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Regional studies
Paperback. The lively history of the Jewish quarter of Marrakesh and its complex ties to Morocco's Muslim population Series: Indiana Series in Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 b&w photos, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780253218636
- ISBN
- 9780253218636
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardcover. In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila - a place that previously had existed only in fiction - had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. This book advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, resistance, and examining how they are reshaping cultural economies. Editor(s): Yeh, Emily T.; Coggins, Chris. Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 348 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JJP; 3JM; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993577
- ISBN
- 9780295993577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.88
€ 141.88
Paperback. This book is a history of the conflict-ridden privatization of communal land in the pueblo of Papantla, a Mexican Indian village transformed by the fast growth of vanilla production and exports in the second half of the 19th century. Num Pages: 408 pages, 21 tables, 7 figures, 2 illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758482
- ISBN
- 9780804758482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1K; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 280. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252062261
- ISBN
- 9780252062261
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10
Paperback. A cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QDAE; GTB; HDD; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339922
- ISBN
- 9780822339922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. Explores literature by migrant writers which has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level Num Pages: notes, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; GTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9786162150500
- ISBN
- 9786162150500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. This book locates watershed moments in the processes of gender construction by the organised power of the ruling classes and in the processes by which gender has conditioned state-making. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFSJ; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324690
- ISBN
- 9780822324690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.85
€ 32.99
€ 29.85
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€ 32.22
€ 34.99
€ 32.22
Paperback. Series: Contradiction series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 10. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816642847
- ISBN
- 9780816642847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
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
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
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
€ 68.86
€ 68.86
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
€ 41.99€ 37.63
€ 41.99
€ 37.63
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
€ 25.99€ 23.70
€ 25.99
€ 23.70
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
€ 181.49
€ 181.49
Paperback. Translator(s): Gray, Wallace. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761818298
- ISBN
- 9780761818298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.95
€ 71.95
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
€ 62.94
€ 62.94
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
€ 165.86
€ 165.86
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€ 13.08
€ 15.99
€ 13.08
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€ 30.95
€ 33.99
€ 30.95
Hardback. They burned bras, draft cards, and even the American flag. But what drove a group of young Americans to democratic revolution in the tumultuous years of the 1960s, and what made them think they could win? This book looks at the motivations and values of the young rebels of the 1960s. Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years. Num Pages: 185 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; GTB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842051408
- ISBN
- 9780842051408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.95
€ 171.95