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Society & culture: general
paperback. Despite the expansion of higher education, representation, level of participation and likelihood of academic success remain highest amongst young people from affluent areas and lowest amongst those from deprived neighbourhoods. This report identifies factors which impact upon the minority of disadvantaged young people who enter higher education. Num Pages: 76 pages, 4figs.23tabs. BIC Classification: JFF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 76
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345080
- ISBN
- 9781861345080
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.67
€ 26.99
€ 26.67
Paperback. Sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? This work focuses on the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 map 27 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC; HBLL; JFC; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691002392
- ISBN
- 9780691002392
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Condition: New
€ 59.94
€ 59.94
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474415170
- ISBN
- 9781474415170
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.53
€ 35.99
€ 32.53
Paperback. This book looks at language in unexpected places. Through a series of personal and narrative accounts, it explores aspects of travel, mobility and locality to ask how languages, cultures and people turn up in unexpected places. What renders the unexpected so and how might we challenge our lines of expectation? Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847697639
- ISBN
- 9781847697639
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Condition: New
€ 43.66
€ 43.66
Hardback. Editor(s): Albala, Ken; Eden, Trudy. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRC; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149969
- ISBN
- 9780231149969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.91€ 82.52
€ 107.91
€ 82.52
Paperback. A thematic presentation of the various types of Socialism, such as Communitarian, Christian, Marxist, and Anarcho-Communist, that have existed in the United States from the time of the Revolutionary War to 1919. Editor(s): Fried, Albert. Num Pages: 580 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 236 x 37. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Morningside ed
- Number of pages
- 580
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231081412
- ISBN
- 9780231081412
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Condition: New
€ 49.40
€ 49.40
Hardback. Exploring an ambiguous region between recognized findings and unfettered imagination, this book explores the multifaceted, far-reaching, and often contentious attempts of people with contrasting worldviews to develop convincing and satisfying interpretations of rapidly accumulating discoveries in physics, astronomy, and biology. Num Pages: 244 pages, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: HRA; JFHF; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452865
- ISBN
- 9781845452865
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Condition: New
€ 155.27
€ 155.27
Paperback. Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. Series: Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 162 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACVT; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691015552
- ISBN
- 9780691015552
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Condition: New
€ 64.51€ 50.61
€ 64.51
€ 50.61
Paperback. This is a pioneering, systematic study of the role of violence in the structure of the political order, formulated in relation to what is characterized as the civil and fraternal orders. Num Pages: 176 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFFE; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761803249
- ISBN
- 9780761803249
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Condition: New
€ 75.96
€ 75.96
Paperback. A guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, that charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 283.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Third Impression
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226066271
- ISBN
- 9780226066271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.89
€ 27.99
€ 22.89
Paperback. A history of information from its inception in the world to its transformation of culture. Drawing on the history of ideas, details of information technology, and boundaries of the human condition, this text explains the relationship between things and signs, and between reality and information. Num Pages: 274 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; TBX; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226066233
- ISBN
- 9780226066233
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.76
€ 30.99
€ 24.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JFSV1; VXW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Red Wheel/Weiser United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578633388
- ISBN
- 9781578633388
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.17
€ 27.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity. Editor(s): Fried, Albert. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DQ; JFCX; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102353
- ISBN
- 9780231102353
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.38
€ 54.99
€ 39.38
Paperback. Sets socialism within its historical context from pre-revolutionary France to the present. The authors contend that socialism came into being at the end of the 18th century as a response to the Industrial Revolution and as an attempt to change the consciousness and organization of society. Editor(s): Fried, Albert; Sanders, Ronald. Series: A Morningside Book S. Num Pages: 619 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; JFCX; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- revised edition
- Number of pages
- 619
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231082655
- ISBN
- 9780231082655
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.87
€ 49.99
€ 35.87
Paperback. Presents the full text of Chief Seattle's 1887 speech delivered to Washington Territory governor Isaac Stevens, and examines its origins, historical context, and twentieth-century versions and interpretations. Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295976334
- ISBN
- 9780295976334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.24
€ 29.99
€ 27.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; VFJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556436147
- ISBN
- 9781556436147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.07
€ 17.99
€ 17.07
Hardcover. Num Pages: 319 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560728566
- ISBN
- 9781560728566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.65€ 71.14
€ 92.65
€ 71.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 93 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFHF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 8. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 93
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813113876
- ISBN
- 9780813113876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.56
€ 35.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 192 x 122 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- First edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816631650
- ISBN
- 9780816631650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.29
€ 29.99
€ 27.29
Hardback. Editor(s): Hughes, Albert O.; Sanders, Eric A. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 186 x 16. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611223514
- ISBN
- 9781611223514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.70€ 155.73
€ 228.70
€ 155.73