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Society & culture: general

Hardcover. Editor(s): Godfrey, Nessa P. Num Pages: 313 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 186 x 20. Weight in Grams: 888.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
313
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606924785
ISBN
9781606924785
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81
€ 79.36

Paperback. Rubin Carter is the Hurricane. A pistol shot in a bar room ruined his chances of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. But he did not fire the gun. Nineteen long years in prison, a massively high profile campaign to release him that failed, and the persistence of an unlikely supporter finally saw him free. Num Pages: 368 pages, (1 x 8pp b/w). BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGS; JFFJ; JFSL; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 113 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Harpercollins Pb
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841151304
ISBN
9781841151304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.71

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; HPCF7; JFD; JFFE; JFFE2; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231178365
ISBN
9780231178365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Paperback. Examines the sustainability of hunting as practiced by rural peoples. This book provides a viewpoint on the ecological and human aspects of this hunting. It examines the effects of hunting on wildlife in tropical forests. It looks at the importance of hunting to local communities and looks at institutional challenges of resource management. Editor(s): Robinson, John G.; Boundas, Professor Elizabeth; Bennett, E.L. Series: Biology and Resource Management Series. Num Pages: 1000 pages, 44 black & white illustrations, 96 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLS; 1QMT; JFSF; RNF; RNKH; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 255 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1500th Edition
Number of pages
1000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231109772
ISBN
9780231109772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.19
€ 41.45

Hardback. Examines the sustainability of hunting as practiced by rural peoples. This book provides a viewpoint on the ecological and human aspects of this hunting. It examines the effects of hunting on wildlife in tropical forests. It looks at the importance of hunting to local communities and looks at institutional challenges of resource management. Editor(s): Robinson, John G.; Boundas, Professor Elizabeth; Bennett, E.L. Series: Biology and Resource Management Series. Num Pages: 1000 pages, 44 photos, 96 illus. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLS; 1QMT; JFSF; RNF; RNKH; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 182. Weight in Grams: 1271.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
300th Edition
Number of pages
1000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231109765
ISBN
9780231109765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.74
€ 109.40

Hardcover. Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. Num Pages: 424 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFZ; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 29. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384052
ISBN
9781782384052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.80

Hardback. Offers a perspective on human-animal relations. This book reveals the ways in which various cultures have reinforced, symbolized, and rationalized their relations with animals. It identifies and explores four stages in the history of the human-animal relationship - separation, pre-domesticity, domesticity, and post-domesticity. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231130769
ISBN
9780231130769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.73
€ 81.45

Paperback. Offers a perspective on human-animal relations. This book reveals the ways in which various cultures have reinforced, symbolized, and rationalized their relations with animals. It identifies and explores four stages in the history of the human-animal relationship - separation, pre-domesticity, domesticity, and post-domesticity. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231130776
ISBN
9780231130776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 26.99

Hardback. In light of negotiations now going on between people who rely on wild plants and animals and the governments of their territories about civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights, anthropologists explore dimensions of culture and pressures as they are manifested in particular peoples. T Editor(s): Biesele, Megan; Hitchcock, Robert K.; Schweitzer, Peter P. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JPV; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 890.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571811011
ISBN
9781571811011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12. BIC Classification: JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Paraview Pocket Books Trade Pbk. Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781416505211
ISBN
9781416505211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.31

Paperback. Editor(s): Magdoff, Fred; Foster, John Bellamy; Buttel, Frederick H. (Professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCN; KNAC; RNF; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583670163
ISBN
9781583670163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.23

paperback. Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries - old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of problems, from obesity, the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFCV; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099584476
ISBN
9780099584476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; MBNH3; MMZD; VFJJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816624355
ISBN
9780816624355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.82

Paperback. We know the statistics, but what does it feel like to be forced to turn to foodbanks for help? What does it take to get emergency food, and what's in the food parcel? This is a powerful insight into the harsh reality of foodbank use from the inside. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFA; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447329114
ISBN
9781447329114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.78

Paperback. African American writers have consistently drawn connections between hunger and illiteracy, and by extension between food and reading. This book investigates the juxtaposition of mulnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325620
ISBN
9780820325620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.48

Paperback. aeo This is currently the only book in print that treats the topic of hunger from a long--range historical perspective. aeo The contributors to the book are drawn from a broad array of disciplines; among them are Amartya Sen, David Herlihy, Peter Garnsey, and John Post. Editor(s): Newman, Lucile F. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFA; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557866288
ISBN
9781557866288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 51.37

Hardcover. Editor(s): LaBue, Gaston T. Num Pages: 154 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 263 x 183 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606928035
ISBN
9781606928035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81
€ 79.36

Paperback. Editor(s): Tobin, James C. Num Pages: 116 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFFC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606921784
ISBN
9781606921784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.63
€ 44.10

paperback. "Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe" examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement "nutrition is a biological process more fundamental than sex". Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; JFC; JHBT; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415320115
ISBN
9780415320115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.94

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271017396
ISBN
9780271017396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.31
€ 56.47

Paperback. .
Publisher
Kuperard
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
Second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857338683
ISBN
9781857338683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.28

Hardback. Specialists focus on Hungary's outstanding achievments in various fields, notably technology, literature and the arts, and sport. The volume includes a biographical dictionary, map, and illustrations. Editor(s): Somlyody, Laszlo; Somlyody, Nora. Num Pages: 720 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JH; 3JJ; AC; JFC; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335331
ISBN
9780880335331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.00
€ 50.14

Hardback. Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Editor(s): Sciama, Lidia Dina. Series: Social Identities. Num Pages: 216 pages, 20 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857450746
ISBN
9780857450746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Cheaure, Elisabeth; Nohejl, Regine. Num Pages: 138 pages, 17 b/w & 13 colour illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 9. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837628586
ISBN
9783837628586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.25

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