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Society & culture: general

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814725450
ISBN
9780814725450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. .
Publisher
The Good Book Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909919846
ISBN
9781909919846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Hardcover. In the STUDIES IN GENDER HISTORY series, this text examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects and brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, nineteenth-century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFFK; M. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1998th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333682487
ISBN
9780333682487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Paperback. This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile after their 1972 insurrection against the Tutsi was suppressed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as "Hutu" and "Tutsi." Num Pages: 374 pages, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGQ; HBAH; JFC; JFFD; JFSL3; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226502724
ISBN
9780226502724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

paperback. In this classic work Mary Douglas identifies the concern for pirity as a key theme at the heart of every society. She reveals its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes tp society, values, cosmology and knowledge. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Routledge
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415289955
ISBN
9780415289955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.06

Paperback. Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor." This title offers the novel concept of "design politics" to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 384 pages, 63 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: AM; JFFB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226012452
ISBN
9780226012452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Baker Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801072062
ISBN
9780801072062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.11

paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 halftones, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASZP; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816647903
ISBN
9780816647903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.21

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFCX; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801438554
ISBN
9780801438554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.80

Hardcover. This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire and invigorate sociology. It uses punk to think creatively about what sociology is and how it might be conducted and aims to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists at any stage of their careers, from new students to established professors. Num Pages: 90 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGU; JFC; JFS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137371201
ISBN
9781137371201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.72

Hardcover. 1977 is usually associated with West German terrorism, but it witnessed another cultural watershed: punk music. A new reckoning with the legacy of political and aesthetic spaces, this book argues the centrality of punk music for understanding crises of state and terrorist violence, American racism and German fascism, and aesthetic production. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; AVGU; HBJD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137343666
ISBN
9781137343666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Paperback. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPL; AVGU; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 694.
Publisher
Carpet Bombing Culture
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908211446
ISBN
9781908211446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

Hardcover. Mitra analyzes how race and class of immigrant Punjabi taxi drivers influence their settlement patterns in the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137032843
ISBN
9781137032843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349441280
ISBN
9781349441280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. This collection, from a range of leading international scholars, looks at penal practice in a variety of different European countries. Noting particularities as well as similarities, such as the overuse of imprisonment and the use of harsher sanctions against the poor, this book questions how we justify and deliver punishment in Europe. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JKV; JKVP; JP; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2013
SKU
V9781349439966
ISBN
9781349439966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. A look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women?s prisons and a suggestion that the prison system itself, given its primary functions of custody and punishment, is consistent in thwarting attempts at progressive reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSJ1; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802082749
ISBN
9780802082749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

Hardback. Denies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226766096
ISBN
9780226766096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.17
€ 79.61

Paperback. Denies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226766102
ISBN
9780226766102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Paperback. A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKVP; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First edition, paperback issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344223
ISBN
9780822344223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.25

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814749036
ISBN
9780814749036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Examines the difficult lives of young Latino and African American boys caught in a cycles of delinquency in a legal system that limits their opportunities Series: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law. Num Pages: 237 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFSL3; JFSL4; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
237
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814776384
ISBN
9780814776384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

paperback. While many cultures eat pumpkin year round, North Americans reserve it for a set of beloved autumn rituals that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. This book shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to connect with nature and our agrarian roots - and, ironically, how this process has revitalized small farms and rural communities. Series: Weyherhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 336 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; WB; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 174 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993324
ISBN
9780295993324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World"; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099572350
ISBN
9780099572350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.45

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226113852
ISBN
9780226113852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.17
€ 79.61

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