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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
€ 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
€ 67.31
Paperback. Features essays that examine both real and fictional renditions of North American imposture, placing these narratives in historical context even as they shed light on larger currents such as identity as performance and the cultural value attributed to authenticity in Western societies. Editor(s): Rosenthal, Caroline; Schafer, Stefanie. Num Pages: 230 pages, 25 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Campus Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9783593501017
- ISBN
- 9783593501017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.89€ 46.08
€ 52.89
€ 46.08
Paperback. This book, now with a new preface, offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361492
- ISBN
- 9780230361492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 141 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JMC; JNC; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Anthroposophic Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 141
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880102698
- ISBN
- 9780880102698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.68
€ 19.99
€ 18.68
Paperback. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC1; HRCR; HRCV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 686. The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. 300 pages, 24ill. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC1; HRCR; HRCV; JFSJ1. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520063297
- ISBN
- 9780520063297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.64
€ 38.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. Caroline Walker Bynum examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that allowed for the emergence of their own creative voices. Num Pages: 432 pages, 46. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRCC1; HRCC2; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 426
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299625
- ISBN
- 9780942299625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.68
€ 36.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. An exploration of the roles of metamorphosis and hybridity in the establishment of personal identity, with particular emphasis on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951238
- ISBN
- 9781890951238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.43
€ 26.99
€ 20.43
Hardcover. 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: 196 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299963
- ISBN
- 9781137299963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.95
€ 115.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 42. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475795
- ISBN
- 9780801475795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3H; JFCX; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801878893
- ISBN
- 9780801878893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.49
€ 40.49
Hardback. Through an inventive and original engagement with Don Quixote and other Golden Age literature, Carolyn A. Nadeau explores the shifts in Spain's cultural and gastronomic history. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442637306
- ISBN
- 9781442637306
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Lion Hudson Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854247247
- ISBN
- 9781854247247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.49
€ 13.99
€ 13.49
Hardback. Focusing on the key late-19th-century discourses of feminism, prostitution, colonialism, science and evolution, this study explores, in depth, Olive Schreiner's achievement as a writer. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333615324
- ISBN
- 9780333615324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic a miraclea s. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFS; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557868879
- ISBN
- 9781557868879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic a miraclea s. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFS; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557868886
- ISBN
- 9781557868886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Examines the religious experiences of the new second generation of immigrants to the US: the children of Asian and Latino immigrants Editor(s): Chen, Carolyn; Jeung, Russell. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814717363
- ISBN
- 9780814717363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Explores the production, representation, and reception of prominent female superheroes in mainstream superhero comics, television shows, and films. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 bw illus. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501316579
- ISBN
- 9781501316579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.48
€ 38.99
€ 35.48
Hardcover. Num Pages: 358 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 220 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403964250
- ISBN
- 9781403964250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.76
€ 161.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 213 x 17. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Zondervan United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310285250
- ISBN
- 9780310285250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.62
€ 18.99
€ 17.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816642533
- ISBN
- 9780816642533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353676
- ISBN
- 9780822353676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.67
€ 36.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353539
- ISBN
- 9780822353539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Hardback. Folded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket. Num Pages: 219 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; ACBK; HBJK; HDDA; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 661. Weight in Grams: 1333.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781477310304
- ISBN
- 9781477310304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.51
€ 74.51