Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contributes to the making and remaking of male identity. It concludes that, unless addressed, the effects of negative discourse on the self-identity and self-esteem of men, are potentially devastating and that the longer-term and wider social implications will also be costly. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001671
- ISBN
- 9780230001671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; JFD; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403904102
- ISBN
- 9781403904102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 182.88
€ 182.88
hardcover. Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations opens up for discussion a series of issues in Native-newcomer history. It addresses all the trends in the discipline of the past two decades and never shies from showing their contradictions, as well as those in the author's own thinking as he matured as a scholar. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7ill. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 31. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802087232
- ISBN
- 9780802087232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.31
€ 88.31
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ram Pillarisett, J.; Teo, Joyce S.Y.; Lawry, Roger; Ahmad, Azman. Num Pages: 521 pages, b/w & colour illus, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JFFS; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 182 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1116.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- Har/Dis
- Number of pages
- 521
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604564778
- ISBN
- 9781604564778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.17€ 81.20
€ 115.17
€ 81.20
Hardcover. An engaging blend of practical advice and a catalogue of eccentricity, this book contains everything you need to know, from the fine art of composing a menu to the practicalities of the correct order and temperatures for serving wines. Num Pages: 184 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 205 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851240869
- ISBN
- 9781851240869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.94
€ 13.99
€ 11.94
Paperback. "Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks"-- Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326624
- ISBN
- 9781349326624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Hardcover. Reveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to America's fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. Stevens outlines the history of Captain America's adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as America's varying political culture. Series: Television and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: AKLC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633952
- ISBN
- 9780815633952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; KCB; KCL; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349499472
- ISBN
- 9781349499472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Paperback. In two elegant and masterly prefaces, James Weldon Johnson discusses the origin and history of more than 120 of the most significant spirituals known. Favorites like "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," "Deep River," and "Go Down, Moses" are arranged for voice and piano by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and considered within their African tradition. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGD; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306812026
- ISBN
- 9780306812026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.07
€ 29.99
€ 22.07
Paperback. Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how masculinities are embodied and performed. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437955
- ISBN
- 9781349437955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. This is the first scholarly study of soldiers and guerrillas demobilized after the civil war in Mozambique (1979-1992). The book examines former soldiers' - from both sides - return to civilian life, and how their identity as veterans plays out in the political sphere. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFC; JHB; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535712
- ISBN
- 9781349535712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349410453
- ISBN
- 9781349410453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. This book positions inquiries into the historical abuse of children in care within the context of transitional justice. It examines investigation, apology and redress processes across a range of Western nations to trace the growth of the movement, national particularities and the impact of the work on professionals involved. Editor(s): Skold, Johanna; Swain, Shurlee. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JKSB1; LNAC12. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457547
- ISBN
- 9781137457547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351763
- ISBN
- 9781349351763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Editor(s): Stango, J. Num Pages: 228 pages, tabs. BIC Classification: JFFH2; MJCJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 177 x 26. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560721789
- ISBN
- 9781560721789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.75€ 96.88
€ 125.75
€ 96.88
Paperback. This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HRJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349372614
- ISBN
- 9781349372614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. This book compares the educational experiences of adolescents from a variety of 'visible' ethnic minority groups across Europe. Focusing on underprivileged urban contexts, it reveals the structural inequalities, as well as the often conflicting inter-ethnic relations which develop in classrooms, playgrounds and larger communities. Editor(s): Szalai, Julia; Schiff, Claire. Num Pages: 284 pages, 5 black & white tables, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL1; JFSP1; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308627
- ISBN
- 9781137308627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; GTF; HBJK; HBLW; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351313
- ISBN
- 9780822351313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Griffith Institute United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 63
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900416347
- ISBN
- 9780900416347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.92
€ 46.92
Paperback. This title on black social movements outside the South reveals distinctive forms of US racism according to place, the varieties of tactics that community members used to attack these inequalities, and the prevalence of integrationist and nationalist thinking between the 1940s and the 1970s. Editor(s): Theoharis, Jeanne; Woodard, Komozi; Countryman, Matthew J. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 141 x 218 x 28. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294687
- ISBN
- 9780312294687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25