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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Whether in the form of warfare, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia's sense of nationhood was born from experiences of violence. This book probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial frontier to modern domestic spaces, exploring empathy, isolation, and Australians' imagined place in the world. Editor(s): Mason, Robert. Num Pages: 270 pages, 1 illustration, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785334368
- ISBN
- 9781785334368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.06
€ 166.06
Paperback. Media analyst McChesney (communication, U. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) deconstructs how the media system works in the US so that citizens can see it isn't so mysterious and be inspired to take a role in reshaping the flawed policies that the system is built on. McChesney argues that the increasing Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S.
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583671054
- ISBN
- 9781583671054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.20
€ 26.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; BGX; HRCC7; HRCX4; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613736579
- ISBN
- 9781613736579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.03
€ 17.99
€ 17.03
Paperback. Draws on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization. This book articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 301 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 301
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814757130
- ISBN
- 9780814757130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.88
€ 34.99
€ 31.88
Paperback. This collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other. Editor(s): McRuer, Robert; Mollow, Anna. Num Pages: 432 pages, 11 illustrations, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351542
- ISBN
- 9780822351542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.90
€ 33.99
€ 30.90
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442278141
- ISBN
- 9781442278141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.86
€ 55.86
Paperback. This fully updated new edition of the hugely popular Racism provides a thought-provoking account of the history and debate about the concept, combining both historical and theoretical analysis. Series: Key Ideas. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415296779
- ISBN
- 9780415296779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 48.76
€ 51.99
€ 48.76
Hardcover. Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, the author demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period - and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 colour plates, 78 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; ACK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1043.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226169125
- ISBN
- 9780226169125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.14€ 48.96
€ 57.14
€ 48.96
Paperback. Surveys the economies of exchange in human blood, tissues, and organs. This book compares tissue economies in the United Kingdom and United States. It features a series of case studies based on particular forms of tissue exchange and also considers the impact of different models of biotechnology patents on tissue economies. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; KCC; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337706
- ISBN
- 9780822337706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 476 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJK; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781510713925
- ISBN
- 9781510713925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 29 photographs. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067624
- ISBN
- 9780252067624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.42
€ 26.99
€ 25.42
Paperback. Offers an interpretation of American society. This book features a preface relating the arguments of the book both to the realities of American society and to the debate about the country's future. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484. Individualism and Commitment in American Life. 410 pages, Illustrations. Offers an interpretation of American society. This book features a preface relating the arguments of the book both to the realities of American society and to the debate about the country's future. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; JF. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 25. Weight: 482.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 410
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 3Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254190
- ISBN
- 9780520254190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
Hardback. This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression. Editor(s): Bellah, Robert N.; Joas, Hans. Num Pages: 560 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFSR; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 244 x 42. Weight in Grams: 972.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Sew
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066496
- ISBN
- 9780674066496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.06
€ 54.99
€ 46.06
Hardback. The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. This title explores how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. Num Pages: 752 pages, 40 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JFFH1; KNDF1; MBX; MMZR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 227 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1170. Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. 752 pages, Illustrations. The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. This title explores how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFFH1; KNDF1; MBX; MMZR. Dimension: 162 x 227 x 53. Weight: 1154.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 752
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270169
- ISBN
- 9780520270169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.90
€ 45.99
€ 32.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935191506
- ISBN
- 9781935191506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.25
€ 26.99
€ 23.25
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; HBJD; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641041
- ISBN
- 9780691641041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.83
€ 183.83
Paperback. Traces both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. This work shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 30 halftones. 8 tables. 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691124865
- ISBN
- 9780691124865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.17
€ 43.99
€ 31.17
Hardback. The entire series, "Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World,engages the major organizing themes of the subject through a collection of high-level, debate-inspiring essays, inviting readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Atlantic experience shaped both American societies and the Atlantic world itself. Editor(s): Olwell, Robert; Tully, Alan. Series: Anglo-America in the Trans-Atlantic World. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882517
- ISBN
- 9780801882517
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.10
€ 54.99
€ 46.10
Hardback. Solidarity First examines the concept and practice of social cohesion in terms of its impact on, and significance for, workers in Canada. Editor(s): O'Brien, Robert. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFF; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814393
- ISBN
- 9780774814393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.85
€ 113.85
Paperback. Brings together some of the leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in fast-evolving economy. Drawing on the research in the social sciences, this book explores optimal ways to manage the modern city and proposes solutions to some of the most pressing urban problems. Editor(s): Inman, Robert P. Num Pages: 432 pages, 53 line illus. 36 tables. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFSG; KCU; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691131054
- ISBN
- 9780691131054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.57€ 42.11
€ 53.57
€ 42.11