Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 halftone, 10 line illustrations, 3 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674015319
- ISBN
- 9780674015319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.26€ 81.33
€ 90.26
€ 81.33
Paperback. This book, now in paperback and with a new preface by the editors, explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing to seek out interconnections and identify new directions in thinking about sexuality and gender that may emerge out of and at the interface. Editor(s): Richardson, Diane; McLaughlin, Janice; Casey, Mark E. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 7. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296350
- ISBN
- 9780230296350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 106.94€ 66.96
€ 106.94
€ 66.96
paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JFDT; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552664001
- ISBN
- 9781552664001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.60
€ 30.99
€ 25.60
Paperback. Sets the pieces of the story that are known to historians into their cultural, religious, and political context. This book explores important questions about the period and about historical memory that is of interest to both the general reader and students of the period. Num Pages: 176 pages, b&w photo. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 62987th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253207517
- ISBN
- 9780253207517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.17
€ 14.17
Paperback. An introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into Benjamin's complex relationships with Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism and Western Marxism. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: BG; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520084001
- ISBN
- 9780520084001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
€ 46.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HPCF3; HPS; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691168616
- ISBN
- 9780691168616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Editor(s): Lofgren, Orvar; Wilk, Richard R. Num Pages: 164 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 247 x 170 x 9. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763505116
- ISBN
- 9788763505116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.74
€ 44.99
€ 31.74
Paperback. Offers a study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies that represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Num Pages: 433 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803297241
- ISBN
- 9780803297241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.99
€ 37.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859182321
- ISBN
- 9781859182321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.00€ 24.15
€ 29.00
€ 24.15
Hardcover. A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced. Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118294802
- ISBN
- 9781118294802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.09
€ 175.09
Hardback. What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Series: What is History Series. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644929
- ISBN
- 9780745644929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.65
€ 59.65
Paperback. What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Series: What is History Series. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644936
- ISBN
- 9780745644936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.42
€ 21.42
Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Regnery Publishing Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621574897
- ISBN
- 9781621574897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.41
€ 30.99
€ 25.41
Paperback. A British amalgam of American music and European fashions that mixed modern jazz with modernist design in an attempt to escape the drab conformity, snobbery and prudery of life in 1950s Britain. But what started as a popular cult became a mainstream culture, and a style became a revolution. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; AKTH; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099597889
- ISBN
- 9780099597889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Paperback. Provides a facing-page translation of the "Book of Chivalry". This book describes the prowess and piety of knights, their capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, and their views on masculine virtue, women, and love. Editor(s): Kaeuper, Richard W.; Kennedy, Elspeth. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215793
- ISBN
- 9780812215793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Hardback. Offers a perspective on human-animal relations. This book reveals the ways in which various cultures have reinforced, symbolized, and rationalized their relations with animals. It identifies and explores four stages in the history of the human-animal relationship - separation, pre-domesticity, domesticity, and post-domesticity. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130769
- ISBN
- 9780231130769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.33€ 82.56
€ 109.33
€ 82.56
Paperback. Crime in an Insecure World investigates the alarming trend across Western societies of treating every imaginable source of harm as a crime. It locates this trend in the 21st century obsession with insecurity fostered by neo-liberal governments. Num Pages: 266 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JP; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745638294
- ISBN
- 9780745638294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.74
€ 25.74
Hardback. Crime in an Insecure World investigates the alarming trend across Western societies of treating every imaginable source of harm as a crime. It locates this trend in the 21st century obsession with insecurity fostered by neo-liberal governments. Num Pages: 188 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JP; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745638287
- ISBN
- 9780745638287
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.01
€ 73.01
Hardcover. Explores the lives of heralded Holocaust rescuers Andre and Magda Trocme, and the people of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon France who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609704
- ISBN
- 9780815609704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.11
€ 32.99
€ 29.11
Paperback. Following its entry into the European Union, Ireland changed radically from an impoverished, provincial, former British colony to a country where a farmer takes his wife on skiing holidays in Switzerland. This work debunks a good many stereotypes that prevent our seeing Ireland for what it was, as well as what it has become. Num Pages: 272 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press Indiana
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268042325
- ISBN
- 9780268042325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.64
€ 31.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801481321
- ISBN
- 9780801481321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.95
€ 45.99
€ 40.95
Paperback. Compiles profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 39. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845951627
- ISBN
- 9781845951627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.88
€ 26.99
€ 18.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, black & white illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: HPK; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 580. Intimations of a New World View. 592 pages, black & white illustrations throughout. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPK; JFCX. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight: 600.
- Publisher
- Plume
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780452288591
- ISBN
- 9780452288591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.20
€ 23.99
€ 21.20
Hardcover. A provocative look at the remarkable contributions of high-skill immigrant entrepreneurs in America Both a revelation and a call-to-action, Immigrant, Inc. explores the uncommon skill and drive of America's new immigrants and their knack for innovation and entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 226 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; KJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470455715
- ISBN
- 9780470455715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.05
€ 31.99
€ 25.05