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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverly Bie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 color illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128247
- ISBN
- 9780231128247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.22€ 73.45
€ 94.22
€ 73.45
Hardback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 432 pages, 78 illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; AMG; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803254138
- ISBN
- 9780803254138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. In this text, Jerrold Hirsch reviews the founding of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) and the significance of its "American Guide" series, considering the choices made by the administrators who wanted to celebrate diversity as a positive aspect of American cultural identity. Num Pages: 312 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBT; JFC; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854891
- ISBN
- 9780807854891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.32
€ 48.32
Paperback. Explains how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems by conducting year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa - records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. Num Pages: 296 pages, 9 line illus. 36 tables. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCM; KCR; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148199
- ISBN
- 9780691148199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.48
€ 36.99
€ 33.48
Paperback. Introduces key concepts written by postmodernism's leading theorists including Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson. This book defines the postmodernism's most elusive ideas. It explores and challenges postmodernism's role in popular culture. It is suitable for students and those interested in media, social, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759103146
- ISBN
- 9780759103146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.77
€ 56.77
Hardback. Introduces key concepts written by postmodernism's leading theorists including Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson. This book defines the postmodernism's most elusive ideas. It explores and challenges postmodernism's role in popular culture. It is suitable for students and those interested in media, social, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759103139
- ISBN
- 9780759103139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.73
€ 161.73
Hardcover. People play mobile games everywhere and at any time. Tobin examines this media practice through the players directly using the lens of the players and practice of the Nintendo DS system. He argues for the primacy of context for understanding how digital play functions in today's society, emphasizing location, "killing-time," and mobile communities. Num Pages: 136 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396587
- ISBN
- 9781137396587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Paperback. In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. This volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. Editor(s): Gandelsman-Trier, Mijal; Kokot, Waltraud; Wildner, Kathrin; Wonneberger, Astrid. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783899429497
- ISBN
- 9783899429497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.68
€ 36.99
€ 27.68
Hardback. Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFS; JFSG; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137283139
- ISBN
- 9781137283139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardback. Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about pornography today. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651934
- ISBN
- 9780745651934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about pornography today. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651941
- ISBN
- 9780745651941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.53
€ 23.53
Paperback. Ferguson argues that the emergence of pornography as a literary phenomenon in Western culture can be tied to the development of utilitarian philosophy. He contends that considering the usefulness of something rather than its individual essence diverts our attention from individual identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliographical references , index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFMP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226243214
- ISBN
- 9780226243214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Hardback. This volume looks at pornography from a broad perspective and concludes that its widespread availability has contributed much to the controversy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFMP. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 49. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- SKU
- KTG0013021
- ISBN
- 9780521363174
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Pornography feminists unshackle their desires and celebrate their sexuality in the patriarchal world of filmed sex. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: APFN; JFFK; JFMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782794967
- ISBN
- 9781782794967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.91
€ 27.99
€ 23.91
Paperback. What does it mean to re-conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Sidestepping the legal debates over their civil ordinance, and drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, Mason-Grant returns to the innovative core of the Dworkin- MacKinnon critique of mainstream pornography. Series: Feminist Constructions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742512238
- ISBN
- 9780742512238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardback. What does it mean to re-conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Sidestepping the legal debates over their civil ordinance, and drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, Mason-Grant returns to the innovative core of the Dworkin- MacKinnon critique of mainstream pornography. Series: Feminist Constructions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742512221
- ISBN
- 9780742512221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.49
€ 173.49
Hardcover. Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender studies. By linking the styles of the genre to processes of serial production, consumption, and discussion, Schaschek questions the dominant assumptions about pornography and the stability of the genre. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363121
- ISBN
- 9781137363121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations. Editor(s): Maes, Hans. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: AGH; HPN; HPQ; JFMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368200
- ISBN
- 9780230368200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807001547
- ISBN
- 9780807001547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.17
€ 24.99
€ 17.17
Paperback / so. BIC Classification: JFMP; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Falls Media United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780974043968
- ISBN
- 9780974043968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.81
€ 11.81