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Society & culture: general
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
€ 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
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peop...
Brendan Frederick R. Edwards
paperback. A scholar of library and information science, Canadian studies, and native studies, Edwards traces the introduction of books and print culture to Aboriginal people in Canada from the first endeavors of missionaries in the 1820s to the opening of the first official public library for natives. The overarching question he asks is what the motivations Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBC; CFC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810851139
- ISBN
- 9780810851139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.97
€ 126.97
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 20.99
€ 19.16
Hardback. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSC; JHB; JPB. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199468157
- ISBN
- 9780199468157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.21
€ 59.21
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
€ 128.21
Hardback. Panta 1 shows that the authors of the New Testament understood Christianity and their world from the point-of-view of the pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus who lived around 500 B.C. His philosophy served as the point of view of most of the authors of the New Testament. Num Pages: 406 pages. BIC Classification: HR; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761805823
- ISBN
- 9780761805823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.26
€ 145.26
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 9.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. Lublin focuses on the core principles of feminist theory and offers a new framework for creating public policy and social change in the name of gender justice. Series: New Feminist Perspectives. Num Pages: 208 pages, map. BIC Classification: JFFK; MBDC; MBNH4; MFKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847686377
- ISBN
- 9780847686377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.61
€ 18.99
€ 17.61
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
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
paperback. Panama is an ethnically diverse country with a recent history of political conflict which makes the representation of historical memory an especially complex and important task for the country's museums. This book studies new museum projects in Panama with the aim of identifying the dominant narratives that are being formed.. Series: Museums and Diversity. Num Pages: 192 pages, 52 ills. BIC Classification: 1KLCP; GM; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857452405
- ISBN
- 9780857452405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.82
€ 72.82
Hardback. Provides the study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. In this title, the author demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Series: Synthesis. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226925387
- ISBN
- 9780226925387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.97
€ 52.99
€ 40.97