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Society & culture: general
Exhibiting Europe in Museums: Transnational Networks, Collections, Nar...
Kaiser, Wolfram, Krankenhagen, Stefan, Poehls...
Hardcover. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, & people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy. Series: Museums and Collections. Num Pages: 252 pages, 16 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; GM; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782382904
- ISBN
- 9781782382904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.73
€ 162.73
Hardcover. Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZX; HBTB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384430
- ISBN
- 9781137384430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.02
€ 150.02
Hardback. The Exeter English-Russian Dictionary of Cultural Terms is a unique work of reference whose aim is to provide English speakers who possess at least some knowledge of Russian with the Russian equivalents of foreign and cultural terms in widespread use. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AGR; CBDX; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 183 x 104 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895040
- ISBN
- 9780859895040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.53
€ 40.53
Hardback. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSJ1; WSBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137583185
- ISBN
- 9781137583185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. Translator(s): Kinney, Anne Behnke. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231163088
- ISBN
- 9780231163088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.54€ 90.75
€ 117.54
€ 90.75
Paperback. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231163095
- ISBN
- 9780231163095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.19
€ 42.99
€ 31.19
This study looks at how the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) employ the figures of "exemplarity" and "chosenness" in order to address the tension between the universality of philosophical thinking and the particularity of nations, languages, and individual human experience. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPM; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804755214
- ISBN
- 9780804755214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752464077
- ISBN
- 9780752464077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.75
€ 21.99
€ 20.75
Paperback. Written for the very audience it portrays, "The Excursion" introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its glittering pastimes. Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Elize Haywood and Henry Fielding for her novel's plot structure. Series: Eighteenth-century Novels by Women. Num Pages: 224 pages, references. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; FC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813108810
- ISBN
- 9780813108810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.59
€ 48.59
Hardcover. What does feminism mean? Can we say that such a thing as a women's movement exists? Why are so few women willing to identify as feminist? And what might a feminist theory and practice capable of addressing the aspirations of all women look like? This book explores these fundamental questions about women's needs, experiences, and ideas. Editor(s): Brewer, Mary. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902210636
- ISBN
- 9781902210636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.58
€ 130.58
Hardback. This book traces the evolution of Orthodox Judaism's approach to its nonpracticing brethren, shedding new light on the emergence of Orthodoxy as a specific movement within modern Jewish society. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238655
- ISBN
- 9780812238655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardback. Editor(s): Giorcelli, Cristina; Rabinowitz, Paula. Num Pages: 288 pages, 38 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AKTH; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 33. .
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816678068
- ISBN
- 9780816678068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Paperback. This updated edition of a classic volume incorporates the recent literature regarding the perspectives and arguments about the validity of a psychological model of addiction. Num Pages: 420 pages, references, indexes. BIC Classification: JFSP2; MMZR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 168 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471982319
- ISBN
- 9780471982319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 106.30
€ 106.30
Paperback. Offers an examination of anti-consumerism and explores what this means for the future of the debates. Drawing on interviews with activists across three continents, and offering a discussion of contemporary commentary and theory, this book explores anti-consumerism as cultural interpretation, lifestyle change, and collective action. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745645414
- ISBN
- 9780745645414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.43
€ 27.43
Hardback. Provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of what has come to be called the 'new politics of consumption'. This book offers an examination of anti-consumerism and explores what this means for the future of political debate. It explores anti-consumerism as cultural interpretation, lifestyle change, and collective action. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745645407
- ISBN
- 9780745645407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Melikoglu, Koray. Series: Studies in English Literatures. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783898219785
- ISBN
- 9783898219785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 23.22
€ 30.99
€ 23.22
Paperback. This ethnography of violence in Jamaica repudiates cultural explanations for violence, arguing that its roots lie in deep racialized and gendered inequalities produced in imperial slave economies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350866
- ISBN
- 9780822350866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. Focused on marital immigration from China to Taiwan, the book documents the struggles of these women and men as they seek acceptance and recognition in their new home. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 b/w, 2 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; HBTB; JFFN; JHBK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286238
- ISBN
- 9780520286238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. A guide to debate and action. It charts the past and present of international migration and makes practical recommendations that allow everyone to benefit from its unstoppable future growth. It also allows individuals to escape destitution, human rights abuses, and repressive regimes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 37 line illus. 14 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFN; JHBD; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691156316
- ISBN
- 9780691156316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardcover. States that the number of genuine long-livers is exploding and a substantial proportion of new-borns in developed countries may survive to celebrate their 100th birthday. This book examines the storied realms of exceptional longevity. Editor(s): Jeune, Bernard; Vaupel, James W. Num Pages: 169 pages, tables, charts & photos. BIC Classification: 1DND; JFSP31. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 184 x 14. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778381354
- ISBN
- 9788778381354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.59
€ 25.99
€ 19.59