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In their dependence on late-Victorian models, the cultural narratives of 1990s America imply a crisis of "storylessnessdeeply implicated in the sense of injury that haunts the close of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 440 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Publisher
- Baltimore Maryland
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801857874
- ISBN
- 9780801857874
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.07
€ 38.99
€ 33.07
Paperback. Explains how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems by conducting year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa - records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. Num Pages: 296 pages, 9 line illus. 36 tables. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCM; KCR; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148199
- ISBN
- 9780691148199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.41
€ 37.99
€ 33.41
Hardback. This volume looks at pornography from a broad perspective and concludes that its widespread availability has contributed much to the controversy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFMP. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 49. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- SKU
- KTG0013021
- ISBN
- 9780521363174
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Pornography feminists unshackle their desires and celebrate their sexuality in the patriarchal world of filmed sex. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: APFN; JFFK; JFMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782794967
- ISBN
- 9781782794967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.93
€ 26.99
€ 23.93
paperback. Understanding the dynamics of population turnover or migration driving area change is key to improving efforts at neighbourhood regeneration and developing mixed or sustainable communities. This report provides the first analysis of neighbourhood migration flows for the whole of England and Scotland. A free pdf is available at www.jrf.org.uk Num Pages: 96 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFF; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9781861349750
- ISBN
- 9781861349750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.81
€ 25.99
€ 25.81
paperback. Presents an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the government's initiatives to influence the course of fertility, and hence the rate of population growth in the island-state of Singapore since the 1960s. The varied population issues and consequences associated with the prolonged below-replacement fertility are discussed in detail. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMS; JFF; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 473.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute Singapore
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814762199
- ISBN
- 9789814762199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Hardcover. How do mainstream film, television, advertising, videogames and newspapers engage with topics such as vivisection, hunting, animal performance, farming, meat eating and animal control? This book explores social, economic, ethical and cultural aspects of relationships between popular media forms and key animal issues. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFD; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230239241
- ISBN
- 9780230239241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.64
€ 149.64
Hardback. Popular Injustice focuses on the spread of highly punitive forms of social control (known locally as mano dura) in contemporary Latin America, with a particular focus on lynchings in postwar Guatemala. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFFE; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804753487
- ISBN
- 9780804753487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.60
€ 134.60
Hardback. This volume explores the search for meaning among people in China today. The subjects of these essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars, with the issues ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. Editor(s): Link, Perry; Madsen, Richard; Pickowicz, Paul G. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; JFC; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742510784
- ISBN
- 9780742510784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.41
€ 200.41
Paperback. "Political clientelism" is a term used to characterise the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favours. This title presents the ethnography of urban clientelism ever carried out in Argentina. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 table, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; JFFA; JHMP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326212
- ISBN
- 9780822326212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. This book provides a vivid portrait of how the lives of poor people are affected by the judicial system. Drawing from ethnographic observations, court decisions, and other materials, Poor Justice brings readers inside the courts, telling the story through the words and actions of the judges, lawyers, and ordinary people who populate it. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKS; LAQ; LNAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199355440
- ISBN
- 9780199355440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 89.87
€ 89.87
Paperback. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? This book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780718193669
- ISBN
- 9780718193669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.67
€ 14.99
€ 11.67
Hardcover. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 37. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674687608
- ISBN
- 9780674687608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.98€ 95.45
€ 106.98
€ 95.45
paperback. Editor(s): Carver, Terrell; Mottier, Veronique. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415406734
- ISBN
- 9780415406734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.37
€ 80.37
Hardback. Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent disciplining mechanismsA" of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. Series: Forced Migration. Num Pages: 194 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456917
- ISBN
- 9781845456917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.25
€ 161.25
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560727330
- ISBN
- 9781560727330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.95€ 72.25
€ 93.95
€ 72.25
Paperback. Applying concepts derived from the study of international and comparative politics, this book offers an analysis of the impact of globalization on United States domestic politics. It is of interest to politicians, policymakers, and students looking for a discussion of globalization that is grounded in political history of the United States. Series: Essential Texts in American Government Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFS; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 365.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878408276
- ISBN
- 9780878408276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.03
€ 75.03
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Granville Island Publishing Canada
- Number of pages
- 167
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894694810
- ISBN
- 9781894694810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.21
€ 24.99
€ 17.21
Paperback. Few diseases have provoked as many wild moralistic leaps or stringent attempts to measure, classify, and define risk and treatment standards as AIDS. In this book, the author documents the emergence of a diverse range of community-based, nongovernmental, and civil society groups engaged in patient-focused AIDS advocacy worldwide. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8, 7 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFH2; LNTJ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415970
- ISBN
- 9781421415970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.46
€ 52.46
Paperback. Tracing the evolution of an extraordinary biracial coalition in Los Angeles behind Mayor Tom Bradley, this book shows how 'crossover' politics and racial violence coexist in urban America. Challenging the pessimism about biracial coalitions in general, it compares their relative successes in Los Angeles to their disheartening failures in New York. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 halftones 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSG; JFSL1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised
- SKU
- V9780691025483
- ISBN
- 9780691025483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.41€ 51.27
€ 65.41
€ 51.27