Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Drawing on years of research in Japan, this book unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. Illustrator(s): Kijin, Shinonome. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271029
- ISBN
- 9780520271029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.91
€ 33.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 29. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300196054
- ISBN
- 9780300196054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.50
€ 17.99
€ 14.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231161473
- ISBN
- 9780231161473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Hardcover. The Country of First Boys is Amartya Sen's intellectual journey through the past and present to seek an understanding of India's history and the demands of its future. In this collection, Sen examines justice, identity, deprivation, inequalities, gender politics, education, the media, and the importance of getting your priorities right. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 204 x 26. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198738183
- ISBN
- 9780198738183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.75
€ 23.99
€ 21.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 172 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- South African History Online
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780795701351
- ISBN
- 9780795701351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.60
€ 24.99
€ 21.60
Paperback. Explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. This book contains essays that reveal the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319696
- ISBN
- 9780822319696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Paperback. Argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good Editor(s): Kirkland, Anna Rutherford; Metzl, Jonathan M. Series: Biopolitics. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814795934
- ISBN
- 9780814795934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.48
€ 30.99
€ 27.48
Hardback. Over 1,240 images of museum quality hats show millinery history from the 1790s to the 1970s and include ascots, bourrelets, bigonnets, chapeaux rouges, nurses' hats, Pamelas, pillboxes, toreodors, turbans, and wedding hats. Materials including felts, furs (real and imitation), and feathers are adorned with beads, flowers, and sequins. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1190 color & 58 b/w photos. BIC Classification: AKTA; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 227 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1550.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764324031
- ISBN
- 9780764324031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.46
€ 48.99
€ 32.46
Paperback. Editor(s): Bamford, Christopher. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Rudolf Steiner Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880104944
- ISBN
- 9780880104944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.09
€ 26.99
€ 24.09
Paperback. In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. Num Pages: 368 pages, 93 illustrations, including 17 in colour. BIC Classification: APFR; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353409
- ISBN
- 9780822353409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFCX; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 246 x 34. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165196
- ISBN
- 9780691165196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.97
€ 70.97
Hardback. Aims to unpack the complex meanings of 'Chineseness' in post-1998 Indonesia, including the ways in which the policy of multiculturalism enabled such a 'resurgence', the forces that shaped it and the possibilities for 'resinicisation'. This book examines ethnic Chinese self-identify. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192686
- ISBN
- 9781845192686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.15
€ 129.15
Paperback. In Ghostly Desires Arnika Fuhrmann examines post-1997 Thai cinema and video art to show how vernacular Buddhist values, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring in current struggles over gender, sexuality, personhood, and collective life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMT; APFA; HBJF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361558
- ISBN
- 9780822361558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.37
€ 30.99
€ 27.37
Paperback. The Iranian Talmud reexamines the Babylonian Talmud-one of Judaism's most central texts-in the light of Persian literature and culture, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview to the vibrant world of pre-Islamic Iran that shaped the Bavli. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; 3D; HBJF; HBLA; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223736
- ISBN
- 9780812223736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
€ 37.99
€ 34.25
Paperback. Focusing on the pragmatic aspects of social work with gay and lesbian persons, this book offers a knowledge base of practice that enables prepare students and practitioners for working more competently and effectively with lesbians and gay men. It teaches you how to develop practice approaches that are sensitive to issues of sexual orientation. Editor(s): Lofstrom, Jan. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560231011
- ISBN
- 9781560231011
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.09€ 37.89
€ 58.09
€ 37.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- Feminist Press at The City University of New York United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- English-Language Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558618374
- ISBN
- 9781558618374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.22
€ 27.99
€ 24.22
Paperback. Celebrates the fluid media landscape and its possibilities Editor(s): Mandiberg, Michael. Num Pages: 299 pages, 11 b&w illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFD; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814764060
- ISBN
- 9780814764060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. There was once agreement that education was too important to be left to politicians; now the view is that education is too important to be left to teachers. With this in mind, this book examines the role of the state in education in many different countries and cultures. Editor(s): Turner, John D. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JNK; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 226. Keywords: "Subjects - Education & Languages - General,Subjects - Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences - Cultural Studies - General,Education Resources - Books - Social Sciences - Cultural Studies - G"
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- RoutledgeFalmer Dublin, Ireland
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KT00000287
- ISBN
- 9780750704786
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Eade, Deborah; Kothari, Miloon. Series: Development in Practice Readers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; JKS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 10. . Library label to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains good to very good.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Oxfam Professional
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- annotated edition
- SKU
- KRS0020372
- ISBN
- 9780855984151
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. A guide that puts Middle Eastern politics, people, and problems in perspective. It demystifies the history and conflicts of this complex region from the Ottoman Empire and the Balfour Declaration to the Intifada and the Gulf War, and offers an analysis of why events in the Middle East continue to reverberate throughout the world. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 189 x 23. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Wiley & Sons
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764554834
- ISBN
- 9780764554834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.08
€ 18.99
€ 15.08