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Society & culture: general

hardcover. Just what is a leprechaun? To some, he is full of harmless mischief, guarding his elusive crock of gold. To others, an evil gnome bent on disrupting mortal lives with black magic. Historian & folklorist Bob Curran turns the spotlight on the 'real' leprechaun - mysterious, complex and contradictory. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 205 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
O'Brien Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781847179142
ISBN
9781847179142
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSP1; JMC; VFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231151627
ISBN
9780231151627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.81
€ 61.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: JFM; JFSJ1; JKSN; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231151634
ISBN
9780231151634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.28

Paperback. Presents an account of the controversial "Geronimo Campaign" of 1885-86, which offers a firsthand picture of the famous Chiricahua warrior and the men who finally forced his surrender. The author knew most of the people involved in the campaign and was himself in charge of Indian scouts. Num Pages: 265 pages, Ill.M. BIC Classification: 1KB; BG; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
5th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803258402
ISBN
9780803258402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.42

Hardcover. Series: King Legacy (Hardcover). Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Beacon Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807000717
ISBN
9780807000717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMG; JFCA; JPHC; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0014807
ISBN
9780062686480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Looks at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering an evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, this title offers essential information and a number of solutions to policymakers. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 line drawings, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JFSG; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226901268
ISBN
9780226901268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.94

Paperback. Bruce A. Kimball attacks the widely held assumption that the idea of American "professionalism" arose from the proliferation of urban professional positions during the late nineteenth century. This first paperback edition of The "True Professional Ideal" in America argues that the professional ideal can be traced back to the colonial period. Num Pages: 444 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HBTB; JFC; KCF; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847681433
ISBN
9780847681433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.57

Paperback. "Remarkable..a richly detailed, affecting account..Giridharadas seeks less to uplift than illuminate..Which of these men is the "true American" of the title? That there is no simple answer to that question is Giridharadas's finest accomplishment."--Ayad Akhtar, New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; BTP; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393350791
ISBN
9780393350791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.41

Hardback. These three authors address the problems of female authority and authorship by reworking the myths of Phaedra, Ariadne, Hippolytus, and Theseus in plays intended for reading rather than performance. By rewriting Greek tragedy they enact their own displacement within a masculine literary tradition and struggle to define themselves as women writers. Num Pages: 217 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910352
ISBN
9781575910352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.79

Hardcover. Offers a reminder that women haven't done that much, ever, particularly in comparison to all those male geniuses we learnt about in school. This book puts the women back in, but only in their proper place, of course - behind curtains, trussed up in corsets, kneeling in subservience. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; WHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 134. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910931097
ISBN
9781910931097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSL3; JPA; JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195375916
ISBN
9780195375916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRAX; HRJ; HRLM3; JFSR1; JNU; YQN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739130940
ISBN
9780739130940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.09

Hardback. Editor(s): Baker, Houston A.; Simmons, K. Merinda. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169349
ISBN
9780231169349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Baker, Houston A.; Simmons, K. Merinda. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169356
ISBN
9780231169356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Hardcover. Editor(s): Powrie, Phil; Davies, Ann; Babington, Bruce. Num Pages: Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; APFA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Wallflower Press United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904764090
ISBN
9781904764090
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.70

Paperback. Editor(s): Powrie, Phil; Davies, Ann; Babington, Bruce. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; APFA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Wallflower Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904764083
ISBN
9781904764083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 13.87

Paperback. An ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, in which, the author depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 scattered b&w. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBK; LNMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282452
ISBN
9780520282452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class? Series: Exploded Views. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSC; WBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 120 x 3. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552452851
ISBN
9781552452851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.13

Hardback. "This long-awaited book makes available .. the most important collection of material on women's diseases and their treatments for the period from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries."-Social History of Medicine Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812235890
ISBN
9780812235890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.05

Hardback. This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc. Num Pages: 82 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 259.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137550767
ISBN
9781137550767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.46

Paperback. The first scholarly study of the only religion which England has ever given the world; modern pagan witchcraft. It tells the story of its development and nature, and uses that story as a microhistory for a general consideration of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800. Num Pages: 512 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
502
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192854490
ISBN
9780192854490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 347 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFS; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 190 x 18. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Progressive Press United States
Number of pages
347
Condition
New
SKU
V9781615773701
ISBN
9781615773701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 images. BIC Classification: JFH; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601631459
ISBN
9781601631459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.54

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