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Paperback. From Santa, elves and Ebenezer Scrooge, to the culture wars and virgin birth, Christmas - Philosophy for Everyone explores a host of philosophical issues raised by the practices and beliefs surrounding Christmas. Editor(s): Lowe, Scott C. Series Editor(s): Allhoff, Fritz. Series: Philosophy for Everyone. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5HC; HPX; JFC; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444330908
ISBN
9781444330908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.05

Paperback. Toward the end of the 19th century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of media technologies that offered new ways of communicating and storing data. Part technological history, part theoretical discussion, this text explores the impact of these technologies. Translator(s): Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey; Wutz, Michael; Young, Geoffrey Winthrop. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732338
ISBN
9780804732338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.09

Paperback. This major new book provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. Kittler begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organized. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; TBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745640914
ISBN
9780745640914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.05

Paperback. The classic account of urban working-class life in Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, first published in English in 1892. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 127 x 201 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Lawrence and Wishart Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853155935
ISBN
9780853155935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.57

Paperback. A critique of the Victorian nuclear family. It argues that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; JFCX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191119
ISBN
9780141191119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers Editor(s): Friedman, Lester D. Num Pages: 472 pages, 82 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332947
ISBN
9780822332947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.67

Hardcover. This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products that was instigated and sustained by these practices. Editor(s): Kind-Kovacs, Friederike; Labov, Jessie. Series: Contemporary European History. Num Pages: 348 pages, 6 ills. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJP; HBTW; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857455857
ISBN
9780857455857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816665877
ISBN
9780816665877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.64

Hardback. The Asian tsunami in December 2004 was reported on exhaustively all around the world. But this is the first full-length examination of the disaster. Providing an in-depth ethnography of the tsunami and its effects on a fishing village on the coast of Tamil Nadu, India, the author shows how disaster survivors have dealt with the tsunami.. Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology & Ethnobiology. Num Pages: 176 pages, 12 ills. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFC; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857451996
ISBN
9780857451996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.60

Paperback. .
Publisher
Floris Books
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863152276
ISBN
9780863152276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. An ethnography of the Coeur d'Alene Indians of Idaho focusing on the bonds between a people and the landscape of their traditional homeland. Series: McLellan Endowed Series. Num Pages: 340 pages, 50 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWD; JFHF; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295981628
ISBN
9780295981628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.06

Hardcover. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Popular Press 1
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780879725372
ISBN
9780879725372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.30

Paperback. Editor(s): Lunning, Frenchy. Series: Mechademia. Num Pages: 320 pages, 96 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AKLC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 722.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816689552
ISBN
9780816689552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.01

Paperback. Editor(s): Lunning, Frenchy. Series: Mechademia. Num Pages: 320 pages, 83 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBP; ACXJ; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816695355
ISBN
9780816695355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.25

Paperback. Editor(s): Lunning, Frenchy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACXJ; AKLC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816699155
ISBN
9780816699155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.45

Hardback. Series: China in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 250 pages, 2+ graphs. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857289780
ISBN
9780857289780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.75

paperback. Emphasising the integration of traditional labour history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, and community, this volume explores working women's agency and consciousness and offers details regarding women's lives as daughters, housewives, mothers, factory workers, trade union leaders, and political activists. Editor(s): French, John D.; James, Daniel. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 5 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822319962
ISBN
9780822319962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.08

Hardcover. In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old. Editor(s): Freeman, Lindsey A.; Nienass, Benjamin; Daniell, Rachel. Series: Remapping Cultural History. Num Pages: 254 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782382805
ISBN
9781782382805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.66

Paperback. Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. This title presents the voices and experiences of Vietnamese refugee children neglected and abused by the system intended to help them. Series: Donald R. Ellegood International Publications. Num Pages: 288 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295983592
ISBN
9780295983592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSL3; JNA; JNU; YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Beacon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807052440
ISBN
9780807052440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.47

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