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Paperback. Num Pages: 116 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JF; WDM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Clear Light Publishers United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780940666382
- ISBN
- 9780940666382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.20
€ 18.99
€ 14.20
Lost to the State: Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and Residen...
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill
Hardback. Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. That is why the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of social orphansA" or children left without parental care,A" children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care.. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFSP1; JHM; JKSB1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457389
- ISBN
- 9781845457389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.56
€ 147.56
Hardcover. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HB; AV; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226327068
- ISBN
- 9780226327068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.52€ 79.10
€ 94.52
€ 79.10
Paperback. A colouring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves, from the creator of the worldwide bestsellers, Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest. It also features a large double-sided pull-out poster to colour and keep. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: AKLB; JFHF; MQTC; WF; WNCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 253 x 15. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753557150
- ISBN
- 9780753557150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. A lively and eye-opening popular history of Islamic civilisation Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849046893
- ISBN
- 9781849046893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.59
€ 17.99
€ 17.59
Paperback. A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and discoveries born of cultural displacement. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099428664
- ISBN
- 9780099428664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.84
€ 14.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252082382
- ISBN
- 9780252082382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
Hardback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252040900
- ISBN
- 9780252040900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.19
€ 118.19
Hardback. Argues that Islam's cultural stasis is not due to the Muslim faith itself, but to the nature of the sacred it is infused with and that penetrates every aspect of life - spiritual and material. This book shows how the sacred in Islam suspends the acceleration of social time, hinders change, and circumvents secularization and modernity. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QFM; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 280. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129112
- ISBN
- 9780691129112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Hardback. How can we provide good spatial orientation for people with dementia? This book addresses this question extensively in a selection of professional essays and projects that also carve out specific requirements for various disciplines. Editor(s): Feddersen, Eckhard; Ludtke, Insa. Num Pages: 224 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, 320 colour illustrations, 80 schw.-w. u. 320 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: AM; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 299 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1250.
- Publisher
- Birkhauser
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783038215004
- ISBN
- 9783038215004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.29
€ 34.99
€ 32.29
Hardback. Linking the study of business and politics, this book reconstructs the debate over the development of the book trade in 19th-century France. It shows how publishers succeeded in transforming the industry from a tightly controlled trade into a free enterprise, with dramatic but paradoxical consequences for literature in France. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 346 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; CBW; HBJD; JFCA; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035768
- ISBN
- 9780674035768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.92€ 59.68
€ 64.92
€ 59.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages, 30 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764335686
- ISBN
- 9780764335686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.23
€ 18.99
€ 14.23
Paperback. The bestselling author of 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED THE WORLD uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. Updated with thrilling new discoveries for the paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753828854
- ISBN
- 9780753828854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Translator(s): Moshenberg, Daniel. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AMA; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- new edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584351177
- ISBN
- 9781584351177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.39
€ 19.99
€ 15.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JFH; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Adventures Unlimited Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780932813251
- ISBN
- 9780932813251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.29
€ 24.99
€ 19.29
Paperback. This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BM; HBJH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783780990
- ISBN
- 9781783780990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this book considers 'what is lost' in terms of 'what remains'. It reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity. Editor(s): Eng, David L.; Kazanjian, David. Num Pages: 498 pages, 9 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 694. The Politics of Mourning. 498 pages, 9 b&w photographs, index. Editor(s): Eng, David L.; Kazanjian, David. Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this book considers 'what is lost' in terms of 'what remains'. It reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; JFC. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 31. Weight: 686.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 498
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232365
- ISBN
- 9780520232365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.14
€ 41.99
€ 30.14
paperback. Despite the expansion of higher education, representation, level of participation and likelihood of academic success remain highest amongst young people from affluent areas and lowest amongst those from deprived neighbourhoods. This report identifies factors which impact upon the minority of disadvantaged young people who enter higher education. Num Pages: 76 pages, 4figs.23tabs. BIC Classification: JFF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 76
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345080
- ISBN
- 9781861345080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.88
€ 26.99
€ 26.88
Paperback. What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? "Losing Our Heads" explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. Num Pages: 255 pages, black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814742709
- ISBN
- 9780814742709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
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€ 29.73
Paperback. The first book to look beyond the brutal events toward the broad implications of Matt Shepard's story. Loffreda shows how the politics of sexuality unfolds in a remote and sparsely populated area of the country. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; JFFE; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231118590
- ISBN
- 9780231118590
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.60
€ 25.99
€ 19.60
Paperback. Editor(s): Mathijs, Ernest. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 662. Popular Culture in Global Context. 224 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Mathijs, Ernest. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight: 660.
- Publisher
- Wallflower Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904764823
- ISBN
- 9781904764823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.36
€ 25.99
€ 22.36
Paperback. An account of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the 60s. It chronicles the hopes, confusion and disillusionment of a generation whose rites of passage defined one of the most contentious decades of this century. Num Pages: 381 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Publisher
- University of California Press Berkeley
- Number of pages
- 381
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520209107
- ISBN
- 9780520209107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.86
€ 33.99
€ 24.86
Paperback. In Looking West, John D. Dorst examines a largely neglected pattern of seeing that stands in contrast to the universally familiar iconography. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812214406
- ISBN
- 9780812214406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume aims to bring together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers, popular and trade journalism, fan magazines, studio publications, and industry records. Editor(s): Lewis, Jon; Smoodin, Eric. Num Pages: 400 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338215
- ISBN
- 9780822338215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70