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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. This title explores this shift and its connections to the transformation of the US from a welfare state to a neo-liberal one. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226895291
- ISBN
- 9780226895291
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.74
€ 37.99
€ 29.74
Paperback. A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFN; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350491
- ISBN
- 9780822350491
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€ 32.99€ 29.67
€ 32.99
€ 29.67
Paperback. Romance readers and writers will find this collection of essays by some of the most popular romance novelists writing today unique and fascinating. For the first time, these authors explain why romance is so popular, reveal why they write in this genre, explore the unheralded benefits of reading and writing romances and much more. Editor(s): Krentz, Jayne Ann. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 307.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812214116
- ISBN
- 9780812214116
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
€ 25.25
paperback. This book is about ordinary lives faced with the dilemmas of not being 'black' or 'white' in a world which seems to be perceived on these terms. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415170963
- ISBN
- 9780415170963
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Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Paperback. Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. This work situates feminist performance art in the US and Canada in the social context of the feminist movement. Highlighting the important contributions of women artists, it shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works. Num Pages: 304 pages, 78 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KB; AFKP; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773530669
- ISBN
- 9780773530669
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.45
€ 42.99
€ 38.45
Paperback. Investigates why key Chicana/o writers, including Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Mendez, and Virginia Grise, from the 1950s to the present day, have persistently referenced Asian people and places in the course of articulating their political ideas. Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813577166
- ISBN
- 9780813577166
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307987037
- ISBN
- 9780307987037
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.15
€ 27.99
€ 23.15
Hardback. Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Num Pages: 215 pages, 10 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFC; JHB; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138805620
- ISBN
- 9781138805620
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Condition: New
€ 159.88€ 141.40
€ 159.88
€ 141.40
paperback. What constitutes "normal" sexuality is a highly debated and contentious issue. This text explores and examines the choices that we make about our sexuality, how these can transform our personal lives and how social policy informs and responds to such choices. Editor(s): Carabine, Jean. Series: Personal Lives and Social Policy Series. Num Pages: 179 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 189 x 13. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345189
- ISBN
- 9781861345189
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 35.04
€ 35.99
€ 35.04
Paperback. Series: Critical Social Thought. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JFSG; JNAM; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415635585
- ISBN
- 9780415635585
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Condition: New
€ 65.53
€ 65.53
Hardback. Editor(s): Giroux, Jean Baptiste; Vallee, Charlotte. Num Pages: 197 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 17. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 197
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624179570
- ISBN
- 9781624179570
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Condition: New
€ 252.24€ 172.23
€ 252.24
€ 172.23
paperback. This book describes how a long generation of founding French Canadians shaped the Pacific Northwest. Num Pages: 944 pages, 47 photos, 4 maps, 16 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 944
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774828055
- ISBN
- 9780774828055
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.76
€ 46.99
€ 41.76
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473982383
- ISBN
- 9781473982383
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Condition: New
€ 55.96
€ 55.96
Paperback. New edition of this classic study of the US, with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844676828
- ISBN
- 9781844676828
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.37
€ 20.99
€ 17.37
Paperback. Seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life. Translator(s): Kendall, Stuart. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; AM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350330
- ISBN
- 9781584350330
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.60
€ 18.99
€ 18.60
Hardback. Includes most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society. Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473982376
- ISBN
- 9781473982376
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Condition: New
€ 163.71
€ 163.71
Hardback. Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. This book is the third (after "America and Cool Memories") in a series of personal records in hyper-reality. It is suitable for those concerned with the debates about postmodernism and the state of theory on the social sciences and humanities. Num Pages: 104 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 207 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745612522
- ISBN
- 9780745612522
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Condition: New
€ 60.12
€ 60.12
Hardback. Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyric poet, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and currently the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit. The Guardian A sharp-shooting lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left. New York Times The most important French thinker of the past twenty years. J. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 207 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636597
- ISBN
- 9780745636597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.85
€ 59.85
Paperback. Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyric poet, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and currently the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit. The Guardian A sharp-shooting lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left. New York Times The most important French thinker of the past twenty years. J. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 198 x 9. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636603
- ISBN
- 9780745636603
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.11
€ 23.99
€ 22.11
Paperback. This study examines how the myths of man as "Just Warrior" and woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate/secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. It demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love. Num Pages: 321 pages, 14 maps. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226206264
- ISBN
- 9780226206264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.74
€ 40.99
€ 31.74