Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardback. An incisive exploration of why acts of mass annihilation take place and how people become mass killers Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBA; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300208726
- ISBN
- 9780300208726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.72
€ 36.99
€ 26.72
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447332077
- ISBN
- 9781447332077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.07
€ 17.07
Paperback. Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, this title explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood. It focuses on the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of 'leisure' activities. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 30. Weight in Grams: 628. Class, Race, and Family Life. 480 pages, illustrations. Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, this title explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood. It focuses on the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of 'leisure' activities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSP1. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 30. Weight: 640.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271425
- ISBN
- 9780520271425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.09
€ 34.09
Paperback. Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. This book provides a preface and chapter that address the seeds of Africa's recovery and discuss the significance of the continent's success for the arguments of this classic work. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; JPH; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Updated, Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282568
- ISBN
- 9780520282568
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.57
€ 33.99
€ 24.57
Paperback. From Salvador Dali to Walt Disney, animals have been a constant yet little-considered presence in film. This title points out that the mobility of animals presented technical and conceptual challenges to early film-makers and the solutions of which were an important factor in advancing photographic technology. Series: Locations S. Num Pages: 232 pages, 103 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 169 x 121 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891310
- ISBN
- 9781861891310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.46
€ 24.46
Paperback. * This is a highly original book about Facebook D now one of the most-visited sites on the web. Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. *Tales from Facebook explores the ways in which people use Facebook in their everyday lives. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652108
- ISBN
- 9780745652108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.42
€ 25.42
Paperback. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored to local economic and political realities. This title shows how successful countries craft their own unique strategies - and what other countries can learn from them. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 line illus. 16 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCL; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141176
- ISBN
- 9780691141176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Paperback. In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his brother, and his first-born child. This title offers a celebration of perhaps one of the most joyful and yet profound of all Renaissance writers. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map, port. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571234585
- ISBN
- 9780571234585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.91
€ 17.99
€ 12.91
Paperback. Agripping and powerfully emotional memoir of surviving a twisted religious sex cult in west Wales Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFE2; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471136689
- ISBN
- 9781471136689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151849
- ISBN
- 9780231151849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.08
€ 36.99
€ 27.08
Hardback. The fascinating story of how the Spanish have transformed English football over the last eighty years Num Pages: 320 pages, 8pp colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DSE; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL4; WSBX; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471157134
- ISBN
- 9781471157134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.49
€ 26.99
€ 23.49
Hardcover.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Number of pages
- 466
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KNW0010655
- ISBN
- 9780446532730
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. This topical book examines and debates a range of themes facing Gypsies and Travellers in British Society, including health, social policy, employment and education. Editor(s): Richardson, Joanna; Ryder, Andrew. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFJ; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847428943
- ISBN
- 9781847428943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 37.71
€ 40.99
€ 37.71
Paperback. It is clear to men, Robert Bly writes, that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out. Drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore and legend, "Iron John" searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Rider
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712610704
- ISBN
- 9780712610704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.74
€ 19.99
€ 14.74
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222807
- ISBN
- 9780812222807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.27
€ 34.99
€ 31.27
Paperback. Here at last is a study that treats music video as a distinct multimedia artistic genre, different from film, television, and indeed from songs themselves. Carol Vernallis describes how musical, visual and verbal codes work together in music video and reveals modes of representing race, class, gender, and sexuality that characterize the music video form. Num Pages: 360 pages, 3 figs.; 62 halftones. BIC Classification: AVG; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231117999
- ISBN
- 9780231117999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.66
€ 42.99
€ 30.66
Paperback. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHBF; MBS; MFKC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231169912
- ISBN
- 9780231169912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.96
€ 36.99
€ 26.96
Paperback. A colourful and brilliantly researched study of closet homosexuality in twentieth-century British politics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; JFSK2; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 128 x 282 x 23. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349138756
- ISBN
- 9780349138756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.20
€ 17.99
€ 13.20
Hardcover. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AKC; AKL; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200. .
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500094006
- ISBN
- 9780500094006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 235.21€ 171.79
€ 235.21
€ 171.79
Paperback. Attempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 464 pages, 19 halftones. 9 line illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123899
- ISBN
- 9780691123899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.23
€ 46.99
€ 33.23
Paperback. Soldier of Change not only captures the media frenzy as Snyder-Hill took his place at the forefront of this modern civil rights movement, but also documents his twenty-year journey as a gay man in the army which culminated in the most important battle of his life: defending the disenfranchised. Num Pages: 240 pages, 22 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; JFSK2; JPVH1; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 121 x 19. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612348162
- ISBN
- 9781612348162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.30
€ 18.30
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521398381
- ISBN
- 9780521398381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 39.57
€ 41.99
€ 39.57
Paperback. Imagine a country populated with nothig but millionaires. Let's call it Richistan .. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMC; JFSC; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749928650
- ISBN
- 9780749928650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.41
€ 16.99
€ 12.41
Paperback. An insightful, affectionate look at the often neglected role of cattle in shaping Highland life, from religious practices to cattle-raiding to cowboys. Num Pages: 192 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: 1DBKSH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906817442
- ISBN
- 9781906817442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.37
€ 10.99
€ 9.37