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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Historians of religion have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226509853
ISBN
9780226509853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.01

Paperback. A systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. The book shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226510644
ISBN
9780226510644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.12

Paperback. Reveals why the US differs from comparable democracies that routinely elect far more women to their national governing bodies and chief executive positions. Explaining that equal rights alone do not ensure equal access to political office, this title shows that electoral gender parity also requires public policies that represent maternal traits. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 line drawings, 23 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPHL; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226514550
ISBN
9780226514550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. The making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails scarching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. This book proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 180 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226517353
ISBN
9780226517353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.01

Paperback. In this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. Editor(s): Menand, Louis. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JNMN; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226520056
ISBN
9780226520056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Argues that the distinctiveness of the al Qaeda threat led the international community to change its approach to counterterrorism. This title provides a reinterpretation of the war on terrorism and the role of the United States in leading the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226520124
ISBN
9780226520124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.14

Hardcover. Covering a range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, this title shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. It focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226520438
ISBN
9780226520438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.02
€ 87.64

Paperback. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, xxiv, 224 p., 8 halftones, 15 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBD; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226521985
ISBN
9780226521985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 251 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226525464
ISBN
9780226525464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.47

Paperback. Bookselling has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. Yet unlike other retail industries, bookselling should be "above" questions of profit. This work investigates what drives this belief and how it is affected by the changing retail environment. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; KCCD; KNPR; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226525914
ISBN
9780226525914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.45

Paperback. This text explores the many contradictions faced by shoppers on a typical London street, and in the process offers a sophisticated examination of the way we shop, and what it reveals about our relationships to our families and communities, as well as to the environment and the economy as a whole. Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFFT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226526485
ISBN
9780226526485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.01

Paperback. In this study Henry L. Minton traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late 19th century to its role in challenging the mental illness model in the 1970s. He describes the accomplishments made by key researchers and mainstream sexologists. Num Pages: 344 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226530444
ISBN
9780226530444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 32.86

paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226531601
ISBN
9780226531601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.25

Paperback. Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from such classic films as "Stagecoach" to spaghetti Westerns like "A Fistful of Dollars", this book shows how Westerns helped assuage a series of crises in American culture. Num Pages: 348 pages, 30 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532356
ISBN
9780226532356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.19

Hardcover. Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. This title defines what this hybrid area aims to do, exploring our language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Editor(s): Mitchell, W. J. T.; Hansen, Mark B. N. Num Pages: 368 pages, 4 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: GBC; JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532547
ISBN
9780226532547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.26
€ 78.26

Paperback. This premise allows him to unlock for readers the historical process that started with Islamic modernism and ended with fundamentalism. Num Pages: 424 pages, 8 tables, 1line drawing. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HBJF; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226533339
ISBN
9780226533339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.99

Paperback. This study reviews two decades of research on mental disorder and presents empirical and theoretical work which aims to determine more accurate predictions of violent behaviour. Series: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development. Num Pages: 334 pages, 7 line drawings, 35 tables. BIC Classification: JFFG; JMAL; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226534060
ISBN
9780226534060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.23

Paperback. Explains how maps can tell where to anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be misleading. The text considers that although it is important to predict and prepare for catastrophic natural hazards, more subtle and persistent phenomena such as pollution and crime also pose serious dangers. Num Pages: 378 pages, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 97 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFC; JKV; RGV; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226534190
ISBN
9780226534190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.79

Hardcover. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. In this book, the author resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. The nuns of early modern Italy, it shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226534619
ISBN
9780226534619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 41.23

Paperback. This work refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. It concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226534831
ISBN
9780226534831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.50

Paperback. In 17th century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. The Duchesse de Montpensier was one of the few exceptions, as this collection of her letters demonstrates. Translator(s): DeJean, Joan. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 96 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 3JD; BJ; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226534923
ISBN
9780226534923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. 'God, Sex, and Politics' examines both sides of the church controversy over homosexuality to consider the ways in which people develop, in everyday thought and interaction, their beliefs about God and justice. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliographical references , index. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226535128
ISBN
9780226535128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.12

Paperback. Employing a wide range of sources, the author examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particular attention paid to the activities of the Freedman's Bureau. He looks as well at those who came to teach, a diverse group - white, black, Northern, Southern - and at the curricula and textbooks they used. Series: African American Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3; JN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226539294
ISBN
9780226539294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.28

Paperback. Explains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from one policy area to another. This book compares results across a wide range of gay rights struggles. It explores debates over laws governing military service, homosexual conduct, adoption, marriage and partner recognition, hate crimes, and civil rights. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 line drawings, 41 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226544090
ISBN
9780226544090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.38

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