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Society & culture: general
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447328483
- ISBN
- 9781447328483
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.76
€ 18.99
€ 18.76
Paperback. Chronicles the destruction of Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883. This book describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm. Illustrator(s): Vannithone, Soun. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, facsims., maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; JFFC; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141005171
- ISBN
- 9780141005171
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.53
€ 17.99
€ 13.53
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752464077
- ISBN
- 9780752464077
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.75
€ 23.99
€ 20.75
Paperback. A unique approach to exploring a key social trend, which gives a human voice to the workplace revolution, this play examines the commercial and social revolution in South-East London when the Surrey Docks were transformed from a hub for large corporations to their present identity. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMC; DD; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 5. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Aurora Metro Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906582548
- ISBN
- 9781906582548
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Condition: New
€ 12.45
€ 12.45
Hardcover. Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia, this study sheds significant empirical light on the vicious implications of free market ideology and practice. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMC; JFFE; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485328
- ISBN
- 9781137485328
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Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. BIC Classification: JFS; JPFB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816697731
- ISBN
- 9780816697731
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.28
€ 27.99
€ 26.28
Hardback. Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world. Editor(s): Robinson, Shirleene; Sleight, Simon. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489401
- ISBN
- 9781137489401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.61
€ 161.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 b/w throughout. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA; PDZM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408842812
- ISBN
- 9781408842812
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Spanning the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford, this is a story of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Num Pages: 512 pages, 3 plate sections. BIC Classification: HBG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099546689
- ISBN
- 9780099546689
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138253155
- ISBN
- 9781138253155
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardback. Using the tools of medicine, literary theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, this book probes the breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is intended for those interested in German textual studies, the history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295986111
- ISBN
- 9780295986111
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Condition: New
€ 117.70
€ 117.70
Paperback. Reynolds offers a guided tour of rave culture and techno music in this first critical history of the genre--and the drug culture that accompanies it. 40-page discography. of illustrations. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGV; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 173 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415923736
- ISBN
- 9780415923736
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Condition: New
€ 48.90
€ 48.90
Paperback. From rave's origins in Chicago house and Detroit techno, through Ibiza, Madchester and the anarchic free-party scene, to the pirate-radio underworld of jungle and UK garage, the author documents with insight and infectious enthusiasm the tracks, DJs, producers and promoters that soundtracked a generation. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1072.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 816
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571289134
- ISBN
- 9780571289134
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.26
€ 26.99
€ 18.26
Hardcover. Simon Reich presents an interpretation of the relationship between material (hard) and social (soft) power, with implications for the alternative ways these link and the impact of these linkages on the future of American policy. Global Norms offers a new way of understanding both theory and policy in the 21st Century. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFS; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205932
- ISBN
- 9780230205932
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Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Paperback. An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum Editor(s): Rabinovitch, Simon. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584657620
- ISBN
- 9781584657620
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.81
€ 32.99
€ 25.81
Hardcover. An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum Editor(s): Rabinovitch, Simon. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584657613
- ISBN
- 9781584657613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.08€ 67.36
€ 80.08
€ 67.36
Paperback. New Labour has concentrated many of its social policy initiatives in reinvigorating the family, community and work. But just how 'new' are the ideas driving policy and practice? This book shows how New Labour has drawn on the ideas and premises of functionalism, which dominated British and American sociological thought from the 1940s to the 1960s. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861344595
- ISBN
- 9781861344595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.54
€ 40.99
€ 38.54
Hardcover. This is an environmental history of humans and wildfire on the Cape Peninsula, from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The book examines how the region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications. Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 graphs, 12 black & white halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; HBTB; HBTP; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415431
- ISBN
- 9781137415431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 67.85
Hardcover. A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public debates on Romanian migrants and the Roma minority in Italy and Spain. Series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JHMC; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433916
- ISBN
- 9781137433916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JFFS; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349492787
- ISBN
- 9781349492787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Hardcover. Of equal appeal to general readers, designers and typographers, this book is a vibrant cultural guide to fifty of the most remarkable typefaces. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AKD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851244317
- ISBN
- 9781851244317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
Paperback. What causes a child to grow up gay, straight, or bisexual? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK; JMM; PSAN; VFVC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190297374
- ISBN
- 9780190297374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.80
€ 35.80
Paperback. Takes a look at the ways that the twentieth century reacted to and reimagined its predecessor. This work considers how the Victorian inheritance has been represented in literature, politics, film, and visual culture; and the ways in which modernists and progressives have sought to differentiate themselves from an image of the Victorian. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821417621
- ISBN
- 9780821417621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern age. The future of sleep has become contested and uncertain: something to be defended, downsized or even perhaps (one day) done away with altogether. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JMTD; MBS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223660
- ISBN
- 9780230223660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29