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Hardback. The question of individuality in non-European, and especially South Asian societies is a controversial one. Studies in anthropology and psychology undertaken in recent years onconcepts of person and self approach the problem by concentrating on ideologies; the question of practice remains largely neglected. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5 halftones, 3 maps, 20 tables, 20 figs. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; GTF; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 579.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571819031
ISBN
9781571819031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.19

Paperback. They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ..Malcolm X inspired many people in the United States. This autobiography, tells of a young, disenfranchised man whose descent into drug addition, robbery and prison was only reversed by his belief in the rights struggle for black America, and his conversion to the Nation of Islam. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141032726
ISBN
9780141032726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.29

Paperback. Cecelia Ferrazzi's inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her preceding testimony are here transcribed and translated into English, allowing the reader an insight into an unfamiliar sector of the past. Editor(s): Schutte, Anne Jacobson (Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA). Translator(s): Schutte, Anne Jacobson (Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA). Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 134 pages, 1 halftone, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGHA; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 168 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244471
ISBN
9780226244471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.43

Paperback. This is a series of dispatches from the frontline of childhood. The reader is given an insight into the world of a one year old, a world where you're left in the charge of totally inept parents, where everything is the wrong height and where nobody understands a word you say. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JMC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 124. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ebury Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001725
ISBN
9780091880699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Chronicles a harsh world in which young women faced the realities of sex for sale and were deprived of their freedom and identity. This work also tells of the author's life after leaving the geisha house, painting a panorama of the grinding poverty of rural life in wartime Japan. Translator(s): Rowley, G. G. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; BGA; HBJF; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KOC0012729
ISBN
9780099462040
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity. Editor(s): Ashley, Kathleen M.; Gilmore, Leigh; Peters, Gerald (all Professors of English, University of Southern Maine, USA). Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870239007
ISBN
9780870239007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Peterson, Linda (Yale University Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University Yale University Yale University, Connecticut). Series: Nineteenth-Century British Autobiographies. Num Pages: 744 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGA; BGHA; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 759.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
741
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551115559
ISBN
9781551115559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.78

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480614
ISBN
9780801480614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.13

Paperback. Examines the lives and selected writings of five major contemporary French women writers: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde. Part literary criticism and part biography, this book seeks mainly to shed light on how these writers' works illustrate the fine line that separates fact from fiction. Num Pages: 259 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803272583
ISBN
9780803272583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.34

Hardcover. This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFD; JFSF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137325266
ISBN
9781137325266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFD; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349459292
ISBN
9781349459292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.72

Paperback. A study of autobiographies as sources for Jewish history. Series: Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295984162
ISBN
9780295984162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: JFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231146364
ISBN
9780231146364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.80

Paperback. Debbaudt explains how typical manifestations of autism spectrum disorders, such as running away, unsteadiness, impulsive behavior or failure to respond, may be misunderstood by law enforcement professionals, with serious consequences. For individuals with ASDs, he offers advice on how to behave in encounters with law enforcement professionals. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Pub
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853029806
ISBN
9781853029806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.27

Paperback. .
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849056786
ISBN
9781849056786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.11

Paperback. This book engages the perspectives of people with autism, including those who have been considered as the most severely disabled within the autism spectrum. The volume allows a look into the rich and insightful perspectives of people who have heretofore been thought of as uninterested in the world. Series: Qualitative Studies in Psychology. Num Pages: 304 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814799284
ISBN
9780814799284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. The reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic communities. This book focuses on the ways gender influences popular discussion and understanding of autism's causes and effects. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 black and white photographs, 1 chart, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252079894
ISBN
9780252079894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.53

Paperback. An investigation of how popular modernist writers handled their fame. Num Pages: 243 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KBB; BG; C; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814731604
ISBN
9780814731604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.53

Hardcover. This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in late medieval and early modern England. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; 3JB; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137531155
ISBN
9781137531155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.67

Hardcover. Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first study of the imamate in contemporary times with a particular focus on Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary leader of Shi'a Imami Ismaili Muslims. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 2 diagrames. BIC Classification: HRHP; JFC; JFSR2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137428790
ISBN
9781137428790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

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