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Paperback. Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy. Series: Africa Now. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; GTB; KNAC; LNSH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780321486
- ISBN
- 9781780321486
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.95
€ 35.99
€ 30.95
Hardcover. Editor(s): Copson, Raymond W. Num Pages: 84 pages, tables. BIC Classification: GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600211768
- ISBN
- 9781600211768
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Condition: New
€ 194.00€ 132.29
€ 194.00
€ 132.29
Hardcover. This text explores the issues of nation and modernity in China by focusing on the work of Zhou Zuoren, a controversial Chinese intellectual and brother of the writer Lu Xun Zhou was radically at odds with many of his contemporaries and opposed their nation-building and modernization projects. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674002388
- ISBN
- 9780674002388
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.10
€ 46.99
€ 39.10
Hardback. A filmmaker of truly international renown and the recipient of the Cannes Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award, Youssef Chahine is the director of one of the most diverse and prestigious bodies of work. This title also demonstrates how Chahine's intensely personal autobiographical trilogy spoke to the concerns of the Egyptian intelligentsia. Series: World Directors. Num Pages: 202 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; APFB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- Number of pages
- 202
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851708591
- ISBN
- 9780851708591
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Condition: New
€ 106.47€ 95.86
€ 106.47
€ 95.86
Paperback. This study shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s first found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s. It explores white middle class America and argues that mixed messages given to girls during this decade lent fuel to the fire that would later become known as feminism. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226072616
- ISBN
- 9780226072616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.94
€ 32.99
€ 25.94
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1 Har/Com
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580464093
- ISBN
- 9781580464093
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Condition: New
€ 74.41
€ 74.41
Hardcover. Editor(s): Dumont, Gabriel A. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 183 x 18. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617281655
- ISBN
- 9781617281655
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Condition: New
€ 204.65€ 139.69
€ 204.65
€ 139.69
Paperback. Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and the larger urban media culture with which it was closely associated in early twentieth-century China. This book revises understandings of race, politics, popular culture, and technology in the making of modern Chinese culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AVGJ; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326946
- ISBN
- 9780822326946
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Hardcover. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674005167
- ISBN
- 9780674005167
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.05
€ 43.99
€ 37.05
Paperback. Explores the intersection of Chinese legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. Series: Asian Law Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; GTB; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989136
- ISBN
- 9780295989136
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.60
€ 42.99
€ 38.60
Paperback. Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; GTB; HBJD; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487520564
- ISBN
- 9781487520564
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.06
€ 46.99
€ 42.06
Paperback. An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 1KLCM; GTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336150
- ISBN
- 9780822336150
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.66
€ 32.99
€ 29.66
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
€ 68.12
€ 68.12
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073175
- ISBN
- 9780252073175
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.94
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€ 31.94
Paperback. A novel by a Kurdish-Iraqi writer that gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women's experiences of political repression, violence, exile, and the yearning for peace. It represents a critique of the violence done to ordinary people by those who hold power both in Iraq and in the West. Translator(s): Cumberbatch, Judy. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; APFA; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292714847
- ISBN
- 9780292714847
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.96
€ 23.99
€ 21.96
Paperback. Women's migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This title analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Editor(s): Segura, Denise A.; Zavella, Patricia. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 616 pages, 11 illustrations, 12 tables, 5 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 37. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822341185
- ISBN
- 9780822341185
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.09
€ 37.99
€ 34.09
Paperback. An autobiography that tells the intertwining stories of one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers - Marina Goldovskaya - and the eventful half century of Russian history she has recorded. It describes a host of notable figures in Russian film, theater, art, and politics, as well as the technological evolution of filmmaking. Translator(s): Bouis, Antonina W. Series: Constructs Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 64 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; APFA; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292713437
- ISBN
- 9780292713437
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Paperback. Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India Series: Contemporary Indian Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 b&w photos, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253219725
- ISBN
- 9780253219725
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.98
€ 23.99
€ 21.98
Paperback. "Magliocco impressively corrals the diverse writings and experiences of U.S. neo-pagans into this highly readable and deeply researched ethnographic study.. Highly recommended."-Choice Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HRKP; JHBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218794
- ISBN
- 9780812218794
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
paperback. William N Fenton's contributions to the understanding of the cultures and histories of the Iroquois are formidable. This volume includes Fenton's classic studies of such key issues as Iroquois folklore, factionalism, and the repatriation of material culture; and discussions of theory and practice and the methodology of 'upstreaming'. Editor(s): Starna, William A.; Campisi, Jack. Series: The Iroquoians & Their World. Num Pages: 398 pages, 10 Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; JFHF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803216075
- ISBN
- 9780803216075
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.75
€ 46.99
€ 41.75