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Society & culture: general

Paperback. With a foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, this collection of contributions from leading contributors on the teaching of Islam in schools is aimed as a step towards improving intercultural understanding. Editor(s): Ellwood, Caroline. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
John Catt Educational
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908095282
ISBN
9781908095282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.14

Paperback. The enthralling story of a dynamic empire whose impact is felt to this day Num Pages: 720 pages, 2 x 8pp b&w illustrations and six maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3H; BGH; HBJF1; HBLC; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719561122
ISBN
9780719561122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.77

Hardback. This study argues that protestant society had traditionally sanctioned women's role in spreading literacy, but this became politicized in the 1790s. Wollstonecraft's literary vocation was shaped by the expectations of the power of print to educate and reform individuals and society, in the radical circles of the Unitarian publisher Joseph Johnson. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 443.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333972519
ISBN
9780333972519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Paperback. This study argues that protestant society had traditionally sanctioned women's role in spreading literacy, but this became politicized in the 1790s. Wollstonecraft's literary vocation was shaped by the expectations of the power of print to educate and reform individuals and society, in the radical circles of the Unitarian publisher Joseph Johnson. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333972526
ISBN
9780333972526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL; LNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 204 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
The New Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620972533
ISBN
9781620972533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.44

Hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 218 x 26. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The New Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620970102
ISBN
9781620970102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it for the opposite reason, to have more children. This study of aging and reproduction makes use of ethnographic and demographic data. Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDG; JFSL; JHBD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226058528
ISBN
9780226058528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861349972
ISBN
9781861349972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.78

Hardback. By 1940, Acker concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s prompted changes in the understanding of addiction-and in public policy. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFH1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801867989
ISBN
9780801867989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.83
€ 52.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ASD; JFSL; JP; LNCB; LNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349458196
ISBN
9781349458196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 46.13

Hardback. The effort to win federal protection for dance in the United States was a racialized and gendered contest. Picart traces the evolution of choreographic works from being federally non-copyrightable to becoming a category potentially copyrightable under the 1976 Copyright Act, specifically examining Loie Fuller, George Balanchine, and Martha Graham. Num Pages: 244 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASD; JFSL; LNJ; LNRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137321961
ISBN
9781137321961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.74
€ 87.87

Paperback. Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and analysis to examine the everyday lives of those inhabiting a fluid location between multiple worlds, suspended between their original home and an imagined future elsewhere. Series: Africa Connects. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349452996
ISBN
9781349452996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.64

Paperback. By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745334110
ISBN
9780745334110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 29.03

Hardback. By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780745334127
ISBN
9780745334127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.91
€ 84.39

paperback. This controversial new book traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, situating this social geography of madness within the broader parameters of systems of globalization and social welfare. Num Pages: 192 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: JFFB; JFS; JKS; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 172 x 245 x 10. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415232999
ISBN
9780415232999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.19

Paperback. Editor(s): Larson, Caroline. Num Pages: 87 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781633218970
ISBN
9781633218970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 99.89
€ 70.85

Paperback. Debunking the myth of the ageing time bomb, this timely book from the authors of Retiring with Attitude challenges our assumptions and stereotypes and demonstrates that we are capable of living better together longer in this new, older world. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP31. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447326830
ISBN
9781447326830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJP; 3JM; BM; JFSJ1; JPHL; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846275951
ISBN
9781846275951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover.
Publisher
Irish Academic Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780716531357
ISBN
9780716531357
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.00
€ 46.19

Paperback. How can society cope with this diaspora of the twenty-first century? Is there a difference between 'good' asylum seekers and 'bad' economic migrants? What happens to those whose applications are turned down? This title celebrates the courage and will to survive shown by ordinary human beings. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFD; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703615
ISBN
9781784703615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFSJ1; VFVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780982324684
ISBN
9780982324684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.13

Paperback. Editor(s): Norma, Caroline; Reist, Melinda Tankard. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFFE; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Spinifex Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742199863
ISBN
9781742199863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.09

Hardback. This is a unique and inspirational memoir that reveals the triumphs and tribulations that shaped Paige's life, from her birth and childhood struggles with gender identity through to her 35-year military career. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BM; JFSJ5; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785901324
ISBN
9781785901324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.41

Hardcover. This book examines a range of public debates on the Nazi legacy in Germany since Schroder's SDP-Green coalition came to power in 1998. A central theme is the 'dialectic of normality' whereby references to Nazi past impact upon present normality. The book is a valuable resource for students of contemporary German politics, history and culture. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; JFC; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230518049
ISBN
9780230518049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.31

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