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Society & culture: general
Paperback. * Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time. * Offers critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non--Western cultures. * Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary. Editor(s): Askew, Kelly; Wilk, Richard R. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 432 pages, 11. BIC Classification: JFD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 174 x 24. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220947
- ISBN
- 9780631220947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.96
€ 48.96
Paperback. Blues is absolutely vital to black theological reflection and to the black church's existence. In Black Bodies and the Black Church, author Kelly Douglas Brown develops a blues crossroad theology, which allows the black church to remain true to itself and relevant in black lives. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; HRAX; HRC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297429
- ISBN
- 9781349297429
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Condition: New
€ 71.42
€ 71.42
Hardcover. This book explores how deans of women actively fostered feminism in the mid-twentieth century through a study of the career of Dr. Emily Taylor, the University of Kansas dean of women from 1956-1974. Sartorius links feminist activism by deans of women with labor activism, the New Left movement, and the later rise of women's studies as a discipline. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JJPG; JFFK; JNB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343253
- ISBN
- 9781137343253
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.57
€ 53.36
€ 47.57
Paperback. Locating a shared interest in the philosophy of "art for art's sake" in aestheticism and modernismo, this study examines the changing role of art and artist during the turn-of-the-century period, offering a consideration of the multiple dichotomies of art and life, aesthetics and economics, production and consumption, and center and periphery. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325894
- ISBN
- 9781349325894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Hardcover. This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.S. women of color. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTW; JFFK; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120457
- ISBN
- 9780230120457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298686
- ISBN
- 9781349298686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Orbis Books (USA)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626981096
- ISBN
- 9781626981096
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.14
€ 29.99
€ 25.14
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814790687
- ISBN
- 9780814790687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Situates contemporary genomics within a history of genetics research yet is attentive to the new ways in which knowledge claims about heredity, race, and gender emerge and are articulated Series: Biopolitics. Num Pages: 303 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH; JHMC; PSAK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814790670
- ISBN
- 9780814790670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Paperback. Examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. This title provides an intimate account of the intricate relationship between Pomba Gira and one of her devotees, Nazare da Silva. Num Pages: 312 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRQ; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Pap/DVD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262652
- ISBN
- 9780520262652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.58
€ 48.99
€ 35.58
Paperback. What does it mean to have a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? This important book explores these questions, provides an analysis of related policies and underpinning ideologies and looks to how a good life may be made more attainable. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847420688
- ISBN
- 9781847420688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.98
€ 40.99
€ 38.98
paperback. This book offers an innovative framework for understanding the role of civil society in regional and global policymaking. Using political economy analysis, Gerard demonstrates that ASEAN's people-oriented agenda builds legitimacy, while sidelining its detractors. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JPHV; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349471546
- ISBN
- 9781349471546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. A look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women?s prisons and a suggestion that the prison system itself, given its primary functions of custody and punishment, is consistent in thwarting attempts at progressive reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSJ1; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802082749
- ISBN
- 9780802082749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16 colour plates. BIC Classification: BM; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816691166
- ISBN
- 9780816691166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Hardcover. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN; AVGM; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444. Music, Masculinity and Mayhem. 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN; AVGM; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230491
- ISBN
- 9780230230491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardback. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403972385
- ISBN
- 9781403972385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. Reveals the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. This book focuses on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands and brings to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266414
- ISBN
- 9780520266414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. Reveals the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. This book focuses on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands and brings to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257696
- ISBN
- 9780520257696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.03€ 73.24
€ 94.03
€ 73.24
Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 360 pages, 8 tables, 8 charts. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPS; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501704369
- ISBN
- 9781501704369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.98
€ 38.98
Paperback. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRCV; JFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- InterVarsity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780830851799
- ISBN
- 9780830851799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.22
€ 27.99
€ 21.22