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Society & culture: general

Hardback. A reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Printing
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231070508
ISBN
9780231070508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.97
€ 79.73

Hardback. Views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328827
ISBN
9780822328827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781605988283
ISBN
9781605988283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.25

Paperback. Series: Global Research Studies. Num Pages: 6 b&w illus., 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDU; HBJD1; JFCV; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253019462
ISBN
9780253019462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.59

Hardback. Series: Global Research Studies. Num Pages: 180 pages, 6 b&w illus., 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDU; HBJD1; JFCV; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253019387
ISBN
9780253019387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.98

Hardcover. From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393239614
ISBN
9780393239614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1FMS; AJCR; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 214 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Blacksmith Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9789881900388
ISBN
9789881900388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Tango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation's sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerises dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. This title examines the poetics of the tango while describing author's own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances. Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 160 pages, 89 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; ASD; AVGF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 227.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321910
ISBN
9780822321910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Hardback. This book draws together essays that play in various ways upon questions involving books, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Translator(s): Bowlby, Rachel. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804746199
ISBN
9780804746199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.57

Paperback. This book draws together essays that play in various ways upon questions involving books, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Translator(s): Bowlby, Rachel. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746205
ISBN
9780804746205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. A book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). Whether examining late-nineteenth-century commercial, or "job" printing, or the Xerox machine and the role of reproduction in our understanding of the document, it reveals a keen eye for vernacular uses of technology. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 photographs. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356578
ISBN
9780822356578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious "paper families" to subvert immigration policies. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337478
ISBN
9780822337478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. Presents an account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives. This title explores Guatemala's struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 27 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356028
ISBN
9780822356028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.66

Hardback. Paparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today s media landscape. This book charts the historical and cultural significance of the industry, profiles its protagonists and discusses how its imagery of celebrity have become a major part of media consumption. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AJCR; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780745651736
ISBN
9780745651736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.45

Paperback. Paparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today s media landscape. This book charts the historical and cultural significance of the industry, profiles its protagonists and discusses how its imagery of celebrity have become a major part of media consumption. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AJCR; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651743
ISBN
9780745651743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.39

hardcover. This is a social and cultural study of what happened in Venice in 1785 when a sixty-year-old man was accused of having sex with an eight-year-old girl. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HRC; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 992. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762618
ISBN
9780804762618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.31

Paperback. The war on terror thrives on pantomime demons, created and maintained by political opportunism, convenient stereotype and uncritical celebrity scholarship. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: AB; JF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Zero Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782792093
ISBN
9781782792093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.62

Paperback. Translator(s): Smith, Olivia Taylor. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; BM; FXZ; JFFJ; JFSL3; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 9. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Phoneme
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939419811
ISBN
9781939419811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.16

Hardcover. Series: Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees./International Archives of the History of Ideas. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1973
Edition
1973rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789024715664
ISBN
9789024715664
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.21

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Imprint Academic United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845402167
ISBN
9781845402167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.48

Paperback. Guiding the reader through definitions, causation, assessment and treatment, the book offers a useful insight into this complex area whilst offering practical advice on how to deal with panic disorder and anxiety. Series Editor(s): Herbert, Martin. Series: Parent, Adolescent & Child Training Skills S. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFSP2; JMC; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 5. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854333520
ISBN
9781854333520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.55

Paperback. A cultural history and sociological critique of 20th century panic, from the Cold War to contemporary psychiatry Num Pages: 376 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336235
ISBN
9780822336235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. In cross-country poverty studies Denmark, like the other Nordic countries, stands out with low rates of poverty incidence and duration. This paper intends to show that this is the net outcome of very different poverty profiles between natives and immigrants. Num Pages: 37 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DND; JFFA; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 4. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rockwool Foundation Research Unit Denmark
Number of pages
37
Condition
New
SKU
V9788790199562
ISBN
9788790199562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.71

paperback. Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yokai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This book offers a history of the strange and mysterious in Japan and seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 b/w drawings, 1 b/w photo. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253629
ISBN
9780520253629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

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