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Paperback. Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful method for analyzing them. It uses literary concepts to ask social scientific questions: how do stories make life better, and when do they endanger it? Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226004839
ISBN
9780226004839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405919791
ISBN
9781405919791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Hardback. Written in the form of a father's correspondence to his daughther, this book traces women in the Torah and indicates, through text and commentary, that their status is equal to the status of men although their function is usually different. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568213873
ISBN
9781568213873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFFE; JKSN2; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Basic Books
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465039685
ISBN
9780465039685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.23

Paperback. A witty, wise, biting, and completely individual meditation on what it means to think, live, and be to the contrary. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 152. Series: Letters to a Young. 160 pages. Christopher Hitchens has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways. While bemoaning the loss of the skills of dialectical thinking evident in contemporary society, he aims to inspire future generations of intellectuals, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men and dissidents. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JF. Dimension: 203 x 130 x 11. Weight: 148.
Publisher
Basic Books
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Later ptg
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465030330
ISBN
9780465030330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Van Doren, Carl. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 410 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; JFCX; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
410
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691627434
ISBN
9780691627434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.13
€ 48.04

Paperback. A collection of the correspondence between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry. Their lives were inextricably, and often painfully, intertwined until her tragically early death from tuberculosis in 1923. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8pp illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 34. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
VIRAGO PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860689454
ISBN
9780860689454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Kaynak Basim-Yayin Turkey
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9789757388449
ISBN
9789757388449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

paperback. Provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power. Starting with the colonial period, this title undertakes a historical analysis of the hegemonic influences of the written word. Editor(s): Chasteen, John Charles. Translator(s): Chasteen, John Charles. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBA; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317661
ISBN
9780822317661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.21

paperback. Series: Gulbenkian Foundation report. Num Pages: 120 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFFT; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780903319812
ISBN
9780903319812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.32

Paperback. Editor(s): Howard, Amelia C. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; LNFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Number of pages
60
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628085778
ISBN
9781628085778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.28
€ 58.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 453.
Publisher
Zondervan Main United States
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780310684541
ISBN
9780310684541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.63

Paperback. From the West has risen a footballing sage whose words of truth have transcended the mundane realm of sport. Editor(s): Jones, Richard; Faragher, Steve. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 103 x 8. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Tangent Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954417796
ISBN
9780954417796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.75

Paperback. In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. This book provides a record of the place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJG; AJCR; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141188492
ISBN
9780141188492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, ch. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853459057
ISBN
9780853459057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.37

Hardback. And Other Stories About Food and Culture. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. 192 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFCV. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 21. Weight: 368. Translator(s): Brombert, Beth Archer.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157322
ISBN
9780231157322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.29
€ 63.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF1; HBJM; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652298485
ISBN
9789652298485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.75

Paperback. How the internet is changing the world's fastest growing superpower, on a scale unknown in modern history Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD; UBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780769851
ISBN
9781780769851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.84

Paperback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442630062
ISBN
9781442630062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: JFSC; JPFC; KCP; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 1 x 1. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781608467389
ISBN
9781608467389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Hardcover. Num Pages: 353 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 796.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
353
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776746803
ISBN
9788776746803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.99

Hardcover. This work provides a guide to the theory, research and clinical treatment of lesbian and gay couples and families. Coverage includes: transgenerational homophobia; custodial lesbian mothers and children; straight therapists working with gay families; working with gay fathers; and childhood trauma. Editor(s): Laird, Joan; Green, Robert-Jay. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 180 x 33. Weight in Grams: 842.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787902223
ISBN
9780787902223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.56

Paperback. This book explores the lives and perspectives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. As their distinct needs are often overlooked due to lack of understanding, this book demonstrates how life course approaches can offer insights into their support needs as they grow older, from housing and health care to community support. Editor(s): Ward, Richard; Rivers, Ian; Sutherland, Mike. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSK; JKSG; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849052573
ISBN
9781849052573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.40

Paperback. For Smith, "lesbian panic" is often a fear of losing one's identity and value within the heterosexual paradigm. This book traces the history of "lesbian panic" through key works: The Voyage Out and Mrs. Dalloway; The Little Girls and Eva Trout; King of a Rainy Country; The Golden Notebook; and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106214
ISBN
9780231106214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.32

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