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Society & culture: general
Paperback. The subject of this book is the lives of three very different 17th-century women. They were not queens or noblewomen, one was a Jewish merchant, one a Catholic mystic visionary, and one a Protestant painter. From their writings and memoirs the author has retrieved their lives from obscurity. Num Pages: 372 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; BG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674955219
- ISBN
- 9780674955219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.42
€ 37.99
€ 32.42
Hardback. This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for managing civil-military relations and garnering public support for conflicts. It explains the nexus between remembrance, militarisation and nationalism in modern societies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVUA; HBW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395702
- ISBN
- 9781137395702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.97
€ 108.97
Paperback. A passionate, controversial argument against compromises on the road to freedom, by the renowned former dissident, human rights activist and Jewish leader Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; JFFS; JPA; JPHC; JPQ; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781586483548
- ISBN
- 9781586483548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.38
€ 24.99
€ 18.38
Paperback. This text argues that it is the nature of modernity to foster compassion. It offers a historical view to disprove the idea that modernity erodes moral sentiment and breaks down older social bonds. The book looks at the way in which modern society is building new and different social bonds. Series: Postmodern Social Futures. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JF; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 10. Weight in Grams: 215.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847695560
- ISBN
- 9780847695560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.73
€ 53.73
Hardback. Centering on "moving places" - places with locations that are not fixed, but relative - this book draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making. Editor(s): Gregoric Bon, Natasa; Repic, Jaka. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 253 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785332425
- ISBN
- 9781785332425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.02
€ 154.02
Hardcover. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFD; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319398280
- ISBN
- 9783319398280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.98
€ 129.98
Paperback. Editor(s): Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJH; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297986
- ISBN
- 9781349297986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Paperback. Redefining the face of the American farmer Num Pages: 240 pages, Color illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; JFSL; TVF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Publisher
- New Society Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865717893
- ISBN
- 9780865717893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.30
€ 33.99
€ 28.30
Paperback. This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358441
- ISBN
- 9781349358441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. "In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness."--Back cover. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868145614
- ISBN
- 9781868145614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. Takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Num Pages: 456 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160887
- ISBN
- 9780691160887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 26.97
€ 37.99
€ 26.97
Hardcover. Challenging popular misconceptions of female users, this book is the first to examine how female drug user's identities, and hence their experiences, are shaped by drug policies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847426727
- ISBN
- 9781847426727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.80
€ 102.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 1HBM; 1KLCM; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475993
- ISBN
- 9780801475993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.12
€ 40.99
€ 40.12
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JNKS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226400143
- ISBN
- 9780226400143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.62
€ 31.99
€ 24.62
paperback. An examination of children of immigrants in New York and London. Using ethnographic, survey, and interview data in two racially diverse, low-achieving high schools, it analyzes seemingly oppositional styles, tastes in music, and school behaviors and finds that most teens try to find a balance between success with peers and success in school. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0031643
- ISBN
- 9780520262119
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 6.49
€ 6.49
Paperback. The third in a major new series of books based on the remarkable NMAAHC photography archive. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGC; AJCR; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 182 x 11. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- GILES
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907804489
- ISBN
- 9781907804489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.05
€ 14.99
€ 12.05
Paperback. Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure. Using case studies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, she develops a better understanding of the underlying causes and conditions necessary for terrorism and insurgency to occur. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFFS; JPA; JPS; JPWL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480647
- ISBN
- 9781349480647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.61
€ 61.61
Paperback. The highly acclaimed, controversial and much needed look at our highly sexualised culture, reissued with a new introduction. 'A must-read' Viv Groskop, Guardian Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087099
- ISBN
- 9781844087099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.64
€ 15.99
€ 11.64
Hardcover. Providing the status of Islam in inter-war Europe, this book states that the Muslim population of Europe in the period from 1918-1939 was not one of isolated islands of belief and practice. It suggests that rather, there was far more interaction between Muslim communities than had hitherto been imagined. Editor(s): Clayer, Natalie; Germain, Eric. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 150 x 35. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press USA
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850658788
- ISBN
- 9781850658788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.20€ 57.85
€ 59.20
€ 57.85
Hardcover. According to the author, the 19th century was incapable of managing the feminine question and prefered to mythicize it. Everything that was related to it, especially feminine sexuality, was transformed into fiction. Thus women were saddled with the role of scapegoat. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557531230
- ISBN
- 9781557531230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.33
€ 43.33
Hardback. Clayer and Bougarel's prodigiously researched book is a political and institutional history of the Muslims of south-east Europe since the fourteenth century, focusing on empires, states, political parties, and religious institutions. Editor(s): Clayer, Professor Nathalie; Bougarel, Xavier. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVW; HBJD; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849046596
- ISBN
- 9781849046596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.28€ 52.38
€ 53.28
€ 52.38
Paperback. Editor(s): Talcott, Nathan B. Num Pages: 95 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 95
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606926703
- ISBN
- 9781606926703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.74€ 44.10
€ 62.74
€ 44.10
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JMR; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231178327
- ISBN
- 9780231178327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.04
€ 40.99
€ 29.04
Paperback. A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as 'brilliant' and 'provocative,' Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. Num Pages: 390 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195063363
- ISBN
- 9780195063363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.82
€ 23.99
€ 22.82