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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, this text recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDAG; HRG; JFC; JFHF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226156415
ISBN
9780226156415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.94

Hardback. Series: American Lectures on the History of Religions. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Updated with a new Preface
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156417
ISBN
9780231156417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.02
€ 78.05

Paperback. While focusing on the central problem of evil, the author illuminates every aspect of Hindu thought. She corrects the widespread belief that Hindu thought does not recognize the problem of evil, and shows conclusively that the mythology of tribal societies and the Puranas deal with this question extensively. Series: Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRG; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New e.
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520040984
ISBN
9780520040984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: HRG; JFHF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226618500
ISBN
9780226618500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 380 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; HRK; JFC; JMTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226618555
ISBN
9780226618555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
University of Chicago Press Ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226618579
ISBN
9780226618579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. A survey of women's experiences in the American communitarian movement from the 19th century to the present. This volume covers a wide range of religious, secular and modern interactive-psychology communities, focusing on women in the complexity and multiplicity of their roles. Editor(s): Chmielewski, W.E.; etc.; Kern, Louis J. (Department of History, Hofstra University, New York, USA); Klee-Hartzell, Marlyn (Department of Political Science, Adelphi University, New York, USA). Series: Utopianism & Communitarianism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HRA; HRLP7; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815625698
ISBN
9780815625698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.44

Paperback. Explores a lost world of women's dominance. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252066016
ISBN
9780252066016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.39

Hardback. Based on extensive sources, including newspapers, trial documents, and local histories, this gripping account of a seemingly typical woman who achieved extraordinary notoriety will appeal to true crime lovers and historians alike. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19, 7 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BTC; HBJK; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420202
ISBN
9781421420202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780800725211
ISBN
9780800725211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.45

Paperback. This Fourth Edition introduces the sociology of culture and explores cultural phenomena including stories, beliefs, media, ideas, art, religious practices, fashions and rituals from a global-sociological perspective. Series: Sociology for a New Century Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 226 x 7. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Edition
Fourth Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781412990547
ISBN
9781412990547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Hardcover. Globalization and the Internet are smothering cultural regionalism, that sense of place that flourished in simpler times. These two villains are also prime suspects in the death of reading. Or so alarming reports about our homogenous and dumbed-down culture would have it. This book shows that neither of these claims stands up under scrutiny. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226309224
ISBN
9780226309224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.64

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857853691
ISBN
9780857853691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.75

Paperback. Editor(s): Gunn, Wendy; Donovan, Jared. Series: Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHMC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138244788
ISBN
9781138244788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Hardback. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire. Num Pages: 405 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 tables, 45 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC9; HBT; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
405
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520209336
ISBN
9780520209336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.12
€ 64.09

Paperback. Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349518
ISBN
9780822349518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourse of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to spoken stories of mothers and daughters. In this text, she brings Asian American women's experience to the forefront of gender and ethnicity. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742503373
ISBN
9780742503373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.82

Hardback. Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourse of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to spoken stories of mothers and daughters. In this text, she brings Asian American women's experience to the forefront of gender and ethnicity. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742503366
ISBN
9780742503366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.41

Paperback. Series: Re:Lit. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Crossway
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781433502095
ISBN
9781433502095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFSJ1; VFVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781254615
ISBN
9781781254615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.57

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