstrates that another world is possible. Editor(s): Englert, Birgit; Daley, Elizabeth. Series: Eastern Africa Series. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; GTB; JFSJ1; JPVH3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 11. Weight in Grams: 390. Series: Eastern Africa Series. 194 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Englert, Birgit; Daley, Elizabeth. Focuses on the impact on women's land rights from the contemporary drive towards the formulation and implementation of land tenure reforms which aim primarily at the private registration of land. This title features local level research that demonstrates that another world is possible. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1HFG; GTB; JFSJ1; JPVH3. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 11. Weight: 256.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
James Currey
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847016119
ISBN
9781847016119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.78

Paperback. An examination of visual art in post-independence Senegal. It explores the complex interplay of cultural nationalism, negotiations of postcolonial identity, and an emergent artistic modernism. Highlighting the distinctive cultural history that shaped Sengalese modernism, it reveals its innovations, diversity, and dynamism. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 344 pages, 14 color photos, 78 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; ACXJ; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822333951
ISBN
9780822333951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.78

Paperback. Documents the search for the origins of the iconic "femme fatale" who was depicted as a dangerous, depraved, and deadly woman. This book argues that the evolution of the femme fatale, with both literary and visual links to the biblical Eve figure, came as a response to increasing feminism and the desire by men to halt its spread. Num Pages: 360 pages, 126 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AC; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 181 x 20. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252073236
ISBN
9780252073236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.56

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