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Society & culture: general

Paperback. In Pursuit of Gender advances the study of gender in archaeology with detailed data, a world-wide scope and carefully reasoned conclusions that move into new territory, paving the way towards further research in gender-based theory. Editor(s): Nelson, Sarah Milledge; Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam. Series: Gender and Archaeology. Num Pages: 448 pages, 93 illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759100879
ISBN
9780759100879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.63

Paperback. Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics, but also has a culturally inherited disposition to seek high status. Combined with a favourable political and economic climate, many Koreans have thus been able to achieve it. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; HBJF; HBLW; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674007819
ISBN
9780674007819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.76

Hardcover. This text reconstructs the history of the Sufi Naqshbandi brotherhood and its impact on the North Caucasus (Chechnya and Daghestan) in the early 19th century. It draws on Naqshbandi Arabic sources to explain the pivotal role of Sufism in transforming mountain society. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 maps, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FC; HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 763.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850653844
ISBN
9781850653844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.45
€ 58.90

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

€ 43.99
€ 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

€ 15.99
€ 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

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
€ 22.82

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

Hardback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; HPS; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
120
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319256238
ISBN
9783319256238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

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

€ 37.99
€ 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

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

Hardcover. Interweaving feminist theological ideas, Asian spirituality, and the witnesses of World War II sex slaves, this book offers a new theology of body. It examines the multi-layered meaning of the broken body of Christ from Christological, sacramental, and ecclesiological perspectives, while exploring the centrality of body in theological discourse. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBWQ; HRCM; HRKN; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137334503
ISBN
9781137334503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

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

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

€ 21.99
€ 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

Paperback. This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date. Series Editor(s): Granovetter, Mark. Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFFH1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594. Selling Crack in El Barrio. Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences. 432 pages, 16 b/w illus. 1 table. This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFFH1; JHMC. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight: 576. Series Editor(s) :Granovetter, Mark.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521017114
ISBN
9780521017114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

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

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

€ 95.12
€ 92.36

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

€ 32.99
€ 28.88

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