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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Relying on 56 open-ended interviews with members of the musical community in New Orleans, Michael Urban shows how the pleasure of participation in this storied assemblage outweighs commercial considerations. Music making and personal lives move in tandem, each reflecting an orientation elevating group goals over individual achievements. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; AVGQ; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137565747
ISBN
9781137565747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.62

hardcover. Timely in subject and original in perspective, Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth challenges what popular media refer to as a 'youth problem.' Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802087706
ISBN
9780802087706
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.06

Hardcover. The dominant view of resilience is as something individuals possess rather than as a process that can be facilitated. This book provides evidence for the ecological understanding of resilience in ways that help resolve both definition and measurement problems. Editor(s): Ungar, Michael. Num Pages: 463 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JMH; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 189 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461405856
ISBN
9781461405856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.61

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252079238
ISBN
9780252079238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; JFC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733618
ISBN
9780804733618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.92

Hardback. Examines the representations of masses - the crowd scenes - in Hollywood films from "The Birth of a Nation" through such popular love stories as "Gone with the Wind", "The Sound of Music", and "Dr Zhivago". This work then contrasts these with similar scenes in early Soviet and Nazi films. Num Pages: 162 pages, 27 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 403.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823229017
ISBN
9780823229017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.95

Paperback. Examines the representations of masses - the crowd scenes - in Hollywood films from "The Birth of a Nation" through such popular love stories as "Gone with the Wind", "The Sound of Music", and "Dr Zhivago". This work then contrasts these with similar scenes in early Soviet and Nazi films. Num Pages: 162 pages, 27 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823229024
ISBN
9780823229024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801441707
ISBN
9780801441707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.62

Paperback. Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book uses the subculture of camp to argue that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Series: Post*45. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JNMN; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784412
ISBN
9780804784412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. New edition of this classic work which asks: How do objects that are of little worth or worth nothing become valuable? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745399782
ISBN
9780745399782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.86

Paperback / so. Series: Studien Zur Politischen Gesellschaft. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810026200
ISBN
9783810026200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.99

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810006707
ISBN
9783810006707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.18

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Greven, Michael Th. Num Pages: 343 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810020741
ISBN
9783810020741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.62

Paperback. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 272 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226353012
ISBN
9780226353012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.84

Paperback. .
Publisher
Zulu Planet Publishers South Africa
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781920070137
ISBN
9781920070137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HDD; JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 972.
Publisher
Zulu Planet Publishers
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781920153083
ISBN
9781920153083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 22.20

Paperback. Our origins as a slave species and the Anunnaki legacy in our DNA. Num Pages: 576 pages, 104 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFH; PSAJ; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 29. Weight in Grams: 936.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591431510
ISBN
9781591431510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.76

Paperback. Archaeological proof of the advanced civilization on the southern tip of Africa that preceded Sumer and Egypt by 200,000 years. Num Pages: 240 pages, Full-color throughout. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFHF; VXQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 206 x 14. Weight in Grams: 762.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591431503
ISBN
9781591431503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.99

Hardback. A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bodily unconscious' in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, it takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226790053
ISBN
9780226790053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.74
€ 79.10

Paperback. "Defacement" asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732000
ISBN
9780804732000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. A meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke. It uses color to explore further dimensions of what the author calls 'the bodily unconscious' in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, it takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226790060
ISBN
9780226790060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14ill.1M. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; JFC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748209
ISBN
9780804748209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Hardback. Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. Num Pages: 328 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731997
ISBN
9780804731997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.25

Paperback. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439911198
ISBN
9781439911198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

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