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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Arab cultural discourse has been slow to respond to changing sexual behaviour. The contributors to this collection pick up the slack, ranging across such disciplines as literature, history, sociology and psychology. Editor(s): Khalaf, Samir; Gagnon, John H. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Saqi Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863569487
ISBN
9780863569487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 44.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFCX; JPA; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 714.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801482533
ISBN
9780801482533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.63

Paperback. Is our sexuality a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have views of sexual norms changed over time? And how have feminism, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? This Very Short Introduction examines these questions and many more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how our sexuality shapes us. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 168 pages, 20 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199298020
ISBN
9780199298020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Describes and analyses contemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference. This title includes essays that elaborate on different aspects of this deadlock of sexual difference. Editor(s): Salecl, Renata. Series: [SIC] Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 672.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324737
ISBN
9780822324737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.75

Paperback. Explodes the myth that self-hatred is the dominant theme in Black identity. This book, using a thorough review of social scientific literature on Negro identity conducted between 1936 and 1967, demonstrates that important themes of mental health and adaptive strength have been frequently overlooked by scholars, both Black and White. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877229490
ISBN
9780877229490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.20

Paperback. In the 1980s - at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities - the Black Arts Movement burst onto the British art scene with breathtaking intensity, changing the nature and perception of British culture irreversibly. This volume presents a history of that movement. Editor(s): Bailey, David A. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 368 pages, 116 (31 in color; 85 in timeline as b/w). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; ACBK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 252 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1132.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334200
ISBN
9780822334200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.21

hardcover. This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the 18th and 19th centuries up through the 2000 census. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHBC; JHBD; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740135
ISBN
9780804740135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.01

Hardback. Shades of Difference examines the significance of skin color in different societies around the world and its effects on relations between and within racial groups. Editor(s): Glenn, Evelyn. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804759984
ISBN
9780804759984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.21

Paperback. What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high school students define white identities, this book offers insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JFSP2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328926
ISBN
9780822328926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 343 pages. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
343
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877739746
ISBN
9780877739746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 28.18

Paperback. Places the events of the 1990s in the context of the author's family's experience through a period of over 100 years, culminating in her own flight from Serbian forces in 1999. This work presents a story of endurance, love and hope. Series: Non-Fiction. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DVWYK; BGHA; HBJD; HBLW3; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905207138
ISBN
9781905207138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. Focuses on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the 'shadow mothers' they hire. The author illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520266971
ISBN
9780520266971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.10

Paperback. Within the self, and its implications in male/female relations, Jessica Benjamin continues her exploration of intersubjectivity and gender, taking up questions of contemporary debates in feminist theory and psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JMAF; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415912372
ISBN
9780415912372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.59

Paperback. Offers the history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians - the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. This book traces the waxing and waning of Columbia River Indian identity from the mid-nineteenth until the late twentieth century. Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSL9; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295990200
ISBN
9780295990200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.53

Paperback. Includes a chapter that looks at the evolving responses to the acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Num Pages: 408 pages, 151 b&w photos, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292705258
ISBN
9780292705258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.70

Hardcover. Shadows in Winter delivers a harrowing and loving account of one widowers path from suffering to survival, and to a rediscovery of himself as a father. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609896
ISBN
9780815609896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300. Clean copy in good to very good condition. Some light shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
3rd ed.
SKU
KRF0006490
ISBN
9780816619573
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
KMK0001881
ISBN
9780816619573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A much anticipated Christian companion to Facing the Shadow. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; JHBK5; MMZR; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gentle Path Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780985063351
ISBN
9780985063351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.80

paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
twentieth anniversary edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231178679
ISBN
9780231178679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.60

Paperback. Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves--in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103459
ISBN
9780231103459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.73

Paperback. Celebrates Shakespeare's influence on American culture. This book contains essays which explore Shakespeare's influence on America's cultural history from a variety of perspectives. It includes essays from the colonial period, to the adoption of Shakespeare as an "American genius" in the nineteenth century, to twentieth-century musical comedy. Editor(s): Vaughan, Prof. Virginia Mason; Vaughan, Alden T. Num Pages: 192 pages, 88 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7128 x 5499 x 14. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987156
ISBN
9780295987156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.87

Paperback. This volume examines Asian staging of Western canonical theatre, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822327639
ISBN
9780822327639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.27

Paperback. Considers how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video. Addressing the interplay between the discourses of Shakespeare criticism, film studies, performance studies and cultural studies, the text considers a range of questions about spectatorship, originality and popular culture. Editor(s): Boose, Lynda E.; Burt, Richard. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; APFA; DSGS; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415165853
ISBN
9780415165853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.54

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