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Society & culture: general
Paperback. How has Judaism, a religion defined by its minority status, attained equal footing with Catholicism and Protestantism in dominating modern American religious life? This work, revealing the effects of this evolution on Jews in America and on America in general, encompasses politics and culture. Editor(s): Seltzer, Robert M.; Cohen, Norman S. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRJ; JFC; JFSR1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814780015
- ISBN
- 9780814780015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 306 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSC; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604864540
- ISBN
- 9781604864540
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.45
€ 25.99
€ 19.45
Hardback. The concept of citizenship in Egypt is explored, identifying the forces controlling women since the turn of the 20th century. The book seeks to understand how political culture has developed and how women have asserted themselves in public life and been continually restricted and excluded. Series: History & Society of the Modern Middle East. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSJ1; JPH; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158. Weight in Grams: 330. Hardback in very good condition. No dustjacket. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- SKU
- KRF0026837
- ISBN
- 9780231112987
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Combining her own experience with an examination of the history of blindness in the Western world, author shows that sightlessness has been an 'active' force in history, rather than the passive condition which is too readily assumed. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781848856905
- ISBN
- 9781848856905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 77 black & white halftones, 74 colour illustrations, 10 bl. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AMV; JFC; WMB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 246 x 16. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415821186
- ISBN
- 9780415821186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement-Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi-Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125314
- ISBN
- 9780231125314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. Editor(s): Kimura, Seiji; Miyazaki, Aiko. Num Pages: 143 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 143
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624174452
- ISBN
- 9781624174452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 218.61€ 151.27
€ 218.61
€ 151.27
Paperback. Drawing on received sources of maqasid (Shari'ah's practical objectives), this book demonstrates how the principles of market economics affect how markets and financial institutions actually operate under Shari'ah law. It explains the maqasid economic rationale of precluding interest rates on money capital from legitimate economic exchange. Series: Edinburgh Guides to Islamic Finance. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; KFF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748670031
- ISBN
- 9780748670031
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.47
€ 40.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Suggests ways a sociological perspective can contribute to imaging a queer studies that preserves the critical spirit of queer theory while being attentive to the deeply institutional and structural dynamics in the formation of the sexual self and social order. This book points towards a different sociological queer studies. Editor(s): Seidman, Steven. Series: Twentieth-century Social Theory S. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557867407
- ISBN
- 9781557867407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.71
€ 61.71
Junge Frauen Heute Wie Sie Leben, Was Sie Anders Machen
Seidenspinner, Gerlinde; Keddi, Barbara; Witt...
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810014726
- ISBN
- 9783810014726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.18
€ 72.18
Paperback. Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBV; HBTB; JFC; JFD; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349491919
- ISBN
- 9781349491919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Hardcover. Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429698
- ISBN
- 9781137429698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Paperback. This reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical and fictional heroes. Editor(s): Segal, Robert A. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631215158
- ISBN
- 9780631215158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
Hardback. This reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical and fictional heroes. Editor(s): Segal, Robert A. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631215141
- ISBN
- 9780631215141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.90
€ 150.90
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Quick American a division of Quick Trading Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936807017
- ISBN
- 9781936807017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.31
€ 21.99
€ 21.31
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415629614
- ISBN
- 9780415629614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity. A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSR2; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 223 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554382
- ISBN
- 9780230554382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.11
€ 129.11
Hardback. Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and explains how and why these policies were adopted. The analysis offers lessons for the study of poverty elsewhere in the world. Series: Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFA; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452689
- ISBN
- 9781137452689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.31
€ 150.31
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Four Corners Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909829077
- ISBN
- 9781909829077
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Condition: New
€ 30.10
€ 30.10
Paperback. Offers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices that can weave the pleasures and disorientations of reading into the fabric of queer analyses. Editor(s): Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320401
- ISBN
- 9780822320401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.48
€ 41.99
€ 35.48