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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Assesses the comparability between policies promoting women's equality and the reversal of fertility decline. Based on comparative data from Canada, Australia, Britain and to a more limited extent the United States, Alena Heitlinger examines the impact of various public policies on women. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 1KBC; 1MBF; JFSJ1; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 651.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333515785
ISBN
9780333515785
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.09

Hardcover. In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in modern context and presenting them as a useful tool of cultural analysis. Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; GTE; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137007148
ISBN
9781137007148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.12

Paperback. Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349435296
ISBN
9781349435296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardback. Huaorani of the Western Snippet documents the changes undergone by the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador over a period of fifty years beginning with the first full contact with Western culture in 1958. Num Pages: 208 pages, 14 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137539878
ISBN
9781137539878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.12

Hardcover. This book sheds light on the processes that have transformed national citizenship of the European Union's member states and explains the legislative changes that have taken place since the mid-1980s in Germany, Hungary and Poland. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFSL1; JPVH1; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230284241
ISBN
9780230284241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.26

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JFSL; JPA; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349493524
ISBN
9781349493524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.53

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531197104
ISBN
9783531197104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.87

Paperback. What does it mean to be a modern family when dinner table conversations take place over smartphones? What happens to privacy when we readily share our personal lives with friends and corporations? This title uncovers how much humanity has - and hasn't - changed because of our increasingly co-dependent relationship with the computer. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; PDR; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571303663
ISBN
9780571303663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Brennan, Timothy (Professor of Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature and English, University of Minnesota, USA). Translator(s): West-Duran, Alan. Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas S. Num Pages: 312 pages, music. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AV; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816632305
ISBN
9780816632305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.20

Hardcover. This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFD; JHBS; WSBT; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230355408
ISBN
9780230355408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Paperback. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFD; JFSR; JHB; JHBS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349347070
ISBN
9781349347070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.81

Paperback. One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This study provides a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, family and school life, language, identity, experiences of discrimination, self-esteem, ambition, and achievement. Num Pages: 430 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 31 line figures, 50 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Printing
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520228481
ISBN
9780520228481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.93

Paperback. Much like the United States, Western Europe has experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. This book explores how the children of immigrants - the second generation - are coping with the challenges of adaptation to Spanish society, comparing their situation with that experienced by their peers in the United States. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 15 figures, 75 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286306
ISBN
9780520286306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.73

Paperback. San Francisco's first Latino poet laureate offers new poems written in the native tongue of contemporary America: English-and-Spanish. Series: San Francisco Poet Laureate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781931404136
ISBN
9781931404136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.08

Hardback. Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137561947
ISBN
9781137561947
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.99

Paperback. This study examines certain key elements of the "making" or "inventing" of Lima as Peru's viceregal capital. Through analysis of seventeenth-century ceremonies of state and local religious rituals, this book asserts that colonial Lima was culturally diverse and its rich population more integrated than historiography would suggest. Series: Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536641
ISBN
9781349536641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 129.13

Paperback. Editor(s): Baker, Aleisha. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: JFSF; KNGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781633215719
ISBN
9781633215719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 100.31
€ 68.88

Hardback. .
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781498532181
ISBN
9781498532181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.24
€ 33.97

Paperback. Is the France of 2015 still French in the same way or to the same degree as the France of 1985? Where do the most significant challenges to "Frenchness" now lie? These are among the issues addressed by contributors to this volume, spanning a wide range of topics and disciplinary approaches including politics, literature, film and sport. Series: Nottingham French Studies. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; JFC; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 165. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474406604
ISBN
9781474406604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.73

Paperback. Editor(s): MacPhee, Josh; Dunn, Alec. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: AKC; JFCA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
PM Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629631561
ISBN
9781629631561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.79

Hardcover. Editor(s): Merrick, Professor Joav, MD, MMedSci, DMSc; Greydanus, Donald E.; Patel, Dilip R. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 182 x 258 x 20. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781633218550
ISBN
9781633218550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 262.00
€ 175.76

Hardback. Num Pages: 155 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFFE; JFSP2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 183 x 261 x 14. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
155
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620817544
ISBN
9781620817544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 236.03
€ 158.66

mass_market. 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. This book offers an account of his experience. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 6. Weight in Grams: 55.
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781784872748
ISBN
9781784872748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.60

Paperback. Includes the author's views on overpopulation, propaganda, advertising and government control. This book appeals for the defence of relevant individualism. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099458234
ISBN
9780099458234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.18

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