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Society & culture: general
Hardback. This lively account uncovers for the first time how great love songs came to be, and explains who the 'Galway Girl' was, or if there was a real-life 'Nancy Spain'. Learn the often surprising, sometimes bittersweet but always absorbing stories of the real women who inspired some of the world's finest love songs. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVG; AVH; BGF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848892873
- ISBN
- 9781848892873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.44
€ 19.99
€ 16.44
Paperback. Looks at visual culture and race in the United States, in particular the significance of photography to document black public life. It examines America's fascination with representing and seeing race in a myriad of contexts as emblematic of national and racial progress at best, or as a gauge of a collective racial wound. Series: Pinpoints. Num Pages: 90 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 209.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 90
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813565156
- ISBN
- 9780813565156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.82
€ 24.99
€ 22.82
Paperback. The policing of pornography remains the subject of widespread controversy. This book provides a history of this policing which demonstrates that obscenity law cannot be understood negatively as censorship but must be seen as part of the positive administration of a practice of sexuality. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 1KBB; JFM; JMU; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333398968
- ISBN
- 9780333398968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.74
€ 118.74
Hardcover. The policing of pornography remains the subject of widespread controversy. This book provides a history of this policing which demonstrates that obscenity law cannot be understood negatively as censorship but must be seen as part of the positive administration of a practice of sexuality. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 1KBB; JFM; JMU; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333398951
- ISBN
- 9780333398951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.77
€ 119.77
Paperback. Using cross-cultural, historical and ethnographic perspectives of anthropology to illuminate the the intrinsic connections of race, class and gender, this volume explores these issues in the arena of work, kinship and resistance. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSJ1; JFSL1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415912860
- ISBN
- 9780415912860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.72
€ 56.72
Paperback. The book describes the history of Elias' most famous and important work "Process of Civilization" in close relation to the historical and biographical context. It starts with Elias' childhood and intellectual background and paints a detailed picture of the development of Germna sociology in early 20th century up to the World War 2. Translator(s): Affeldt, Stefanie. Num Pages: 231 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783658173517
- ISBN
- 9783658173517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.23
€ 61.23
Paperback. The Cold War that has so often been linked to Orwell's novel ended with more of a whimper than a bang, but most of the issues of concern to him remain alive in some form today: censorship, scientific surveillance, power worship, the autonomy of art, the meaning of democracy, relations between men and women, and many others. Editor(s): Gleason, Prof. Abbott; Goldsmith, Jack L.; Nussbaum, Martha C. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113616
- ISBN
- 9780691113616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.05
€ 46.99
€ 33.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSP2; JFSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226517056
- ISBN
- 9780226517056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.48
€ 37.99
€ 29.48
Paperback. "A comprehensive modern-day bestiary."-The New Yorker Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 b/w halftones, 30 line illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFHF; VXQM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199798094
- ISBN
- 9780199798094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.60
€ 31.99
€ 22.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JFD; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739147900
- ISBN
- 9780739147900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.43
€ 150.43
Hardcover. This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East). Editor(s): Neiger, Motti; Meyers, Oren; Zandberg, Eyal. Series Editor(s): Hoskins, Andrew; Sutton, John. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275683
- ISBN
- 9780230275683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.20
€ 120.20
Paperback. "This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spain, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East)"-- Editor(s): Neiger, Motti; Meyers, Oren. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; HBTB; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349324996
- ISBN
- 9781349324996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.59
€ 129.59
Paperback. Translator(s): Longeway, John Lee. Series: Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GBC; HPL; JF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400964983
- ISBN
- 9789400964983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.43
€ 118.43
Hardback. Translator(s): Longeway, J. Series: Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789027718686
- ISBN
- 9789027718686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.94
€ 122.94
Paperback. An intimate menoir of Jewish adolescence and life, from a young woman's perspective in an Eastern European shtetl at the end of the nineteenth century. Translator(s): Cammy, Justin Daniel. Num Pages: 126 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 126
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674019706
- ISBN
- 9780674019706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.28
€ 19.99
€ 18.28
hardcover. On Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization. Series: Cultural Spaces. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802087379
- ISBN
- 9780802087379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.35
€ 84.35
Paperback. This book focuses on the social life of historic cities and large-scale sites, examining the dynamic ways that cities change as they are made and then remade by the people who inhabit and visit them, and concentrating on change, pluralism and fragmentation. Editor(s): Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Num Pages: 244 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; HDD; JFC; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 391.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489996756
- ISBN
- 9781489996756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.22
€ 119.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469307
- ISBN
- 9781349469307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.25
€ 61.25
Paperback. In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; DNF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co New York
- Number of pages
- 314
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393312850
- ISBN
- 9780393312850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.13
€ 19.99
€ 19.13
Paperback. In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own distinctive version of psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural conversation. The essays combine literary and philosophical commentary with clinical vignettes. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JMAF; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 145.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571170227
- ISBN
- 9780571170227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Hardcover. The author presents a general theory of justice which makes full use of the Jewish sources, bringing them into a philosophical dialogue with the leading ethical and political texts of the Western tradition. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; JFSR1; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780300049435
- ISBN
- 9780300049435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.46€ 47.36
€ 61.46
€ 47.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Eisenstadt, S. N. Series: Heritage of Sociology Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226078076
- ISBN
- 9780226078076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 37.85
€ 48.99
€ 37.85
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909614
- ISBN
- 9781439909614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.17
€ 29.99
€ 27.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226647494
- ISBN
- 9780226647494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 37.51
€ 48.99
€ 37.51