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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Since 1993, "Vanity Fair" magazine has featured the celebrated Proust Questionnaire, in which a different noteworthy person each month answers the same series of probing personal questions. This title features responses of 100 of the most vibrant personalities of our time, from Bette Midler and Lauren Bacall to Salman Rushdie and Norman Mailer. Illustrator(s): Risko, Robert. Editor(s): Carter, Graydon. Num Pages: 240 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 848.
Publisher
Rodale Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781605295954
ISBN
9781605295954
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.31

Hardback. Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture--both highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book, the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talked-about magazine of our day. Num Pages: 456 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 340 x 288 x 40. Weight in Grams: 3854.
Publisher
Abrams
Number of pages
456
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
8.11.2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781419708633
ISBN
9781419708633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.26
€ 60.46

Paperback. With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the centuries. The author tracks the proliferation of this figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822330745
ISBN
9780822330745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439911198
ISBN
9781439911198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813574592
ISBN
9780813574592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Paperback. .
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813574585
ISBN
9780813574585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.34

Hardback. Presents the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of NativeAmerican patients at a notorious insane asylum whose history helps us to understand the mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 424 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNS; 3JJ; JFSL9; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 776.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803280984
ISBN
9780803280984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBFT; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781845888855
ISBN
9781845888855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.63

Paperback. Explains why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved so attractive. This book describes how postwar urban renewal, slum clearances, and ethnic migration pitted African-American, Puerto Rican, and Euro-American youths against each other in battles to dominate changing neighborhoods. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 halftones, 3 line illus., 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; JFC; JFFE; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691074542
ISBN
9780691074542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.15

Paperback. Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires. This book offers an explanation for the origins of the vampire legends, from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires. Num Pages: 244 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HBT; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300164817
ISBN
9780300164817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.69

paperback. Regardless of time, place, and blood type, Laura Enright cordially invites you into the dark underworld of the vampire. She sheds light (but not too much) on this captivating, age-defying creature by exploring topics ranging from the powers it can possess to what will kill it - for good. Series: Most Wanted. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF; WDKX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597976787
ISBN
9781597976787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.47

textbook. An annotated bibliography of 779 entries divided into five sections: Novels; Anthologies and Novellas; Young Adult; Additional Readings; Unread Undead. Separate author and title indexes are included. Illustrator(s): Temo, Joan. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GBCR; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780810835047
ISBN
9780810835047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.85

Paperback.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857850751
ISBN
9780857850751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.95

Hardcover. Valuing Older People: Positive Psychological Practice applies Social Role Valorization (SRV) and positive psychology principles to our thinking about how we can contribute to better humanitarian care for people in later life. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JKSG; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 175 x 17. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470683354
ISBN
9780470683354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.17

Paperback. Valuing Older People: Positive Psychological Practice applies Social Role Valorization (SRV) and positive psychology principles to our thinking about how we can contribute to better humanitarian care for people in later life. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JKSG; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470683347
ISBN
9780470683347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.24

Paperback. How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and principles both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, this book claims that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demands a humanistic vision of older people and ageing. Editor(s): Edmondson, Ricca; Kondratowitz, Hans-Joachim von. Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP31. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847422910
ISBN
9781847422910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 39.89

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847422927
ISBN
9781847422927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.63

Paperback. Universities are increasingly taking an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations but they, their funders and institutions struggle to articulate the value of this work. This book addresses the key challenges in collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Editor(s): Facer, Keri; Pahl, Kate. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBC; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447331629
ISBN
9781447331629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 36.10

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813570617
ISBN
9780813570617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Paperback. .
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813570600
ISBN
9780813570600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.45

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