Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Re-examines the assumptions and experimental evidence behind Boyle's Law. The author argues that even good science is sometimes influenced by gender and class politics, and she shows that this work leading to the Gas Law, while certainly based on the experimental evidence, was also based on class and gendered considerations. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 figures, 1 index. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; PD; PHFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780253214553
- ISBN
- 9780253214553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10
Paperback. The best-selling Christian study of homosexuality, combining a psychoanalytical approach with an emphasis on the need for counselling and prayer. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JFSK2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 4. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718830656
- ISBN
- 9780718830656
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.49
€ 21.99
€ 20.49
Bridging the history of technology, science and technology studies, and disability studies, this book traces the psychological, cultural, and economic evolution of a consumer culture aimed at individuals with disabilities, who increasingly rely on personal computers to make their lives richer and more interconnected. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9, 7 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFG; UYZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416465
- ISBN
- 9781421416465
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Condition: New
€ 63.36
€ 63.36
paperback. A study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls. Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HB; HRAX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780773536135
- ISBN
- 9780773536135
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 38.84
€ 41.99
€ 38.84
Paperback. Bodies in Doubt breaks new ground in examining the historical roots of modern attitudes about intersex in the United States and will interest scholars and researchers in disability studies, social history, gender studies, and the history of medicine. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; MBDC; MBX; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405834
- ISBN
- 9781421405834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.05
€ 32.05
Hardback. An examination of how Canada's policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSJ1; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774808422
- ISBN
- 9780774808422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. A Woman's Place is based upon Elizabeth Roberts's interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster and Preston. They recall their memories of family life as children, youths and adults in the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631147541
- ISBN
- 9780631147541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New Middle ...
Elizabeth Robertson Christine M. Rose
Hardcover. From examining 13 studies of representations of rape in medieval and early modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues that some form of sexual violence against women serves as a foundation of Western culture. Editor(s): Rose, Christine; Robertson, Eliza. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 462 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312236489
- ISBN
- 9780312236489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.82
€ 68.82
Paperback. Focusing on Montgomery's memorable heroines, Epperly demonstrates that Montgomery deserves a place in the literary canon not just as the creator of Anne of Green Gables but as an artist in her chosen profession. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB; JFFK; JFSJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442626539
- ISBN
- 9781442626539
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
Paperback. A richly satisfying journey into the world of barbecue as food and culture Series: Bridwell Texas History Series. Num Pages: 108 color and 12 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292719989
- ISBN
- 9780292719989
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBJD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494965
- ISBN
- 9781349494965
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Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Hardcover. Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137442031
- ISBN
- 9781137442031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature, not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205857
- ISBN
- 9780230205857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFFJ; JFSL9; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 322 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405401
- ISBN
- 9781137405401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.69
€ 182.69
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786631176
- ISBN
- 9781786631176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.28
€ 27.99
€ 22.28
Hardcover. China is growing in importance to the economies and governments of the world, and it has been run by men with very different ideas. How China copes with the pressures for good governance with the Asian economic model, treats its ethnic minorities under scrutiny, and gathers resources to fuel its dynamic economy, impacts us all. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; HRAM2; JFSL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033833
- ISBN
- 9781137033833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HRAM; JFC; JPA; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349441600
- ISBN
- 9781349441600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.52
€ 65.52
hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JFC; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853459750
- ISBN
- 9780853459750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.56€ 47.07
€ 50.56
€ 47.07
Paperback. Examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. This book locates watershed moments in the processes of gender construction by the organised power of the ruling classes and in the processes by which gender has conditioned state-making. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFSJ; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324690
- ISBN
- 9780822324690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.85
€ 41.99
€ 29.85
Paperback. Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral," have a long written history. This book argues that however a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. It refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the evolution of the "Anglo-American" fairy tale and its place in this variegated history. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 halftones. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBH; DSK; JFHF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115672
- ISBN
- 9780691115672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81