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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of "mentally defective" children and adults at the Michener Centre in Red Deer, Alberta. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; 3JJ; JFFG; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442626898
- ISBN
- 9781442626898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.54
€ 40.99
€ 36.54
Hardcover. In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina migrant women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. Nevertheless, the case of Israel is unique in many ways: the country has a special significance as the "Holy Land" for the predominantly devout Christian Filipina.. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 252 pages, 12 ills. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFFN; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857452610
- ISBN
- 9780857452610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.40
€ 161.40
Paperback. The dramatic saga of a remarkable woman who was deeply involved in the political culture of her time. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Edition
- 874th ed.
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0018833
- ISBN
- 9780874518832
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The dramatic saga of a remarkable woman who was deeply involved in the political culture of her time. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 874th ed.
- SKU
- KRS0018832
- ISBN
- 9780874518832
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. After the Brazilian military took power in a coup in 1964, many artists tried to distance themselves from politics; others went into exile. This book covers culturally repressive years of the regime, from 1968-74 and looks at artists who found their visual language of resistance, outside government-controlled cultural centres or the militant left. Num Pages: 232 pages, 72 illustrations, including 16 page color insert. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; ACX; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 265 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351535
- ISBN
- 9780822351535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.46
€ 38.99
€ 35.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; JFD; JFFS; JFSJ; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761858959
- ISBN
- 9780761858959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.02
€ 63.02
paperback. It is considerably easier to say that modern philosophy began with Descartes than it is to define the modernity and philosophy to which Descartes gave rise. This work examines the roles of discourse and writing in Cartesian method and intuition, and the significance of graphic architectonic form in the genealogy of modern philosophy. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317746
- ISBN
- 9780822317746
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.41
€ 26.99
€ 25.41
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849055697
- ISBN
- 9781849055697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 37.73
€ 37.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of literature, art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 256 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430. On the Cultural Border Between Self and World. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 256 pages, ill. Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of literature, art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight: 430. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125031
- ISBN
- 9780231125031
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.65
€ 37.99
€ 27.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887485541
- ISBN
- 9780887485541
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.42
€ 18.99
€ 16.42
Paperback. A sensitive and original reading of Plato's Republic that foregrounds the power of myth in the shaping of history. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HPCA; JFHF; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214850
- ISBN
- 9780253214850
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
€ 25.25
Paperback. Challenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 tables 25 line drawings 20 figs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691028989
- ISBN
- 9780691028989
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Condition: New
€ 59.52€ 46.93
€ 59.52
€ 46.93
Paperback. The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider's look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity. Series: Issues of Our Time. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393339727
- ISBN
- 9780393339727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
paperback. In this wide-ranging work, Claude Levi-Strauss examines the mythology of American Indians and seeks to illustrate how contact with Europeans have altered these tales. Translator(s): Tihanyi, Catherine. Num Pages: 294 pages, 4 halftones, 3 maps, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFHF; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226474724
- ISBN
- 9780226474724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.06
€ 32.99
€ 26.06
Paperback. "The "structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Levi-Strauss's understanding of" Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 129 x 201 x 25. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465095162
- ISBN
- 9780465095162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.60
€ 32.60
Paperback. This text is a collection of illustrations of masks from the Northwest Coast. Translator(s): Modelski, Sylvia. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; ACBK; AFK; GTB; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295966366
- ISBN
- 9780295966366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.69
€ 26.99
€ 24.69
Paperback. In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HBTB; HPC; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 4. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802063489
- ISBN
- 9780802063489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.39
€ 17.39
Hardback. A thorough reference to the many deities, magical beings, mythical places, and ancient customs of the Norse and Germanic regions of Europe Num Pages: 352 pages, 109 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DNN; HRKP5; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620554807
- ISBN
- 9781620554807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.78
€ 32.99
€ 30.78
Paperback. This work argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, the author reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs. Translator(s): Collins, Derek; Orion, Janice. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- New and Revised
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742515253
- ISBN
- 9780742515253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.03
€ 75.03
Hardback. This work argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, the author reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs. Translator(s): Collins, Derek; Orion, Janice. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- New and Revised Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742515246
- ISBN
- 9780742515246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.89
€ 166.89