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Paperback. In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631168140
ISBN
9780631168140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.78

Paperback. An accessible, engaging introduction to the life of first lady Dolley Madison and the pivotal role she played in establishing an atmosphere of unity and civility in the young nation Series: Lives of American Women. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780813347592
ISBN
9780813347592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.23

Paperback. Catherine Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women during the first decades of the 19th century used "social events" and the "private sphere" to establish the national capital and to build the extraofficial structures so sorely needed in the infant federal government. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921181
ISBN
9780813921181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 139 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JHBC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137571618
ISBN
9781137571618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.52

paperback. Shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, rooted in pre-colonial African cultures and disseminated in a rich oral tradition, has served diasporic communities by creating structures of feeling linking those of African descent across centuries and continents. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332220
ISBN
9780822332220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardcover. Explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. This study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; AV; DSBF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748684618
ISBN
9780748684618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.02
€ 103.50

Paperback. Provides an introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vital subject. This title features twenty-one essays that cast an appropriately broad net, spanning the study of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences. Editor(s): Stimpson, Catharine R.; Herdt, Gilbert. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 766.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774817
ISBN
9780226774817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 maps, Line drawings, black & white|Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTQ; JFFN; JFSC; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719087240
ISBN
9780719087240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.96

Paperback. Catharine MacKinnon has been very instrumental in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice". This collection talks about her clear and consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 738.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024069
ISBN
9780674024069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.03

Paperback. A practicing attorney views the sexual harassment of working women as a pervasive social problem and presents a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex. Series: Yale Fastback Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300022995
ISBN
9780300022995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674298743
ISBN
9780674298743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.27

Paperback. Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centred on sexual subordination and applies it to the State. Num Pages: 350 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: JFFK; JPA; L. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
Edition Unstated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674896468
ISBN
9780674896468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.13

Hardback. Editor(s): Raudvere, Catharina. Series: Islam and Nationalism. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 401.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319390000
ISBN
9783319390000
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.28

Hardcover. Based on her bestselling range of greetings cards, Cath Tate bring you her unique take on the subject of men, with vintage illustrations accompanied by witty and insightful text. Num Pages: 112 pages, 56 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AKL; JFSJ2; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Portico
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0008859
ISBN
9781909396395
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. From birth certificates and marriage licenses to food safety regulations and speed limits, law shapes nearly every moment of our lives. Ubiquitous and ambivalent, the law is charged with both maintaining social order and protecting individual freedom. This title explores this ambivalence. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFM; LAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878408603
ISBN
9780878408603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.29

Paperback. Series: Culture Smart!. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Kuperard
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
Second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857338737
ISBN
9781857338737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.46

Hardback. Neighborhoods, Schools, and Violence furthers this evolution of the merger of social disorganization theories and opportunity theories in explaining the crime potential of place, particularly in Prince George's County, Maryland. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; JFFE; JKV; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739109014
ISBN
9780739109014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.12

Paperback. A witty and elegiac new collection from the author of "exhilarating, fierce [and] powerful" verse (Robert Pinsky, Washington Post). Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393353136
ISBN
9780393353136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HPCB; HPL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2007
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048174584
ISBN
9789048174584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.46

hardcover. Presents formalizations of three important medieval logical theories - supposition, consequence and obligations - that are based on innovative vantage points: supposition theories as algorithmic hermeneutics, theories of consequence analyzed with tools borrowed from model-theory and two-dimensional semantics, and obligations as logical games. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HPCB; HPL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
2007th Edition
SKU
V9781402058523
ISBN
9781402058523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 200.31

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