Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864864420
- ISBN
- 9780864864420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.16
€ 14.99
€ 14.16
Paperback. Helps in dealing with the anarchy of Globalization. After reviewing global change and the many proposals for UN reform, this book shows how international civil society may be the only force that can provide the momentum required to modernize an organization that is 50 years behind the times. Num Pages: 303 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Verlag Barbara Budrich Germany
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783866490031
- ISBN
- 9783866490031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.25
€ 35.99
€ 30.25
Paperback. Focuses on the development of Taiwan's long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. This title includes an ethnographic analysis of discourse, investigating the program from two perspectives: the researcher's critical discourse analysis of historical texts and the narratives provided by program stakeholders. Series: Global Studies in Education. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JH; JNA; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433120282
- ISBN
- 9781433120282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Paperback. Argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This title provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population. Num Pages: 464 pages, 95 line illus. 30 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691011806
- ISBN
- 9780691011806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.73€ 43.99
€ 56.73
€ 43.99
Paperback. Series: Postmillennial Pop. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 193 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479817863
- ISBN
- 9781479817863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.39
€ 29.39
Paperback. Explores racial barriers in modern globalized societies Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253001252
- ISBN
- 9780253001252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.27
€ 32.99
€ 31.27
Hardback. This work examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization and public health issues in 19th century Buenos Aires. "Modernity in the Flesh" shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal democracy between 1880 and 1910. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JH; 3JJC; GTB; HBTB; JFC; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748711
- ISBN
- 9780804748711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.65
€ 92.65
Paperback. This work proposes a new view of modernity, arguing that although it may variously be associated wtih the Renaissance, the discovery of the New World and other significant ruptures with primitive or premodern society, modernity fails as an idea if it only defines itself against what it replaces. Series: Richard Lectures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919669
- ISBN
- 9780813919669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.67
€ 33.67
Paperback. What role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history. Editor(s): Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114408
- ISBN
- 9780226114408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.12
€ 37.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. Modernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism. Editor(s): Lash, Scott; Friedman, Jonathan. Num Pages: 392 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631175865
- ISBN
- 9780631175865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.28
€ 54.28
Paperback. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic and cultural changes. This study provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity. Editor(s): Fawaz, Leila; Bayly, C. A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QSM; 1QSN; 3JH; 3JJ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231114271
- ISBN
- 9780231114271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.49
€ 42.99
€ 30.49
Hardback. This remarkable and engaging book examines the intellectual and cultural life of turn--of--the--century Vienna, one of the most important centres of creativity in Europe. Le Rider uses the notion of identity to bring together diverse aspects of the Viennese fin de siecle in a new and illuminating way. Num Pages: 380 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745609706
- ISBN
- 9780745609706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.62
€ 83.62
Paperback. * Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. * Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. * Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature. * Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631213079
- ISBN
- 9780631213079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.14
€ 50.14
Paperback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149518
- ISBN
- 9780231149518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.94
€ 40.99
€ 28.94
Paperback. Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. * Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Samuel Beckett. Editor(s): Rainey, Lawrence. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 1216 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1556.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631204497
- ISBN
- 9780631204497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.10
€ 53.10
Hardcover. Presents an overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism. This work includes discussion of major authors, including T S Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D H Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H D. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405108546
- ISBN
- 9781405108546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
Hardback. * The first volume in a new Polity literary studies series, 'Themes in 20th Century Literature and Culture'. * Combines a clear argument for those with no prior knowledge or experience of Modernism with a subtle argument that will appeal to higher level undergraduates and scholars. Num Pages: 216 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745629827
- ISBN
- 9780745629827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.90
€ 71.90
Paperback. Part of the Longman Critical Readers series, which explores the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions. This text examines modernist and postmodernist theories in literary criticism. Series: Longman Critical Readers. Num Pages: 280 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582063570
- ISBN
- 9780582063570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Paperback. An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting. Editor(s): Scandura, Jani. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 321 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814781371
- ISBN
- 9780814781371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.43
€ 33.99
€ 33.43
Hardback. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474427418
- ISBN
- 9781474427418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.28€ 106.92
€ 112.28
€ 106.92