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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393239614
- ISBN
- 9780393239614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.46
€ 29.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 86 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSG; TTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816649532
- ISBN
- 9780816649532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Hardback. An updated and significantly expanded edition of McPhail's "The Rhetoric of Racism", this text looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism - how, in addition to social and material structures and institutions, language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFG; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742517189
- ISBN
- 9780742517189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.85
€ 178.85
Paperback. An updated and significantly expanded edition of McPhail's "The Rhetoric of Racism", this text looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism - how, in addition to social and material structures and institutions, language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFG; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742517196
- ISBN
- 9780742517196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Plume
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780147516466
- ISBN
- 9780147516466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.03
€ 16.99
€ 15.03
Paperback. Traces the growth of a middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new socio-cultural space in one of the world's 'least developed countries'. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 maps. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKN; GTF; JFC; JFSC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095936
- ISBN
- 9780691095936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.11€ 41.45
€ 53.11
€ 41.45
Hardback. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in soviet and post-soviet culture, this title attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-soviet cynical reason. Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843451
- ISBN
- 9781934843451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.39
€ 148.39
Hardcover. Starting with the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to the pre-Columbian American tribes, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built environment. Num Pages: 672 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: AMX; HD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 276 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2336.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118142103
- ISBN
- 9781118142103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.73
€ 192.73
Paperback. Series: The Lawrence Stone Lectures. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JFCX; JPSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691157955
- ISBN
- 9780691157955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.61
€ 24.99
€ 18.61
Paperback. History has tended to be dominated by visual images, but the past was not silent. These essays explore attempts to access the sounds of the past, called historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. "Hearing History" is an introduction to an exciting new field of historical study. Editor(s): Smith, Mark M. Num Pages: 384 pages, 4 b&w photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFC; PHDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820325835
- ISBN
- 9780820325835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.43
€ 53.43
Paperback. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 207 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPA; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349483518
- ISBN
- 9781349483518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.25
€ 61.25
Hardcover. Media coverage of presidential actions can not only serve journalistic purposes, but can also act as a check against unilateral decision making. The book seeks to uncover how the news media has worked to curtail overreaching power within the executive branch, demonstrating how the fourth estate keeps presidential overreach at bay. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 207 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393067
- ISBN
- 9781137393067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; BG; HBJH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Touchstone Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684848280
- ISBN
- 9780684848280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.09
€ 19.99
€ 18.09
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781510712614
- ISBN
- 9781510712614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.42
€ 25.99
€ 22.42
Hardcover. This innovative book provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and 'magic' in African literature. Emphasizing the ambivalent nature of the sacred, it advances work on the religious dimension of canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DNF; DSB; GTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577558
- ISBN
- 9780230577558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Paperback. This is the first book in English to examine, throughmaterial in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War." Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298785
- ISBN
- 9781349298785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
Hardcover. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFCA; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120594
- ISBN
- 9780230120594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.81
€ 108.81
Paperback. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; JFC; JHBK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137565105
- ISBN
- 9781137565105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Editor(s): McWilliams, Mark. Series: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 176 x 29. Weight in Grams: 710. Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2011. Series: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. 368 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. Editor(s): McWilliams, Mark. 38 essays by international scholars from the proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2011. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV; WB. Dimension: 244 x 176 x 29. Weight: 706.
- Publisher
- Prospect Books
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903018897
- ISBN
- 9781903018897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.48
€ 40.99
€ 33.48
Paperback. Editor(s): McWilliams, Mark. Series: Oxford Symposium on Food. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Publisher
- Prospect Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Abridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909248441
- ISBN
- 9781909248441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.44
€ 40.99
€ 33.44
Paperback. Editor(s): McWilliams, Mark. Series: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCD; JFCV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 175 x 245 x 29. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Publisher
- Prospect Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909248403
- ISBN
- 9781909248403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.44
€ 40.99
€ 33.44
Hardback. Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800s, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today. Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759120945
- ISBN
- 9780759120945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.58
€ 144.58
Paperback. This text traces the influence on Dante of Provencal poets, medieval theology, Dante's personal life and the sources of his classical education to propose a radical reading of Dante. It compounds the riddles of dream, poetry,philosophy and Dante's concealed autobiography in his work. Num Pages: 248 pages, 9 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630272
- ISBN
- 9780815630272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.86
€ 37.86
Paperback. Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This title tackles this aspect of mapping. Num Pages: 216 pages, 63 halftones, 19 line drawings. BIC Classification: JFC; RGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534688
- ISBN
- 9780226534688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.87
€ 24.99
€ 19.87