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Paperback. One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBK; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745690704
ISBN
9780745690704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.23

Hardcover. Num Pages: 150 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 270 x 185 x 16. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9781600215353
ISBN
9781600215353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.45
€ 79.36

Hardback. Num Pages: 225 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 184 x 20. Weight in Grams: 686.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
225
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781600215360
ISBN
9781600215360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.88
€ 132.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLC; 1KLS; DSA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816622498
ISBN
9780816622498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.17

Hardback. Based on fieldwork conducted among middle-class university students primarily at the national university (UNAM) in Mexico City, this study explores gender relations as reflected in the words macho and machismo. The author concludes that the students use them to denote aspects of their families of origin that they consider unfavorable and aspects of Num Pages: 156 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845454616
ISBN
9781845454616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.54

Hardback. Against Management argues that management is increasingly being seen as a problem, and not a solution. Martin Parker argues that managing is not the only way to organize and that managerialism is a global form of ideology, which is being used to justify considerable cruelty and inequality. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFM; KJG; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 551.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629254
ISBN
9780745629254
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.69

Paperback. In 17th century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. The Duchesse de Montpensier was one of the few exceptions, as this collection of her letters demonstrates. Translator(s): DeJean, Joan. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 96 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 3JD; BJ; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226534923
ISBN
9780226534923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Hardback. It cautions against framing debates over sexual material narrowly in terms of harm to children while highlighting the dangers of surrendering discourse about sexuality to the commercial realm. Series: Reconfiguring American Political History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801878022
ISBN
9780801878022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 49.47

Paperback. 1. This is a wide-ranging Marxist critique of the many forms of post-modernism.2. Callinicos argues that the phenomena identified as post-modernist are not significantly different from the phenomena of modernity as analysed by Marx and Freud. He produces a controversial critique of post-modernists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Baudrillard.3. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745606149
ISBN
9780745606149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.77

Hardback. This book examines differing classroom pedagogies in two early childhood programs serving vulnerable populations in Chicago, one program Reggio Emilia-inspired, while the other uses a more didactic pedagogy. The structure of classroom pedagogies is defined using Basil Bernstein's theories of visible and invisible pedagogy. Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Num Pages: 256 pages, 34 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSC; JFSL; JNF; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137482013
ISBN
9781137482013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.09

Paperback. * Engages readers in issues of current interest in critical theory, deconstruction and philosophy of science. * Includes an extensive bibliography at end of each chapter. * Lucid writing style to appeal to both specialists and non--specialists. . Num Pages: 344 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631198659
ISBN
9780631198659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.96

Hardback.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691155814
ISBN
9780691155814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 halftones. 1 line illus. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHB; LNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated edition with a New Preface
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691163581
ISBN
9780691163581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.42

Paperback. Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306. Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. 216 pages, 1 illustration. Shows how literary representations of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans for individual and collective freedom. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352419
ISBN
9780822352419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFD; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141984124
ISBN
9780141984124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFE; JFFJ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
AK Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849352444
ISBN
9781849352444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.81

Paperback. The first factual record of the contemporary Women's Movement in Northern Ireland. Num Pages: 64 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135. Weight in Grams: 76. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Attic Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0003740
ISBN
9781855940192
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Editor(s): Mendelsohn, Ezra; Hoffman, Stefani; Cohen, Richard. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JFCX; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 232 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782380023
ISBN
9781782380023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.80

Paperback. This is a case study of how three developing countries, Brazil, Uganda and India, all developed broadly similar political devices to combat poverty. It argues that poverty reduction is politically feasible, even under the most daunting of circumstances. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JFFA; JPQB; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849041195
ISBN
9781849041195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.89

Paperback. Argues that European modernity has become inextricably linked with the experience of the warrior and conqueror. This title develops a powerful critique of modernity, and offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341703
ISBN
9780822341703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Hardcover. "In society at large, lives have been drastically altered over this century--as a consequence of increased longevity, advances in science and education, the gender revolution, improvements in public health, and other historical trends and events--but numerous inflexible social structures, roles, and norms have lagged behind. Editor(s): Riley, Matilda White; Kahn, Robert L.; Foner, Anne. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHBL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471016786
ISBN
9780471016786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 306.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400. American Thought and Culture in the 1960s. 272 pages, 15 b&w photographs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFCX. Dimension: 165 x 235 x 16. Weight: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487002
ISBN
9780801487002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; KCK; KCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472943521
ISBN
9781472943521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Hardback. Explores the intricate connections that linked German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War, as they shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; GTC; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 245 x 34. Weight in Grams: 806.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674725140
ISBN
9780674725140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.73
€ 56.34

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