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Paperback. Tracing the development of one of the most influential and respected figures within cultural studies, Helen Davis focuses on Stuart Hall's writings over a period of nearly 50 years, offering students and academics a cogent and exploratory route through complex and overlapping areas of analysis. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761947158
- ISBN
- 9780761947158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.36
€ 59.36
Paperback. Examining theories of human evolution and of prenatal hormonal determination of "gender-role" behavior, of sex differences in cognition, and of sexual orientation, the author shows how assumptions laden with social values affect the description, presentation, and interpretation of data. Num Pages: 280 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- F First Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691020518
- ISBN
- 9780691020518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.30
€ 54.99
€ 39.30
Paperback. London folk tales Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752461854
- ISBN
- 9780752461854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.34
€ 17.99
€ 16.34
Paperback. Editor(s): Siu, Helen. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; JFC; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718387
- ISBN
- 9780804718387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.30
€ 42.99
€ 42.30
Paperback. This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJG; BGA; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008180966
- ISBN
- 9780008180966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
Paperback. The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJG; BGA; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008180959
- ISBN
- 9780008180959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.24
€ 12.99
€ 11.24
Paperback. The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester's childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJG; BGA; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008180935
- ISBN
- 9780008180935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.49
€ 13.99
€ 10.49
Paperback. The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester's bestselling autobiography continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJH; BGA; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008180942
- ISBN
- 9780008180942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
Hardback. This exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the complex questions raised by acts of theatrical censorship. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFCA; JFMD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223783
- ISBN
- 9780230223783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
paperback. This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Editor(s): Fulton, Helen. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 586 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780470672372
- ISBN
- 9780470672372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.99€ 42.31
€ 69.99
€ 42.31
Paperback. This critique explodes the stereotypical assumption that men are more prone than women to physical aggression by presenting a cogent and holistic assessment of the theoretical positions and research concerning female aggression. Gavin and Porter examine the treatment, punishment, and community response to female aggressive behavior. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470975480
- ISBN
- 9780470975480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 52.61
€ 52.99
€ 52.61
Hardcover. Investigates women's employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women's movement. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719090271
- ISBN
- 9780719090271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.88
€ 146.88
Hardcover. Raised in poverty in Tyler, Texas, Helen Harris Green became the first black woman admitted into a Dallas school of professional nursing and went on to become the first black chair of board of directors of TSHE. In this personal account, she details the battles fought and the insults endured. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; BG; JFSJ1; JFSL3; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652764
- ISBN
- 9780875652764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.81
€ 26.99
€ 25.81
paperback. Challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. This title reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness, and family life that have contributed to the dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia since the 1970s. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFH; JFSJ1; MMZD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331209
- ISBN
- 9780822331209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.33
€ 31.99
€ 30.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Barricade Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781569802526
- ISBN
- 9781569802526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.22
€ 25.99
€ 19.22
Paperback. The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. This work re-examines these gothic heroines of Hollywood and their meanings, in two of Hollywood's key generic cycles, film noir and the female gothic film. It also traces their revival in neo-gothic films. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 integrated halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845115616
- ISBN
- 9781845115616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.52
€ 32.99
€ 27.52
Paperback. Provides a new model of comparative race studies by situating contemporary questions of differential racial formations within a long genealogy of anti-racist discourse constrained by liberal notions of inclusion Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814742983
- ISBN
- 9780814742983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.27
€ 29.27
paperback. Drawing on postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist, and First Nations theory, Hoy raises and addresses questions around 'difference' in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Soft Cover Edition
- SKU
- V9780802084019
- ISBN
- 9780802084019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.01
€ 41.01
Paperback. Offers a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. This book presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates. It looks behind the 'headlines' on issues of transport, housing, uneven development, and regeneration. Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City. Num Pages: 384 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 29 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415415705
- ISBN
- 9780415415705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHBL; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403914965
- ISBN
- 9781403914965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSL; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137291141
- ISBN
- 9781137291141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.25
€ 72.25
Hardcover. This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Lenskyj argues that Putin's Russia and the International Olympic Committee wield power in similar ways, as evident in undemocratic governance, fraudulent voting processes, hypocrisy and absence of accountability. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBS; KNSP; LNJS; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399755
- ISBN
- 9781137399755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Paperback. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers. Editor(s): Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson; Wagg, Stephen. Num Pages: 605 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFD; JFSR; JHBS; JPQB; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 253 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1128.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319657
- ISBN
- 9781349319657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 185.30
€ 185.30
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 6. Weight in Grams: 74. 80 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG. Dimension: 209 x 134 x 6. Weight: 74.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486292496
- ISBN
- 9780486292496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.21
€ 6.21