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Society & culture: general

paperback. Accessibly written for students, this work emphasises the varying conceptions of the self found cross-culturally and contrasts these with the conceptions found in the Western intellectual traditions. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JHM; JMH; JMS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745308586
ISBN
9780745308586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.70

Hardback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407524
ISBN
9781421407524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.85

Paperback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415727
ISBN
9781421415727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.42

Paperback. For ten years "Calvin and Hobbes" was one of the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life. This title traces the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB; AKLC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441106858
ISBN
9781441106858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.86

Paperback. Focusing on the period between 1920 and 1950, the author looks beyond ideologies to reveal how middle-class men and women strained to wrest order from the ordeal of change. Num Pages: 348 pages, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804743402
ISBN
9780804743402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APFB; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816654628
ISBN
9780816654628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Presents the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum ..the Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342007
ISBN
9780822342007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Presents an overview of the prehistory of the Cuzco region from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers (ca 7000 BC) to the fall of the Inca Empire in AD 1532. This book addresses both the specific patterns of settlement in the Cuzco Valley and the larger processes of cultural development. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 271 pages, 76 photos, 25 figures, 26 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; HBLC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 276 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292702790
ISBN
9780292702790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 990.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
620
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691102276
ISBN
9780691102276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.81
€ 64.07

Paperback. A study of what it means to play. The book explores play theory as elaborated and debated in disciplines from biology and psychology to mathematics, and analyzes the implications of play in areas such as child development and the Western work ethic, examining the values dictating forms of play. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JMAL; JMC; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674005815
ISBN
9780674005815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 45.24

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 1KBB; 3JM; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231174008
ISBN
9780231174008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JM; JFCA; JFD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231174015
ISBN
9780231174015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.36

Paperback. The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. But now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? The authors offer a new standard for the field's transnational aspiration. Editor(s): Edwards, Brian T.; Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226185071
ISBN
9780226185071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.50

Paperback. An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973 Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 376 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336440
ISBN
9780822336440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardback. This fresh look at Canadian women's political engagement during the Cold War reveals that whether they were on the "left" or "right" end of the political spectrum, women were motivated by similar concerns and the desire to forge a new vision for their nation. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774832083
ISBN
9780774832083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.94

Paperback. "Waste "explores the question: from nuclear waste to digital detritus, what can we learn about ourselves from what we let go to waste? Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 152 pages, 20 b/w images. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628924367
ISBN
9781628924367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. A clear narrative that presents and interprets the major documents of the centuries-long struggle between kings and popes of medieval Europe over the separation of church and state. Series: MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; HRAX; HRC; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802067012
ISBN
9780802067012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.89

Paperback. In A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles the career of Confederation poets Duncan Campbell Scott in the Department of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1932. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFF; JFSL1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774804202
ISBN
9780774804202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Hardback. The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFN; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774807302
ISBN
9780774807302
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.65

Paperback. This text examines the processes and outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major restructuring in developed market economies. Emphasis is placed on relevant principles, concepts and theories of rural change and these are supported by case study evidence drawn from different parts of the developed world. Num Pages: 280 pages, figures, tables. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSF; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582277243
ISBN
9780582277243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.79
€ 63.82

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