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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Editor(s): Duncan, Russell; Juncker, Clara. Num Pages: 276 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899589
ISBN
9788772899589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.47

paperback. The uniqueness of the many American ethnicities provides the roots of US identity, yet recognizing those differences often makes Americans feel isolated from the whole. This work relies on the tradition of cultural pluralism to argue that unity and individuality are not mutually exclusive. Series: American Intellectual Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742521988
ISBN
9780742521988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Hardback. The uniqueness of the many American ethnicities provides the roots of US identity, yet recognizing those differences often makes Americans feel isolated from the whole. This work relies on the tradition of cultural pluralism to argue that unity and individuality are not mutually exclusive. Series: American Intellectual Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742521971
ISBN
9780742521971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.90

Paperback. Readers of this book will encounter little-known transnational agrarian movements of the early twentieth century as well as more recent, high-profile global alliances, such as Via Campesina. Editor(s): Borras, Saturnino M., Jr.; Edelman, Marc; Kay, Cristobal. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 3JMC; JFFS; JPW; KNAC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 171 x 19. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405190411
ISBN
9781405190411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.20

Paperback. Presents an ethnographic study of China/US adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. This book also follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions in both China and the US that prepare children and parents for each other; the practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; and more. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 331 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFN; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780814719725
ISBN
9780814719725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. An examination of the difference between communication and transmission that stresses technologies and institutions long overlooked in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations. Translator(s): Rauth, Eric. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113458
ISBN
9780231113458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. Presents an examination of what it means to be a female-bodied trans person. This book allows female-to-male transsexuals to speak for themselves and reveal aspects of female gender diversity that do not fit into the ready-made categories of male and female. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252068256
ISBN
9780252068256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Hardback. Presents a collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. This book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and digital politics. Editor(s): Kinder, Marsha; McPherson, Tara. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 b/w images. BIC Classification: AB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281851
ISBN
9780520281851
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.45

Hardback. Offers a collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and US-based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. Editor(s): Alvarez, Sonia E.; Costa, Claudia de Lima; Feliu, Veronica; Hester, Rebecca; Klahn, Norma; Thayer, Millie. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFFK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 781.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356158
ISBN
9780822356158
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; CFP; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816628636
ISBN
9780816628636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardcover. Offering a discussion of translation and social media through three themes, theory, training and professional practice, this book builds on emerging research in Translation Studies, including references citing recent translation and social media industry data. Topics include the translation of hashtags and the relevance of indexing, among others. Series: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Num Pages: 145 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 6 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 275 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137522542
ISBN
9781137522542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.61

Hardback. Translation and Culture examines the cultural politics of translation that determine the production and dissemination of "the foreign" in domestic cultures as varied as contemporary North America, Europe, and Israel. Editor(s): Faull, Katherine M. Series: Bucknell Review. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482072
ISBN
9781611482072
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.73

Hardback. .
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781443819893
ISBN
9781443819893
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 27.96

Paperback. Translating Women explores women in translation in many contexts, whether they are translators, authors, or characters. Together the contributors show that feminist theory can apply to translation in many new and unexplored ways and that it deserves the full attention of the discipline that helped it become internationally influential. Editor(s): Von Flotow, Luise. Series: Perspectives on Translation. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMC; CFP; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780776607276
ISBN
9780776607276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 41.45

Paperback. "Translating Nations" demonstrates how the approaches to post-colonial theory cross traditional disciplinary boundaries and demand their reinterpretation. Editor(s): Poddar, Prem. Series: Dolphin S. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Aarhus University Press
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772883816
ISBN
9788772883816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.90

Paperback. This volume, which brings together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, body and sexuality. Editor(s): Ko, Dorothy; Zheng, Wang. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405161701
ISBN
9781405161701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.44

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813545226
ISBN
9780813545226
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Paperback. BIC Classification: JFSR. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Springer VS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1. Aufl. 2016 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531180670
ISBN
9783531180670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.57

paperback. Editor(s): Suarez-Orozco, Carola; Abo-Zena, Mona M.; Marks, Amy Kerivan. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814770177
ISBN
9780814770177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847428639
ISBN
9781847428639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.45

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