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Paperback. Dissects the political debates over contemporary immigration reform in the US Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814758434
- ISBN
- 9780814758434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardback. A day after 'N' first crossed the US border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, he crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. In this book, he details the constraints, deceptions, and humiliations that characterize alien life "amid the shadows." Series: Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038310
- ISBN
- 9780252038310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. Explores how Europe's increasingly powerful border regime meets and interacts with its target - the clandestine migrant. This book examines the subterranean migration flow from Africa to Europe, and shifts the focus from the "illegal immigrants" themselves to the vast industry built around their movements. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282520
- ISBN
- 9780520282520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.23
€ 33.99
€ 30.23
Hardback. Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive, showing that alternative critical imaginings juxtaposed against traditional historical research can help to locate where agency and will may reside. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; AN; HBJH; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363095
- ISBN
- 9780822363095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Paperback. Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive, showing that alternative critical imaginings juxtaposed against traditional historical research can help to locate where agency and will may reside. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; AN; HBJH; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363200
- ISBN
- 9780822363200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. Working alongside migrant Filipina hostesses in Japan, Parrenas investigates the impact of being labeled as trafficked victims and explores what governments should do to improve the lives of global migrants. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFN; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804777117
- ISBN
- 9780804777117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Gagnier, Rolande. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JKV; KCLT; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624178771
- ISBN
- 9781624178771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.87€ 70.85
€ 100.87
€ 70.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; MBPK; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814793107
- ISBN
- 9780814793107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Digital (delivered electronically). BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425582
- ISBN
- 9781474425582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it is. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB; JFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187129
- ISBN
- 9780141187129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.58
€ 15.99
€ 12.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 180 x 16. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- CreateSpace United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781450553117
- ISBN
- 9781450553117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.69
€ 23.99
€ 16.69
Hardback. Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this book, Richmond Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes. Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847689187
- ISBN
- 9780847689187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.73
€ 183.73
Paperback. Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this book, Richmond Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes. Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847689194
- ISBN
- 9780847689194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Explores how North Korean state-sponsored propaganda performances - including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media including posters - shape everyday practice in a country where the performing arts are not only a means of entertainment but also a forceful institution used to regulate, educate, and mobilize people. Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 400 pages, 57 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; AN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472117086
- ISBN
- 9780472117086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.81
€ 97.81
Paperback. Following on from the successful first edition, this book continues to offer a lively introduction to the concepts of language and representation. With helpful exercises and analysis of relevant examples, the new edition examines recent developments throughout the media for all students of film, media and communication. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 black & white halftones, 15 black & white line drawings, 8 black & white tables. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD; YQN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203358
- ISBN
- 9780230203358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.53
€ 50.53
Paperback. Reveals the labor and infrastructure behind news images and how they are circulated. This book looks at the ways image brokers - the people who manage the distribution or restriction of images-construct and culturally mediate the images they circulate. Num Pages: 355 pages, 13 b/w, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286375
- ISBN
- 9780520286375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. This analysis of advocacy - from commercials to public service ads to government propaganda - and its roots in advertising and public relations, uses the story of two organizations, the Committee on Public Information and the Advertising Council to clarify the quandaries it generates. Num Pages: 334 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: JFD; JH; KJSA; KJSP; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226389172
- ISBN
- 9780226389172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761807308
- ISBN
- 9780761807308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.43
€ 135.43
Hardback. A powerful book that provides new interdisciplinary perspective on the functions of still and moving images in political conflict. Editor(s): Eder, Jens; Klonk, Charlotte. Num Pages: 272 pages, 41 colour illustrations, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 247 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526107213
- ISBN
- 9781526107213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.71
€ 169.71
Paperback. Editor(s): Schneider, Birgit; Nocke, Thomas. Num Pages: 388 pages, 66 b/w & 3 colour illus. BIC Classification: AC; JFD; JHB; JPQB; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 226 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837626100
- ISBN
- 9783837626100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.39€ 42.56
€ 53.39
€ 42.56
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813534596
- ISBN
- 9780813534596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 43.30
€ 47.99
€ 43.30
Paperback. Considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. This title assembles a range of collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments, cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits. Editor(s): Landau, Paul Stuart; Kaspin, Deborah D. Num Pages: 396 pages, 79 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1H; AB; GTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 2. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520229495
- ISBN
- 9780520229495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.74
€ 41.99
€ 36.74
Paperback. Explores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism. Translator(s): Maclean, Heather. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326434
- ISBN
- 9780822326434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. An historical guide to the evolution of our modern conception of freedom of the press, which finds expression in laws that protect print journalism and regulate broadcast media. Bollinger argues that this distinction remains meaningful but he advocates a more sophisticated approach to issues of privacy, access, and technology. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; KNTJ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 283.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226063492
- ISBN
- 9780226063492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91