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Interdisciplinary studies
Paperback. This study of American behavioural and thought patterns analyzes Americans' perceptual processes and how they contrast with the ways of thinking of other cultures. It should help the reader examine the cultural dimensions of communication and their implications for cross-cultural interaction. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; GTC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877864018
- ISBN
- 9781877864018
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
paperback. With a focus on Willa Cather's artistic principle of "the thing not named," this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction transforms the very categories-regarding gender, sexuality, race, and class-around which most recent Cather scholarship has focused. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326724
- ISBN
- 9780822326724
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.77
€ 33.99
€ 30.77
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- CABI Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851992235
- ISBN
- 9780851992235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.61
€ 121.61
hardcover. This text discusses the importance of mountain regions, and the precariousness of mountain tourism in the context of ecosystem and cultural conservation. Case studies of mountain tourism existing along with environmental sustainability and community well-being are included. Editor(s): Godde, P.; etc.; Price, M. (Environmental Change Unit, University of Oxford); Zimmermann, F.M. (Department of Geography, University of Graz, Austria). Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: GTF; KNSG; RGBS; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- CABI Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851993911
- ISBN
- 9780851993911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.74
€ 140.74
hardcover. Rapid urbanization has created a major challenge with regard to waste management and environmental protection. However, the problem can be ameliorated by turning organic waste into compost for use as an agricultural fertilizer in peri-urban areas. This book addresses these subjects. Editor(s): Drechsel, P.; Kunze, D. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HF; GTF; RBGB; TQ; TVKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- CABI Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2001
- SKU
- V9780851995489
- ISBN
- 9780851995489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 219.42
€ 219.42
hardcover. Ming and Quing China were well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender and the metaphysical realm. Each section of this book traces a particular boundary violated by the fox and examines how maneuvers across that boundary change over time. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFHF; VXQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010949
- ISBN
- 9780674010949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.34
€ 50.99
€ 42.34
hardcover. Revolutionizing received opinion of Taoism's origins in light of historic new discoveries, Harold D. Roth has uncovered China's oldest mystical text-the original expression of Taoist philosophy-and presents it here with a complete translation and commentary. Translator(s): Roth, Harold D. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231115643
- ISBN
- 9780231115643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.33
€ 142.33
paperback. Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334965
- ISBN
- 9780822334965
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.66
€ 32.99
€ 29.66
paperback. A political biography of Slobodan Milosevic by a diplomatic insider. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 1FKA; 3JJPR; GTB; HBJD; HBLW3; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 27. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780822332237
- ISBN
- 9780822332237
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.05
€ 41.99
€ 37.05
Paperback. This text considers the ebb and flow of political power and authority as a function of changes in modes of communication. It examines the emergence of printing and its impact on the transformation of medieval to the modern order and then considers the impact of digital electronic communications. Series: New Directions in World Politics. Num Pages: 334 pages, 4 photos. BIC Classification: GTC; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231107136
- ISBN
- 9780231107136
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.80
€ 46.99
€ 33.80
paperback. For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. This book includes 15 essays that address governance, production, and social life; and the role of media. Editor(s): Bloom, Peter J.; Miescher, Stephan F.; Manuh, Takyiwaa. Num Pages: 378 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; GTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253012296
- ISBN
- 9780253012296
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.75
€ 37.99
€ 33.75
hardcover. Series: Exploited Earth. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMB; BG; GTF; JFSL9; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138133389
- ISBN
- 9781138133389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.71
€ 210.71
hardcover. This text introduces globalization studies to new trends in police and military studies, highlights the cultural and political complexities of the global south, and develops new frameworks that articulate the best of feminist, political-economic, international-relations, and ethnographic perspectives. Editor(s): Amar, Paul. Series: Rethinking Globalizations. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: GTF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 175 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415577953
- ISBN
- 9780415577953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.29
€ 181.29
paperback. Offers a look at American ritual. This title focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. It explores the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant. Num Pages: 290 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFSJ; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520217911
- ISBN
- 9780520217911
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.02
€ 33.99
€ 25.02
Paperback. Shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and privilege - distinguishing themselves from other Hispanic communities in the United States - and how religion has figured in their ascension. This work explores intra-Hispanic structures of oppression operating among Cubans in Miami. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 1KJC; GTB; HR; JFSL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520238527
- ISBN
- 9780520238527
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Paperback. Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251728
- ISBN
- 9780823251728
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.64
€ 30.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Firecracker Interactive Thailand
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789747100310
- ISBN
- 9789747100310
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.63
€ 21.99
€ 20.63
paperback. A compendium of theory and research of candidate images and image formation in the US presidential elections. The book integrates issues of voter decision-making, media messages, campaigning, debate effects and political advertising into the development of political communication theory. Series: Praeger Series in Political Communication. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTC; JPHF; JPVK; JPVL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780275951610
- ISBN
- 9780275951610
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Condition: New
€ 51.81
€ 51.81
paperback. All you need to understand the dynamics of conflict -- and the joy of resolution Num Pages: 208 pages, 100 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- New Society Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865715158
- ISBN
- 9780865715158
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.42
€ 24.99
€ 21.42
Paperback. Discusses how Chinese conceptions of nationalism were affected by the "discovery" of Hawaii as a centre of the Pacific, the Philippine revolution against the United States, and the relationship between nationality and ethnicity made apparent by the Boer War in South Africa. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328674
- ISBN
- 9780822328674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32