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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice to experts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessing the quality of preparedness in each field, and offering directions for improvement. Num Pages: 274 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 177 x 14. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118112861
- ISBN
- 9781118112861
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Condition: New
€ 121.49
€ 121.49
Paperback. How San Francisco's housing protest movements help us understand global mobilization Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB; JFSG; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909959
- ISBN
- 9781439909959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.38
€ 32.99
€ 32.38
Hardback. How San Francisco's housing protest movements help us understand global mobilization Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909942
- ISBN
- 9781439909942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.80
€ 86.80
hardcover. This book provides an important statement on the underlying social dynamics of local politics in Indonesia following the end of the New Order in 1998. It represents the culmination of a substantial and influential body of work by Hadiz on the political economy of Indonesia's post-authoritarian transition. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFSL3; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768528
- ISBN
- 9780804768528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.75
€ 111.75
Paperback. A work about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Using the case of Indonesia, and comparing it with Thailand and the Philippines, this book seeks to understand the seeming puzzle of how local predatory systems of power remain resilient in the face of international and domestic pressures. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFSL3; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768535
- ISBN
- 9780804768535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.24
€ 27.99
€ 26.24
Paperback. Localization is a manifesto to unite those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. This book details self-reinforcing policies to create local self-sufficiency and shows that there is an alternative to globalization. Num Pages: 304 pages, Index. BIC Classification: JFFS; KC; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382. Very good copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0012255
- ISBN
- 9781853836121
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure "area-based knowledge" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns. Editor(s): Mirsepassi, Ali; Basu, Amrita; Weaver, Frederick S. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFFS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629825
- ISBN
- 9780815629825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.44
€ 27.44
Hardcover. The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure "area-based knowledge" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns. Editor(s): Mirsepassi, Ali; Basu, Amrita; Weaver, Frederick S. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFFS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629634
- ISBN
- 9780815629634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.67
€ 60.67
Hardcover. The focus of the study is Subang Jaya's field of residential affairs, a digitally mediated social field in which residents, civil servants, politicians, online journalists and other social agents struggle over how the locality is to be governed at the dawn of the Information Era.A" Series: Anthropology of Media. Num Pages: 152 pages, 15 ills. BIC Classification: 1FMM; JFD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451972
- ISBN
- 9780857451972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.67
€ 151.67
Paperback. Views Pierre Bourdieu's work within the context of his life and times. Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217325
- ISBN
- 9780253217325
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.70
€ 23.99
€ 23.70
Hardback. A comparative study of Hyderabadi emigrants settling in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates at the end of the twentieth century. It traces Hyderabadi culture and institutions in these places of settlement, looking at the different versions of Hyderabadi history transmitted. Num Pages: 416 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPR; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754422
- ISBN
- 9780804754422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.23
€ 97.23
Paperback. This text uses Nordic ethnography methods and Latin American culture theory to explain how differing groups legitimise their own identities by identifying with notions drawn from folklore. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781859181690
- ISBN
- 9781859181690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.00
€ 21.99
€ 20.00
Paperback. Editor(s): Schiller, Nina Glick; Caglar, Ayse. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801476877
- ISBN
- 9780801476877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.03
€ 41.99
€ 41.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, 3 black & white tables, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415509794
- ISBN
- 9780415509794
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Condition: New
€ 49.52
€ 49.52
Hardcover. An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture. Editor(s): Weiss, Julian; Salih, Sarah. Series: King's College London Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23, 20 colour, 3 black and white. BIC Classification: HBLC1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- King's College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780953983872
- ISBN
- 9780953983872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.16
€ 61.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABQ; JFC; JFFP; JFSG; JFSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Edition
- 25th Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813570976
- ISBN
- 9780813570976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.14
€ 42.99
€ 38.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTF; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816654536
- ISBN
- 9780816654536
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.11
€ 30.99
€ 29.11
paperback. Loiterature distracts attention the way a street conjurer diverts us with his sleight of hand Series: Stages. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803263925
- ISBN
- 9780803263925
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.55
€ 37.99
€ 35.55
paperback. Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. Num Pages: 848 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099422587
- ISBN
- 9780099422587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.94
€ 29.99
€ 23.94
Paperback. London folk tales Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752461854
- ISBN
- 9780752461854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.34
€ 17.99
€ 16.34
Paperback. In which part of North London were wild beasts once thought to roam the sewers? Why did 1920s working-class Londoners wear necklaces of blue beads? Who was the original inspiration for the 'pearly king' costume? This enchanting guide discusses the ancient legends and deep-rooted beliefs that can be found the length and breadth of the city. Num Pages: 464 pages, col. Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099519867
- ISBN
- 9780099519867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.75
€ 19.99
€ 14.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 map illustration. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFCA; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216. Extraordinary But True Stories. 176 pages, 1 map. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFCA; WGF. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 16. Weight: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Anova Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907554971
- ISBN
- 9781907554971
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.67
€ 13.99
€ 10.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752482873
- ISBN
- 9780752482873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.31
€ 13.99
€ 13.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN. Dimension: 152 x 212 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838206073
- ISBN
- 9783838206073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.88
€ 38.99
€ 27.88