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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Analyzes nearly 40 stories, from mythic narratives predating Columbus to contemporary American Indian fiction, representing various traditional Native American culture areas. This work reveals how preconceptions deriving from our hypervisual, print-dominated culture distort our understanding of essential functions and forms of oral storytelling. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2JN; DSB; JFHF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803277854
- ISBN
- 9780803277854
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340459
- ISBN
- 9780230340459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.19
€ 53.37
€ 47.19
Paperback. Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343041
- ISBN
- 9781349343041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 393.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783663005476
- ISBN
- 9783663005476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.12
€ 72.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Smelser, Neil. Series: Heritage of Sociology Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226509181
- ISBN
- 9780226509181
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Examining the geographical dimensions of environmental management and conservation activities implemented on landscapes worldwide, this title collects case studies to explore the interaction of humans and their environment. Bridging the gap between geography and life science, it is of interest to students of the environment. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16 halftones, 14 line drawings, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 186 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226983448
- ISBN
- 9780226983448
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 31.82
€ 52.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. Offering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging. Num Pages: 408 pages, 109 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; APFA; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 208 x 29. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362616
- ISBN
- 9780822362616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.91
€ 32.99
€ 29.91
Hardback. Offering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging. Num Pages: 408 pages, 109 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; APFA; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 706.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362463
- ISBN
- 9780822362463
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Condition: New
€ 123.88
€ 123.88
Paperback. A riotously entertaining account of the lives of British and other European aristocrats - stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy. Num Pages: 416 pages, B&w illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBTB; JFSC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472136695
- ISBN
- 9781472136695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Karl Simms also offers a guide to further reading, which offers advice on Ricoeur's work as well as secondary texts. Refreshingly clear and impressively comprehensive, Paul Ricoeur is the essential guide to an essential theorist. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 176 pages, further reading. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFCX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415236379
- ISBN
- 9780415236379
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.77
€ 34.99
€ 33.77
Hardcover. This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, culture and tourism, and going beyond concerns about the grand project of leisure, Spracklen argues that leisure is central to understanding wider debates about identity, postmodernity and globalization. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFT; JHBA; JHBS; W. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205253
- ISBN
- 9780230205253
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.70
€ 116.70
Hardcover. This book provides an account of leisure through historical time, exploring the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past, and across different cultures. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230280519
- ISBN
- 9780230280519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFC; JHBS; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 351.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349327690
- ISBN
- 9781349327690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JFSR; JHBS; JPQB; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439348
- ISBN
- 9781349439348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardback. Social sciences are measured, attacked and defended for the money they make, or the ways in which they help governments control citizens. In this book, Karl Spracklen makes the moral case that social sciences are necessary to reveal the truth about power, and to help fight inequality. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFF; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137577900
- ISBN
- 9781137577900
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Interprets the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. This book presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 439 pages, 84. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; ASD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 37. Weight in Grams: 890.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 439
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- y First printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206632
- ISBN
- 9780520206632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.31€ 53.97
€ 68.31
€ 53.97
Paperback / so. Series: Sammlung Kaufmannischer Unterrichtsbucher. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFS; KC; LND; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1927
- Publisher
- Vieweg+Teubner Verlag United Kingdom
- Edition
- 8
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783663153788
- ISBN
- 9783663153788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.19
€ 71.19
Paperback / so. Series: Forschung Erziehungswissenschaft. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810033345
- ISBN
- 9783810033345
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Condition: New
€ 71.49
€ 71.49
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ohlig, Karl-Heinz. Num Pages: 647 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 49. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616148256
- ISBN
- 9781616148256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 44.81
€ 49.99
€ 44.81
Paperback. Focusing on the significance of place in North American fiction, this work includes chapters on Indian tent rings, the black search for place in America, the sense of place in William Styron's "Sophie's Choice", and Flannery O'Connor's "Displaced Persons". Editor(s): Westarp, Karl-Heinz. Series: Dolphin S. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772883700
- ISBN
- 9788772883700
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Condition: New
€ 11.50
€ 11.50
Paperback / so. Series: Forschungstexte Wirtschafts- Und Sozialwissenschaften. Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF; KJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810004024
- ISBN
- 9783810004024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardcover. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Edition
- 1982nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531116112
- ISBN
- 9783531116112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.03
€ 71.03
Paperback / so. Series: Forschungsberichte Des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 4. Weight in Grams: 167.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783663060512
- ISBN
- 9783663060512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.59
€ 70.59
Paperback. An argument for a cultural bioethics that recognizes and attempts to address the greater vulnerability to exploitation experienced by groups including African Americans and women in medical and legal contexts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL; MBDC; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349174
- ISBN
- 9780822349174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99