Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Editor(s): Kury, Helmut; Redo, Slawomir; Shea, Evelyn. Num Pages: 942 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 48 colour illustrations, 38 black & white tables, 3 colour. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JKSB1; JKV; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 167 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1674.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319284231
- ISBN
- 9783319284231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.10€ 88.23
€ 142.10
€ 88.23
Paperback. Since the end of World War II, poverty in the United States has been a persistent focus of social anxiety, public debate and federal policy. This book argues that poverty will not be reduced or eliminated until the political factors that contribute to its continuation are taken into account. Editor(s): Kushnick, Louis; Jennings, James. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814742396
- ISBN
- 9780814742396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447329725
- ISBN
- 9781447329725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.04
€ 15.04
Paperback / so. Series: Figurationen. Num Pages: 427 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 806.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 427
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810029676
- ISBN
- 9783810029676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.17
€ 78.17
Paperback. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"--to call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period--as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters. Editor(s): Kuzniar, Alice A. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726153
- ISBN
- 9780804726153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JFC; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816679225
- ISBN
- 9780816679225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. A reader on the 2,000-year-old debate about the meaning of the story of Adam and Eve. Editor(s): Kvam, Kristen E.; Schearing, Linda S.; Ziegler, Valarie H. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLC1; HRLP5; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 763.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- 0007-
- Number of pages
- 538
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253212719
- ISBN
- 9780253212719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. Presents ninety-eight tales from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland; each area is represented by the recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. This title places the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed. Num Pages: 344 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295977546
- ISBN
- 9780295977546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.55
€ 43.55
Hardback. W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student in Berlin. Germany was the first place white people had treated him as an equal. But anti-Semitism was prevalent, and Du Bois' challenge, says Kwame Anthony Appiah, was to take the best of German intellectual life without its parochialism--to steal the fire without getting burned. Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HPS; JFSL3; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 192 x 116 x 20. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674724914
- ISBN
- 9780674724914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Paperback. In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores what it means to be an African American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of face, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the 19th century. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195068528
- ISBN
- 9780195068528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.35
€ 40.35
Paperback. "[Appiah's] work reveals the heart and sensitivity of a novelist..Fascinating, erudite and beautifully written."-The New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393340525
- ISBN
- 9780393340525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.31
€ 17.99
€ 16.31
Paperback. A collection of 20 essays which discusses topics such as: gypsies in the Western imagination; the mobilization of the West in Chinese television; the lesbian identity and the woman's gaze in fashion photography; and the regulation of Black women's bodies in early 20th-century urban areas. Num Pages: 460 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press Journals
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226284392
- ISBN
- 9780226284392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 23.87
€ 30.99
€ 23.87
Paperback. Seeks to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. This book contains essays that tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice. It establishes the problematic nature of the idea of race. It explores the history of its invention as a social category. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; JFFJ; JFSL; JPA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 28.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691059099
- ISBN
- 9780691059099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.55
€ 46.99
€ 33.55
Paperback. Brings together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for an examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption. This book includes essays by the editors and by Dean Karlan and Alan Krueger, Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth Swinnerton, Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau, Stanley Engerman, and more. Editor(s): Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Bunzl, Martin. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 line illus. 22 tables. BIC Classification: JFM; JPA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130101
- ISBN
- 9780691130101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility, Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or face a slide into mediocrity. Brittania Unchained travels around the world, exploring the nations that are triumphing in this new age, seeking lessons Britain must implement to carve out a bright future. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5 figures, 1 colour line drawings, 1 colour tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLX; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032232
- ISBN
- 9781137032232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Paperback. An eminent African philosopher asserts the compatibility of universal and particular values in defining cultural identities. Series: African Systems of Thought. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HPD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253210807
- ISBN
- 9780253210807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.47
€ 30.99
€ 27.47
Hardback. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 243 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319447629
- ISBN
- 9783319447629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.61
€ 135.61
Hardcover. Editor(s): Tang, Kwong-Leung; Wong, Chack-kie. Num Pages: 219 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1FP; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 191 x 20. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590338285
- ISBN
- 9781590338285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.89€ 58.72
€ 82.89
€ 58.72
Paperback. Sheds light on contemporary "foodie" culture's vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; HBTB; JFCV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814770030
- ISBN
- 9780814770030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Hardback. Sheds light on contemporary "foodie" culture's vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; HBTB; JFCV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814770023
- ISBN
- 9780814770023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.38
€ 91.38
Paperback. Kyle Conway's textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show's creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television. Series: Cultural Spaces. Num Pages: 184 pages, 2, 2 figures. BIC Classification: APT; HRAM2; JFD; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487520557
- ISBN
- 9781487520557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.70
€ 34.99
€ 31.70
hardcover. Chasing Dragons discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFH1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092878
- ISBN
- 9780802092878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.17
€ 79.17
Paperback. Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; HBTB; HRCR; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781479831340
- ISBN
- 9781479831340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. The first newspaper arrived in England in 1620 and sparked a huge demand for up-to-the minute reports on domestic and world events. This title traces the development of the newspaper in England, from its origins in manuscript letters and imported corantos in Shakespeare's England, to the introduction of daily newspapers and regional journals. Num Pages: 182 pages, 140 illus., 131 in color. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 205 x 11. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988733
- ISBN
- 9780295988733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.20
€ 39.20