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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814794623
ISBN
9780814794623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.44

Hardcover. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 617.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814794616
ISBN
9780814794616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.86

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Loki Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780952942641
ISBN
9780952942641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.27

Paperback. Deals with the contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This title presents a discussion of race, class, and social policy. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Third Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226901411
ISBN
9780226901411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.84

Hardback. The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United States and on government efforts to address employment discrimination Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; KCFM; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
AEI Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780844772448
ISBN
9780844772448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.90
€ 81.24

Paperback. This ambitious, wide-ranging work shows how national economic prosperity and government expansion in Mexico during the 1970's transformed a relatively closed peasant community into a more outwardly connected, socially differentiated society marked by dissension and overt conflict. Num Pages: 324 pages, 19 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JFSF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Edition
Reissue
SKU
V9780804723626
ISBN
9780804723626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 42.10

Hardcover. Combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. The author shows that this tension informs our efforts to coexist ethically and politically, an experience of sharing and separation that informs any decision. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSB; HPN; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226717777
ISBN
9780226717777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.15

Paperback. Editor(s): Pelling, Rowan; Doyle, James; Hodsdon, Amelia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517642
ISBN
9781903517642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.24

Hardcover. While much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always obviously, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: Seminars of Jacques Derrida. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JFMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226144320
ISBN
9780226144320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 33.80

Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231145527
ISBN
9780231145527
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.91

Paperback. The author examines such issues as black suffrage, disengranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013667
ISBN
9780674013667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.44

Series: Plains Histories. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896727182
ISBN
9780896727182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.08

Hardcover. Bestselling author and Editor of THE BOOK OF VIRTUES and conservative thinker William J. Bennett attacks the complacency with which we have accepted the corrupt and corrupting arguments offered in defense of the Clinton administration Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFM; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 700. Very good copy in good dustwrapper. DW has light wear, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0006867
ISBN
9780684813721
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Floris Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863156410
ISBN
9780863156410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.49

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 557.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Regnery Publishing Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781621574897
ISBN
9781621574897
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.76

Hardback. * This is an expanded and updated version of an article that originally appeared in Time Magazine, which caused a sensation in France and elsewhere. * Morrison argues that French culture no longer has the kind of international standing it once did. His discussion ranges from art and fashion to philosophy, literature and cinema. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745649931
ISBN
9780745649931
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.86

Hardback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190469412
ISBN
9780190469412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 20.84

Paperback. Presents eye-witness accounts collected at the time of the surrender and death of the Lakota Sioux resistance warrior. Interviews collected in this book describe in stark detail the surrender and death of Crazy Horse from the perspective of Indian and mixed-blood contemporaries. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803273252
ISBN
9780803273252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.48

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSF; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645124
ISBN
9780691645124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.50

Paperback. Addresses the reactions to the treatment of the 'old' Christian culture of modern Britain, the sixties in religious history, gender and the mutation of Christianity. This book demonstrates the validity of the death of Christian Britain in understanding contemporary religion and culture. Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HRC; JFSR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415471343
ISBN
9780415471343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.78

Paperback. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439913949
ISBN
9781439913949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.75

Hardcover. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFSG; JPQB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 123 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
598
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
50th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679644330
ISBN
9780679644330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.21

Paperback. The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again. 352 pages, illustrations. The "Paul Revere and Tom Paine" (according to Bill Moyers) of media reform propose a bold and controversial response to the current crisis of journalism. Cateogry: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; KNTJ. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 28. Weight: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nation Books
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568586366
ISBN
9781568586366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.59

hardcover. Editor(s): Erting, Carol J.; etc. Num Pages: 942 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1864.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
942
Condition
New
SKU
V9781563680267
ISBN
9781563680267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.19
€ 96.78

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