Regional studies
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Regional studies
Paperback. The volume examines the critical interfaces between the personal and political that frame the utopian visions of Bai Ren, Robert Francis Garcia, Cesar Lacara, Zelda Soriano, Peter Bacho, and Rey Ventura in their works. They illuminate the ongoing transformation and redefinition of the Philippine nation-state. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DNF; GTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789715504713
- ISBN
- 9789715504713
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Condition: New
€ 80.79
€ 80.79
Paperback. Covers revolutionary women leaders in the Paris Commune. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 b&w photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; GTB; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217059
- ISBN
- 9780253217059
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.87
€ 29.99
€ 26.87
Paperback. Demonstrates the central role of ordinary people - rather than state or market elites - in creating institutions for determining status in China. This book explores the emerging hierarchy, which is based on the concept of suzhi, or quality. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map, 3 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340362
- ISBN
- 9780822340362
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.87
€ 30.99
€ 27.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 58 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 58
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590333389
- ISBN
- 9781590333389
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 26.25
€ 38.99
€ 26.25
Paperback. The Supreme Court's actions during the 2000 American presidential election seem sensible, legally legitimate and pragmatically defensible to some and an egregious abuse of power to others. This book offers a guide to the ultimate consequences and significance of the Supreme Court's decision. Num Pages: 266 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; GTB; JPA; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Softcover Ed
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226213071
- ISBN
- 9780226213071
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.35
€ 30.99
€ 24.35
paperback. Shows how concert parties combined an eclectic array of cultural influences, adapting characters and songs from American movies, popular British ballads, and local storytelling traditions into a spirited blend of comedy and social commentary. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 b&w photos, 3 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; ASZH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214362
- ISBN
- 9780253214362
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.57
€ 24.99
€ 23.57
Hardback. Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822342861
- ISBN
- 9780822342861
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Condition: New
€ 116.20
€ 116.20
Paperback. Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343035
- ISBN
- 9780822343035
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.93
€ 30.99
€ 27.93
Paperback. By turns candid, witty, and poignant, 36 Views of Mount Fuji is an American professor's much-praised memoir about her experiences of Japan and the Japanese. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339137
- ISBN
- 9780822339137
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.02
€ 31.99
€ 29.02
Hardcover. Editor(s): Cattan, Nadine. Num Pages: 207 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- John Libbey Eurotext France
- Number of pages
- 207
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782742006779
- ISBN
- 9782742006779
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.66
€ 41.99
€ 29.66
Paperback. Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, this title reveals the complex ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts. Through vivid description and animated dialogue, it conveys the birth stories of the women of Tamil Nadu in their own voices. Num Pages: 310 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFSJ; JHBF; JHMP; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520223592
- ISBN
- 9780520223592
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.50
€ 38.99
€ 28.50
Paperback. Based on author's own experiences as a Filapina American filmmaker and as a spectator to urge a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions, this book moves beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning or negative. Num Pages: 352 pages, 64 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; APFA; GTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340331
- ISBN
- 9780822340331
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.13
€ 33.99
€ 31.13
Hardback. Challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QFM; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 620. Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. 320 pages. Challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QFM; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JPS. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 20. Weight: 622.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137782
- ISBN
- 9780231137782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.23€ 49.62
€ 63.23
€ 49.62
Hardback. Although the "I Ching" is an Eastern classic, it contains perspectives and ideas about the social and human situation, which western sociologists may find useful as a tool for understanding their world. This book interprets the 64 hexagrams of "I Ching" as keys to understanding society. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HPDF; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817987
- ISBN
- 9780761817987
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Condition: New
€ 153.35
€ 153.35
Paperback. First extended historical account of the latino theatre programme Num Pages: 96 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLCM; AN; GTB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7128 x 5499 x 10. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780895511430
- ISBN
- 9780895511430
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.42
€ 21.99
€ 21.42
Paperback. Lt Charles B Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth US Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures. Editor(s): Kraft, Louis. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 images, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218840
- ISBN
- 9780803218840
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Condition: New
€ 21.42
€ 21.42
Paperback. Constitutes a comprehensive overview of "Francophone Postcolonial Studies". Moving away from reductive geographical or linguistic surveys of the Francophone world, this collection of original essays provides a thematic discussion of the complex historical, political and cultural links between France and its former colonies. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; GTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340808023
- ISBN
- 9780340808023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.48
€ 48.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 233 x 11. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253204455
- ISBN
- 9780253204455
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.36
€ 20.99
€ 20.36
Paperback. Provides an overview of the relationship between Germany, German speakers, and successive waves of German colonists with their eastern neighbors from the Middle Ages. This book covers medieval period which saw the first German colonial expansion eastward. It reviews the role of German speakers in the development policies of enlightened absolutism. Editor(s): Ingaro, Charles; Szabo, Franz A. J. Series: Central European Studies. Num Pages: 458 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3J; GTB; HBJD; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534439
- ISBN
- 9781557534439
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Condition: New
€ 69.60
€ 69.60
Paperback. In American football, seven out of ten players are black, but few are fully aware of the struggle to achieve equal rights. This text examines how sports laid a foundation for social change by integrating black and white athletes in the National Football League. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFFJ; JFSL3; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 188 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814774960
- ISBN
- 9780814774960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.18
€ 33.99
€ 31.18