Society & culture: general
Results 4561 - 4584 of 32169
Society & culture: general
paperback. This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts-specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable-revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America. Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 360 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; GPQD; JFFC; RNR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222463
- ISBN
- 9780812222463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.09
€ 37.99
€ 34.09
Hardcover. Editor(s): Fechner, Scott; Thayer, Rina. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JNKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 262 x 183 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781622579686
- ISBN
- 9781622579686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 231.72€ 156.76
€ 231.72
€ 156.76
Paperback. Discusses developing markets for African entrepreneurs Num Pages: 268 pages, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; JFFS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253005731
- ISBN
- 9780253005731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.48
€ 30.99
€ 27.48
Hardback. Discusses developing markets for African entrepreneurs Num Pages: 268 pages, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; JFFS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253002662
- ISBN
- 9780253002662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.00
€ 81.00
Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501307447
- ISBN
- 9781501307447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
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€ 12.99
€ 17.99
€ 12.99
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
€ 81.00
€ 81.00
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€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
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€ 24.93
€ 33.99
€ 24.93
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
€ 62.98€ 48.91
€ 62.98
€ 48.91
Paperback. "Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education shows how researchers working in the area of technology and education can use critical perspectives to broaden the "ed-tech" research imagination, opening up new topics, asking new questions, developing theory and articulating an agenda for informed action"-- Series: Digital Education and Learning. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB; JNF; JNV; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349481248
- ISBN
- 9781349481248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.79€ 45.10
€ 51.79
€ 45.10
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
€ 19.99€ 19.08
€ 19.99
€ 19.08
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
€ 19.99€ 18.12
€ 19.99
€ 18.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HREC; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472581938
- ISBN
- 9781472581938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.37
€ 44.37
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€ 17.55
€ 18.99
€ 17.55
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€ 26.43
€ 27.99
€ 26.43
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
€ 26.99€ 22.35
€ 26.99
€ 22.35
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
€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
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
€ 73.08
€ 73.08
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
€ 199.15
€ 199.15
Hardback. A study of three Argentine provincial capitals that introduces a new concept in Latin American urban studies: the historical role of secondary cities, settlements large enough to possess all the elements commonly associated with urban areas and yet too small to figure among a country's major cities. Editor(s): Baily, Samuel L. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804714198
- ISBN
- 9780804714198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.73
€ 105.73
Hardback. In this title, authors Marvin Perry and Frederick Schweitzer analyse the lies, misperceptions, and myths that have been spread throughout the centuries in regard to the Jewish people and the Jewish religion. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312165611
- ISBN
- 9780312165611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.25
€ 92.25
paperback. Editor(s): Schweitzer, Carl-Christoph. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Edition
- 1969th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783322960825
- ISBN
- 9783322960825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.13
€ 81.13
Hardback. The majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of 'Jewish culture'. This book describes the contributions of Mendelssohn, Wessely, Krochmal, Zunz, the mainstream Zionist thinkers, Kook, Kaplan, and Dubnow to the formulation of the various versions of the Jewish cultural ideal. Editor(s): Levin, Leonard. Translator(s): Hadari, Amnon. Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843055
- ISBN
- 9781934843055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.13
€ 73.13