Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardback. In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. This book turns this basic feature of life with HIV into the vantage point for an analysis of Western subjectivity. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1210.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363712
- ISBN
- 9780792363712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.79
€ 123.79
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict. Num Pages: 231 pages, 19 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSL; JHB; JKV; JPWL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137588371
- ISBN
- 9781137588371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Paperback. Offers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices that can weave the pleasures and disorientations of reading into the fabric of queer analyses. Editor(s): Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320401
- ISBN
- 9780822320401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.71
€ 35.99
€ 34.71
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Four Corners Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909829077
- ISBN
- 9781909829077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.86
€ 29.86
Hardback. Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and explains how and why these policies were adopted. The analysis offers lessons for the study of poverty elsewhere in the world. Series: Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFA; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452689
- ISBN
- 9781137452689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.13
€ 140.13
Hardcover. Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity. A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSR2; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 223 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554382
- ISBN
- 9780230554382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.38
€ 120.38
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415629614
- ISBN
- 9780415629614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Hardback. This reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical and fictional heroes. Editor(s): Segal, Robert A. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631215141
- ISBN
- 9780631215141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.69
€ 146.69
Paperback. This reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical and fictional heroes. Editor(s): Segal, Robert A. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631215158
- ISBN
- 9780631215158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 53.77
€ 53.99
€ 53.77
Hardcover. Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429698
- ISBN
- 9781137429698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Paperback. Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBV; HBTB; JFC; JFD; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349491919
- ISBN
- 9781349491919
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Condition: New
€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Paperback. Women's migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This title analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Editor(s): Segura, Denise A.; Zavella, Patricia. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 616 pages, 11 illustrations, 12 tables, 5 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 37. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822341185
- ISBN
- 9780822341185
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.93
€ 36.99
€ 33.93
Paperback. Suggests ways a sociological perspective can contribute to imaging a queer studies that preserves the critical spirit of queer theory while being attentive to the deeply institutional and structural dynamics in the formation of the sexual self and social order. This book points towards a different sociological queer studies. Editor(s): Seidman, Steven. Series: Twentieth-century Social Theory S. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557867407
- ISBN
- 9781557867407
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Condition: New
€ 60.01
€ 60.01
Paperback. Drawing on received sources of maqasid (Shari'ah's practical objectives), this book demonstrates how the principles of market economics affect how markets and financial institutions actually operate under Shari'ah law. It explains the maqasid economic rationale of precluding interest rates on money capital from legitimate economic exchange. Series: Edinburgh Guides to Islamic Finance. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; KFF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748670031
- ISBN
- 9780748670031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.67
€ 38.99
€ 34.67
Hardback. Editor(s): Kimura, Seiji; Miyazaki, Aiko. Num Pages: 143 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 143
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624174452
- ISBN
- 9781624174452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 218.94€ 147.77
€ 218.94
€ 147.77
Paperback. Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement-Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi-Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125314
- ISBN
- 9780231125314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 77 black & white halftones, 74 colour illustrations, 10 bl. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AMV; JFC; WMB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 246 x 16. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415821186
- ISBN
- 9780415821186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardback. Combining her own experience with an examination of the history of blindness in the Western world, author shows that sightlessness has been an 'active' force in history, rather than the passive condition which is too readily assumed. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781848856905
- ISBN
- 9781848856905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.03
€ 26.99
€ 20.03
Hardback. The concept of citizenship in Egypt is explored, identifying the forces controlling women since the turn of the 20th century. The book seeks to understand how political culture has developed and how women have asserted themselves in public life and been continually restricted and excluded. Series: History & Society of the Modern Middle East. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSJ1; JPH; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158. Weight in Grams: 330. Hardback in very good condition. No dustjacket. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- SKU
- KRF0026837
- ISBN
- 9780231112987
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 306 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSC; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604864540
- ISBN
- 9781604864540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.00
€ 25.99
€ 19.00
Hardback. Contains arguments for the two-sided position that: Al will continue to produce machines with greater and greater capacity to pass stronger and stronger versions of the Turing Test; but that the 'Person Building Project' (the attempt by cognitive engineers to build a machine which is a person) will inevitably fail. Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems. Num Pages: 381 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792316626
- ISBN
- 9780792316626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 239.86
€ 239.86
Paperback. How has Judaism, a religion defined by its minority status, attained equal footing with Catholicism and Protestantism in dominating modern American religious life? This work, revealing the effects of this evolution on Jews in America and on America in general, encompasses politics and culture. Editor(s): Seltzer, Robert M.; Cohen, Norman S. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRJ; JFC; JFSR1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814780015
- ISBN
- 9780814780015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. This volume brings together a series of essays that interrogate the notion of figuration in Indian cinemas. The essays collectively argue that the figures which exhibit maximum tenacity in Indian cinema often emerge in the interface of recognizable binaries: self/other, Indian/foreign, good/bad, virtue/vice, myth/reality and urban/rural. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349332090
- ISBN
- 9781349332090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Cannabis: Report of the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs
Senate Special Committee On Illegal Drugs
paperback. With innovative scientific investigation and bold recommendations, this report, prefaced by Senator Nolin, is an indispensable tool in the national and international debate surrounding cannabis. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFH1; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Abridged
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802086303
- ISBN
- 9780802086303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 41.01
€ 43.99
€ 41.01