Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349428151
- ISBN
- 9781349428151
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Condition: New
€ 118.69
€ 118.69
Paperback. Most Americans see the American Dream lying not in wealth and riches, but rather in economic security, pursuing one's passions, and looking forward to the future. Yet nearly 80 percent of the population will experience significant economic insecurity at some point between the ages of 25 and 60. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; JFF; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190467029
- ISBN
- 9780190467029
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.25
€ 25.99
€ 23.25
Hardback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137560995
- ISBN
- 9781137560995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.53
€ 98.53
Paperback. Details missed opportunity in the newspaper industry's diversity efforts Series: History of Communication. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; GTC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 175 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252078941
- ISBN
- 9780252078941
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Condition: New
€ 28.02
€ 28.02
hardcover. Chasing Dragons discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFH1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092878
- ISBN
- 9780802092878
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Condition: New
€ 81.91
€ 81.91
Paperback. This is a collection essays written by F.H. Cardoso during his tenure as President of Brazil. They document the transformation of Cardoso's economic and political approach and span Cardoso's early theoretical work through his pragmatic agenda for Brazil in a rapidly changing world economy. Editor(s): Font, Mauricio A. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFFS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508934
- ISBN
- 9780742508934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 89.83
€ 89.83
Hardback. How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 maps 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JFC; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691027739
- ISBN
- 9780691027739
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Condition: New
€ 53.15€ 41.64
€ 53.15
€ 41.64
Paperback. Bringing together many of today's key scholars of verbal charming, these essays cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia. As the most comprehensive collection of research on charms, charmers and charming available in the English language, it forms an essential reader on the topic. Editor(s): Roper, Jonathan. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD; HBTB; HRAC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362509
- ISBN
- 9781349362509
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Condition: New
€ 170.32
€ 170.32
Paperback. Dean Duncan provides a critical survey of the aesthetics of classical music in film. Exploring tensions between high art and commercial culture, he examines how directors quote themes and classical passages in genres ranging from the Soviet avant garde to Hollywood romances. Series: Communications & Media Studies. Num Pages: 211 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; AVGC4; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 17. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823222803
- ISBN
- 9780823222803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.30
€ 42.99
€ 42.30
Hardback. Dean Duncan provides a critical survey of the aesthetics of classical music in film. Exploring tensions between high art and commercial culture, he examines how directors quote themes and classical passages in genres ranging from the Soviet avant garde to Hollywood romances. Series: Communications & Media Studies. Num Pages: 211 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; AVGC4; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823222797
- ISBN
- 9780823222797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.20
€ 108.20
Hardback. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in soviet and post-soviet culture, this title attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-soviet cynical reason. Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843451
- ISBN
- 9781934843451
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Condition: New
€ 148.39
€ 148.39
Paperback. In this study of sexuality, desire, the body and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: HRE; HRLB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226900544
- ISBN
- 9780226900544
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
€ 40.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. Despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southern globalizing, not yet global. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and local experts to ask what happens when the forces of globalization combine with a city s internal dynamics to reshape local structures, landscapes, and identities." Editor(s): Graves, William; Smith, Heather A. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820343082
- ISBN
- 9780820343082
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Condition: New
€ 43.66
€ 43.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Peter E. Randall Publisher
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937721107
- ISBN
- 9781937721107
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.59
€ 20.99
€ 15.59
Hardcover. A collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the 2015 Charleston, SC massacre, along with excerpts from key scholarly books. It draws from a variety of disciplines history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theory and includes discussion questions and a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading." Editor(s): Williams, Chad; Williams, Kidada; Blain, Keisha. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; 3JMG; JFSL3; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349565
- ISBN
- 9780820349565
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Condition: New
€ 152.65
€ 152.65
Hardback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ACXD; AGB; AGH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633450271
- ISBN
- 9781633450271
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.79
€ 26.99
€ 19.79
Paperback. Shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of ways. This volume features essays which examine Ives' relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. It also shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Editor(s): Burkholder, Peter J. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 464 pages, 13 halftones 3 b&w illus 1 map 50+ music exs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVA; AVGC6; AVH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780691011639
- ISBN
- 9780691011639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.15€ 41.64
€ 53.15
€ 41.64
Hardback. During the era of segregation, the Journal of Negro Education published research vital to overturning racial segregation as public policy. Charles Thompson's editorials inspired and mobilized activists, slowly molding public support for human rights. A major player for the NAACP, Thompson chronicles the highs and lows of the civil rights struggle. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; JN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611475210
- ISBN
- 9781611475210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.19
€ 126.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814735282
- ISBN
- 9780814735282
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.35
€ 31.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCK; JFFT; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714531496
- ISBN
- 9780714531496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.26
€ 19.26