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Society & culture: general

Paperback. In this volume drawn from the reference work "Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge", major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world. Editor(s): Brunschwig, Jacques; Lloyd, G. E. R. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021556
ISBN
9780674021556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.10

Paperback. Focuses on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, this book offers fresh understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right. Editor(s): Reinarman, Craig; Levine, Harry G. Num Pages: 359 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH1; JPQB; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
359
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520202429
ISBN
9780520202429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.20

paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPVR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816645619
ISBN
9780816645619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 330 pages, 14 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DND; APF; JFFS; KNTC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816646494
ISBN
9780816646494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.35

Hardback. Editor(s): Hagener, Malte; Hediger, Vinzenz; Strohmaier, Alena. Num Pages: 233 pages, 15 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137529381
ISBN
9781137529381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.71
€ 127.92

Paperback. Series: Series in Childhood Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813563701
ISBN
9780813563701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 42.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; JFCX; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226735542
ISBN
9780226735542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.62

Paperback. Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way. In interviews with black women, she examines their specific responses as spectators and consumers of films and novels, including Waiting to Exhale, The Color Purple, and Daughters of the Dust. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231083959
ISBN
9780231083959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.83

Paperback. During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers". He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood. This text brings William Grant Still out of the archives and examines his place in America's musical heritage. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 b/w illustrations, 1 table, 22 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; AVH; BGF; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHN0001970
ISBN
9780520215436
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Accessibly written for students, this work emphasises the varying conceptions of the self found cross-culturally and contrasts these with the conceptions found in the Western intellectual traditions. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JHM; JMH; JMS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745308586
ISBN
9780745308586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.70

Paperback. This collection brings together essays by authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. The works focus on texts available in English translations and explore topics such as the relationship of the authors' texts to societal change. Editor(s): Majaj, Lisa Suhair; Sunderman, Paula; Saliba, Therese. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DN; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629764
ISBN
9780815629764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1HFMS; FA; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Triple Point Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780992972400
ISBN
9780992972400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: FQ; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 215 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Dover Publications
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022731
ISBN
9780486280929
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. An illustrated work that explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales and the contexts in which they flourished. It also lifts the curtain on the tellers themselves - from ancient sibyls and old crones to the more modern Angela Carter and, of course, Walt Disney. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations (some colour) facsimiles, map, portraits (some colour). BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 656. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022769
ISBN
9780099479512
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. BIC Classification: AMCR; AMV; AMVD; JFSG; RGC; RPC; TQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138945692
ISBN
9781138945692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.55

paperback. Presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Num Pages: 208 pages, diagrams, figures. BIC Classification: 1KJP; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813543734
ISBN
9780813543734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.41

Paperback. Investigates why key Chicana/o writers, including Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Mendez, and Virginia Grise, from the 1950s to the present day, have persistently referenced Asian people and places in the course of articulating their political ideas. Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813577166
ISBN
9780813577166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

paperback. Editor(s): Reichard, William. Num Pages: 176 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: BG; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816636228
ISBN
9780816636228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. Examines contemporary categories of difference - sexuality, race, gender, class, and nationality - and how they operate within the politics of domination. Drawing on the work of Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, and others, the author engages feminist theory, race theory, and queer theory. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253218308
ISBN
9780253218308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Olkowski, Dorothea; Weiss, Gail. Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271029184
ISBN
9780271029184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.36
€ 50.19

Paperback. Editor(s): Kubish, Shelagh. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBJQ; JFHF. Dimension: 174 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ghost House Publishing
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894877145
ISBN
9781894877145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.44

Hardcover. Num Pages: 154 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJG; JFS; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Manohar Publishers and Distributors India
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9788173045097
ISBN
9788173045097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.47

Paperback. An anthology that investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights. It addresses the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights, focusing on the intersection between the three concepts. Editor(s): Logan, William; Craith, Mairead Nic; Langfield, Michele. Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JPVH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415563673
ISBN
9780415563673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.30

Paperback. Dissects the ways filmmakers frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; APFA; JFD; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472052721
ISBN
9780472052721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.30

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