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Hardback. In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. This title restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music. Num Pages: 350 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 49 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; AVGC4; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 32. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273849
- ISBN
- 9780520273849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.50€ 63.55
€ 83.50
€ 63.55
Hardback. Provides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more. Editor(s): Ochs, Elinor; Kremer-Sadlik, Tamar. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 10 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273979
- ISBN
- 9780520273979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.39€ 53.80
€ 69.39
€ 53.80
Paperback. Provides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more. Editor(s): Ochs, Elinor; Kremer-Sadlik, Tamar. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 10 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273986
- ISBN
- 9780520273986
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.55
€ 33.99
€ 23.55
Paperback. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. This title provides a description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL3; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520274013
- ISBN
- 9780520274013
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback. Looks at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, this book explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 342 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFD; JFSR2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474. Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. 342 pages. Looks at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, this book explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFD; JFSR2; JPW. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520274211
- ISBN
- 9780520274211
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardback. Examines how middle class Americans juggle the seemingly paradoxical relationship between faith and reason. Based on interviews with two hundred people from various faiths, this book dispels the common explanations: that Americans are adept at keeping religion and intellect separate, or that they are a nation of joiners. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520274280
- ISBN
- 9780520274280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. Explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the US - at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers - and presents richly detailed evidence from interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help. Num Pages: 314 pages, 2 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520274723
- ISBN
- 9780520274723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Hardback. Beginning with the founding of profession in late 1920s and continuing into post-September 11 era, this title examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as female-oriented. It examines various hardships these men faced at work, paying particular attention to conflation of gender-based, and AIDS-based discrimination. Num Pages: 302 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSK; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520274761
- ISBN
- 9780520274761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.39€ 53.63
€ 69.39
€ 53.63
Paperback. Tells the story of an idea that humanity's expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, this title follows the trajectory of European knowledge about continent's eastern frontier. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRKP; JFSR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275324
- ISBN
- 9780520275324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.04
€ 40.99
€ 29.04
Paperback. Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. This title deals with this game. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ2; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276321
- ISBN
- 9780520276321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback. Telling the history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the US and South Africa in the early twentieth century, this book focuses on the American Carnegie Corporation's study of race in South Africa, the Poor White Study, and its influence on the creation of apartheid. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520280878
- ISBN
- 9780520280878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.82
€ 40.99
€ 28.82
Paperback. At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, this book provides an understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white halftones, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520281745
- ISBN
- 9780520281745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. An ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, in which, the author depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 scattered b&w. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBK; LNMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282452
- ISBN
- 9780520282452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 black & white photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282490
- ISBN
- 9780520282490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
Paperback. Offers an examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history - twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283749
- ISBN
- 9780520283749
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.09
€ 27.99
€ 21.09
Paperback. Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges of accommodating difference, however difficult such accommodation may be. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 232 pages, 27 b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284128
- ISBN
- 9780520284128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.69
€ 21.99
€ 17.69
Paperback. Examines the pitched battles over busing at a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This book shows how school officials, politicians, the courts, and the media gave precedence to the desires of white parents who opposed school desegregation over the civil rights of black students. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 260 pages, 35 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL3; JNFR; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284258
- ISBN
- 9780520284258
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.51
€ 33.99
€ 24.51
Hardback. Tells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284449
- ISBN
- 9780520284449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 71.49
€ 94.08
€ 71.49
Paperback. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons' guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage. This book shows how Freemasonry has contributed to a broader understanding of the multiple influences that have shaped religion in American culture. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287600
- ISBN
- 9780520287600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.83
€ 31.99
€ 22.83
Paperback. Based on intensive fieldwork conducted among worshippers in Bengal's Navadvip-Mayapur sacred complex, this book discusses the diverse and contrasting ways in which Bengal-Vaishnava devotees experience sacred geography and divinity. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 294 pages, 14 b/w. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287716
- ISBN
- 9780520287716
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
Paperback. Offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, the author challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 b/w halftones, 1 line art. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRC; JFSC; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520288829
- ISBN
- 9780520288829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.51
€ 33.99
€ 24.51
Hardback. When Alex Haley's book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976, it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time. This book looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history. Num Pages: 280 pages, 22 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520291324
- ISBN
- 9780520291324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.80
€ 31.99
€ 22.80
Paperback. Political, domestic, and economic life is dominated by networks of powerful men. In Masculinity and Power Arthur Brittan analyses this state of affairs. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631141679
- ISBN
- 9780631141679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 53.85
€ 53.99
€ 53.85
Paperback. The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations. Editor(s): Moore, R. I. Series: New Perspectives on the Past. Num Pages: 216 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFS; JHBK; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631146698
- ISBN
- 9780631146698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.62
€ 51.62