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Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935898
ISBN
9780813935898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.58

Paperback. A study of representation and the "politics of place" through a pedagogy of narrative-forming inquiry and a critical reflection on identity. It seeks to propose a multicultural revision of knowledge that displaces the binarisms of insider/outsider rather than shifting the margin to the centre. Series: Culture & Education Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JH; JNA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 10. Weight in Grams: 255.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847688968
ISBN
9780847688968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.03

paperback. Examines how statutory interpretation has affected the development of three programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children, education for the handicapped, and food stamps. The book explores how these decisions have changed state and national policies and how other institutions-especially Congress-have reacted to them. Num Pages: 358 pages. BIC Classification: JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Printing
SKU
V9780815756637
ISBN
9780815756637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.79

Paperback. Features interviews, critical essays, and commentary that explores South Asian identity and culture. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live 'between the lines' on and between borders, this book reinstates questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance. Editor(s): Vasudeva, Mary. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 301 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566394680
ISBN
9781566394680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.56

Paperback. To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. This work aims to take readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion and into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HRCC92; HRCV; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520233942
ISBN
9780520233942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardcover. Considers the conceptual and political problem of violence in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic, charting an innovative approach to the history of the American Revolution. Its editors and contributors contend that existing scholarship on the Revolution largely ignores questions of power and downplays the Revolution as a contest over sovereignty. Editor(s): Griffin, Patrick; Ingram, Robert G.; Onuf, Peter S.; Schoen, Brian D. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HBWF; JFFE; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936789
ISBN
9780813936789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.96

Paperback. Walzer explores how, within a decade, Israel has evolved from a society that marginalized homosexuals to one that offers some of the most extensive legal protections in the world. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSK1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113953
ISBN
9780231113953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.43

Paperback. A pioneering study of the Chinese cinemas in Shanghai and Hong Kong and the complex connections between them during the period of war, occupation, and civil war. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; APF; GTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804745185
ISBN
9780804745185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardback. The study shows, in chronological fashion, how African women writers in the past five decades have introduced a new, autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision, bringing nuance and vitality to the FGM debate. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756877
ISBN
9780804756877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.69

Paperback. Between Race and Reason engages the work of diverse intellectuals who challenge the university's past and present collusion with racism, violence, militarization, and war and seeks to re-imagine the academy as a uniquely privileged site for critique in the interests of today's urgent imperatives for peace and justice. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770484
ISBN
9780804770484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Between Race and Reason engages the work of diverse intellectuals who challenge the university's past and present collusion with racism, violence, militarization, and war and seeks to re-imagine the academy as a uniquely privileged site for critique in the interests of today's urgent imperatives for peace and justice. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770477
ISBN
9780804770477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.74

Paperback. For many black Americans, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts for independence and abolition highlighted a sense of racial identity and pride. This book traces the relations between Cubans and African-Americans from the abolitionist era to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Editor(s): Fuertes, Digna Castaneda. Num Pages: 328 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; JFSL3; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566395878
ISBN
9781566395878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.38

Hardback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509500338
ISBN
9781509500338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509500345
ISBN
9781509500345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.00

Paperback. Offers an assessment of the non-Jewish defense of Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness from the foundation of the German Reich in 1871 until the ascent of the Nazis in 1932, when befriending Jews became a crime. Alan T. Levenson reveals the dynamic process by which a generally despised minority attracts defenders and supporters. Num Pages: 230 pages, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803245761
ISBN
9780803245761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

Hardback. Editor(s): Hutter, Manfred. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
V&R unipress GmbH Germany
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9783847101581
ISBN
9783847101581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.67
€ 56.66

Paperback. This volume examines how organizations advocating on behalf of youth maneuver between grassroots social movements pressing for reform and the established systems of power and authority to improve conditions for youth in urban communities. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKS; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762113
ISBN
9780804762113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Hardback. This volume examines how organizations advocating on behalf of youth maneuver between grassroots social movements pressing for reform and the established systems of power and authority to improve conditions for youth in urban communities. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKS; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804762106
ISBN
9780804762106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.37

Paperback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231176293
ISBN
9780231176293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. Examines men's relationships with one another in English literature and the ways those relationships affect women. Central to this study is Sedgwick's conception of "male homosocial desire". She argues that the power of male homophobia has radically shaped the ideologies of men and women. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 244 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366. English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Series: Gender and Culture Series. 244 pages, Ill. Examines men's relationships with one another in English literature and the ways those relationships affect women. Central to this study is Sedgwick's conception of "male homosocial desire". She argues that the power of male homophobia has radically shaped the ideologies of men and women. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight: 378.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
244
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231082730
ISBN
9780231082730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

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