Society & culture: general
Results 42621 - 42640 of 43441
Society & culture: general
Hardback. By examining the underlying biological and psychological nature of alcoholism and drug taking, this book is intended to present advances in a number of relevant disciplines and to demonstrate some of the problems in collecting and interpreting information from particular groups. Editor(s): Bonner, Adrian; Waterhouse, James. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333645550
- ISBN
- 9780333645550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.60
€ 181.60
Hardback. Experts from psychiatry, psychology, sociology and social work concisely review the addictive process and the characteristic behaviours of women who are dependent on alcohol and/or drugs. Series: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Reviews. Num Pages: 526 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSJ1; JMAL; MMZR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2050.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 526
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896032576
- ISBN
- 9780896032576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.03
€ 198.03
Paperback. This volume reviews recent research into the nature and effects of addiction and considers the usefulness of policies which aim to prevent it. The contributors focus on topics such as smoking, alcoholism, gambling and injecting drug use, examining treatment and the effectiveness of prevention and intervention programmes. Editor(s): Wood, Fiona; Bloor, Mick; Bloor, Michael. Series: Research Highlights in Social Work. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853024382
- ISBN
- 9781853024382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.38
€ 44.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 81 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 7. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631177064
- ISBN
- 9781631177064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.31€ 69.24
€ 100.31
€ 69.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 696 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1111.
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781305943308
- ISBN
- 9781305943308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.40
€ 81.40
Paperback. Drawing on medical anthropology and science and technology studies,the contributors to Addiction Trajectories examine the epistemic, therapeutic, and experiential dimensions of contemporary addiction. Editor(s): Raikhel, Eugene A.; Garriott, William. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353645
- ISBN
- 9780822353645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. Addiction Dilemmas explores the impact of addiction on those closest to the individuals affected and their families. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book discusses the stresses and strains that family members are subjected to, the dilemmas that they face, and the coping strategies that they have found useful. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470977026
- ISBN
- 9780470977026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.14
€ 50.14
Hardcover. Addiction Dilemmas explores the impact of addiction on those closest to the individuals affected and their families. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book discusses the stresses and strains that family members are subjected to, the dilemmas that they face, and the coping strategies that they have found useful. Num Pages: 234 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470977019
- ISBN
- 9780470977019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.71
€ 105.71
Paperback. Takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Num Pages: 456 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160887
- ISBN
- 9780691160887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 26.97
€ 37.99
€ 26.97
Hardback. Stunning and occasionally unsettling, this unique portfolio reveals addiction art as a powerful complement to addiction science. Editor(s): Santora, Patricia B.; Dowell, Margaret L.; Henningfield, Jack E. Num Pages: 184 pages, 61, 61 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; JFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894817
- ISBN
- 9780801894817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.30
€ 37.99
€ 31.30
Hardback. In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women? Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 328 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 239 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359531
- ISBN
- 9780822359531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.67
€ 123.67
paperback. In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women? Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 328 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359968
- ISBN
- 9780822359968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Hardcover. In what is both a critique and a manifesto for cultural change, Stuart Sim explains what we could be doing to cure our addiction to profit, why we ought to be doing it, and how to set about achieving it. Life needn't all be about profit. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420. Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market. 160 pages. In what is both a critique and a manifesto for cultural change, Stuart Sim explains what we could be doing to cure our addiction to profit, why we ought to be doing it, and how to set about achieving it. Life needn't all be about profit. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JF; JP; KC. Dimension: 223 x 161 x 17. Weight: 420.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646715
- ISBN
- 9780748646715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.25
€ 43.99
€ 39.25
Hardback. A spirited exploration of the culture created when advertising becomes not just a central institution, but the central institution. Num Pages: 296 pages, 181 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231103244
- ISBN
- 9780231103244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.86€ 77.94
€ 103.86
€ 77.94
Paperback. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349244584
- ISBN
- 9781349244584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 179.99
€ 179.99
Hardback. Considering patterns of women's employment from 1700 to 1850, this text focuses on Essex to examine contemporary debates such as the sexual division of labour, continuity or change in women's employment, "separate spheres", "domestic ideology", and the effects of capitalism on women's employment. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAS; 3JF; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333633915
- ISBN
- 9780333633915
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.86
€ 180.86
Paperback. An analysis of immigrant life in the USA which focuses on the habits of consumption. The author describes how Jews responded to the prospect of mass consumption, familiarizing themselves with such activities as installment buying, advertising and vacationing. Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life. Num Pages: 276 pages, 17 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFFT; JFSR1; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780231068536
- ISBN
- 9780231068536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
Paperback. Editor(s): Perry, D.; Sederholm, Carl H. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DSA; DSB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298983
- ISBN
- 9781349298983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Hardcover. The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa. Editor(s): Clark, David Alexander. Series: Rethinking International Development Series. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360563
- ISBN
- 9780230360563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige
. Ed(S): Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen; Sandberg, E...
Hardback. Editor(s): Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen; Sandberg, Eric. Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Num Pages: 234 pages, 4 colour illustrations, 4 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFX; D; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319528533
- ISBN
- 9783319528533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.06
€ 130.06