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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Reveals the pivotal role of music - musical works and musical culture - in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the 'long nineteenth century'. This book argues that from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVA; AVGC4; AVGC5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126166
ISBN
9780691126166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Levine, Michael P.; Pataki, Tamas. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801488788
ISBN
9780801488788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.83

Hardcover. Series: Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: JFFB; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781118974995
ISBN
9781118974995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.06

Paperback. Uses Barack Obama's election and administration to illustrate the ways race combines with seemingly non-racial ideas to generate social meaning. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 534. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804780964
ISBN
9780804780964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. Uses Barack Obama's election and administration to illustrate the ways race combines with seemingly non-racial ideas to generate social meaning. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804780957
ISBN
9780804780957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Hardcover. Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated break-dancing and graffiti. This book offers an unbiased examination of how hip-hop works in people's daily lives. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; AVGR; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226395845
ISBN
9780226395845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 79.61

Paperback. Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and Djing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated break-dancing and graffiti. Focusing on the music's fans - young men, both black and white, this book offers an unbiased examination of how hip-hop works in people's daily lives. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; AVGR; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226395852
ISBN
9780226395852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. This study looks at group dynamics in six collaborative circles: the French Impressionists; Sigmund Freud and his friends; C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings; social reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; the Fugitive poets; and writers Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford. Num Pages: 328 pages, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: JFS; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226238678
ISBN
9780226238678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.03

Paperback. From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. The author provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374. The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America. 256 pages, 20 halftones. From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. The author provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL; KCZ. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226629384
ISBN
9780226629384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Hardcover. From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. The author provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226629377
ISBN
9780226629377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 79.61

Paperback. And a city struggles through racial convulsions, remembered by those such as John Steadman and Father Constantine Sitaris. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; HBTB; JFSL1; WQH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418452
ISBN
9781421418452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.61

Hardcover. Editor(s): Oladejo Afolayan, Michael. Num Pages: 266 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 263 x 186 x 22. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608769957
ISBN
9781608769957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.21
€ 117.83

Hardcover. Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael Hardimon criticizes this thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975668
ISBN
9780674975668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 41.41

Paperback. How do racially mixed congregations come together? How are they sustained? Who attends them, how did they get there, and what are their experiences? This book explores these questions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 halftones. 2 line illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSL1; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136271
ISBN
9780691136271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. A sophisticated and subversive guide on how to make a difference .. one day at a time. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 382.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st
SKU
KNW0009330
ISBN
9780007242306
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

hardcover. If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new - new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. The author takes us on a tour of more than two millennia of thinking about the problem of the new, from the puzzles of the pre-Socratics all the way up to the art world of the 1960s and '70s. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226077871
ISBN
9780226077871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226325309
ISBN
9780226325309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. An account of feral children - those brought up with no human contact, sometimes raised by wild animals, unable to speak or perform functions we consider human. The book examines their lives and the experiences of those who "rescued" them, looked after them, educated them or abused them. Num Pages: 320 pages, facsimiles, portraits, 8 B&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571214600
ISBN
9780571214600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 49 b & w photos & illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBND; JFHF; VXQM; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 230 x 9. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764326080
ISBN
9780764326080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.71

Paperback. This work brings together a selection of articles collectively surveying the current state of Rastafari as a worldwide phenomenon. The essays are divided into sections on globalization, ideology and practice, theology, gender, politics and music. Editor(s): Barnett, Professor of Political Science Michael (University of Minnesota George Washington University, USA George Washington University, USA George Washington University, USA George Washington University, USA George Washington University, USA George Washington University, USA University of Minnesota). Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white tables, frontispiece. BIC Classification: HRKT; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633600
ISBN
9780815633600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.79

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR1; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691165974
ISBN
9780691165974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Series: Blacks in the New World. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations facsimiles, maps, plan, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252064463
ISBN
9780252064463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.17

Paperback. With a cast of characters ranging from Malcolm X to 50 Cent, Knight's compelling work is the first detailed account of the movement inextricably linked with black empowerment, Islam, New York, and hip-hop. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HRH; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851686155
ISBN
9781851686155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.80

Paperback. Explains the relationship between national culture and national differences in crucially important phenomena, such as speed of economic growth, murder rates, and educational achievement. This book also explains differences in suicide rates, road death tolls, female inequality, happiness, and a number of other phenomena. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857246134
ISBN
9780857246134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.57

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