Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women track a dense social imaginary through stories of traumas, apparitions, encounters, and eccentricities. This book explores how this storytelling imbues everyday life in the hills and forms a cultural poetics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691011035
- ISBN
- 9780691011035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.56
€ 54.99
€ 39.56
hardcover. Focusing on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties from 1850 to 1950, Country Schoolwomen explores the social context of teaching, seeking to understand what teaching meant to women teachers, what it provided them, and how it shaped their categories of experience. Num Pages: 356 pages, 19 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSJ1; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730044
- ISBN
- 9780804730044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.21
€ 81.21
Paperback. Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior and how our increasingly media-saturated culture impoverishes our interior lives. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343776
- ISBN
- 9780822343776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253212368
- ISBN
- 9780253212368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.45
€ 29.99
€ 27.45
Paperback. Race Policy and Multiracial Americans looks at the impact of multiracial people on race policies-where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the USA and how they can be used to promote racial justice. This much-needed book is essential reading for anyone interested in race relations and social justice. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447316503
- ISBN
- 9781447316503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.75
€ 34.99
€ 33.75
Hardback. This much-needed volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, combines insights from different disciplines and real-life experiences to argue that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand causes and effects of population ageing. Editor(s): Komp, Kathrin; Johansson, Stina. Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 180 x 247 x 19. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447310716
- ISBN
- 9781447310716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.55
€ 97.55
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837629040
- ISBN
- 9783837629040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.89€ 42.27
€ 52.89
€ 42.27
hardcover. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; JFFH2; JHMC; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253021311
- ISBN
- 9780253021311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.32
€ 86.32
paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; JFFH2; JHMC; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253021434
- ISBN
- 9780253021434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Hardcover. G is for Genes summariezes the latest research and explores, in a scientific and non-political way, what genetic research means for schools, and for the choices parents have to make about their children's education. Series: Understanding Children's Worlds. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMG; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781118482780
- ISBN
- 9781118482780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.82€ 77.50
€ 92.82
€ 77.50
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780932885289
- ISBN
- 9780932885289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.11
€ 21.99
€ 21.11
hardcover. Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; 3J; HBJF; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735261
- ISBN
- 9780804735261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Paperback. Examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 312 pages, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; JFSK; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498. Series: Series Q. 312 pages, 44 illustrations. Examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 5SG; JFSK; JFSP1. Dimension: 215 x 156 x 24. Weight: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343868
- ISBN
- 9780822343868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Hardback. Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Bronte's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)--to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism." Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723121
- ISBN
- 9780804723121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
Paperback. Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Bronte's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)--to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism." Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723442
- ISBN
- 9780804723442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
paperback. When and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to camp? This title deals with these questiions. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3734 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337966
- ISBN
- 9780822337966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.47
€ 29.99
€ 27.47
Paperback. This text explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a variety of cultural settings. Series: CSLI - Stanford Monographs in Linguistics. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575863207
- ISBN
- 9781575863207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.90
€ 31.99
€ 24.90
Hardback. American women who have participated in politics, the Civil Rights movement, environmental protection, religious tolerance, and many other issues here express their convictions. The contributors range from Abigail Adams and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Alice Walker and Betty Friedan. Num Pages: 664 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFK; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 43. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 664
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815411857
- ISBN
- 9780815411857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.12
€ 38.99
€ 36.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSP2; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319336749
- ISBN
- 9783319336749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.05
€ 111.05
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813565910
- ISBN
- 9780813565910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.45
€ 159.45
Paperback. Documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern US. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society. Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 13 images; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; JFSL9; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218567
- ISBN
- 9780803218567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.82
€ 21.99
€ 21.82
Hardback. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. This book presents the history of a horrific famine that took place and focuses on cultural responses to trauma. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253025
- ISBN
- 9780520253025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.47€ 64.99
€ 83.47
€ 64.99
Paperback. Why do so many poor American youth continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? This title offers a look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the study of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; JFFA; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446. Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. 308 pages, Illustrations. Why do so many poor American youth continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? This title offers a look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the study of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; JFFA; JFSJ1; JHBK. Dimension: 150 x 229 x 20. Weight: 430.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 308
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271463
- ISBN
- 9780520271463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. This book looks at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." It helps you examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly - without planning. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 1 map, 9 tables. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSJ2; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283923
- ISBN
- 9780520283923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74