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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Royal British Columbia Museum
- Edition
- 0002-
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780772658463
- ISBN
- 9780772658463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.48
€ 20.99
€ 20.48
Paperback. Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFC; JFDT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520173
- ISBN
- 9781137520173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.88
€ 68.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; JFFZ; WNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1054.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Otago University Press New Zealand
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578618
- ISBN
- 9781877578618
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.66
€ 30.99
€ 22.66
Paperback. Shows that Indians and Europeans shared common beliefs about their most fundamental realities - land as national territory, government, record-keeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body. This work includes incidents, letters, and recorded speeches from the Iroquois and Creek confederacies, the Cherokee Nation, and other sources. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JF; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195307108
- ISBN
- 9780195307108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.93
€ 59.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; JFF; JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 244 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199325276
- ISBN
- 9780199325276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.91
€ 30.99
€ 26.91
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 325 color photos. BIC Classification: JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 290 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764325083
- ISBN
- 9780764325083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.52
€ 48.99
€ 32.52
Identifying and dating eyewear on the market today is now simple and fun. Examples of eyewear from the sevententh century to the present are shown in over 600 color photos and explained in an engaging text. Bifocals, monocles, pince-nez, fanciful and safety styles of eyeglasses and sunglasses appear, along with some price estimates. Num Pages: 192 pages, 600 color photos. BIC Classification: AKTA; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1254.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764310416
- ISBN
- 9780764310416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.42
€ 48.99
€ 32.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 497 color photos. BIC Classification: AKTA; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 9. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764304842
- ISBN
- 9780764304842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.18
€ 25.99
€ 18.18
Paperback. Contains a series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures. Editor(s): Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; Sargent, Carolyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, 20 black-and-white photos, 20 tables, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 188 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520209183
- ISBN
- 9780520209183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of "Ballybran", a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, exploring the symptoms of the communities decline: from emigration to schizophrenia. This edition contains a new preface and epilogue. Num Pages: 417 pages, 23 b/w illustrations, 29 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFFH; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520224803
- ISBN
- 9780520224803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.52
€ 34.99
€ 25.52
Paperback. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Num Pages: 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1002. The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight: 1006.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520075375
- ISBN
- 9780520075375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.48
€ 44.99
€ 31.48
Hardback. Offers a views of rhetoric through the lens of modality, arguing that rhetoric's guiding interest in what is possible makes it a suitable tool for understanding politics. This title examines rhetoric's role in the history of modernity and to makes connections between thinkers from the classical, early modern, and modern periods. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226777481
- ISBN
- 9780226777481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.29
€ 48.99
€ 38.29
Hardcover. This volume explores the many ethical issues involving the elderly, their care, and their role in society - urgent concerns that have only recently come to the forefront. Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics and Society. Num Pages: 394 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; MBDC; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 747.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Edition
- 1992nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896032019
- ISBN
- 9780896032019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.94
€ 131.94
Paperback. Explores the many ethical issues involving the elderly, their care and their role in society. Nancy Jecker looks at: the ageing individual; ageing and filial responsibility; distributive justice in an ageing society; and philosophical reflections on ageing and death. Editor(s): Jecker, Nancy S. Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics and Society. Num Pages: 394 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896032552
- ISBN
- 9780896032552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.52
€ 128.52
Paperback. Investigates how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Featuring stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, this title reveals how concerns about strange objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 496 pages, 47 b&w photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 238 x 38. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 62041st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323662
- ISBN
- 9780822323662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.94
€ 34.99
€ 31.94
Paperback. Black and white women's struggles over race relations in the YWCA and beyond Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252077104
- ISBN
- 9780252077104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813553016
- ISBN
- 9780813553016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.10
€ 160.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801497988
- ISBN
- 9780801497988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.27
€ 37.99
€ 34.27
Paperback. This work examines the concept of trust from the angle of the trustee, rather than the truster. Rather than thinking of trust as risk-taking, Potter views it as equally a matter of responsibility-taking. She looks at trust particularly in the context of power relations. Series: Feminist Constructions. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511514
- ISBN
- 9780742511514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardback. This work examines the concept of trust from the angle of the trustee, rather than the truster. Rather than thinking of trust as risk-taking, Potter views it as equally a matter of responsibility-taking. She looks at trust particularly in the context of power relations. Series: Feminist Constructions. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511507
- ISBN
- 9780742511507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.51
€ 186.51