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Society & culture: general

paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Black Rose Books Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551642703
ISBN
9781551642703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.32

Paperback. Challenging the myth of the "post-belief society". Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Verso
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781681749
ISBN
9781781681749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.94

Paperback. Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city. Num Pages: 296 pages, 51 b&w photographs, 16 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AMC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292747142
ISBN
9780292747142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.27

Paperback. Uncovers the voices of working-class women, active in the Communist Party, USA, in order to examine how these individuals confronted the tensions between their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and consumers. This work details the strategies used by women to argue for their rights as workers in the paid labor force and as caregivers in the home. Num Pages: 200 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 277.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252073915
ISBN
9780252073915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.23

Hardback. Demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. This title traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came to write a book that popularized "Jewish self-hatred. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691119229
ISBN
9780691119229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.66

Paperback. Language and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. This work examines the neurological evolution of our emotional repertoire and implications for current social behaviour and argues that our ability to use a wide array of emotions evolved long before spoken language. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 line diagrams 1 half-tone 8 tables. BIC Classification: CFA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804737203
ISBN
9780804737203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.09

Paperback. Series: Verhandelingen van Het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Power and Place in Southeast Asia. Num Pages: 66 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 4. Weight in Grams: 167.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1898
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
66
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401767019
ISBN
9789401767019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.77

Paperback. On the Nature of Prejudice commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Gordon Allport's classic work on prejudice and discrimination by examining the current state of knowledge in the field. Editor(s): Dovidio, John F.; Glick, Peter; Rudman, Laurie A. Num Pages: 488 pages, 10. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405127516
ISBN
9781405127516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.19

Hardback. In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. This title demolishes the notion that there is a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam. Series: The Public Square. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM9; HRH; JFC; JFSL1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691157047
ISBN
9780691157047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.40

Paperback. This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China. Editor(s): Gaetano, Arianne M.; Jacka, Tamara. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127073
ISBN
9780231127073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.94

Hardback. This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China. Editor(s): Gaetano, Arianne M.; Jacka, Tamara. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127066
ISBN
9780231127066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.79
€ 99.33

Hardback. Series: Princeton Analytical Sociology Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 halftones. 16 line illus. 5 tables. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHBC; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691161068
ISBN
9780691161068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.37

Paperback. Following the lives of a group of migrant Filipinas who worked as entertainers in South Korea and then journeyed to other parts of Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this ethnography provides a look at how work, sex, love, and ambition in migrants' lives intersect with larger issues of transnationalism, identity, and global hierarchies of inequality. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1FPKS; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222777
ISBN
9780812222777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.75

Hardback. Fifty million people in the world today are victims of forced relocation caused by wars and violence. Whole new countries are being created, occupied by Afghan refugees, displaced Columbians, deported Rwandans, exiled Congolese, fleeing Iraqis, Chechens, Somalians and Sudanese who have witnessed wars, massacres, aggression and terror. Num Pages: 130 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 301.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
English Ed
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745640518
ISBN
9780745640518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 52.92

paperback. This book offers an account of how groups of economically marginal people have adapt and negotiate the offerings of a 'post industrial' labour market and a welfare system geared towards reintegrating them into formal employment. Through close ethnographic study it highlights collective strategies and responses to labour and welfare changes. Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFF; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861346001
ISBN
9781861346001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 36.79

Hardback. Koreans and Burakumin, two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan, share a history of discrimination that spans the decades of Japan's modernization and imperial expansion. Bayliss explores the historical processes that cast them as "others" on the margins of the Japanese empire and that also influenced their views of themselves. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 798.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066687
ISBN
9780674066687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.33

Paperback. The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America Num Pages: 286 pages, 30 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFG; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592136988
ISBN
9781592136988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.76

Hardcover. Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics. Editor(s): Johnson, Merri Lisa; Mintz, Susannah B. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113701
ISBN
9780230113701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.34

Paperback. Editor(s): Johnson, M.; Mintz, Susannah B. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; JFC; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349295425
ISBN
9781349295425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Paperback. Bringing to the fore the words, ideas, and struggles of the workers themselves, this book underlines how deep racial tensions permeate the factory, as an overwhelmingly minority workforce is subject to white dominance. Num Pages: 270 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; JFSL3; JFSL4; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
270
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282964
ISBN
9780520282964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.41

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