Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a panorama of Chinese sitting culture through a period of five centuries. Num Pages: 96 pages, 185 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AKR; JFCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 309 x 253 x 12. Weight in Grams: 808.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681369
- ISBN
- 9783936681369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.69
€ 47.99
€ 34.69
Hardcover. Shadows in Winter delivers a harrowing and loving account of one widowers path from suffering to survival, and to a rediscovery of himself as a father. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609896
- ISBN
- 9780815609896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.83
€ 21.99
€ 20.83
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present (Genders an...
Fisher, Kate, Toulalan, Sarah
Hardcover. An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless draw on older ideas and language. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230283688
- ISBN
- 9780230283688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. International experts evaluate new policy directions in economic development and poverty reduction, building on the ideas of a pioneer in the new discipline of Development Studies, Frances Stewart. Combing ideas and evidence on technological change, human development and conflict prevention to address the issue of the persistence of inequality Editor(s): Thorp, Rosemary. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JFFA; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249707
- ISBN
- 9780230249707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. Fitzroy Maclean's classic work has been updated with a new chapter by Magnus Linklater, examining how Scottish identity is faring in the wake of the first Scottish Parliament for nearly 300 years. Series: Illustrated National Histories. Num Pages: 248 pages, 238 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500282335
- ISBN
- 9780500282335
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 5.70
€ 16.99
€ 5.70
Hardcover. Popular Culture in Asia consists studies of film, music, architecture, television, and computer-mediated communication in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, addressing three topics: urban modernities; modernity, celebrity, and fan culture; and memory and modernity. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270191
- ISBN
- 9781137270191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Paperback. Popular Culture in Asia consists studies of film, music, architecture, television, and computer-mediated communication in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, addressing three topics: urban modernities; modernity, celebrity, and fan culture; and memory and modernity. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444304
- ISBN
- 9781349444304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This revelatory investigation of Bin Laden's tape archive suggests that much of the received wisdom about al-Qa'ida's early years has to be reconsidered in light of this new evidence. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFSR2; JPFR; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 31. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849044677
- ISBN
- 9781849044677
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.68
€ 29.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. A study of contemporary Arab political poetry, this book provides a wide range of insights into the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language and culture. It investigates the audio-recording industry in southern Yemen, showing how various forms of political activism emerge through sensory engagements with Arabic poetry and song. Series: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs. Num Pages: 512 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFC; JFD; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 36. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780932885326
- ISBN
- 9780932885326
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.99
€ 33.99
€ 28.99
Hardback. In this survey, contributors examine issues of women's rights violations in Mediterranean countries as represented in politically engaged films of the region. Editor(s): Laviosa, Flavia. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617360
- ISBN
- 9780230617360
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. "Twenty-first printing -- April 2008"--T.p. verso. Num Pages: 926 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DCQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1228.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Hendrickson Academic United States
- Number of pages
- 926
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781565637801
- ISBN
- 9781565637801
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.60
€ 33.99
€ 33.60
Hardcover. Editor(s): Christiansen, Flemming; Delman, Jorgen; Ostergaard, Clemens Stubbe. Num Pages: 226 pages, M. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFS; JP; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772882949
- ISBN
- 9788772882949
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Condition: New
€ 18.00
€ 18.00
Paperback. Focuses on neurological and psychological insights - originating from brain scanning or neurological experiments - on basic emotional processes in the brain and their role in controlling human behaviour. This book offers a review of contemporary thinking in the field of consumer behaviour. Num Pages: 462 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFT; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- Copenhagen Business School Press
- Number of pages
- 462
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763001984
- ISBN
- 9788763001984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.72€ 41.71
€ 51.72
€ 41.71
Hardcover. Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFJ; JFSG; JFSP; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363335
- ISBN
- 9780230363335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Translator(s): Proctor, Minna. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; FA; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 114. .
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811226875
- ISBN
- 9780811226875
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Condition: New
€ 14.29
€ 14.29
Paperback. This work examines the story of the woman's suffrage movement in the USA. It argues that this movement was one of the longest, most successful and in some respects most radical challenges posed to the American system of electoral politics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Enlarged ed
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674106536
- ISBN
- 9780674106536
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.24
€ 42.99
€ 36.24
Paperback. Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and socio-political environments integrates discourses on Islam into nationally oriented, representational systems. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; JFD; JP; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349317172
- ISBN
- 9781349317172
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Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. Examines the post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, this book reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition. It shows how their accomplishments were silenced in official Cuban history and culture. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925264
- ISBN
- 9780813925264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.83
€ 35.83
Paperback. "My name is Flora Jessop. I've been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and I'd like to think they're right too. If I am a hero, maybe it's because every time I can play a part in saving a child or woman from a life of servitude and degradation, I'm saving a little piece of me, too. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; HRCC99; JFFE2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470565469
- ISBN
- 9780470565469
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.62
€ 16.99
€ 14.62
Paperback. Bridges (a Baptist minister in Alabama who holds a doctorate in systematic theology) explores the central role of spirituality in African-American culture and history, arguing that its roots lie in the African spiritual worldview inherited by African-Americans. Chapters describe the quest for identi Series: Turner/Truth Studies in Black Religion. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Orbis Books (USA) United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570753596
- ISBN
- 9781570753596
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.58
€ 26.99
€ 23.58
Hardback. The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that took Florence Aubenas - one of France's most accomplished undercover journalists - on a journey into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCFM; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651996
- ISBN
- 9780745651996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. If the correct rules of etiquette fail you, never fear for this handy guide will instruct you in the correct ladylike manner! This indispensable nineteenth century guidebook will entertain, educate and inspire in equal measure. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; WJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843915423
- ISBN
- 9781843915423
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.00
€ 16.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Discusses the cinematic vision of North African women's directors Series: New Directions in National Cinemas. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1HB; APFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223418
- ISBN
- 9780253223418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Uruakpa, Florence Ojiugo. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: JFCV; PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 183 x 12. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629489872
- ISBN
- 9781629489872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 156.31€ 109.07
€ 156.31
€ 109.07