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Society & culture: general
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
€ 100.88€ 84.39
€ 100.88
€ 84.39
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
€ 101.06€ 70.85
€ 101.06
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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€ 17.11
€ 17.99
€ 17.11
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 67.29
€ 67.29
Paperback / so. Series: Essentials. Num Pages: 34 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 3. Weight in Grams: 73.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer vs United States
- Number of pages
- 34
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783658103705
- ISBN
- 9783658103705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.53
€ 23.53
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
€ 53.51€ 46.16
€ 53.51
€ 46.16
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
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
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
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 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€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
Bynum examines several periods between the third and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual. Series: ACLS Lectures on the History of Religions S. Num Pages: 384 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; HRCM; HRCS1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231081269
- ISBN
- 9780231081269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 154.36
€ 154.36
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
€ 115.92
€ 115.92
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. Exploring the complex interactions between people and objects in the past, this book offers a fresh approach to the relationships between material culture and individual lives. It gathers together the most recent thinking of established and emerging scholars. Editor(s): White, Carolyn. Num Pages: 227 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HD; JFCD; PSXE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441904973
- ISBN
- 9781441904973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.14
€ 132.14
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
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
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