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Society & culture: general
paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Press Of America United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761814566
- ISBN
- 9780761814566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.71
€ 74.71
Paperback. Surveying the life, aims, character and inspiration of Muhammad, this classic introduction explains the history, form and chronology of the Qur'an, and gives the views of Muslim and Occidental scholars. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Num Pages: 272 pages, notes, tables, index. BIC Classification: HRH; HRLC1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. 272 pages, notes, tables, index. Surveying the life, aims, character and inspiration of Muhammad, this classic introduction explains the history, form and chronology of the Qur'an, and gives the views of Muslim and Occidental scholars. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRH; HRLC1; JFSR2. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 20. Weight: 352.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748605972
- ISBN
- 9780748605972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.28
€ 37.99
€ 34.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1MTN; 1QMP; 3JM; JFSL9; JHMP; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 10. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772897233
- ISBN
- 9788772897233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.42
€ 30.99
€ 22.42
Paperback. While the transition to Christianity in the Canadian Arctic occurred between the end of the 18th century and the 1950s, the various transformations that happened during this time have not been fully understood. This title looks at Inuit religion, offering a counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. Series: McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Num Pages: 488 pages, 45 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; HR; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773535909
- ISBN
- 9780773535909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
Hardcover. Editor(s): Freeman, Milton M. R.; Foote, A. Lee. Series: Occasional Publications Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL9; RNB; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- CCI Press
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896445458
- ISBN
- 9781896445458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.12€ 40.81
€ 51.12
€ 40.81
Inventaire De La Correspondance De Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1631...
Paul Dibon‡ (Paris). Ed(S): Hans Bots;...
Hardback. Editor(s): Hans Bots; E. Bots-Estourgie. Series: Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees./International Archives of the History of Ideas. Num Pages: 564 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 964.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789024716005
- ISBN
- 9789024716005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 260.54
€ 260.54
Paperback. Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity - and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. This book explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b/w illustrations, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; MBNH3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283459
- ISBN
- 9780520283459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520227408
- ISBN
- 9780520227408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. This study examines certain key elements of the "making" or "inventing" of Lima as Peru's viceregal capital. Through analysis of seventeenth-century ceremonies of state and local religious rituals, this book asserts that colonial Lima was culturally diverse and its rich population more integrated than historiography would suggest. Series: Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536641
- ISBN
- 9781349536641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.49
€ 138.49
Paperback. Presents the history of the idea of popular culture. This book traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century 'discovery' of folk culture to accounts of the cultural impact of globalization. It argues that the idea of popular culture is an invention of intellectuals. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 168 pages, 2. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631234609
- ISBN
- 9780631234609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.14
€ 36.14
Paperback. Examination of Balkan identity in cultural media. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DVW; HBJD; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849042529
- ISBN
- 9781849042529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.95
€ 33.99
€ 30.95
Hardback. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843310723
- ISBN
- 9781843310723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.21
€ 139.21
Hardback. Throughout the twentieth century, popular songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels alternated between representing intelligence as empowering and as threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, Aaron Lecklider cracks open this paradox by examining representations of intelligence to reveal brainpower's stalwart appeal and influence. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244861
- ISBN
- 9780812244861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.15
€ 65.15
Paperback. A major new manifesto for a high-tech future, free from work Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFR; JPF; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784786229
- ISBN
- 9781784786229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.48
€ 21.99
€ 18.48
This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763844
- ISBN
- 9780804763844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.82
€ 38.82
Hardback. Follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures to that of 'high' cultures (literature, essays, press writings, and socio-political literature), showing how motifs specific to 'folkloric antisemitism' migrated to 'intellectual antisemitism'. Translator(s): Adascalitei, Mirela. Series: Studies in Antisemitism. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 40. Weight in Grams: 854.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803220980
- ISBN
- 9780803220980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, 7 b/w & 8 color illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFCA; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 162 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837625110
- ISBN
- 9783837625110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.56
€ 48.99
€ 35.56
Paperback. In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell. Num Pages: 200 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; JFC; JFD; JKVM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226732183
- ISBN
- 9780226732183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book discusses how such gendering occurs, the scientific basis for claims of sex difference, the medicalization of womena s bodies and the political issues raised by reproductive technology. Editor(s): Kirkup, Gill; Keller, Laurie Smith. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cambridge
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745609782
- ISBN
- 9780745609782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.10
€ 35.10
Paperback. Series: Innovation & Technology in the World Economy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JFSG; KCM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804775205
- ISBN
- 9780804775205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02