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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 192 x 122 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
First edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631650
ISBN
9780816631650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Hardback. Num Pages: 93 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFHF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 8. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
93
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813113876
ISBN
9780813113876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HRJ; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 150. .
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652298898
ISBN
9789652298898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.21

Hardcover. The move toward desegregation in southern schools triggered by Brown v Board of Education was a mixed blessing for those committed to preserving the traditions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This book reexamines the debate over desegregation and its impact on publicly funded HBCUs. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700613014
ISBN
9780700613014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.60

Paperback. Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word salary comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? This title tells the strange tales behind our favourite dishes and drinks and where they come from. Num Pages: 368 pages, 40 b/w. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141043449
ISBN
9780141043449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.66

Hardcover. Num Pages: 319 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560728566
ISBN
9781560728566
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.26
€ 70.71

Paperback. Slave Religion remains the preeminent sythesis of the religious life of slaves in the United States. This new edition will consider the developments in the study of slavery, the religious encounter, religious culture, and reactions to the books over the past twenty five years, as well as the ways the author would write it differently today. Num Pages: 416 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
Updated ed
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195174120
ISBN
9780195174120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.78

Paperback. An in-depth examination of African-American history and religion, this comprehensive book provides panoramic coverage of the black religious and social experience in America and thus chronicles the evolution of an important and influential component of our religious and historical heritage. Series: Religion in American Life. Num Pages: 184 pages, 8pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC2; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 233.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195145854
ISBN
9780195145854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; VFJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556436147
ISBN
9781556436147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.79

Paperback. Presents the full text of Chief Seattle's 1887 speech delivered to Washington Territory governor Isaac Stevens, and examines its origins, historical context, and twentieth-century versions and interpretations. Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295976334
ISBN
9780295976334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.95

Paperback. Sets socialism within its historical context from pre-revolutionary France to the present. The authors contend that socialism came into being at the end of the 18th century as a response to the Industrial Revolution and as an attempt to change the consciousness and organization of society. Editor(s): Fried, Albert; Sanders, Ronald. Series: A Morningside Book S. Num Pages: 619 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; JFCX; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
revised edition
Number of pages
619
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231082655
ISBN
9780231082655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 35.62

Paperback. A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity. Editor(s): Fried, Albert. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DQ; JFCX; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231102353
ISBN
9780231102353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 38.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JFSV1; VXW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578633388
ISBN
9781578633388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.17

Paperback. A history of information from its inception in the world to its transformation of culture. Drawing on the history of ideas, details of information technology, and boundaries of the human condition, this text explains the relationship between things and signs, and between reality and information. Num Pages: 274 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; TBX; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226066233
ISBN
9780226066233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.50

Paperback. A guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, that charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 283.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Third Impression
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226066271
ISBN
9780226066271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.64

Paperback. This is a pioneering, systematic study of the role of violence in the structure of the political order, formulated in relation to what is characterized as the civil and fraternal orders. Num Pages: 176 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFFE; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761803249
ISBN
9780761803249
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.72

Paperback. Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. Series: Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 162 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACVT; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691015552
ISBN
9780691015552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.24
€ 49.96

Hardback. Editor(s): Albala, Ken; Eden, Trudy. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRC; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149969
ISBN
9780231149969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.45
€ 81.73

Paperback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474415170
ISBN
9781474415170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.28

Paperback. Sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? This work focuses on the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 map 27 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC; HBLL; JFC; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691002392
ISBN
9780691002392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.24

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