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Society & culture: general
Paperback. A Companion to Gender Studies presents a unified and comprehensive vision of its field, and its new directions. It is designed to demonstrate in action the rich interplay between gender and other markers of social position and (dis)privilege, such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Editor(s): Essed, Philomena; Goldberg, David Theo; Kobayashi, Audrey. Series: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 177 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1046.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405188081
- ISBN
- 9781405188081
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Condition: New
€ 79.41
€ 79.41
Paperback. * An extensive survey of the history of women around the world, their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. * Discusses family history, the history of the body and sexuality, and cultural history alongside women's history and gender history. Series: Blackwell Companions to History. Num Pages: 688 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405149600
- ISBN
- 9781405149600
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Condition: New
€ 77.83
€ 77.83
Hardback. This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. Editor(s): Sibley, Katherine A. S. Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History. Num Pages: 760 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 168 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1244.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 760
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118732229
- ISBN
- 9781118732229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 235.65
€ 235.65
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447310334
- ISBN
- 9781447310334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.15
€ 172.15
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447310341
- ISBN
- 9781447310341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 40.61
€ 43.99
€ 40.61
Hardcover. Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies. Num Pages: 584 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 179 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1150.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118475010
- ISBN
- 9781118475010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 224.27
€ 224.27
Paperback. This international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers. Editor(s): Wheeler, Belinda. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 2AB; DSBH5; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139382
- ISBN
- 9781571139382
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.47
€ 38.99
€ 37.47
Hardcover. Drawing on historical perspectives and data, this book examines the many years of change and continuity in the status of black Americans. By studying and comparing black and white age cohorts, it charts the status of blacks in areas, such as education, housing, employment, political participation and family life. Editor(s): Jaynes, Gerald David; Williams, Robin M., Jr. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1200. Clean copy fine in dust jacket. DJ has minor wear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0000410
- ISBN
- 9780309039987
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A roller coaster ride through the ruins of modern America from the most influential journalist of his generation. Num Pages: 599 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 34. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Verso
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781682951
- ISBN
- 9781781682951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.72
€ 21.99
€ 21.72
Paperback. Investigates how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Featuring stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, this title reveals how concerns about strange objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 496 pages, 47 b&w photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 238 x 38. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 62041st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323662
- ISBN
- 9780822323662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.70
€ 41.99
€ 37.70
paperback. Considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. This book provides several in-depth case studies, primarily concerning the lives of Indonesian men who term themselves gay (an Indonesian-language word that overlaps with, but does not correspond exactly to, English "gay"). Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339915
- ISBN
- 9780822339915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.81
€ 37.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Written by civil rights historian Adam Fairclough, this book chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration 100 years later. Built from stories of real men and women, it explores how teachers inspired generations of children, instilling values that nourished racial pride and a desire for equality. Num Pages: 422 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL3; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 43. Weight in Grams: 920.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023079
- ISBN
- 9780674023079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.36
€ 47.99
€ 40.36
Hardcover. Focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 448 pages, 120 halftones, 14 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AMVD; JFSJ1; JKSB1; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 767.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226311289
- ISBN
- 9780226311289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.37
€ 51.99
€ 40.37
Paperback. Countless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and losses that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLL; HBLW; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674659926
- ISBN
- 9780674659926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.72
€ 24.99
€ 21.72
Paperback. This photojournal looks at the traditional folkways and cultural heritage of one of the American South's most distinctive regions. It looks at the places and the people that perpetuate the music, the stories, and the crafts indigenous to the region. Num Pages: 150 pages, 109 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 1KBBSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press Alabama
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0212530
- ISBN
- 9780945477143
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This photojournal looks at the traditional folkways and cultural heritage of one of the American South's most distinctive regions. It looks at the places and the people that perpetuate the music, the stories, and the crafts indigenous to the region. Num Pages: 150 pages, 109 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 1KBBSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press Alabama
- Number of pages
- 150
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- KEX0212529
- ISBN
- 9780945477143
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock and the 'Summer of Love' to Vietnam and the race riots; from disco inferno to the Million Man March. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVG; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 29. Weight in Grams: 346. 448 pages. This volume chronicles more than 40 years of black music, from the refrains of the Freedom Movement to Motown. It looks at the place black music occupies in social history, its battle for the desegregation of popular music and its contribution to social change outside the recording studio. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVG; HBTB; JFSL3. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 29. Weight: 346.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841952963
- ISBN
- 9781841952963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.40
€ 19.99
€ 14.40
Paperback. A practical guide to the charms of the Gallic people - from their daily routines to their peerless gesticulations, from their come-ons to their put-downs. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; CBX; JFCA; WTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141041674
- ISBN
- 9780141041674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. An unconventional, evocative work of history and a series of moving reflections on memory, modernity, space, and time, all based on the author s interviews with elderly Indonesian intellectuals. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HBTB; HBTQ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822346975
- ISBN
- 9780822346975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.81
€ 37.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360292
- ISBN
- 9780822360292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.75
€ 150.75
Paperback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360605
- ISBN
- 9780822360605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.33
€ 37.99
€ 34.33
Hardback. Editor(s): Green, Nancy L.; Waldinger, Roger. Series: Studies of World Migrations. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252040443
- ISBN
- 9780252040443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.39
€ 117.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Green, Nancy L.; Waldinger, Roger. Series: Studies of World Migrations. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFN; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081903
- ISBN
- 9780252081903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.87
€ 32.99
€ 29.87
Paperback. An illustrated survey of the lives and history of Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era. Num Pages: 316 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214188
- ISBN
- 9780253214188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.98
€ 26.99
€ 24.98