Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. An innovative and lively account of both the history and key debates in postcolonialism. Robert Young situates it in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, and as a means of changing the way that we think about the world. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 118 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0006138
- ISBN
- 9780192801821
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Interpretations of Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how Cold War homophobia focused on the femme as the lesbian who posed the greatest threat to the nation. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349471
- ISBN
- 9780822349471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.99
€ 33.99
€ 30.99
Paperback. The story of the impact television news has had on politics, current events and the print media. Looking at major events over the past four decades, this work is an episodic history of the rise and ascendancy of television news. Series Editor(s): Hamilton, Lee H. Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550. Good copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press England
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- KEX0241201
- ISBN
- 9780521428620
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442609570
- ISBN
- 9781442609570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.19
€ 38.99
€ 35.19
Hardback. A definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconduct Num Pages: 239 pages, 8 figures, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFFX; JKSW1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814748411
- ISBN
- 9780814748411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.66
€ 39.66
Paperback. Robert J. Klotz explores topics at the intersection of politics and the internet, including access, activities, advocacy, government, journalism and social capital. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742529267
- ISBN
- 9780742529267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Paperback. The First Nations of British Columbia is a concise and accessible introduction to histories, cultures, and issues of the First Peoples of BC. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774828734
- ISBN
- 9780774828734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr, has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. Booker T Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. This biography reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. Num Pages: 528 pages, 54 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; JN; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060371
- ISBN
- 9780674060371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.74
€ 36.99
€ 30.74
Paperback. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, this title argues that communities still matter because life is decisively shaped by where you live. It discovers that neighborhoods influence a remarkably wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, and teen births. Num Pages: 552 pages, 52 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226055688
- ISBN
- 9780226055688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.04
€ 32.99
€ 26.04
Hardcover. The first indepth history of the controversies surrounding the establishment of Radio Telefis Eireann. Series: Irish cultural studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFD; JP; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press Cork
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859181010
- ISBN
- 9781859181010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.00€ 45.48
€ 59.00
€ 45.48
paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226763453
- ISBN
- 9780226763453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.92
€ 36.99
€ 28.92
Hardback. This study explores the status and trends in human well-being as it varies worldwide. Human well-being comes from a nation's physical, social, economic, and political macro systems. A metric of descriptive statistics is built for each, and then aggregated into one metric to gauge the level in each nation. Num Pages: 116 pages, 26 tables. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JFFA; JPH; JPS; JPV; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761859420
- ISBN
- 9780761859420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.91
€ 94.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCF; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472030224
- ISBN
- 9780472030224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.12
€ 30.99
€ 27.12
Paperback. This analysis of advocacy - from commercials to public service ads to government propaganda - and its roots in advertising and public relations, uses the story of two organizations, the Committee on Public Information and the Advertising Council to clarify the quandaries it generates. Num Pages: 334 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: JFD; JH; KJSA; KJSP; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226389172
- ISBN
- 9780226389172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.00€ 27.98
€ 31.00
€ 27.98
Hardback. This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs in this tumultuous decade. Series Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey. Series: Studies in Popular Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HBJD1; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 169 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719080258
- ISBN
- 9780719080258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.33
€ 156.33
Paperback. An honest look at U.S. racism, and the liberal platitudes that attempt to conceal it. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Edition
- 59530th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872864498
- ISBN
- 9780872864498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.42
€ 15.99
€ 14.42
Paperback. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with activists and using physician-assisted suicide (PAS) as a diagnostic tool, this work argues that an egalitarian liberalism must abandon its overconfidence in its own neutrality, which undermines its ability to see the real needs and hear the actual voices of those it promises to champion. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; HRLB; JFME. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268032678
- ISBN
- 9780268032678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.87
€ 32.99
€ 29.87
Hardcover. In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; AN; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454593
- ISBN
- 9781845454593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.91
€ 161.91
hardcover. Editor(s): Fullinwider, Robert K. Num Pages: 442 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 442
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847693559
- ISBN
- 9780847693559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 216.83
€ 216.83
Paperback. Editor(s): Fullinwider, Robert K. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847693566
- ISBN
- 9780847693566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.59
€ 74.59
Paperback. From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity - that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident - is ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 halftone. 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFCX; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126302
- ISBN
- 9780691126302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.08€ 39.91
€ 50.08
€ 39.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 348 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; JFCX; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reprinted edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226520865
- ISBN
- 9780226520865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.36
€ 41.36
Paperback. This book introduces students to the concept of globalization, providing history, an overview of key themes and theories, and engaging examples. This edition fully explains the recent financial crisis and its ongoing impact, new global migration patterns, ISIS and other new conflicts, and more, while maintaining its accessible style. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442215276
- ISBN
- 9781442215276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.38
€ 77.38
Hardback. This book introduces students to the concept of globalization, providing history, an overview of key themes and theories, and engaging examples. This edition fully explains the recent financial crisis and its ongoing impact, new global migration patterns, ISIS and other new conflicts, and more, while maintaining its accessible style. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 336 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Fifth
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442215269
- ISBN
- 9781442215269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.02
€ 165.02