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paperback. A son's search for his father and the father's search, 50 years earlier, for the mysterious Sierra Madre Apaches. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BJ; HBTB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780803271029
ISBN
9780803271029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. In this text, the authors take on the corporate educators, media monopolies and oil companies. They show how corporate-produced curricula, films and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence and compassion in order to sell the public on policies. Series: Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742516359
ISBN
9780742516359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.69

Hardback. In this text, the authors take on the corporate educators, media monopolies and oil companies. They show how corporate-produced curricula, films and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence and compassion in order to sell the public on policies. Series: Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742516342
ISBN
9780742516342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072991
ISBN
9780231072991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.66

Hardback. This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries. Num Pages: 223 pages, 26 figures, 18 tables. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802097873
ISBN
9780802097873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.97

paperback. Much of the recent policy debate surrounding poverty in Britain focuses on income as a measure of living standards. In this report we consider one alternative to income for measuring poverty that has been largely overlooked in the mainstream poverty debate in the UK: namely household expenditure. Free PDF version available at www.jrf.org.uk Num Pages: 48 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861348548
ISBN
9781861348548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.65

Paperback. Editor(s): Goodman, Aaron D. Num Pages: 99 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JWXV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Number of pages
99
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628086362
ISBN
9781628086362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.26
€ 58.90

Paperback. This work suggests that gossip has unexpected virtues. The contributors argue that gossip contributes to community cohesion and helps individuals better understand their own predicaments, problems and personal idiosyncrasies in the light of knowledge about the life experiences of others. Editor(s): Goodman, Robert F.; Ben-Ze'ev, Aaron. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700606702
ISBN
9780700606702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.58

Paperback. The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious than in the realm of genetics. A constructive response, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct a dialogue that bridges the science/culture divide. Editor(s): Goodman, Alan H.; Heath, Deborah; Lindee, M. Susan. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237933
ISBN
9780520237933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Since it first emerged from Britain's punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. This title offers a collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined cultural phenomenon. Editor(s): Goodlad, Lauren M. E.; Bibby, Michael. Num Pages: 456 pages, 67 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339212
ISBN
9780822339212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Editor(s): Gonzalez, Billy C. Num Pages: 63 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFSP1; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631178351
ISBN
9781631178351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 99.89
€ 70.85

Paperback. Editor(s): Pultar, Gonul. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 789.
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633426
ISBN
9780815633426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

Paperback. Editor(s): Santos, Goncalo; Harrell, Stevan. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 black & white tables, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; HBJF; JFC; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295999821
ISBN
9780295999821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Series: Rotman-UTP Publishing. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10, 15 figures. BIC Classification: JFSG; KJH; KJVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643628
ISBN
9781442643628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.79

Hardback. Num Pages: 358 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 32. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199464807
ISBN
9780199464807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.49

Paperback. A collection of essays that offers multiethnic, historically comparative, and meta-theoretical readings of the literature and culture of the United States. Covering works by a diverse set of American authors - from Toni Morrison to Bret Harte - it maps a variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between 'ethnic' and 'non-ethnic' literatures. Editor(s): Goldstein, David S.; Thaker, Audrey B. Series: American Ethnic & Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 b&w photo, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988351
ISBN
9780295988351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a process of social, political and economic adaptation. Editor(s): Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Kapstein, Matthew T. Num Pages: 235 pages, 37 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HREX; JFC; JHM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 49. Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. 235 pages, 37 b&w photographs. Editor(s): Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Kapstein, Matthew T. Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a process of social, political and economic adaptation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HREX; JFC; JHM; JPS. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520211315
ISBN
9780520211315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

hardcover. Editor(s): Goldsmith, Elizabeth C.; Goodman, Dena. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801429514
ISBN
9780801429514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Hardback. The Film Studio sheds new light on the evolution of global film production, highlighting the role of film studios worldwide. The authors explore the contemporary international production environment, identifying various types of film studios and investigating the consequences for Hollywood, international film production, and the studio locations. Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742536807
ISBN
9780742536807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 190.07

Paperback. Emphasizing the "how to" of gerontological home health care through a discussion of the field's relevant issues, this work includes chapters on home health care policies and funding; cultural and diversity issues; the contemporary challenges of the social work role in home health care; the development of a relationship; and practice evaluation. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124652
ISBN
9780231124652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

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