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Paperback. Offers an ethnographic account of the relationship between the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea, and the large international gold mine operating on their land. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FM; GTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822355083
ISBN
9780822355083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 228 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816646111
ISBN
9780816646111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748634248
ISBN
9780748634248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Based on close reading of historical documents - poetry as much as statistics - and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). It invents a way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FMN; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691091624
ISBN
9780691091624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 46.81

Hardback. In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, a number of Americans thought the idea was crazy. Now everyone, except a few die-hards, thinks it was. So what was going through the minds of the talented and experienced men and women who planned and initiated the war? What were their assumptions? Overreach> aims to recover those presuppositions. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBWS5; JPA; JPB; JPHC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674729100
ISBN
9780674729100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.13

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.66

Hardback. Editor(s): Szmolka, Inmaculada (University of Granada). BIC Classification: 1FB; 1H; GTB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474415309
ISBN
9781474415309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.12

Paperback. Tracing the complex genealogy of Tantra as a category within the history of religions, this work shows how it has been formed through the interplay of popular and scholarly imaginations. Num Pages: 388 pages, 16 b/w illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HRE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236561
ISBN
9780520236561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. A collection of the writings of sociologist Robert N. Bellah, including essays that consider the entire sweep of Japanese history and the character of Japanese society and religion. The book features an introduction that brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japanese history. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
254
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235984
ISBN
9780520235984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. Discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, this book focuses on scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; HP; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Second
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221230
ISBN
9780253221230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.21

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198731351
ISBN
9780198731351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.34

Paperback. Challenges advanced language learners to elevate their reading ability to the level necessary for handling real primary sources in an unmediated way Editor(s): Hillenbrand, Margaret; Starr, Chloe. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; DSBH; GTB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 706.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991276
ISBN
9780295991276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.60

Paperback. An All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over the hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 556. Why Commercialism Won in Modern America. 256 pages, 20 halftones. An All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over the hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFFT. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 20. Weight: 556.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113137
ISBN
9780231113137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. The cruel and terrible Kali and the divine lover Krsna are two of Hinduism's most popular deities, representing dramatically different truths about the nature of the sacred. This text shows, however, that the two have more in common than their personalities would suggest. Series: Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212. Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology. With a New Preface. Series: Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions. 178 pages. The cruel and terrible Kali and the divine lover Krsna are two of Hinduism's most popular deities, representing dramatically different truths about the nature of the sacred. This text shows, however, that the two have more in common than their personalities would suggest. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HRG. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 11. Weight: 208.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224766
ISBN
9780520224766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Paperback. Analyses representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s, and in early 1990s during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. This book proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by the war itself. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVW; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339663
ISBN
9780822339663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. How can America be so powerful and yet so innocent? How can a nation so clever at business and selling its products overseas be so oblivious to how outsiders regard it? This book explains to Americans what the world really thinks of their nation and why, and to non-Americans why America is the way it is. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and yellowing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KOC0017836
ISBN
9780747563952
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This Reader provides the student with a selection of key readings from this debate, covering a range of areas including myth, imperialism, the cultural perspective, Marxist interpretation and feminist attitudes. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HPCD; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 174 x 23. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748614417
ISBN
9780748614417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804832953
ISBN
9780804832953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.95

Hardback. This title presents an anthropological study of coal mining communities with significant implications for how we understand the globalized world. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKB; GTB; GTF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849042321
ISBN
9781849042321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 44.43

Paperback. An expert on Cuba, Arnold August offers a revealing view of the conflict between Washington and Havana and the foreign policy of the United States vis-a-vis the island. " BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; GTB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552669655
ISBN
9781552669655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.76

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