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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231171588
ISBN
9780231171588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. This book challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, arguing that there is an unrecognized yet vibrant pessimistic philosophical tradition. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141121
ISBN
9780691141121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; JFSK2; VFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9781479869732
ISBN
9781479869732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. Are talk shows turning everything they touch into freak shows? This book claims that the socially deviant may be featured on-air for ridicule in the public eye, but the result is empowerment through exploitation. The book illuminates the dilemmas and practicalities of media visibility. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226280653
ISBN
9780226280653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Paperback. After two and a half millennia, it's rare to come across a genuinely new idea on the nature of morality, but in this book Josh Greene advances not one but several.. Moral Tribes is a landmark in our understanding of morality and the moral sense.' Steven Pinker Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782393399
ISBN
9781782393399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.05

Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues S. Num Pages: 176 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFN; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801488085
ISBN
9780801488085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 9 figures, 9 Tables. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSN; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148207
ISBN
9780231148207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.95
€ 82.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 9 figures, 9 Tables. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSN; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506. 384 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSN; JM. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 20. Weight: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148214
ISBN
9780231148214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816656370
ISBN
9780816656370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. This book reveals important and timely insights into why young Australian Muslim men, often from very similar social backgrounds, pursue such dramatically different political paths in the name of Islam. This has important implications for promoting cohesion and challenging the increasing popularity of the Islamic State movement in the West. Series: New Directions in Islam. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFSJ2; JFSR2; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137522290
ISBN
9781137522290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.42
€ 74.05

Paperback. Editor(s): Goggin, Joyce; Leyda, Julia; Negra, Diane. Num Pages: 310 pages, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 272 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138998766
ISBN
9781138998766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.78

Hardback. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135429
ISBN
9780231135429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.02

hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781479803927
ISBN
9781479803927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 6.49

Paperback. A classic treatise, available now for the first time in paperback, on the folk beliefs of the Jews, with a new introduction by arguably the most important contemporary scholar of Jewish mysticism. Num Pages: 392 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JHBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812218626
ISBN
9780812218626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, the author tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map, 18 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGH; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226923956
ISBN
9780226923956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.48
€ 82.26

Paperback. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, the author tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map, 18 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGH; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226923963
ISBN
9780226923963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardback. Offering a concise review of the shifting policy arena in the post-9/11 era, Joshua Woods chronicles not only major US government actions, such as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also less visible changes, such as shifts in immigration policy and the use and abuse of Homeland Security funding by state and local governments. Num Pages: 192 pages, tables; figures; notes; bibliography; index. BIC Classification: JFD; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400. 8vo.
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0295466
ISBN
9781597976664
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hughes, Josiah; Wright, Isiah. Num Pages: ill. BIC Classification: JFFB; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 182 x 26. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607415213
ISBN
9781607415213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.52
€ 116.58

Paperback. How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC? Interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, this book Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democracy. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691089812
ISBN
9780691089812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.14
€ 50.79

Paperback. The heartbreaking story of a bag lady and her daughter Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KNW0009210
ISBN
9780747585671
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

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