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North America
Paperback. Includes a chapter that looks at the evolving responses to the acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Num Pages: 408 pages, 151 b&w photos, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705258
- ISBN
- 9780292705258
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.22
€ 41.99
€ 37.22
Paperback. Reveals the impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison in Britain and the US, during the 'war on terror'. Num Pages: 192 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JPVH; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745333267
- ISBN
- 9780745333267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.04
€ 26.99
€ 19.04
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Compass Point Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780756549985
- ISBN
- 9780756549985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.78
€ 10.99
€ 9.78
Paperback. What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high school students define white identities, this book offers insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JFSP2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328926
- ISBN
- 9780822328926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.59
€ 30.99
€ 27.59
Paperback. In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? And what would American literature look like without it? This book takes up this debate. Editor(s): Dimock, Wai-chee; Buell, Lawrence. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press New Jersey
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128528
- ISBN
- 9780691128528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. Drawing on a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including aesthetics, anthropology, phenomenology, and ecocriticism, "Shades of Green" demonstrates the agility with which human thought about the natural and the racial leapt across formal epistemological, professional, and artistic boundaries. Num Pages: 360 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820337807
- ISBN
- 9780820337807
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Condition: New
€ 44.82
€ 44.82
Hardback. This in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand provides the most extensive and systematic empirical examination, to date, of the reasons firms achieve the levels of environmental performance that they do. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 1MBF; 1MBN; KNDS; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748063
- ISBN
- 9780804748063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.27
€ 139.27
Paperback. This in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand provides the most extensive and systematic empirical examination, to date, of the reasons firms achieve the levels of environmental performance that they do. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 1MBF; 1MBN; KND; RNK; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748520
- ISBN
- 9780804748520
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
hardcover. This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the 18th and 19th centuries up through the 2000 census. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHBC; JHBD; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804740135
- ISBN
- 9780804740135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.86
€ 129.86
Paperback. This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the 18th and 19th centuries up through the 2000 census. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHBC; JHBD; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740593
- ISBN
- 9780804740593
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. A collection of 14 essays on sexual behaviour, from adolescence to old age, and covering such groups as singles, married couples, homosexuals and African-American men and women. This volume also looks at topics such as the effects of chronic disease and medication on sexual functioning. Editor(s): Rossi, Alice S. Series: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development. Num Pages: 435 pages, 11 line drawings, 31 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 435
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226728704
- ISBN
- 9780226728704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.74
€ 40.99
€ 31.74
Hardcover. Taking up topics as diverse and timely as the work of the FBI profilers, the pornography debates, and the ritual meanings of fraternity gang rape, this text illuminates the chronic masculine anxieties that seek compensation in fantasies of sexual coercion and in sexual offences against women. Num Pages: 272 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009172
- ISBN
- 9780674009172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.60€ 90.59
€ 100.60
€ 90.59
Hardcover. In studying the treatment of battered, raped and sexually-harassed women in the two countries, she has found that, contrary to conventional expectation, the ability of the decentralized American state to innovate effectively has been consistently underestimated, whereas Sweden's ability to do the same has often been exaggerated. Num Pages: 160 pages, Bibliog., Index. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 1KBB; JFFE3; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 172 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571810717
- ISBN
- 9781571810717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.37
€ 154.37
Hardback. Focuses on the interplay between sexual science and legal decision-making, giving insights into such controversial social and sexual topics as rape, pornography, lesbian motherhood, and sex discrimination. Green examines how the law weighs the desires of the individual against social standards. Num Pages: 336 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFM; JMU; LN; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674802681
- ISBN
- 9780674802681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.10
€ 53.99
€ 45.10
Paperback. Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious. Series: Gender Relations in the American Experience. Num Pages: 448 pages, 5, 4 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801878916
- ISBN
- 9780801878916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.27
€ 34.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. Including documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the late-20th-century gay culture to emerge, this text aims to provide a definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the USA from 1940 to 1970. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFJ; JFSG; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226142678
- ISBN
- 9780226142678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.02
€ 32.99
€ 26.02
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. In this interdisciplinary study of Asian-white miscegenation from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century, Koshy traces the shifting gender and racial hierarchies produced by antimiscegenation laws and their role in shaping cultural norms. These laws thus turned sex acts into race acts and engendered new meanings for both. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747295
- ISBN
- 9780804747295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Hardback. In this interdisciplinary study of Asian-white miscegenation from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century, Koshy traces the shifting gender and racial hierarchies produced by antimiscegenation laws and their role in shaping cultural norms. These laws thus turned sex acts into race acts and engendered new meanings for both. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747288
- ISBN
- 9780804747288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.04
€ 127.04
Hardback. Argues that the achievement of equality for lesbian and gay citizens is part of the unfinished business of modern democracy. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590. "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-269) and index. Commissioning organisation: Morris B. Kaplan. xix, 281 p. 24 cm. Paperback. Good clean copy with tight binding." Keywords: "Gay & Lesbian - General,Gay & Lesbian - Political & Social Issues,Subjects - Education & Languages - New & Used Textbooks - Social Scien"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KEX0069446
- ISBN
- 9780415905145
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 84.39€ 4.99
€ 84.39
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE2; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 6. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594547850
- ISBN
- 9781594547850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.05€ 80.34
€ 116.05
€ 80.34
Paperback. African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are commonly referred to as "down low" or "DL" men. This book explores the DL phenomenon, offering an innovative analysis of the significance of media, space, and ideals of black masculinity in understanding down low communities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK2; JFSL3; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226096537
- ISBN
- 9780226096537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.71
€ 33.99
€ 26.71
Hardcover. Editor(s): Chaney, Quinton; Merrill, Karen. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE2; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619425095
- ISBN
- 9781619425095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.15€ 114.97
€ 168.15
€ 114.97
From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed insufficiently stringent to southerners, who often sought other redress. This title presents the 'honor defense' in six celebrated murder trials, 1896-1977. Num Pages: 356 pages, 48 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; JKV; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726628
- ISBN
- 9780896726628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.52
€ 32.99
€ 29.52