Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardback. This is a study of social mobility under Hungary's communist regime. The regime that took power after World War II had the proclaimed goal of eliminating the abusive inequalities of the old regime and creating an egalitarian society. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, facsims.,forms. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBLW3; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731072
- ISBN
- 9780804731072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.87
€ 77.87
Hardback. This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 183 x 16. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847426079
- ISBN
- 9781847426079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.30
€ 97.30
Paperback. Looks at the issue of equal pay for equal value with regards the race, class and gender of employees. Chapters examine such topics as comparable worth and its impact on black women, gender and class in comparable worth, equal worth in British banking and comparable worth in US nursing. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFSJ; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333475072
- ISBN
- 9780333475072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.72
€ 121.72
Hardback. Details the televising of the revolution in American civil rights Series: The History of Communication. Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFF; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252036682
- ISBN
- 9780252036682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.40
€ 117.40
Hardback. Both the Prophet Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon have been characterized as ardently, indeed evangelically, antimasonic. Yet in this sweeping social, cultural, and religious history of nineteenth-century Mormonism and its milieu, Forsberg argues that masonry, like evangelical Christianity, was an essential component of Smith's vision. Series: Religion & American Culture S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 39 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC2; HRCC99; JFC; JFSJ; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126403
- ISBN
- 9780231126403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.38€ 50.63
€ 65.38
€ 50.63
Paperback. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 reflects America's aspirational belief that girls and boys, women and men, both deserve equal educational opportunities in athletics. This book shows how this ideal has been both implemented and thwarted over the years via actions in the legislature, executive and judicial branches of government. Editor(s): Hogshead-Makar, Nancy; Zimbalist, Andrew. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JNU; YNW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592133802
- ISBN
- 9781592133802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.90
€ 44.99
€ 44.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- New Press, The
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620970393
- ISBN
- 9781620970393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.55
€ 17.99
€ 16.55
paperback. Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. Working from texts of European and American writers, this work analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402. 280 pages. Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. Working from texts of European and American writers, this work analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFSK. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight: 388.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254060
- ISBN
- 9780520254060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612055459
- ISBN
- 9781612055459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.52
€ 48.52
Paperback. Jan Carew's memoirs, compiled, edited and expanded by Joy Gleason Carew offer an unparalleled insight into the life and work of this pioneering global, multifaceted man and his multiple lives as a novelist, activist, shaper of Black Studies, actor, playwright, painter, agricultural evangelist, advisor to Heads of State and much more. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234. .
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845232450
- ISBN
- 9781845232450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.21
€ 46.21
Paperback. Pop culture meets cutting-edge science in this one-volume introduction to the history of science and modern biology. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bellevue Literary Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934137390
- ISBN
- 9781934137390
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.65
€ 20.99
€ 19.65
Hardback. Outlines the history of drug abuse and redefines its phenomena to reflect our knowledge. This book discusses the state and future of the field, balancing the practical concerns involved in gathering drug abuse data with the ethics of using the information. Editor(s): Sloboda, Zili. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1190.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387244150
- ISBN
- 9780387244150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.77
€ 126.77
Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece
. Ed(S): Konstan, David; Rutter, Keith
hardcover. This is the first book devoted to the emotions of rivalry in the classical world taken as a whole. Editor(s): Konstan, David; Rutter, Keith. Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBG; HPM; JFC; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780748616039
- ISBN
- 9780748616039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 211.56
€ 211.56
hardcover. Envisioning America is a revealing ethnographic portrait of how naturalized Chinese in Southern California have pursued the democratic ideals of participation through political empowerment and community recognition despite impediments to their full inclusion as American citizens. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762410
- ISBN
- 9780804762410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Paperback. Editor(s): Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Antweiler, Christoph. Num Pages: 284 pages, 43 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AMCR; JFFS; JPQB; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837619591
- ISBN
- 9783837619591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.32
€ 48.99
€ 35.32
Paperback. Deane Curtin puts todays most important social and environmental ethical issues into their historical, political and philosophical contexts, and offers deep insights into the nature of our freedom and its relation to justice in our globalized, commercialized culture. Series: Nature's Meaning. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742525795
- ISBN
- 9780742525795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.35
€ 58.35
Paperback. Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFD; RNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415747288
- ISBN
- 9780415747288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.38
€ 76.38
Hardcover. This volume presents papers which address both individual and societal levels of environment in relation to disability and shed new light on the processes involved with creating or modifying these environmental supports or barriers. Editor(s): Altman, Barbara Mandell; Barnartt, Sharon N. Series: Research in Social Science and Disability. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784412630
- ISBN
- 9781784412630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.87
€ 145.87
Hardback. The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research. Editor(s): Hillmann, Felicitas; Pahl, Marie; Rafflenbeul, Birte. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 figures, 13 black & white tables, 6 maps. BIC Classification: JFFN; RNK; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137538901
- ISBN
- 9781137538901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.14
€ 125.14
Hardback. Focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during late 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, and political conflicts. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 1KBBNC; JFSG; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439904657
- ISBN
- 9781439904657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.57
€ 71.57