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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Reflections of a "revolutionary whore" and champion of sexual freedom and prostitutes' rights. Translator(s): Reines, Ariana. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350781
ISBN
9781584350781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.19

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFS; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816619245
ISBN
9780816619245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.99

Hardback. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPM; JFSJ; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9780823273461
ISBN
9780823273461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

Paperback. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPM; JFSJ; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823273478
ISBN
9780823273478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.18

Hardback. Celebrates the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. This book features a semiology of the cultural practice that begins with the character of the writer's voice and culminates in a customer's crossing the bookstore threshold, package under arm, on the way home. Translator(s): Wills, David. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 185.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
4 Rev ed
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230365
ISBN
9780823230365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.54

Paperback. Celebrates the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. This book features a semiology of the cultural practice that begins with the character of the writer's voice and culminates in a customer's crossing the bookstore threshold, package under arm, on the way home. Translator(s): Wills, David. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
4 Rev ed
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230372
ISBN
9780823230372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.69

Hardback. Translator(s): Armstrong, Philip. Series: Idiom Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 72 pages, 9 color illustrations, 9 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3226 x 5182 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267729
ISBN
9780823267729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.20

Paperback. Exploring culinary evolution and eating habits in a cornucopia of cultures from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and from the Byzantine Empire to Jewish Mediterranean culture in the Middle Ages, Food: A Culinary History is a rich banquet for readers. Culinary customs, the writers reveal, offer great insight into societies past and present. Editor(s): Flandrin, Jean-Louis; Montanari, Massimo. Translator(s): Sonnenfeld, Albert. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 172 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1090.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231111553
ISBN
9780231111553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.52

Paperback. The river Niger, a source of life and danger for the people in impoverished eastern Mali, is also the origin of elaborate mythology. From his travels through Mali and down the Niger in a dugout canoe, Jean-Marie Gibbal has created a personal documentary of the cultures of the region. Translator(s): Raps, Beth G. Num Pages: 232 pages, 30 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1HFDM; JFC; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226290522
ISBN
9780226290522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.74

Paperback. Addresses anxieties about theory and claims that it still has a crucial role to play. This book sketches its genealogy, particularly its relation to surrealism, philosophy, and the hard sciences. It proposes that theory, like hysteria, consistently points out the inadequacies of official, serious and 'masterful' knowledge. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631230137
ISBN
9780631230137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.20

Hardback. This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405151177
ISBN
9781405151177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.33

Hardback. The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. This book presents the different facets of Africa, which will soon have a billion people, at the midpoint of the rapid population boom that humanity has ever known. Num Pages: 334 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JP; KCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651576
ISBN
9780745651576
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.10

Paperback. "This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JHB; JHM; JHMC; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349305872
ISBN
9781349305872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.15

Paperback. The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR; JHBA; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336180
ISBN
9781349336180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.74

Hardback. This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230220270
ISBN
9780230220270
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, xx, 226 p., 19 halftones, 13 line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226169552
ISBN
9780226169552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Hardback. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783483983
ISBN
9781783483983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.82
€ 20.96

Paperback. Translator(s): Becker, G. Num Pages: 153 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 203 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Schocken
Condition
New
SKU
V9780805210477
ISBN
9780805210477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.32

Paperback. A systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. The book shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226510644
ISBN
9780226510644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.56

Paperback. Presents a study of Greek mythology. This book takes you from the Trojan War to the voyage of Odysseus, from the story of Dionysus to the destiny of Oedipus and to Perseus' confrontation with the Gorgons. Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Profile Books
Number of pages
244
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861973993
ISBN
9781861973993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.90

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