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Society & culture: general

Paperback. This important Manifesto argues that we still need a concept of society in order to make sense of the forces which structure our lives. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631231868
ISBN
9780631231868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.03

Paperback. This is the definitive account of 10,000 years of North American Indian history. It has been described by American History Illustrated, America's leading popular history magazine, as 'An eloquent and exhaustive chronicle of the history of North America's peoples'. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 10. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752446011
ISBN
9780752446011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.58

Paperback. Modern farm policy emerged in the United States in 1862, leading to an industrialized agriculture that made the farm sector collectively more successful even as many individual farmers failed. This title blends history, politics, and economics to show that federal government emphasis on farm productivity has failed to meet broader rural needs. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSF; JPQB; RPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878408580
ISBN
9780878408580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.83

Hardcover. A brilliant history that goes beyond the dazzling "I Have a Dream" speech to explore the real significance of the massive march and the movement it inspired. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393082852
ISBN
9780393082852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.86

Hardback. Talks about jurisprudence - or legal philosophy. This book attempts not only a jurisprudential reading of popular culture, but a popular rereading of jurisprudence, removing it from the legal experts in order to restore it to the public at large: a lex populi by and for the people. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804753678
ISBN
9780804753678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.10

Paperback. Looks behind the generalities of debates about globalization to explore the personal impact of global forces on the Peruvian poor. This ethnography offers insight into how the people have coped with extreme poverty and rapid population growth - and their creation of lives and customs in the process. Num Pages: 280 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292713000
ISBN
9780292713000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Gives readers a glimpse into the otherwise shrouded existences of gay men in nineteenth-century France. This work relates the experiences of a man about town, a cross-dressing entertainer, a troubled adolescent, and two fetishists, among others. Editor(s): Peniston, William A.; Erber, Nancy. Translator(s): Peniston, William A.; Erber, Nancy. Num Pages: 292 pages, 8 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803260368
ISBN
9780803260368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.45

Paperback. Leading authorities write on the complex--and sometimes controversial--history, politics, and culture of rap and hip hop Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566393621
ISBN
9781566393621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.32

Paperback. Reprint of Bursting Bonds (1923), the second autobiography by William Pickens. Editor(s): Andrews, William L. Num Pages: 110 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BGA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038854
ISBN
9780268038854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.93

Paperback. Remembered today for his 'Brief Lives', John Aubrey (1626-97) was one of the foremost scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. This richly illustrated book is the first accessible guide to Aubrey's many diverse achievements as a biographer, antiquary, mathematician, and all-round virtuoso. Num Pages: 112 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLH; JFCX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 183 x 10. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243198
ISBN
9781851243198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.05

Paperback. Revealing how everday pricing manipulates us. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; JMH; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851688296
ISBN
9781851688296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Popular Press 1
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780879724641
ISBN
9780879724641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.80

Paperback. Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? This title examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. Num Pages: 275 pages, 12 b&w photos 3 graphs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRE; JFC; JFMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691029658
ISBN
9780691029658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.16

Hardback. This text is an introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century, Niklas Luhmann. For Luhmann, modernity is neither an Enlightenment project nor a ludic rejection of that project, but the pre-condition of all our deliberations. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739917
ISBN
9780804739917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.36

Hardback. This work offers an analysis of the underlying grammar or "logic" of "culture". Ray argues that the disparate models, ideologies, and ethics that have been advanced in the name of culture derive from a shift in our ways of thinking that occurred before the advent of modernity. Series: New Perspectives on the Past. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631213437
ISBN
9780631213437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143127147
ISBN
9780143127147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.33

Hardback. Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, this book argues that the perfection of the free market is a myth. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123808
ISBN
9780231123808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.05
€ 90.70

Paperback. Based on incisive analyses of economic globalization, class, politics, and bureaucracy, this book argues that the perfection of the free market is a myth. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123815
ISBN
9780231123815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Second
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160063
ISBN
9780231160063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.52
€ 82.80

Paperback. "A masterpiece..[W]ill rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation's past." -New York Newsday Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JFSL3; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393354423
ISBN
9780393354423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816620975
ISBN
9780816620975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 382 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC; JFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780767900461
ISBN
9780767900461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.89

Paperback. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the twentieth century, this title gives an account that includes more than twenty new maps and illustrations, as well as a bibliographic essay that surveys the research in Indian-white relations. It is suitable for those in the field of Native American history. Series: The Chicago History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Fourth Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226312392
ISBN
9780226312392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.94

Hardback. This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Bacon's program for the methodological reform of the sciences. Instead, the book shows that Bacon's program shaped the society's earliest work in important, if often contradictory, ways. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JB; 3JD; JFCX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804732918
ISBN
9780804732918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.20

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