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Society & culture: general

Hardback. An anthology of primary documents that collects material from the end of the 19th century up through World War II on the material history of sound technologies and music in America. It is divided into three sections: on the phonograph, sound in the cinema (including musical accompaniment), and music on radio. Editor(s): Taylor, Timothy Dean; Katz, Mark; Grajeda, Tony. Num Pages: 432 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; APW; AVX; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349273
ISBN
9780822349273
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.04
€ 128.97

Paperback. This exploration of the work of nurses and other caregivers in nursing homes is set in the context of wider political, economic and cultural forces that influence, both positively and negatively, the quality of care for America's elderly. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JKSG; MBP; MQCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
0002-
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226144740
ISBN
9780226144740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.64

Hardcover. An eye-opening account exploring common themes between major disasters and providing important lessons for successful natural hazard mitigation. Num Pages: 346 pages, 51 b/w illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: JFFU; JKSR; RNR; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Condition
New
SKU
9781107035188
ISBN
9781107035188
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 23.26

Hardback. A lot of personal data is being collected and stored as we use our media devices for business and pleasure in mobile and online spaces. This book helps us contemplate what a post-Facebook or post-Google world might look like, and how the tensions within capitalist information societies between corporations, government and citizens might play out. Series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 black & white tables, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; URD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137306869
ISBN
9781137306869
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.33

Hardback. Myers, of prostitution in Restif de la Bretonne by Rori Bloom, of ruins in Lazzaro Spallanzani by Sabrina Ferri, of Arthur Murphy's female characters by Barbara Mackey King, and of recent film adaptations of the century's masterworks by Karen Gevirtz. Editor(s): Erwin, Timothy; Burnham, Michelle. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413761
ISBN
9781421413761
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.83

Paperback. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 882.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
584
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801853609
ISBN
9780801853609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.40

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814737217
ISBN
9780814737217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.37

Paperback. .
Publisher
Prospect Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903018965
ISBN
9781903018965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.56

Hardback. Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms have been invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance. Editor(s): Craig, Timothy J.; King, Dr. Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774808743
ISBN
9780774808743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138747036
ISBN
9781138747036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 17.85

Paperback. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743501
ISBN
9780804743501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.92

hardcover. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804743495
ISBN
9780804743495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.83

Hardback. By drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students' strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774819312
ISBN
9780774819312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.23

Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations (Paperback). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFD; JFFE; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696086
ISBN
9780816696086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Hardcover. What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior. Num Pages: 110 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRQX; JFHC; JFSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 352 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137364456
ISBN
9781137364456
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. Examines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples Editor(s): Perttula, Timothy K.; Walker, Chester P. Num Pages: 536 pages, 113 figures, 43 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HDD; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220966
ISBN
9780803220966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.73
€ 57.94

Paperback. This book uses political process theory to examine three cultural movements around Christopher Columbus. The author examines the religious, ethnic and anti-colonial movements most successful at rewriting national origin myth, demonstrating the political process model while telling the story of how a powerless public mobilized to rewrite its past. Num Pages: 278 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JFSL; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536498
ISBN
9781349536498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 261 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403975775
ISBN
9781403975775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.79

paperback. .
Publisher
Ronin Publishing
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914171843
ISBN
9780914171843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. A work of social, moral, religious and scientific satire, including articles by and about people who are changing the meaning of freedom all over the world. Num Pages: 214 pages, B&W photos and illustrations throughout, Maps, Charts. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 179 x 13. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Ronin Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781579511487
ISBN
9781579511487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.83

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