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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women's shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 halftones, 13 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JFFA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 736.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067097
ISBN
9780674067097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.27
€ 57.14

Hardcover. This book focuses on the rise of sharing and collaboration practices among peers in Spanish digital cultures and social movements in the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 240 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381939
ISBN
9781781381939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 9.41

Hardback. Offers conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. This title challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. Editor(s): Rodgers, Daniel T.; Raman, Bhavani; Reimitz, Helmut. Series: Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; JFC; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159096
ISBN
9780691159096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 41.45

Paperback. A broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 808 pages, 71 maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JHBD; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 172 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1344. World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. 808 pages, 71 maps. A broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JHBD; RG. Dimension: 252 x 172 x 55. Weight: 1344.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
808
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349013
ISBN
9780822349013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.42

Paperback. Provides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. This title chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFFA; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520200234
ISBN
9780520200234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.13

Paperback. This Fourth Edition introduces the sociology of culture and explores cultural phenomena including stories, beliefs, media, ideas, art, religious practices, fashions and rituals from a global-sociological perspective. Series: Sociology for a New Century Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 226 x 7. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Edition
Fourth Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781412990547
ISBN
9781412990547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

paperback. A study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act - with new dimensions and perspectives. Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, this title examines what drives people apart - when cooperation is so clearly in everyone's interest. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 35. Weight in Grams: 696.
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780071664189
ISBN
9780071664189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.26

Paperback. Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland. Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of Roman Szporluk, these fresh, urgent essays mirror Szporluk's broad and comparativist approach. Editor(s): Gitelman, Zvi Y.; etc. Num Pages: 646 pages, 25ill.22tabs. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
646
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916458935
ISBN
9780916458935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.24

Hardback. The entire series, "Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World,engages the major organizing themes of the subject through a collection of high-level, debate-inspiring essays, inviting readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Atlantic experience shaped both American societies and the Atlantic world itself. Editor(s): Olwell, Robert; Tully, Alan. Series: Anglo-America in the Trans-Atlantic World. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801882517
ISBN
9780801882517
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 44.90

Hardback. .
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Unabridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781443832175
ISBN
9781443832175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 31.36

Hardback. A history of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the 1960s and early 1970s. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347491
ISBN
9780822347491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

Paperback. Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam. 312 pages, 22 illustrations. Sheds new light on the connections between culture and politics in early postcolonial East Africa. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JFC. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight: 396.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347705
ISBN
9780822347705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.10

Paperback. Series: Best of Edge Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062023131
ISBN
9780062023131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.27

Paperback. Offers a perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. This readers includes essays that address Foucault's "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions. Editor(s): Dirks, Nicholas B.; Eley, Geoff; Ortner, Sherry B. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 640 pages, 18 halftones 1 line illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 38. Weight in Grams: 900.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
644
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691021027
ISBN
9780691021027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 45.72

Hardcover. Editor(s): Garnham, Neal; Jeffery, Keith. Series: Historical Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 colour and b&w plates. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Univ College Dublin Pr
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904558347
ISBN
9781904558347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.06

Hardcover. Editor(s): Spierenburg, Marja J.; Wels, Harry. Num Pages: 145 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTB; JFFJ; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 264 x 183 x 10. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
145
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594541858
ISBN
9781594541858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.40
€ 106.57

Hardback. Editor(s): McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481846
ISBN
9781611481846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.48

Paperback. he author expertly argues that in the current world crisis it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780323145
ISBN
9781780323145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.52

Paperback. This book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. As pointed out in the new prologue, the world is very different from when this survey first appeared; the Japanese are now moving closer to the American "market individualist" model. Series: Ewp Foundations of Sociology. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; KJN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Eliot Werner Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780971958722
ISBN
9780971958722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.80

Paperback. A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFM; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 194 x 28. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780465015344
ISBN
9780465015344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.83

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