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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa's Muslim heritage and its influence. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: HBJH; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674050822
- ISBN
- 9780674050822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.71
€ 49.99
€ 41.71
Paperback. Afghanistan and its people, whether in Afghanistan or in its global diaspora, have generated substantial interest and the desire to understand more about the country is widely felt. This title contains chapters on a wide range of issues, which contribute to our understandings of modern Afghanistan. Editor(s): Oeppen, Ceri; Schlenkhoff, Angela. Num Pages: 288 pages, map,. BIC Classification: 1FCA; JFSL; JHB; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849040556
- ISBN
- 9781849040556
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Condition: New
€ 55.16
€ 55.16
Paperback. In this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 273.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Preface
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361664
- ISBN
- 9780822361664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Hardback. In this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361473
- ISBN
- 9780822361473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.12
€ 115.12
Paperback. Analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice. Though acknowledging past failures to establish cross-racial empathy, this book focuses on examples that show avenues for future progress and change. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252079948
- ISBN
- 9780252079948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59
Hardback. Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or "White Negroes," who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. The author claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover over the years. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038433
- ISBN
- 9780252038433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.71
€ 125.71
Paperback. Mernissi explores the historical links between the religion of Islam, the societal oppression of women, and the suppression of democracy in predominantly Muslim nations. Series: Saqi Essentials S. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Saqi Books
- Number of pages
- 197
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863564123
- ISBN
- 9780863564123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.41
€ 19.99
€ 18.41
Hardback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- V9780252064258
- ISBN
- 9780252064258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.23
€ 29.23
Hardback. This book challenges the usual ways in which development and change are regarded in rural Africa and provides a corrective to state-centred studies of development. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 maps, 9 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 1 map, 9 b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; HBJH; JFC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748635184
- ISBN
- 9780748635184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.26€ 111.86
€ 117.26
€ 111.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 44 bw illus. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501308659
- ISBN
- 9781501308659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.23
€ 49.99
€ 41.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 172 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; AJB; AJC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816523603
- ISBN
- 9780816523603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.73
€ 63.73
Paperback. Pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism Num Pages: 282 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784780128
- ISBN
- 9781784780128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.70
€ 30.99
€ 24.70
Hardback. Examines the effects of education in creating global citizens who share a world culture. This title also examines the role of education in diffusing such attitudes and models, as global citizens confront national institutions. Series Editor(s): Hannum, Emily. Series: Research in the Sociology of Education. Num Pages: 379 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 379
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780527086
- ISBN
- 9781780527086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.46
€ 125.46
Hardback. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. This title looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 326 pages, 4 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 227 x 30. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275201
- ISBN
- 9780520275201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.26€ 64.41
€ 83.26
€ 64.41
paperback. An incisive and readable book which applies the insights of complex areas of contemporary social theory, first to investigate the history of racist psychology, and then to theorise the dynamics of black feminism. Series: Critical Psychology S. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFSJ; JFSL3; JMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415035446
- ISBN
- 9780415035446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.80
€ 60.80
Hardback. Editor(s): Giordano, Paolo A.; Tamburri, Anthony Julian. Num Pages: 305 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADT; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838637326
- ISBN
- 9780838637326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.77
€ 145.77
Paperback. Focusing on the period of colonization in the Andean region, this title argues that the European cultural literacy that the authors imposed on the indigenous population was not just a tool for oppression and control but was used by the local people as a means to assert their own cultural identity. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 392 pages, 58 b&w illustrations, 2 charts, 9 color plates. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351283
- ISBN
- 9780822351283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.53
€ 32.99
€ 32.53
Paperback. A new perspective on Italian masculinity Num Pages: 248 pages, 42 b&w photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DST; APF; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253216441
- ISBN
- 9780253216441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.91
€ 25.99
€ 23.91
Hardback. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJMB; KND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646. Fine in dustwrapper. DW with some light shelf wear, else like new
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0029281
- ISBN
- 9780062655707
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173696
- ISBN
- 9780691173696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.95
€ 29.99
€ 21.95