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Paperback. Other Objects of Desire; Collectors and Collecting Queerly explores gay identities and identifications as they are communicated in and through art, and provides a critical approach to the study of collectors and collecting. Editor(s): Camille, Michael; Rifkin, Adrian. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 168 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 3J; AB; AC; AGC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631233619
ISBN
9780631233619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.87

Paperback. American Indian History , which covers the fifteenth century through the present day, illuminates the richness of American Indian historical traditions. Townsend devotes nearly a third of the volume to the ancient world through the eighteenth century and then moves on to extensive coverage of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Townsend, Camilla. Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405159081
ISBN
9781405159081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.32

Hardback. The conference "Everyday Life in the Segmented City", held in July 2010, Florence, gathered a multiplicity of approaches and points of view dealing with issues of global urbanization. This title contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference. Editor(s): Perrone, Camilla; Manella, Gabriele; Tripodi, Lorenzo. Series Editor(s): Hutchison, Ray. Series: Research in Urban Sociology. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780522586
ISBN
9781780522586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.94

Hardback. Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing their life experiences, hugely impacted by sexual abuse, parental substance misuse and loss, leading to feelings of shame, and worthlessness. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JKSB1; JMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843104346
ISBN
9781843104346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

Paperback. Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing their life experiences, hugely impacted by sexual abuse, parental substance misuse and loss, leading to feelings of shame, and worthlessness. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JKSB1; JMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 231 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843106036
ISBN
9781843106036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, illustrations, maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 1MBF; BGA; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 172 x 9. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780855753481
ISBN
9780855753481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.80

hardcover. Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Num Pages: 236 pages, 91 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JF; KJMV6; TBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319525143
ISBN
9783319525143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.35

Paperback. Continued economic restructuring has brought service work to center stage in labor and management studies, as well as in the sociology of work, gender, race, and inequality. This work features essays that explore questions of power and control, resistance and empowerment, and innovation and organizing in the lives of front-line service workers. Editor(s): Macdonald, Cameron Lynne; Sirianni, Carmen. Series: Labor & Social Change. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSJ; JHBL; KCF; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566394802
ISBN
9781566394802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Paperback. Focuses on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the 'shadow mothers' they hire. The author illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520266971
ISBN
9780520266971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.23

Hardcover. Assemblages of Health Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFF; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 186 x 17. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401788922
ISBN
9789401788922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.15

Hardcover. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600089
ISBN
9780230600089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349369454
ISBN
9781349369454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Offers a refreshing look at the relation between queer theory and critical examinations of the construction of heterosexuality. Seeking to proliferate the findings and insights of queer theory, this title explores the issue of whether and how queer theory can speak for and include the straight. Editor(s): Thomas, Calvin. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252068133
ISBN
9780252068133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Calvin Thomas's Male Matters reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender Wise and quirky, sophisticated and coarse, serious and hilarious, this look at male identity and creativity and dislocation at the end of the twentieth century definitely will not assuage male anxiety! Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252065002
ISBN
9780252065002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Hardback. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1150.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780412007217
ISBN
9780412007217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.41

Paperback. Explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. This book shows how context shapes Jewish senses of the future and how conceptions of the future are shaped and altered by life experiences. It is intended for general Jewish readers. Series: Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFFR; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295983899
ISBN
9780295983899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.82

Hardback. This book describes the profound interferences with normal developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle as a result of chronic child sexual abuse. This conviction is supported by the presentation of detailed case histories of individuals ranging in age from five to sixty three. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JMC; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780765707666
ISBN
9780765707666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.21

Hardback. Media use starts in the first year of life. Initial experiences are controlled by parents and caregivers, but increasingly give way to childrena s preferences. The degree to which these experiences are a positive or negative source of developmental change is an ongoing intellectual debate with significant implications for todaya s society. Editor(s): Wilson, Barbara J.; Calvert, Sandra L. Series: Handbooks in Communication and Media. Num Pages: 640 pages, figures. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 173 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1212.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405144179
ISBN
9781405144179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 232.44

Hardback. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages & risks related to the new eugenics. Editor(s): MacKellar, Calum; Bechtel, Christopher. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMG; MBDC; MFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782381204
ISBN
9781782381204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.64

Paperback / so. Num Pages: colour illustrations, colour tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBD; JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 637.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783658125325
ISBN
9783658125325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.91
€ 49.82

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