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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

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

Paperback. .
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447329725
ISBN
9781447329725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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