Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. The story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger illuminates the challenges, and vital necessity, of transforming Africa's agriculture sector Num Pages: 328 pages, includes an 8-pp. B/W photo insert on text. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; GTF; JFFA; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 211 x 25. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Edition
- First Trade Paper Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610392402
- ISBN
- 9781610392402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.34
€ 20.99
€ 19.34
Paperback. Tells the story of the remarkable life and career of John A. Lomax, pioneering American folklorist, canny businessman, influential educator, and patriarch of an extended family of artists, performers, and scholars. Series: Folklore & Society. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGH; BGF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780252069710
- ISBN
- 9780252069710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.18
€ 53.18
paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJ; APB; BGF; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Three Rooms Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941110188
- ISBN
- 9781941110188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.10
€ 16.99
€ 16.10
Hardback. Num Pages: 274 pages, 17, diagrames. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; HRH; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877277705
- ISBN
- 9780877277705
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.57
€ 140.57
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816692132
- ISBN
- 9780816692132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.64
€ 29.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Editor(s): Risio, Andreas; Noguchi, Bao. Num Pages: 55 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 227 x 5. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 55
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621001737
- ISBN
- 9781621001737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.12€ 49.20
€ 68.12
€ 49.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFX; KNSP; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Feral House
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936239771
- ISBN
- 9781936239771
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Condition: New
€ 20.08
€ 20.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845888664
- ISBN
- 9781845888664
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.21
€ 14.99
€ 13.21
Paperback. Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, the few reliable works of history that have appeared on Kashmir insist ahistorically on the existence of a unique Kashmir cultural identity. This text questions the notion of any transcendent cultural uniqueness and "Kashmiriyat". Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRH; JFC; JFSR2; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publ
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850657002
- ISBN
- 9781850657002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. This book uses a micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants to address structural inequalities, gender relations, globalization, as well as educational and language policy. The book paints a picture of how people on the global periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world. Series: Encounters. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; ASZP; CFB; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783090747
- ISBN
- 9781783090747
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Condition: New
€ 50.07
€ 50.07
Paperback. Shows how the media is implicated in global terrorism, and how the language it uses has changed since 9/11. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 figures, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: CFB; JFD; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780745324845
- ISBN
- 9780745324845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.77
€ 40.99
€ 31.77
Paperback. Here, the author recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in an attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. He redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 halftones, 14 line drawings, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 179 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226316093
- ISBN
- 9780226316093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.65
€ 42.99
€ 33.65
Hardback. This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and in the context of age-old metaphysical biases against body, history, time, and the mundane as these continue to shape our system of values and moral commitments. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804723879
- ISBN
- 9780804723879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.67
€ 103.67
Hardcover. Deals with two remarkable events - the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. This is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to Jewish readers. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; CF; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780520079588
- ISBN
- 9780520079588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.56€ 46.05
€ 57.56
€ 46.05
Hardback. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." Editor(s): Gray, Edward G.; Fiering, Norman. Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 figures, 8 ills. BIC Classification: 1K; 3H; 3J; GTC; HB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571812100
- ISBN
- 9781571812100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.93
€ 161.93
Paperback. Eugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays Each essay is followed by a comment from Gendlin himself. The work investigates how concepts grow out of experience, and compares Gendlin's work to that of Wittgenstein, Dilthey and Heidegger. Editor(s): Levin, David Michael. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810113596
- ISBN
- 9780810113596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99
€ 53.99
Paperback. One of the most important branches of principles of Islamic jurisprudence ('usul al-fiqh') is the study of the usage of language. 'Language and the Interpretation of Islamic Law' is the first work to appear in English dealing with this important aspect of Islamic law. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; LAFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- The Islamic Texts Society United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780946621866
- ISBN
- 9780946621866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.20
€ 26.99
€ 20.20
Paperback. This text explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a variety of cultural settings. Series: CSLI - Stanford Monographs in Linguistics. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575863207
- ISBN
- 9781575863207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.10
€ 31.99
€ 25.10
Paperback. This text is an indispensable 'cutting edge' book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. Editor(s): Richardson, John. Num Pages: 168 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 174 x 11. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415629331
- ISBN
- 9780415629331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.75
€ 57.75
Paperback. Provides students and researchers with the support needed for advanced study in the core areas of English language and applied linguistics. This book presents an introduction to language and gender, includes diverse work from a range of cultural contexts, represents a range of methodological approaches, and gathers together influential readings. Series: Routledge Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24 black & white tables. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415311045
- ISBN
- 9780415311045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.68
€ 61.68