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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Analyzing a circular cultural relationship of how trauma is reflected in cultural processes and products, and how trauma itself acts as a critical shaper of literature, the visual and performing arts, architecture, and religion and mythmaking, this book looks at the political power of trauma as seen through US, Israeli, and Japanese art forms. Editor(s): Ataria, Yochai; Gurevitz, David; Pedaya, Haviva; Neria, Yuval. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFE; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 979.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319294025
ISBN
9783319294025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 215.61

Hardcover. In every Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] neighbourhood, bookstores overflow with titles written by and for Haredi Jews. This title offers a reading of contemporary Haredi fiction, self-help, history, and theology, explaining how this isolationist religious community constructs its complex and paradoxical relationship with contemporary culture. Series: Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235377
ISBN
9781936235377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.58

Hardback. Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors, differing from context with no linear chain of cause and effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by an interrelated web of economic, social, psychological, cultural, and political factors. Editor(s): Atal, Yogesh. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; JFSC; JPA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571811912
ISBN
9781571811912
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.95

hardcover. Editor(s): Arisaka, Yoko. Series: Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HRAB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2022
SKU
V9783319417837
ISBN
9783319417837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.82

Hardback. Explores the impact of foreign migrant workers on sovereign power in Japan and examines how the country's immigration control has been reshaped by their existence. A particular focus is the transition of these workers from "temporary workers" to "long-term stayers" or "social beings". Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFN; JPH; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333804322
ISBN
9780333804322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.79

Paperback. Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan racializations in the 1950s and 1960s, and feminist redefinitions of creolization and sexile from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book redefines the Caribbean beyond the postcolonial debate. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349489794
ISBN
9781349489794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.84

Hardback. Presents studies on gender and life in the Amazon. This book covers the fieldwork of the authors among the Mundurucu people of Brazil in 1952. It provides an account of the historical, ecological, and cultural setting of the Mundurucu, including the mythology surrounding women, women's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, and more. Num Pages: 328 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
30 Anniversary ed
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132329
ISBN
9780231132329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.12
€ 88.69

Paperback. This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how they are being integrated into everyday practice. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSR; JHB; PHD; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349443253
ISBN
9781349443253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 481 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; KJMV; TNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
481
Condition
New
SKU
V9789811012808
ISBN
9789811012808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.46

Hardback. Editor(s): Sugita, Yoneyuki. Num Pages: 192 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 461.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9789811023941
ISBN
9789811023941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.39

Hardcover. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRAM3; HRJT; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vallentine Mitchell
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910383391
ISBN
9781910383391
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.43

Hardback. Series: The Urban Book Series. Num Pages: 226 pages, 37 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; KCN; RGB; RGCM; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319544472
ISBN
9783319544472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.20

Paperback. Editor(s): Smaal, Yorick; Kaladelfos, Andy; Kaladelfos, Amanda; Finnane, Mark. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Monash University Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876924171
ISBN
9781876924171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.24

Hardback. Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific 1939-45 explores the lives and loves of men across Australia and forward bases in the south seas and the official responses that sought to regulate and contain expressions of homosex in and out of the forces. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 18 black & white halftones, 2 maps, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJH; HBJM; HBWQ; JFSK2; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 257 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137365132
ISBN
9781137365132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HB; JFFE; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Monash University Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922235084
ISBN
9781922235084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. Discusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Number of pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295975191
ISBN
9780295975191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.95

Hardcover. Deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah and the People of Israel from the Pre-Zionist Period until the Establishment of the State of Israel. Also examines the dynamics of those relations through the modernization of Jewish society, and the problem of Jewish Identity vis-a-vis modernity. Series: Judaism and Jewish Life. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSR1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 776.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235629
ISBN
9781936235629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.84

paperback. Representation and negotiation of European identity Series: New Directions in National Cinemas. Num Pages: 232 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; APF; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780253221827
ISBN
9780253221827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 23.62

Hardback. The chapters in this volume put a human face on aging issues, and consider multiple dimensions of the aging experience with a focus on Japan. Editor(s): Matsumoto, Yoshiko. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804771481
ISBN
9780804771481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.91

Paperback. The chapters in this volume put a human face on aging issues, and consider multiple dimensions of the aging experience with a focus on Japan. Editor(s): Matsumoto, Yoshiko. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804771498
ISBN
9780804771498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.57

paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415546447
ISBN
9780415546447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.83

Hardcover. Based on the spin amplitude conservation idea including zero-point fluctuation amplitude, this book shows that the temperature and magnetic field dependence of magnetization curves, even in the ground state, is determined by the effect of spin fluctuations. Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; PG; PHD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642366659
ISBN
9783642366659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.13

Paperback. Based on the spin amplitude conservation idea including zero-point fluctuation amplitude, this book shows that the temperature and magnetic field dependence of magnetization curves, even in the ground state, is determined by the effect of spin fluctuations. Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; PG; PHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642427657
ISBN
9783642427657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 117.78

Paperback. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Editor(s): Sugimoto, Yoshio. Series: Cambridge Companions to Culture. Num Pages: 430 pages, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618. Series: Cambridge Companions to Culture. 430 pages, 1 graph. Editor(s): Sugimoto, Yoshio. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Cateogry: (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight: 624.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
430
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521706636
ISBN
9780521706636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.38

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