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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid - the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837 - was forged Num Pages: 224 pages, 75 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBJH; HBLA; JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591437895
- ISBN
- 9781591437895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.80
€ 17.99
€ 12.80
Hardcover. Draws on thirty-five years of fieldwork (1965-1990) in the region to present a masterful ethnographic historical account of how nine communities in the Oaxaca Valley have striven to maintain land, livelihood, and civility in the face of transformational and cumulative change across five centuries. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 403 pages, 62 b&w photos, 7 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 814. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292754768
- ISBN
- 9780292754768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.10
€ 86.10
Paperback. From the sweaty summer days of a junky's nightmare to the bittersweet success of true surrender and emergence into a new way of life, Border Junkies paints a searing, first-hand portrait of addiction, poverty, and recovery on the U.S.-Mexico border Series: Inter-America Series. Num Pages: 246 pages, 26 b&w photos in section. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; JFFA; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292726833
- ISBN
- 9780292726833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.93
€ 26.99
€ 26.93
Paperback. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a 'humane' method of execution. This title takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFMC; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271210
- ISBN
- 9780520271210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.61
€ 33.99
€ 24.61
Hardback. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a 'humane' method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry, medicine, law, and politics, the author overturns this mythology for good. Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520255623
- ISBN
- 9780520255623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.33€ 48.27
€ 62.33
€ 48.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Career Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781601631978
- ISBN
- 9781601631978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.96
€ 18.99
€ 18.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372. The Pervasive Presence of the Serpent In Human History, Religion, and Alien Mythos. 224 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFHF. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight: 364.
- Publisher
- Career Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781601632517
- ISBN
- 9781601632517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.09
€ 18.99
€ 18.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062517425
- ISBN
- 9780062517425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.33
€ 18.99
€ 17.33
Paperback. Tackles the political and institutional challenges that women's studies has faced since its integration into university curricula. This book embraces feminism not as a set of prescriptions, but as a critical stance, one that seeks to interrogate and disrupt prevailing systems of gender. Editor(s): Scott, Joan Wallach. Series: A Differences Book. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822342748
- ISBN
- 9780822342748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.08
€ 27.99
€ 26.08
Hardback. Num Pages: 228 pages, 16 color photos. BIC Classification: BM; JFFZ; WNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634505703
- ISBN
- 9781634505703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.12
€ 25.99
€ 22.12
Paperback. Scot Brown presents a history of the US organization, a Black nationalist group that played a leading role in Black Power politics and culture during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Founded in 1965 by Maulana Karenga, US established alliances with activists, artists, and organizations to establish an African American cultural revolution. Num Pages: 228 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814798782
- ISBN
- 9780814798782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.18
€ 28.18
Paperback. By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms and the growth of a commercial mass culture, this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742501577
- ISBN
- 9780742501577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.49
€ 72.49
Hardback. By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms and the growth of a commercial mass culture, this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742501560
- ISBN
- 9780742501560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.54
€ 197.54
Hardback. This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Editor(s): Schwarz, Henry; Ray, Sangeeta. Series: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 624 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JHM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 266 x 189 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631206620
- ISBN
- 9780631206620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 222.20
€ 222.20
paperback. The self-contained casino resort removes gambling and its social problems from cities and provides Americans with the comfort of gambling in a setting matched to their suburban lifestyle. This study locates the rise of the casino resort in suburbanization and its contemporary significance. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415935579
- ISBN
- 9780415935579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.47
€ 35.47
Paperback. Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theatre, and the novel, the essays in this volume reasses the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Editor(s): Charney, Leo; Schwartz, Vanessa R. Num Pages: 409 pages, 50 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586. 409 pages, 50 b&w photographs. Editor(s): Charney, Leo; Schwartz, Vanessa R. Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theatre, and the novel, the essays in this volume reasses the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 24. Weight: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 409
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520201125
- ISBN
- 9780520201125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.54
€ 41.99
€ 29.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195067262
- ISBN
- 9780195067262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.49
€ 47.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231159487
- ISBN
- 9780231159487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.49€ 78.05
€ 103.49
€ 78.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332. Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity. 240 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JFC; JHM. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 13. Weight: 332.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231159494
- ISBN
- 9780231159494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Hardback. This text looks at the legendary puquios of Nasca, the underground aqueduct system built by Incans which is arguably responsible for this strange abundance of water. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFC; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739106419
- ISBN
- 9780739106419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.83
€ 152.83