Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. This book examines the social, political, and psychological ramifications of this phenomenon, as evidenced in a range of texts. Editor(s): Fleischner, Jennifer B. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814726204
- ISBN
- 9780814726204
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.67
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Hardback. How community influences contribute to civic and political engagement in a city undergoing rapid change Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white line drawings, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JFFN; JFSG; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439910122
- ISBN
- 9781439910122
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€ 87.49
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Paperback. How community influences contribute to civic and political engagement in a city undergoing rapid change Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JFFN; JFSG; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439910139
- ISBN
- 9781439910139
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€ 32.99€ 29.90
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Paperback. Tells the stories of people who have lived in several countries in order to reveal how mobility shapes subjectivity, social life, and politics. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 534. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804770293
- ISBN
- 9780804770293
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.32
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Paperback. A trans-national study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris. Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1HBM; JFCA; JFFS; JHMP; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328964
- ISBN
- 9780822328964
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
€ 32.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. This analysis of the causes of racial and ethnic conflict in American cities between 1877-1914 presents evidence that suggests that the explanation for ethnic unrest is to be found in competition processes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720281
- ISBN
- 9780804720281
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Condition: New
€ 145.71
€ 145.71
Paperback. A new approach to ethnic mobilization that considers the interplay between global forces, national-level variation in inequality and repression, and the political mobilization of ethnicity. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804778626
- ISBN
- 9780804778626
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
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Paperback. This analysis of the causes of racial and ethnic conflict in American cities between 1877-1914 presents evidence that suggests that the explanation for ethnic unrest is to be found in competition processes. Editor(s): Olzak, Susan. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 287
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723374
- ISBN
- 9780804723374
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
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Paperback. "In the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines our most cherished democratic values but has led to" Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- 50843rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465037032
- ISBN
- 9780465037032
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 440
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- With a New introduction by Debra Satz
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158341
- ISBN
- 9780691158341
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.23
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hardcover. Women are twice as likely as men to experience protracted sadness, self-esteem, and other symptoms of depression. What accounts for this sex difference? This book examines the evidence for each explanation in an attempt to discover what we do and do not know about sex differences in depression. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804716406
- ISBN
- 9780804716406
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Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252068836
- ISBN
- 9780252068836
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.28
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Hardback. Susan Nance investigates modernity for animals through the case of Jumbo the elephant in the 1880s. Jumbo exposed the 'human dilemma' of modern living, wherein people celebrated individual animals to cope or distract themselves from the wholesale slaughter of animals required by modern consumerism. Num Pages: 112 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HPQ; JFFZ; WNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 297.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137562067
- ISBN
- 9781137562067
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
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Hardback. They often lived lives of apparent desperation. Series: Animals, History, Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFZ; WNG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408293
- ISBN
- 9781421408293
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Condition: New
€ 73.08
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Hardback. "Packaging Terrorism is the account of a very simple idea. The idea is this: that it's not the acts of terrorism that most matter in the post 9/11 world, it's what we are told to think about the acts of terrorism. Politicians tell us what to think. The media tell us what to think. Even terrorists tell us what to think. Series: Communication in the Public Interest. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405173667
- ISBN
- 9781405173667
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Condition: New
€ 113.01
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Paperback. "Packaging Terrorism is the account of a very simple idea. The idea is this: that it's not the acts of terrorism that most matter in the post 9/11 world, it's what we are told to think about the acts of terrorism. Politicians tell us what to think. The media tell us what to think. Even terrorists tell us what to think. Series: Communication in the Public Interest. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405173650
- ISBN
- 9781405173650
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Condition: New
€ 31.17
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Paperback. Over 1200 collectible T-shirts presented for casual wearers and serious collectors of these icons of international culture. Grouped by popular categories, such as colleges, sports, and surfing. Includes price guide. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1,247 color photos. BIC Classification: AJC; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 872.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764325892
- ISBN
- 9780764325892
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 25.45
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Paperback. Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This book constructs Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the practices of living Maya peoples. Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Num Pages: 382 pages, 48 figures, 22 b&w plates, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLS; ACBK; JFHF; JHMC; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1043.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292752269
- ISBN
- 9780292752269
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.45
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Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFK; JFSJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349421879
- ISBN
- 9781349421879
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Condition: New
€ 65.48
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Hardcover. This work investigates the significance of love in moral and political philosophy. It argues for a re-interpretation of both enlightenment and feminist thinking, and shows how the former often takes love as central, while the latter draws our attention to human vulnerability and neediness. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333802694
- ISBN
- 9780333802694
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 336 pages, 35 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; HP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816670338
- ISBN
- 9780816670338
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
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Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression explores how artists made use of various cultural forms - notably the visual arts, poetry, theatre, music, and dance - to grapple with human values in the increasingly heterodox world of the 1600s. Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 halftones; 1 figure. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442640627
- ISBN
- 9781442640627
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Condition: New
€ 88.53
€ 88.53
Paperback. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, this book offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. It tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 219 pages, 16 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232082
- ISBN
- 9780520232082
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
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€ 25.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325987
- ISBN
- 9780822325987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.56
€ 33.99
€ 26.56