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Society & culture: general
Hardback. How the baby boomers learned about the world in their most formative years Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JFCA; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439902882
- ISBN
- 9781439902882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.20
€ 43.99
€ 36.20
hardcover. Inventing American Religion traces the history of polling, examining its powerful rise in supplying information about the nation's faith, chronicling its current weaknesses, and tackling the difficult questions of how we should think about polls and surveys in American religion today. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAX; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190258900
- ISBN
- 9780190258900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 40.55
€ 41.99
€ 40.55
Paperback. Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity - and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. This book explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b/w illustrations, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; MBNH3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283459
- ISBN
- 9780520283459
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.77
€ 33.99
€ 24.77
Paperback. Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520227408
- ISBN
- 9780520227408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.22
€ 38.99
€ 28.22
hardcover. The human sciences,including psychology, anthropology and social theory, are widely held to have been born during the 18th century. This study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context and effects of this major intellectual development. Editor(s): Fox, Christopher; Porter, Roy; Wokler, Robert. Num Pages: 357 pages, 5 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBTB; JFCX; JH; JM; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- California University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSK0000435
- ISBN
- 9780520200104
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
Hardback. This groundbreaking biography of Loreta Janeta Velasquez delves into the life of one of America's early celebrities. She claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy, but this book reveals a startling reality that's even more implausible than the myths she created. Num Pages: 277 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBWJ; JFSJ1; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809335220
- ISBN
- 9780809335220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.47
€ 41.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? This title follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFN; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813543109
- ISBN
- 9780813543109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.25
€ 48.25
Paperback. Examination of Balkan identity in cultural media. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DVW; HBJD; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849042529
- ISBN
- 9781849042529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.09
€ 33.99
€ 31.09
Hardback. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843310723
- ISBN
- 9781843310723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.76
€ 133.76
Paperback. Tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. This book traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496804
- ISBN
- 9781558496804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.18
€ 42.18
Hardback. Throughout the twentieth century, popular songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels alternated between representing intelligence as empowering and as threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, Aaron Lecklider cracks open this paradox by examining representations of intelligence to reveal brainpower's stalwart appeal and influence. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244861
- ISBN
- 9780812244861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Paperback. A major new manifesto for a high-tech future, free from work Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFR; JPF; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784786229
- ISBN
- 9781784786229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.45
€ 20.99
€ 18.45
This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763844
- ISBN
- 9780804763844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.75
€ 40.99
€ 40.75
Hardback. Follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures to that of 'high' cultures (literature, essays, press writings, and socio-political literature), showing how motifs specific to 'folkloric antisemitism' migrated to 'intellectual antisemitism'. Translator(s): Adascalitei, Mirela. Series: Studies in Antisemitism. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 40. Weight in Grams: 854.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803220980
- ISBN
- 9780803220980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.53
€ 68.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, 7 b/w & 8 color illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFCA; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 162 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837625110
- ISBN
- 9783837625110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.06
€ 48.99
€ 35.06
hardcover. Series: Suffolk Records Society. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1D; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853459606
- ISBN
- 9780853459606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.81
€ 43.99
€ 36.81
paperback. Series: Cornerstone Books. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1D; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853459613
- ISBN
- 9780853459613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.43
€ 17.99
€ 16.43
Paperback. Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book discusses how such gendering occurs, the scientific basis for claims of sex difference, the medicalization of womena s bodies and the political issues raised by reproductive technology. Editor(s): Kirkup, Gill; Keller, Laurie Smith. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cambridge
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745609782
- ISBN
- 9780745609782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.57
€ 34.57
Paperback. Series: Innovation & Technology in the World Economy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JFSG; KCM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804775205
- ISBN
- 9780804775205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.67
€ 33.99
€ 30.67
Paperback. In this analysis of the processes by which the Zionist idea was realised, Alain Dieckhoff examines the ways in which the competing factions of Zionism negotiated the formation of the Jewish State. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co (Publishers)Ltd
- Number of pages
- 308
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850655954
- ISBN
- 9781850655954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.18
€ 26.99
€ 25.18