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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Addresses the topic of the political, cultural and moral effects of other people's mediated suffering. This work offers a theoretical perspective on the role of media in global civil society, and looks at how we might begin to analyse the ways in which distant suffering is portrayed, reproduced and consumed. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761970408
ISBN
9780761970408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.74

paperback. Considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory. Series: Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: AN; APFA; DSG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1062.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253212924
ISBN
9780253212924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.25

Paperback. Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349518
ISBN
9780822349518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.14

Paperback. Drawing on a range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, this title argues that "spectacular realities" are part of the foundation of modern mass society. Num Pages: 243 pages, 50 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFSG; JHBS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356. Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris. 243 pages, 52 b&w photographs, 1 map. Drawing on a range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, this title argues that "spectacular realities" are part of the foundation of modern mass society. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFSG; JHBS; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520221680
ISBN
9780520221680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.13

Hardback. During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, 'whore', celebrity, muse, and creative agent. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 85 b&w illustrations and 50 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1565.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135442
ISBN
9780300135442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.19
€ 41.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 b/w; 6 colour. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSG; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199465132
ISBN
9780199465132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.45

Hardback. Exploring the interface between cultural politics of Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, this book shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of authentic blackness as a cultural identity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928593
ISBN
9780813928593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.34

Paperback. Editor(s): Cohen, Margaret; Prendergast, Christopher. Series: Cultural Politics S. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816625215
ISBN
9780816625215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.18

Hardback. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; HRKN; HRLF; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033047
ISBN
9780674033047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.72

Hardback. Editor(s): Magnusson, Bruce; Zalloua, Zahi. Series: Global Re-Visions. Num Pages: 238 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFFS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295995021
ISBN
9780295995021
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.95

Num Pages: 160 pages, 450 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFCK; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 287 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1192.
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764314032
ISBN
9780764314032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 32.10

Hardback. Num Pages: 468 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1H; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 168 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1400.
Publisher
Daimon Verlag Switzerland
Number of pages
468
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9783856306038
ISBN
9783856306038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.54
€ 62.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Imprint Academic United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845402358
ISBN
9781845402358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.28

Hardback. Editor(s): DeKoven, Marianne; Lundblad, Michael. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152822
ISBN
9780231152822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.01
€ 78.05

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674831858
ISBN
9780674831858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.58
€ 89.60

Hardback. A study of Anglo-American cultural and countercultural exchange from the mid Fifties to the mid-Seventies, Special Relations explores aspects of London modernism, the anti-war movement, student rebellion, black power, the second-wave feminist and gay liberation movements, and transatlantic nostalgia. Num Pages: 392 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804773997
ISBN
9780804773997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.52

Hardback. The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JPV; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 242 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786350404
ISBN
9781786350404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.00

Hardback. This volume carefully examines the relationship between gender, equality, and power across an array of realms: sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, money. It identifies social, political, economic, developmental, and psychological and somatic forces, operating both internally and externally, that complicate the expression and constraint of power. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; LAQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Special
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785607837
ISBN
9781785607837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.83

Hardback. This special issue of SLPS examines the relationship between law and disasters. The papers come from members of the Collaborative Research Network on the Jurisprudence of Disasters within the Law and Society Association. The volume addresses the 'myths' of contemporary disaster law and policy, such as that of society's "invincibility". Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Edition
Special
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785602993
ISBN
9781785602993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.90

Hardback. Editor(s): Banks, Austin. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 239 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634826778
ISBN
9781634826778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.82
€ 143.42

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