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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Editor(s): Mathijs, Ernest. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 662. Popular Culture in Global Context. 224 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Mathijs, Ernest. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight: 660.
Publisher
Wallflower Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904764823
ISBN
9781904764823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.36

Paperback. Publishing essays that examine American societies and cultures in global and local contexts, the journal contributes to the understanding of the United States, its diversity, and its impact on world politics and culture. Editor(s): Villa, Raul Homero; Sanchez, George J. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24, 24 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801882081
ISBN
9780801882081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.53

Paperback. The first book to look beyond the brutal events toward the broad implications of Matt Shepard's story. Loffreda shows how the politics of sexuality unfolds in a remote and sparsely populated area of the country. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; JFFE; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231118590
ISBN
9780231118590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.60

Paperback. What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? "Losing Our Heads" explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. Num Pages: 255 pages, black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814742709
ISBN
9780814742709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

paperback. Despite the expansion of higher education, representation, level of participation and likelihood of academic success remain highest amongst young people from affluent areas and lowest amongst those from deprived neighbourhoods. This report identifies factors which impact upon the minority of disadvantaged young people who enter higher education. Num Pages: 76 pages, 4figs.23tabs. BIC Classification: JFF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
76
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861345080
ISBN
9781861345080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Hardback. Refugee flight, settlement, and repatriation are not static, self-contained, or singular events. Instead, they are three stages of an ongoing process made and mirrored in the lives of real people. For that reason, there is an evident need for historical and longitudinal studies of refugee populations that rise above description.. Series: Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 maps, 5 tables, 7 graphs, 7 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JFFD; JFFN; JFSF; JHM; JPVH1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571810830
ISBN
9781571810830
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.65

paperback. Losing the News is a vivid depiction of the dangers facing fact-based, reported news, but it is also a call to arms. Despite the current crisis, there are many hopeful signs, and Jones closes by looking over the horizon and exploring ways the iron core can be preserved. Series: Institutions of American Democracy Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNJ; JFD; KNT; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780199754144
ISBN
9780199754144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.57

Paperback. This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BM; HBJH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783780990
ISBN
9781783780990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JFH; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Adventures Unlimited Press
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780932813251
ISBN
9780932813251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.29

Paperback. Translator(s): Moshenberg, Daniel. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AMA; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
new edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584351177
ISBN
9781584351177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.39

Paperback. The bestselling author of 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED THE WORLD uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. Updated with thrilling new discoveries for the paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753828854
ISBN
9780753828854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Terpstra's meticulous investigation not only uncovers the sad fate of the lost girls of the Casa della Pieta but explores broader themes, including gender relations, public health, church politics, and the challenges girls and adolescent women faced in Renaissance Florence. Num Pages: 266 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC1; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407722
ISBN
9781421407722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages, 30 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764335686
ISBN
9780764335686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.13

Hardback. Linking the study of business and politics, this book reconstructs the debate over the development of the book trade in 19th-century France. It shows how publishers succeeded in transforming the industry from a tightly controlled trade into a free enterprise, with dramatic but paradoxical consequences for literature in France. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 346 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; CBW; HBJD; JFCA; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035768
ISBN
9780674035768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.08
€ 59.21

Hardback. How can we provide good spatial orientation for people with dementia? This book addresses this question extensively in a selection of professional essays and projects that also carve out specific requirements for various disciplines. Editor(s): Feddersen, Eckhard; Ludtke, Insa. Num Pages: 224 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, 320 colour illustrations, 80 schw.-w. u. 320 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: AM; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 299 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1250.
Publisher
Birkhauser
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9783038215004
ISBN
9783038215004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.29

Hardback. Argues that Islam's cultural stasis is not due to the Muslim faith itself, but to the nature of the sacred it is infused with and that penetrates every aspect of life - spiritual and material. This book shows how the sacred in Islam suspends the acceleration of social time, hinders change, and circumvents secularization and modernity. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QFM; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 280. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129112
ISBN
9780691129112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252040900
ISBN
9780252040900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.19

Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252082382
ISBN
9780252082382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and discoveries born of cultural displacement. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099428664
ISBN
9780099428664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. A lively and eye-opening popular history of Islamic civilisation Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Revised, Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849046893
ISBN
9781849046893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.59

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