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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Makes available for the generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's "Myth of the Birth of the Hero" and Lord Raglan's "The Hero". In his introduction to this selection from Rank, Raglan, and others, the author charts the history of theorizing about hero myths and compares the approaches of Rank, Raglan, Dundes, and Campbell. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKT; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691020624
- ISBN
- 9780691020624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.19
€ 42.99
€ 31.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFCA; VFVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473608061
- ISBN
- 9781473608061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.94
€ 14.99
€ 11.94
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; JFD; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813145365
- ISBN
- 9780813145365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.02
€ 45.02
Hardback. Challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 240 x 30. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752459547
- ISBN
- 9780752459547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.72
€ 25.99
€ 22.72
Hardback. This work is a comparative study of how these three dramatists seek and devise new models to address the specific conditions of Blacks in America. Each writer relies on a different approach, each powerful, yet apparently contradictory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSG; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817505
- ISBN
- 9780761817505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.14
€ 123.14
Paperback. The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics. Num Pages: 348 pages, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774813891
- ISBN
- 9780774813891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. What is civilization? Why do we need it? And what can civilization offer us in an age of irony? This title explores the nature and aims of civilization, examining how civilizing forces from the Greeks to the Renaissance have shaped and coloured our ideas of what a good existence means. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141031064
- ISBN
- 9780141031064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Historians of religion have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226509853
- ISBN
- 9780226509853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385488587
- ISBN
- 9780385488587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.49
€ 18.99
€ 17.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 186 pages, b/w & colour illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFHF; VXQM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888394828
- ISBN
- 9780888394828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.90
€ 20.99
€ 15.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 191 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475627
- ISBN
- 9780801475627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Looks at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantage are at the root of prison conflict and violence, reflecting the women's pathways to prison. Series: Gender and Justice. Num Pages: 280 pages, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JFSJ1; JKVP1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520288720
- ISBN
- 9780520288720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. Tells of a quest to the ends of the earth, of the villainous usurper King Pelias, of dragons' teeth, of the doom of Hylas, ravished to his end by nymphs who greatly desired him for his beauty, and of Jason's lust for the witch Medea, it speaks to us of more: of sex and gender; of identity and race; and, of colonisation and conquest. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 bw illustrations in 16pp bw plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848857148
- ISBN
- 9781848857148
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.22€ 92.36
€ 94.22
€ 92.36
Paperback. Series: Transgressing Boundaries. Num Pages: 434 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JHBA; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 619.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199733606
- ISBN
- 9780199733606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.85
€ 60.85
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Quest Books,U.S. United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780835607414
- ISBN
- 9780835607414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.88
€ 33.99
€ 28.88
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500051849
- ISBN
- 9780500051849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.19
€ 26.99
€ 19.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872866478
- ISBN
- 9780872866478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.73
€ 17.99
€ 16.73
Paperback. In an engaging narrative format, In Search of the Promised Land tells the story of the Thomas-Rapier family of Nashville, following Sally Thomas and her sons James, Henry, and John to analyze the complex and ambiguous nature of slavery and freedom in the Old South. Series: New Narratives in American History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 43 halftones & 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 120 x 15. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195160888
- ISBN
- 9780195160888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.32
€ 41.32
paperback. Offers a portrayal of a people in transition, clinging to the last vestiges of their fabled culture as they struggle to adapt to the pressures of the modern world. Num Pages: 80 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1HFM; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 215. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Porcupine Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780620212311
- ISBN
- 9780620212311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.57
€ 18.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. Examining how the shared interests of state elites and the middle classes rationalize mistreatment of domestic workers, the author argues that the "premodern" exploitation of migrant domestic workers is at odds with the global expansion of open markets and free trade. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMM; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL; JHBL; JPA; KCLT; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109871
- ISBN
- 9780231109871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.13
€ 42.99
€ 31.13