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Paperback. Explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls "border thinking". This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 416 pages, 3 line illus. 3 tables. 9 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
With a New preface by the author
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156095
ISBN
9780691156095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.28

paperback. Editor(s): Woodman, G.R.; Wanitzek, Ulrike; Sippel, Harald. Num Pages: 392 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Lit Verlag
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783825878436
ISBN
9783825878436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.03

Paperback. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oak Tree Press Dublin
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
SKU
KEX0208262
ISBN
9781860761195
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice to experts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessing the quality of preparedness in each field, and offering directions for improvement. Num Pages: 274 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 177 x 14. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118112861
ISBN
9781118112861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 124.34

Paperback. How San Francisco's housing protest movements help us understand global mobilization Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB; JFSG; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439909959
ISBN
9781439909959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.89

Paperback. The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure "area-based knowledge" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns. Editor(s): Mirsepassi, Ali; Basu, Amrita; Weaver, Frederick S. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFFS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629825
ISBN
9780815629825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.69

Hardcover. The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure "area-based knowledge" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns. Editor(s): Mirsepassi, Ali; Basu, Amrita; Weaver, Frederick S. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFFS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629634
ISBN
9780815629634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.62

Hardback. A comparative study of Hyderabadi emigrants settling in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates at the end of the twentieth century. It traces Hyderabadi culture and institutions in these places of settlement, looking at the different versions of Hyderabadi history transmitted. Num Pages: 416 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPR; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804754422
ISBN
9780804754422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.29

Paperback. Editor(s): Schiller, Nina Glick; Caglar, Ayse. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801476877
ISBN
9780801476877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN. Dimension: 152 x 212 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838206073
ISBN
9783838206073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.44

Brings together studies from several animal scientists and researchers to review the implications and necessity of long distance animal transport for slaughter. This title combines reports on regional practices with discussions of the science, economics, legislation and procedures involved in this practice. Editor(s): Turner, J; Appleby, M.C.; Cussen, V.; Garces, L.; Lambert, L. A.; Turner, J. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFZ; MZD; TVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 252 x 173 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1192.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
CABI Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845934033
ISBN
9781845934033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 249.97

Provides an understanding of the long-term care works to generate injustice, but also to find ethical and practicable policy solutions for caring for aging populations in the United States. This title explores the ethical issues surrounding elder care from an ecological perspective to propose a new theory of global justice for long-term care. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; MBDC; MBP; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405506
ISBN
9781421405506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.68

Paperback. Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why do parents capitulate so readily? This book teases out the complex factors that contribute to how we buy, from lunchroom conversations about Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFT; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448. Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture. 320 pages, illustrations. Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why do parents capitulate so readily? This book teases out the complex factors that contribute to how we buy, from lunchroom conversations about Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFT; JFSP1. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight: 444.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st PB Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520258440
ISBN
9780520258440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.05

Paperback. The compelling and humorous story of a man born with no arms and his quest to be proved normal in an abnormal world! Num Pages: 240 pages, 8pp b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGA; HRCV9; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
SKU
KNW0008383
ISBN
9780340746363
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The first book to look beyond the brutal events toward the broad implications of Matt Shepard's story. Loffreda shows how the politics of sexuality unfolds in a remote and sparsely populated area of the country. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; JFFE; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231118590
ISBN
9780231118590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.75

paperback. Despite the expansion of higher education, representation, level of participation and likelihood of academic success remain highest amongst young people from affluent areas and lowest amongst those from deprived neighbourhoods. This report identifies factors which impact upon the minority of disadvantaged young people who enter higher education. Num Pages: 76 pages, 4figs.23tabs. BIC Classification: JFF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
76
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861345080
ISBN
9781861345080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.00

Hardback. Refugee flight, settlement, and repatriation are not static, self-contained, or singular events. Instead, they are three stages of an ongoing process made and mirrored in the lives of real people. For that reason, there is an evident need for historical and longitudinal studies of refugee populations that rise above description.. Series: Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 maps, 5 tables, 7 graphs, 7 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JFFD; JFFN; JFSF; JHM; JPVH1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571810830
ISBN
9781571810830
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.01

Paperback. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. Editor(s): White, Edmund. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGB; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFFH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299170745
ISBN
9780299170745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.30

Paperback. This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BM; HBJH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783780990
ISBN
9781783780990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.79

Hardback. How can we provide good spatial orientation for people with dementia? This book addresses this question extensively in a selection of professional essays and projects that also carve out specific requirements for various disciplines. Editor(s): Feddersen, Eckhard; Ludtke, Insa. Num Pages: 224 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, 320 colour illustrations, 80 schw.-w. u. 320 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: AM; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 299 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1250.
Publisher
Birkhauser
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9783038215004
ISBN
9783038215004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.44

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