Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. At one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. This title chronicles Garvey's life, the failed business ventures, his misguided negotiations with the Ku Klux Klan, the two wives and the premature obituaries that contributed to his lonely, tragic death. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099501459
- ISBN
- 9780099501459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Laitman Kabbalah Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772280081
- ISBN
- 9781772280081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Hardcover. As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced." Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; JFFS; PDX; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674286146
- ISBN
- 9780674286146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 46.48
€ 53.99
€ 46.48
Paperback. Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy examines the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence. The chapters cover a range of topics with examples taken from around the world, and the contributors assess the ways in which scarce resources can best be used for the best care. Editor(s): Greener, Ian; Greve, Professor Bent. Series: Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118816547
- ISBN
- 9781118816547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.69
€ 38.69
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442629615
- ISBN
- 9781442629615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.58
€ 57.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; JFC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788771242379
- ISBN
- 9788771242379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.45
€ 34.45
Paperback. This handbook analyses the different types of shields used by soldiers in the Neo-Assyrian army and their opponents. Written, visual, and material sources are analysed to illustrate practical aspects of defensive weaponry in the ancient Near East in the first millennium B.C. Over 200 b&w illustrations. Series: Material Culture of the Ancient Near East. Num Pages: 198 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAA; HDD; JFC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Publisher
- Lockwood Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937040024
- ISBN
- 9781937040024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.08
€ 28.08
Paperback. Shows that, although women have indeed come a very long way over the years, the notion of our 'having it all' has disguised the persistent discrimination and exploitation that continues to exist for women in the basic areas of health, sex, politics, economics and marketing. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552774345
- ISBN
- 9780552774345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Bridging the gap between cultural studies, performing arts, and anthropology, performance studies explores myriad ways in which performance creates meaning and shapes our everyday lives. The broadest and most inclusive volume to date, THE ENDS OF PERFORMANCE both celebrates and critiques the institutionalization of the field. 12 illustrations. Editor(s): Phelan, Peggy; Lane, Jill. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: AS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 239
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814766477
- ISBN
- 9780814766477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Hardback. Lewicki examines how current salient discourses of citizenship conceptualize democratic relations and frame the 'Muslim question' in Germany and Great Britain. Citizenship is understood not as a static or monolithic regime, but as being reproduced through competing discourses that can facilitate or inhibit the reduction of structural inequalities. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSR2; JPB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436627
- ISBN
- 9781137436627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.44
€ 65.44
Paperback. What is the relationship between gender and consumerism? This collection of readings and archival material explores the many different ways in which women and men consume. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, the essays analyze the liberatory and oppressive nature of consumer culture. Num Pages: 392 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFT; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814781326
- ISBN
- 9780814781326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Michalowski, Ines; Burchardt, Marian. Series: Islam Und Politik. Num Pages: 325 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 7 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783658025939
- ISBN
- 9783658025939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.81
€ 63.81
Paperback. Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors - and on twentieth-century American debates about race, this book remaps black modernism, that reveals the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation of a black transnationalism. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 360 pages, 19 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329909
- ISBN
- 9780822329909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, this book brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 black and white photographs, 11 musical examples. BIC Classification: AV; BGF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252080098
- ISBN
- 9780252080098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 466. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFS. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 26. Weight: 452.
- Publisher
- Darton Longman and Todd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780232526974
- ISBN
- 9780232526974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; BTP; JFFE1; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Publisher
- Health Communications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780757317965
- ISBN
- 9780757317965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.14
€ 16.99
€ 15.14
Paperback. Series: Schiffer Design Book. Num Pages: 112 pages, 350 color photos. BIC Classification: AKTA; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 279 x 10. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764301995
- ISBN
- 9780764301995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.12
€ 25.99
€ 18.12
Hardcover. "Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning. Editor(s): Friese, Heidrun. Num Pages: index. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571814746
- ISBN
- 9781571814746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.35
€ 155.35
Paperback. In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Durkheim investigated the enduring source of human social identity and fellowship by studying the simplest form of documented religion, totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. His book about the origin and nature of religion and society continues to enthrall sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians. Translator(s): Cosman, Carol. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages, map. BIC Classification: HR; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540129
- ISBN
- 9780199540129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
Hardcover. Num Pages: 956 pages. BIC Classification: JF; LNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 155 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1451.
- Publisher
- Clarus Press Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905536627
- ISBN
- 9781905536627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 249.00€ 228.87
€ 249.00
€ 228.87