Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Provides a textbook overview of the past, present, and future of African Americans in US media. Brings together work from a variety of disciplines to provide the fullest understanding of this complex relationship to date. Series: Media and Minorities. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 23. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745640341
- ISBN
- 9780745640341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.43
€ 77.43
Hardback. This volume showcases the ways in which new theoretical paradigms and cultural emphases can reinvigorate and enrich understanding of what Twin Peaks was and what it has become since it went off the air in 1991. Editor(s): Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137563842
- ISBN
- 9781137563842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.95
€ 108.95
Paperback. Gothic images pervade contemporary culture, from popular interior decorating programmes to news stories of vampire-obsessed killers. This book seeks to analyse this trend. Why is Gothic perennially undergoing revival? What is its role in modern consumer culture? And is its popularity or its usefulness drawing to an end? Series: FOCI S. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861893017
- ISBN
- 9781861893017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.08
€ 17.99
€ 14.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFK; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786498635
- ISBN
- 9780786498635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.95
€ 41.99
€ 41.95
Paperback. Focusing on how groupwork can be learnt and taught, the authors of this accessible book consider what is essential in effective work with groups. They develop a practice model which is applicable to a wide range of approaches and actively promotes anti-oppressive groupwork. It has been extensively trialled and refined in a social services agency. Num Pages: 288 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853028236
- ISBN
- 9781853028236
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.89
€ 46.99
€ 46.89
Paperback. Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343035
- ISBN
- 9780822343035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.18
€ 28.18
Hardback. Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822342861
- ISBN
- 9780822342861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.46
€ 117.46
Hardback. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810858022
- ISBN
- 9780810858022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.97
€ 94.97
Paperback. Presents a study of detective fiction written by American women between the Civil War and World War II. This book shows how women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction. It focuses on the narrative qualities of the domestic novel tradition and the ways in which it reflected ideologies of domesticity and gender. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322719
- ISBN
- 9780822322719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.08
€ 27.99
€ 26.08
Paperback. Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. This title explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691115269
- ISBN
- 9780691115269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.27
€ 46.99
€ 33.27
Hardcover. An examination of homelessness as a profound, affective phenomenon. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632528
- ISBN
- 9780815632528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.84
€ 32.84
Hardback. This book chronicles the struggles of undocumented migrant women in France as they fight to become rights-bearing citizens, revealing how concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with gender, sexuality, and immigration. Num Pages: 216 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757614
- ISBN
- 9780804757614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.54
€ 119.54
Paperback. This book chronicles the struggles of undocumented migrant women in France as they fight to become rights-bearing citizens, revealing how concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with gender, sexuality, and immigration. Num Pages: 216 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757621
- ISBN
- 9780804757621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.08
€ 27.99
€ 26.08
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Open University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780335262526
- ISBN
- 9780335262526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.26
€ 43.26
Paperback. This work argues that a feminist ethics, in order to be both feminist and ethical, needs to embrace psychoanalysis. It includes an analysis of two attempts by George Sand to reimagine the sexual relationship where the emphasis is on political injustice and the impossibility of women's desires. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFM; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557533296
- ISBN
- 9781557533296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.49
€ 45.49
Paperback. During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers". He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood. This text brings William Grant Still out of the archives and examines his place in America's musical heritage. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 b/w illustrations, 1 table, 22 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; AVH; BGF; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHN0001970
- ISBN
- 9780520215436
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349325078
- ISBN
- 9781349325078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed consideration of the masculinities that are dominating current Italian cinema, the study addresses the supposed crisis of masculinity. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 244 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFA; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381460
- ISBN
- 9781137381460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Paperback. This unusual philosophy book asks the reader to reconsider the received view that animal rights have no place in ancient thought. Catherine Osborne argues that by reflecting on the work of the ancient philosophers and poets, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199568277
- ISBN
- 9780199568277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.08
€ 60.08
Paperback. Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed consideration of the masculinities that are dominating current Italian cinema, the study addresses the supposed crisis of masculinity. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 242 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349479627
- ISBN
- 9781349479627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.51
€ 61.51
Paperback. Looks at life in Cuba, including descriptions of its people and places. This book illuminates the human face of Cuba, which over the years has largely been hidden. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 184 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 166 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Edition
- CA res. please inc. 7.25% tax
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842028370
- ISBN
- 9780842028370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.06
€ 50.06
Paperback. One of the first publications to synthesize reproductive ethics and post-structuralist philosophy, this monograph offers insightful discussion of key issues in reproductive ethics such as liberal eugenics, human enhancement and disability discrimination. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFMG; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 215.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400736337
- ISBN
- 9789400736337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardback. One of the first publications to synthesize reproductive ethics and post-structuralist philosophy, this monograph offers insightful discussion of key issues in reproductive ethics such as liberal eugenics, human enhancement and disability discrimination. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400714267
- ISBN
- 9789400714267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
hardcover. This study focuses on how The Newspaper Guild - the main union for reporters and editors - adopted a strategy of labour convergence, joining with other media workers in the large Communication Workers of America union. It also looks at the nationalism of Canadian newsworkers. Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFD; KNTJ; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742515963
- ISBN
- 9780742515963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.08
€ 170.08