Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, 18 images, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRCC96; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803288881
- ISBN
- 9780803288881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 images, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRCC96; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803269767
- ISBN
- 9780803269767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.04
€ 81.04
Hardback. Through films such as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and the depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137536778
- ISBN
- 9781137536778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.90
€ 118.90
Paperback. Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB; JFC; JFD; JFSR; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472208
- ISBN
- 9781349472208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 tables, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754149
- ISBN
- 9780804754149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.17
€ 29.99
€ 27.17
Hardback. This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 tables, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754132
- ISBN
- 9780804754132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.91
€ 124.91
Paperback. How Black women's engagement in improving health and fitness raises questions about feminism and the construction of black female identity Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439903094
- ISBN
- 9781439903094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.21
€ 31.99
€ 30.21
Hardback. Hegel and Feminist Philosophy traces the legacy of Hegel in the work of thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Irigaray and Butler, and also in contemporary debates in feminist ethics and political philosophy. As Hutchings demonstrates, this is an ambivalent legacy. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCD; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745619514
- ISBN
- 9780745619514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.45
€ 78.45
Paperback. Hegel and Feminist Philosophy traces the legacy of Hegel in the work of thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Irigaray and Butler, and also in contemporary debates in feminist ethics and political philosophy. As Hutchings demonstrates, this is an ambivalent legacy. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCD; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745619521
- ISBN
- 9780745619521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.42
€ 25.42
Paperback. Through a comparative ethnographic study of memory, spiritual cultural heritage, and attitudes towards state power in two villages in western Turkey, this book describes living and evolving Sunni Islam. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HRHP; JFSF; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804786607
- ISBN
- 9780804786607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.26
€ 32.99
€ 31.26
Hardback. Through a comparative ethnographic study of memory, spiritual cultural heritage, and attitudes towards state power in two villages in western Turkey, this book describes living and evolving Sunni Islam. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HRHP; JFSF; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783309
- ISBN
- 9780804783309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.01
€ 136.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Elson, Kimberly. Num Pages: 92 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629487892
- ISBN
- 9781629487892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.39€ 57.29
€ 82.39
€ 57.29
Hardcover. Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111592
- ISBN
- 9780230111592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Paperback. Describes Portugal's transition from fascism to democracy, and from imperial metropole to EU member state. This book examines the evolution of Ranchos folcloricos, groups of amateur musicians and dancers who perform turn-of-the-century popular tradition and have acted as cultural barometers of change throughout 20th-century Portugal. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b&w photos, 26 figures, 2 maps, 1 index. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253218315
- ISBN
- 9780253218315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.35
€ 31.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. Demonstrates how parental and sexual identities are formed and interpreted in law, and how gay and lesbian parents can harness indeterminacy to transform family law Num Pages: 278 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; LNMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780814776988
- ISBN
- 9780814776988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Hardcover. Editor(s): Parsons, Kimberly D. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPQB; KCP; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 238 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634823449
- ISBN
- 9781634823449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.04€ 143.42
€ 193.04
€ 143.42
Paperback. Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to "The Piano", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", and "Northern Exposure". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534798
- ISBN
- 9781557534798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.13
€ 58.13
Paperback. Analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice. Though acknowledging past failures to establish cross-racial empathy, this book focuses on examples that show avenues for future progress and change. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252079948
- ISBN
- 9780252079948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59
Hardback. Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or "White Negroes," who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. The author claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover over the years. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038433
- ISBN
- 9780252038433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.71
€ 125.71
Paperback. In this study, the authors move beyond the debate on the relative merits and risks of a social clause in trade agreements and focus on practical approaches for improving labour standards in a more intergrated global economy. Num Pages: 150 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCF; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Edition
- y First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881323320
- ISBN
- 9780881323320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16