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Society & culture: general

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 456 pages, 24. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 820.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646261
ISBN
9781442646261
Condition: New

€ 93.62

Publisher
United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447307082
ISBN
9781447307082
Condition: New

€ 105.87

Anthropology Matters places the study of anthropology concretely in the world by which it is surrounded. It uses a question-based approach to introduce important anthropological concepts, embedding those concepts in contemporary global issues that will interest readers. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHM; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487593216
ISBN
9781487593216
Condition: New

€ 97.45

From 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documentary journalists from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported the stories of America's overseas conflicts. In Into the Fray, Tom Mascaro vividly recounts the characters and experiences that helped create a unique, colourful documentary film crew based at the Washington bureau of NBC News. Num Pages: 432 pages, 48 b&w photographs & 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLW3; HBTW; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 768.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597975575
ISBN
9781597975575
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.93

Based on a performance by Djanka Tassey Condae. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDM; DC; HBJH; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624664953
ISBN
9781624664953
Condition: New

€ 52.31
€ 41.70

Num Pages: 488 pages, chart. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 778. The Rashidun Caliphs. 488 pages, chart. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFSR2. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 33. Weight: 778.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231150828
ISBN
9780231150828
Condition: New

€ 80.86
€ 62.72

Explores how science became increasingly important in nineteenth-century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins of life. Num Pages: 384 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; JFCX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 672.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300150919
ISBN
9780300150919
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.64

Presents a mathematical treatment of Suzumura consistency, an alternative to established coherence properties such as transitivity, quasi-transitivity, or acyclicity. This title discusses applications in individual and social choice theory, fields important not only to economics but also to philosophy and political science. Num Pages: 230 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFP; KCA; KJMD; KJQ; KJSM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674052994
ISBN
9780674052994
Condition: New

€ 54.64
€ 50.74

Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father's striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen's work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self--each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072831
ISBN
9780674072831
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Culture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabulary; it is used in a variety of different contexts: to describe the behaviour of corporations or criminals; to provide personal and national identity; it even gives its name to a Department of State. Series: Key Concepts. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 370. Series: Key Concepts. 200 pages. Culture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabulary; it is used in a variety of different contexts: to describe the behaviour of corporations or criminals; to provide personal and national identity; it even gives its name to a Department of State. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 21. Weight: 370.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745623801
ISBN
9780745623801
Condition: New

€ 73.24

This book provides a clear and concise introduction to the concept of consumption and to the wide--ranging debates about the nature and consequences of consumer society. Community and social class appear to be in irreversible decline. Series: Key Concepts. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFT; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745625294
ISBN
9780745625294
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 501.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745635033
ISBN
9780745635033
Condition: New

€ 73.24

Num Pages: 232 pages, 76, 35 tables, 30 charts, 3 maps, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSF; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801450624
ISBN
9780801450624
Condition: New

€ 56.67

Highlights how the social and cultural construction of archaeology as a field marginalized women Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803243811
ISBN
9780803243811
Condition: New

€ 82.16

The first mapping of the sacred geography ("mythscape") of the Northern Arawak-speaking people of the northwest Amazon, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and Baniwa sacred narratives Num Pages: 408 pages, 18 photographs, 7 illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803243941
ISBN
9780803243941
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Presents a study of how the Jewish community of Breslau - the third largest and one of the most affluent in Germany - coped with Nazi persecution. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804755184
ISBN
9780804755184
Condition: New

€ 82.16

This study looks at how the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) employ the figures of "exemplarity" and "chosenness" in order to address the tension between the universality of philosophical thinking and the particularity of nations, languages, and individual human experience. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPM; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804755214
ISBN
9780804755214
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Knowledge in the Blood offers a firsthand account, from the first black Dean of a historically white university, of how white South African students learn and confront the Apartheid past, and how this knowledge transforms students and teacher alike. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFSL; JNM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761949
ISBN
9780804761949
Condition: New

€ 119.11

Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSJ; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 309 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804791274
ISBN
9780804791274
Condition: New

€ 92.36

Num Pages: 340 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 953.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813542249
ISBN
9780813542249
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

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