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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement. This book describes the life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of our most important writers. It is suitable for those interested in American literature and history. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674034013
- ISBN
- 9780674034013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.52
€ 14.99
€ 14.52
hardcover. This book presents the first attempt by a sociologist to unearth the long hadith transmission network from ancient historical sources and analyze it using the most recent qualitative and quantitative analytical tools. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 tables, 38 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804752077
- ISBN
- 9780804752077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.87
€ 87.87
Paperback. This book examines how women experiencing domestic violence employ strategies of resistance and survival, and how narrative therapy helps them define their identities and resist abuse. It demonstrates how an understanding of this resistance can help practitioners effectively intervene and support these women in transitions from abuse to safety. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JKSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849051903
- ISBN
- 9781849051903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.78
€ 38.78
Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801497704
- ISBN
- 9780801497704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.62
€ 41.99
€ 37.62
Hardcover. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617611032
- ISBN
- 9781617611032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.65€ 101.76
€ 145.65
€ 101.76
hardcover. Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253024015
- ISBN
- 9780253024015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.45
€ 60.45
Paperback. The past, we know, informs us. And yet, despite its immense importance for understanding our identity, the reality of the past is curiously inaccessible. This book debates the issues of truth and fiction raised by attempts to recreate the past. The debate highlights the formal mechanisms, the ideological commitments whereby history is constructed. Editor(s): Borch, Marianne. Num Pages: 148 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DS; HB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778384973
- ISBN
- 9788778384973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.40
€ 18.99
€ 15.40
Hardcover. Provides information on the complexity of German policy toward the Jews and the policy of forced labour. This book describes the daily life of the Jewish slave labourers; and traces Reich economic policy and the huge concerns that used slave labour. Translator(s): IBRT. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 ills., 3 maps, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452063
- ISBN
- 9781845452063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.20
€ 162.20
Hardback. Presents a selection of the Nart Sagas. This book features ninety-two tales and includes an appendix offering linguistic commentary. Num Pages: 576 pages, 2 maps. 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 158 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691026473
- ISBN
- 9780691026473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.78
€ 109.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691169149
- ISBN
- 9780691169149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.69
€ 25.99
€ 19.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHC; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392. The Truth Behind the Moon Landings, Censored Photos, and the Face on Mars. 240 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFHC; WNX. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight: 396.
- Publisher
- Career Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781601631497
- ISBN
- 9781601631497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.29
€ 18.29
Paperback. Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4, 4 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTS; JFFJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422558
- ISBN
- 9781421422558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.15
€ 38.99
€ 33.15
paperback. A history of Russia's mighty culture. It covers the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people. Num Pages: 768 pages, 32pp colour illustrations, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AB; HBJD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140297966
- ISBN
- 9780140297966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.68
€ 24.99
€ 16.68
Hardback. A pioneering biography of Nathan Birnbaum, one of the central but largely forgotten founders of Zionism, leader in Jewish nationalism, and theoretician of Orthodox political activism. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804778732
- ISBN
- 9780804778732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.13
€ 87.13
Paperback. Covering a broad range of nationalities and topics, the essays that make up this book suggest that there are many borders to cross in the new scholarship on nation and migration. Editor(s): Gutierrez, David G.; Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette A. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 388 pages, 23, 22 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801892813
- ISBN
- 9780801892813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.82
€ 33.99
€ 28.82
Paperback. How is the Internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? The author combines media studies, ethnography, and African studies to explore this new political paradigm through a striking analysis of how Eritreans in diaspora have used the Internet to shape the course of Eritrean history. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGE; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226144818
- ISBN
- 9780226144818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.06
€ 32.99
€ 26.06
Paperback. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226290317
- ISBN
- 9780226290317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.08
€ 32.99
€ 26.08
Hardcover. Editor(s): Herrmann, Peter; Babacan, Hurriyet. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 264 x 186 x 17. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781622579679
- ISBN
- 9781622579679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 250.19€ 172.53
€ 250.19
€ 172.53
Hardback. This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; JFC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733618
- ISBN
- 9780804733618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.53
€ 167.53
Paperback. Scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. This title covers a range of topics, from simultaneous translation to legal theory, from the language of exile to the language of new nations, and from the press to the cinema. Editor(s): Bermann, Sandra; Wood, Michael. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: CFP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116099
- ISBN
- 9780691116099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.86€ 42.52
€ 52.86
€ 42.52