Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum. Num Pages: 432 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 238 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520078277
- ISBN
- 9780520078277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.95
€ 41.99
€ 29.95
Hardcover. This book strives to understand the social and cultural dynamics in Mediterranean tourist destinations through ethnographic examples from Greece, Spain, Egypt, France, Malta and Crete. It observes and examines the social, cultural and relational processes involved as migrants, tourists and new residents converge with locals in daily life. Editor(s): Nogues-Pedregal, Antonio Migu. Series: Tourism Social Science Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QRM; JF; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857246837
- ISBN
- 9780857246837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.12
€ 135.12
Hardcover. Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and the Jewish immigration to Palestine. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229778
- ISBN
- 9780230229778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566638432
- ISBN
- 9781566638432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.20
€ 29.99
€ 27.20
Paperback. Examining important issues in dementia research and care that are often neglected, the contributors to this book provide fresh perspectives on current practice. The authors put dementia care into a socio-cultural framework, highlighting the impact of social change on dementia care over the last two decades and challenging current stereotypes. Editor(s): Innes, Anthea; Archibald, Carole; Murphy, Charlie. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843101741
- ISBN
- 9781843101741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.01
€ 34.01
Paperback. Making the new politics of craft and sustainability Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFT; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784538248
- ISBN
- 9781784538248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.24
€ 32.99
€ 27.24
Paperback. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. This book examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HRCC96; HRCC99; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858080
- ISBN
- 9780807858080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.03
€ 51.03
Paperback. Anthea Innes provides a complete guide to running a training programme for dementia care workers. She begins with a brief outline of the key factors to consider prior to the design and implementation of a programme. In particular the book stresses the importance of getting to know the care setting in which the trainees will practise. Series: University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides. Num Pages: 128 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBPK; MQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853027611
- ISBN
- 9781853027611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.89
€ 31.99
€ 31.89
Paperback. Choreographing Copyright provides a historical and cultural analysis of U.S.-based dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; ASDC; JFSJ; JFSL; LNRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199360376
- ISBN
- 9780199360376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.29
€ 72.29
paperback. "Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms,this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture" Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFK; JFSJ; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349324279
- ISBN
- 9781349324279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273825
- ISBN
- 9780230273825
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.90
€ 62.90
Paperback. Community penalties are court-ordered punishments, falling between imprisonment and fines, and involve some contact by a criminal justice agency. This work looks at the current debate on which policy pressures may be dominant over community penalties in the future. Editor(s): Bottoms, Sir Anthony (University of Cambridge); Gelsthorpe, Loraine; Rex, Sue. Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFS; JKVP; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843920076
- ISBN
- 9781843920076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.84
€ 49.99
€ 41.84
Paperback. Contributors focus on such key media texts of the 1960s as The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, demonstrating what close textual investigation can reveal about the great social and cultural transformation of the decade. Editor(s): Aldgate, Anthony; Chapman, James (Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, Open University); Marwick, Arthur (Professor of History, Open University). Num Pages: 232 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; JFC; JFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860643835
- ISBN
- 9781860643835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.45
€ 36.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; HRQA; JFCA; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 301 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472581426
- ISBN
- 9781472581426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.57
€ 35.99
€ 30.57
Paperback. Black theology tends to be a theology about no-body. This title examines theological thinking about race, gender, and sexuality. It investigates the traditional source materials for black theology, such as spirituals and slave narratives, seeking to link them to materials like photography that highlight the theological importance of the body. Series: Religion, Race, & Ethnicity. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814767757
- ISBN
- 9780814767757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.27
€ 29.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. Editor(s): Pinn, Anthony B. Series: Studies in Humanism and Atheism. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRQA; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319317137
- ISBN
- 9783319317137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.18
€ 119.18
Hardback. Bale examines how anti-semitic images developed and came to endure far beyond the Middle Ages. Series Editor(s): Minnis, Alastair; Boyde, Patrick; Burrow, Professor John; Copeland, Rita; Deyermond, Alan; Dronke, Peter; Palmer, Nigel; Wetherbee, Winthrop. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Num Pages: 284 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 600. Bale examines how anti-semitic images developed and came to endure far beyond the Middle Ages. Series Editor(s): Minnis, Alastair; Boyde, Patrick; Burrow, Professor John; Copeland, Rita; Deyermond, Alan; Dronke, Peter; Palmer, Nigel; Wetherbee, Winthrop. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Num Pages: 284 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 600. Very good copy in good dustwrappers. Inscription to previous owner on FFEP. DW has light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0017585
- ISBN
- 9780521863544
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DS; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319479781
- ISBN
- 9783319479781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804797542
- ISBN
- 9780804797542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.97
€ 26.99
€ 26.97
Hardback. A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commodity that brings together Marxist theories of commodity fetishism and ideology with Heidegger's attempt to think truth as unconcealment. Series: Idiom Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APT; HPCF3; JFDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270798
- ISBN
- 9780823270798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.57
€ 114.57