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
€ 18.99€ 17.17
€ 18.99
€ 17.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 10 b/w photos & 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BTC; HBJK; HBLW; JFHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Publisher
- Trine Day United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936296002
- ISBN
- 9781936296002
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.50
€ 25.99
€ 25.50
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
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
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€ 15.34
€ 16.99
€ 15.34
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
€ 29.31
€ 29.31
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
€ 68.54€ 48.71
€ 68.54
€ 48.71
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.09
€ 19.09
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€ 12.42
€ 14.99
€ 12.42
Paperback. Presents a selection of Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. This book features the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng, a quick-witted toad that terrifies tigers, a turtle that flies, a cadre of snails that race a rabbit, and a mynah bird that speaks five languages. It reflects a Buddhist culture in a Marxist state. Num Pages: 124 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
- Number of pages
- 124
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789749575871
- ISBN
- 9789749575871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.35
€ 17.35
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€ 24.97
€ 26.99
€ 24.97
Paperback. This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution. Series: The Wiles Lectures. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 5AN; CFB; HBJD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521535861
- ISBN
- 9780521535861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.76
€ 45.99
€ 45.76
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€ 30.95
€ 40.99
€ 30.95
Paperback. aeo Provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population. aeo Shows how local processes coincide with the global patterning of variation with class, gender and age. aeo Uncovers the nature of social meaning and the dynamics of influence in variation. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; CFD; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631186045
- ISBN
- 9780631186045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.80
€ 58.80
Hardback. Based on two years of sociolinguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in one school, supplemented by shorter periods of fieldwork in three other schools, this study focuses on the polarized social categories, the 'jocks' and the 'burnouts', that dominate social organization in all of these schools. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; CFD; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631186038
- ISBN
- 9780631186038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.40
€ 150.40
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€ 33.12
€ 42.99
€ 33.12
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
€ 108.91
€ 108.91
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
€ 57.91€ 44.81
€ 57.91
€ 44.81
Paperback. This work is intended both as a comprehensive review and discussion of the major studies on language development and functioning in mentally retarded persons since the 1950s, and as an exploration of a number of important issues in this field. Series: Exc Business and Economy. Num Pages: 320 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: CF; JFFG; JMC; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861560049
- ISBN
- 9781861560049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 109.51
€ 109.51
Paperback. Focusses on the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of that relationship. This book also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis. Editor(s): Johnson, Sally; Milani, Tommaso M. Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics. Num Pages: 310 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Number of pages
- 310
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441155863
- ISBN
- 9781441155863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.80
€ 54.99
€ 45.80
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
€ 163.41
€ 163.41