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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

€ 127.76

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

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

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

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