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Society & culture: general

Hardback. In this volume, Heather Munro Prescott shows how the mid-20th-century emergence of adolescent medicine resulted from a combination of social changes that reached far beyond the field of medicine - changes that placed teenagers themselves at the centre of the national agenda. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSP1; JFSP2; MJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674214613
ISBN
9780674214613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.18
€ 69.42

Hardback. Num Pages: index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; JFMX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571818294
ISBN
9781571818294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.42

Hardcover. In An Introduction to Childhood , Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty years. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405125918
ISBN
9781405125918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.84

Paperback. In An Introduction to Childhood , Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty years. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405125901
ISBN
9781405125901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.27

Paperback. This interdisciplinary textbook examines children's lives across the world, acknowledging the great differences as well as points of comparison, between childhoods in different contexts. Editor(s): Montgomery, Heather. Series: Childhood. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP1; JHBK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 17. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
Bristol University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447305835
ISBN
9781447305835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 36.22

Hardback. .
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781498522625
ISBN
9781498522625
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 17.06

Hardcover. This collection contains Celtic tales of kelpies, mermaids, selkeis, ghosts, warlords, and fairies. Also included is a brief history of the Celts, a glossary of the Gaelic integrated in the stories and an appendix of superstitions about fairy protection. Editor(s): Chien-Eriksen, Nancy. Series: World Folklore Series. Num Pages: 214 pages, glossary, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DBKW; 1DBR; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781563087783
ISBN
9781563087783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.85
€ 51.10

Paperback. Politics and culture in everyday apparel Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 200 pages, 30 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFD; AKTA; GTB; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253223135
ISBN
9780253223135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. This title argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
206
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032392
ISBN
9780674032392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.73

Editor(s): Conner, Heather Louise. Num Pages: 2329 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; GBA; HBJF; JFF; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 286 x 163. Weight in Grams: 5532.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
2329
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634826167
ISBN
9781634826167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 1,736.17
€ 1,303.58

Paperback. An insider's account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican version of professional wrestling. It explores lucha libre as a cultural performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that circulate through Mexican culture and politics. It shows how a sport imported from the US in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican culture. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 b&w illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFCA; WSTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342328
ISBN
9780822342328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Hardcover. Daniel Corkery was the most influential and provocative cultural critic of the early Irish Free State. Since the 1960s, Corkery's name, however, has become increasingly synonymous with a narrow-gauge nationalism that, in the eyes of many, has sought to stifle an emerging 'modern' Ireland. Num Pages: 316 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 638.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
316
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184554
ISBN
9781859184554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardcover. Imagine yourself without a face - the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. This book examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814784105
ISBN
9780814784105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.77

Paperback. Imagine yourself without a face - the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. This book examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814784112
ISBN
9780814784112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Editor(s): Jackson, Heather. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 2. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Demeter Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772580198
ISBN
9781772580198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.03

Hardcover. Examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. This book sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSC; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993690
ISBN
9780295993690
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.57

Paperback. Charts the rise and fall of four of the most prominent right-wing broadcasters during the Cold War: H L Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis. Num Pages: 272 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APW; JFD; JPFM; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226326788
ISBN
9780226326788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Hardcover. Charts the rise and fall of four of the most prominent right-wing broadcasters during the Cold War: H L Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis. Num Pages: 272 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFD; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226326771
ISBN
9780226326771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.14
€ 88.84

Paperback. Editor(s): Williams, Heather G. Num Pages: 206 pages, tables, charts & maps. BIC Classification: JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606925539
ISBN
9781606925539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 116.45
€ 80.34

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JNA; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137579089
ISBN
9781137579089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.15

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