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Society & culture: general

Hardcover. Based on the author's lectures at the Judisches Freies Lehrhaus, these essays include notes for a group of lectures of 1920, "Faith and Knowledge", followed by a three-part lecture series of 1922, "The Science of God", "The Science of Man", and "The Science of World". Editor(s): Galli, Barbara E. (Aaron Aaronov Chair, Judaic Studies, University of Alabama, USA). Translator(s): Galli, Barbara E. (Aaron Aaronov Chair, Judaic Studies, University of Alabama, USA). Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPC; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 127 x 0. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815627883
ISBN
9780815627883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.41

Hardback. Duden's reading of the female body lends a historical and philosophical perspective to such topics as foetal rights, reproductive technologies, abortion, and the right to privacy. This work calls into question contemporary certainties and the policies and programmes they serve to justify. Translator(s): Hoinacki, Lee. Num Pages: 134 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: A; JFCX; JFSJ1; JHBF; JPVH; MJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
Edition
First English Language Edition
SKU
V9780674212671
ISBN
9780674212671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.78

Paperback. Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement with black churches at its center, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. In this title, the author counters this assumption. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 201 x 24. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066274
ISBN
9780674066274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 31.06

Hardback. Tells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520284449
ISBN
9780520284449
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.94
€ 73.24

Paperback. Brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia that highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law. Editor(s): Metcalf, Barbara D. Series: Princeton Readings in Religions. Num Pages: 504 pages, 23 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 265 x 35. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691044200
ISBN
9780691044200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 40.07

Hardcover. Exploring the ways in which 19th-century women transformed American society, this book sheds light on a gender ideology that fostered public participation and action - even violence - in the name of women's redemptive moral power. Num Pages: 306 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875803180
ISBN
9780875803180
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.22

Paperback. Most critical writings on horror films conceptualise woman as victim. Creed challenges this view with a feminist psychoanalytic critique, discussing films such as Alien, I Spit on Your Grave and Psycho. Series: Popular Fictions Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 20ill. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415052597
ISBN
9780415052597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.02

Paperback. Offers an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. This book argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of 'the feminine.' Num Pages: 205 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520208889
ISBN
9780520208889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Surveys the contributions made by women to the legacy of Pacific Northwest art Num Pages: 56 pages, 30 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 5193 x 7. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Whatcom Museum of History & Art United States
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9780615351728
ISBN
9780615351728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.23

Hardback. Editor(s): Sjoholm, Barbara. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780816699438
ISBN
9780816699438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.53

hardcover. This book examines the history of male opinion about women's participation in procreation and explores the status of women in classical Europe, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and today's American procreative policies. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFMA; JFSJ1; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761857587
ISBN
9780761857587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.21

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861348487
ISBN
9781861348487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.39

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; JFSC; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641416
ISBN
9780691641416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.01

Paperback. Addresses the question of gender and feminism in western political theory and practise. This book provides you with both theoretical and historical underpinnings of women's exclusion from politics, and the feminist response to this exclusion. It offers a history of feminism seen from the perspective of its own evolution. Num Pages: 296 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631198130
ISBN
9780631198130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.34

Hardcover. This volume presents papers which address both individual and societal levels of environment in relation to disability and shed new light on the processes involved with creating or modifying these environmental supports or barriers. Editor(s): Altman, Barbara Mandell; Barnartt, Sharon N. Series: Research in Social Science and Disability. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784412630
ISBN
9781784412630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.00

Paperback. Mixed feelings about motherhood - uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children - are not just hard to discuss, they are a social taboo. This title uncovers the roots of ambivalence, and tells how it manifests in lives of women and their children. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271203
ISBN
9780520271203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. The Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. This book recounts the tragic events on the forgotten western front of the American Revolution - a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBWF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Pbk. Ed
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803216358
ISBN
9780803216358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to reconstruct both common--sense and social science understanding. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; PGZ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745614618
ISBN
9780745614618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.94

Paperback. Through a synthesis of old and new theories of social remembering, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of the sociology of memory. This rapidly expanding field explores how representations of the past are generated, maintained and reproduced through texts, images, sites, rituals and experiences. Series: Theorizing Society. Num Pages: 168 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFS; JHBA; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Open University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780335208319
ISBN
9780335208319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.35

hardcover. Num Pages: 396 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742546783
ISBN
9780742546783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.97

Hardback. This critique of the American welfare system analyses the structural factors of poverty and the social-psychological costs of being poor and lacking a home. It includes interview findings from families who have lived in a shelter in Northern Kentucky, and its staff members. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JFFB; JHBC; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 351. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
158
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KEX0202016
ISBN
9780275957322
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691643076
ISBN
9780691643076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.57

paperback. Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. This book examines an especially charged icon - the black female body. Editor(s): Thompson, Barbara. Num Pages: 376 pages, 250 illus., 212 in color. BIC Classification: 1H; ACBK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 304 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1744.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987712
ISBN
9780295987712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.64

hardcover. Examines and compares women in local government and features case studies on the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Finland, Uganda, China, Australia and New Zealand. Editor(s): Pini, Barbara. Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 24 black & white tables, 8 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415559348
ISBN
9780415559348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.44

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