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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern age. The future of sleep has become contested and uncertain: something to be defended, downsized or even perhaps (one day) done away with altogether. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JMTD; MBS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223660
- ISBN
- 9780230223660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.92
€ 61.92
Paperback. Takes a look at the ways that the twentieth century reacted to and reimagined its predecessor. This work considers how the Victorian inheritance has been represented in literature, politics, film, and visual culture; and the ways in which modernists and progressives have sought to differentiate themselves from an image of the Victorian. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821417621
- ISBN
- 9780821417621
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. What causes a child to grow up gay, straight, or bisexual? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK; JMM; PSAN; VFVC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190297374
- ISBN
- 9780190297374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.85
€ 34.99
€ 33.85
Hardcover. Of equal appeal to general readers, designers and typographers, this book is a vibrant cultural guide to fifty of the most remarkable typefaces. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AKD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851244317
- ISBN
- 9781851244317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.35
€ 26.99
€ 20.35
Paperback. An essential student guide to Lyotard and issues in his work, including modernity and the postmodern, the sublime, ethics, history and representation, art and the unpresentable, knowledge and the university and the future. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415256155
- ISBN
- 9780415256155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.80
€ 26.99
€ 26.80
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JFFS; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349492787
- ISBN
- 9781349492787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.47
€ 61.47
Hardcover. A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public debates on Romanian migrants and the Roma minority in Italy and Spain. Series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JHMC; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433916
- ISBN
- 9781137433916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138908352
- ISBN
- 9781138908352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.58
€ 50.58
Hardcover. This is an environmental history of humans and wildfire on the Cape Peninsula, from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The book examines how the region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications. Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 graphs, 12 black & white halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; HBTB; HBTP; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415431
- ISBN
- 9781137415431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.38
€ 63.38
Paperback. New Labour has concentrated many of its social policy initiatives in reinvigorating the family, community and work. But just how 'new' are the ideas driving policy and practice? This book shows how New Labour has drawn on the ideas and premises of functionalism, which dominated British and American sociological thought from the 1940s to the 1960s. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861344595
- ISBN
- 9781861344595
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 37.91
€ 40.99
€ 37.91
Hardcover. An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum Editor(s): Rabinovitch, Simon. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584657613
- ISBN
- 9781584657613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.05€ 66.26
€ 80.05
€ 66.26
Paperback. An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum Editor(s): Rabinovitch, Simon. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584657620
- ISBN
- 9781584657620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.74
€ 32.99
€ 25.74
Hardcover. Simon Reich presents an interpretation of the relationship between material (hard) and social (soft) power, with implications for the alternative ways these link and the impact of these linkages on the future of American policy. Global Norms offers a new way of understanding both theory and policy in the 21st Century. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFS; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205932
- ISBN
- 9780230205932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.00
€ 63.00
Paperback. From rave's origins in Chicago house and Detroit techno, through Ibiza, Madchester and the anarchic free-party scene, to the pirate-radio underworld of jungle and UK garage, the author documents with insight and infectious enthusiasm the tracks, DJs, producers and promoters that soundtracked a generation. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1072.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 816
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571289134
- ISBN
- 9780571289134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 17.97
€ 26.99
€ 17.97
Paperback. Intends to make sense of 21st Century pop. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, this title confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571232093
- ISBN
- 9780571232093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 15.94
€ 20.00
€ 15.94
Paperback. Reynolds offers a guided tour of rave culture and techno music in this first critical history of the genre--and the drug culture that accompanies it. 40-page discography. of illustrations. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGV; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 173 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415923736
- ISBN
- 9780415923736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.27
€ 48.27
Hardback. Using the tools of medicine, literary theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, this book probes the breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is intended for those interested in German textual studies, the history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295986111
- ISBN
- 9780295986111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.37
€ 119.37
Hardcover. The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman's film in which woman's claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femme fatale. This book examines Lola as a specific and enduring aspect of the "new woman": woman's forthright claim to pleasure on her own terms, liberated from the usual constraints of sex and gender. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309723
- ISBN
- 9781137309723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.00
€ 129.00
paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138253155
- ISBN
- 9781138253155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Paperback. Spanning the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford, this is a story of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Num Pages: 512 pages, 3 plate sections. BIC Classification: HBG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099546689
- ISBN
- 9780099546689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.37
€ 14.99
€ 12.37