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Society & culture: general
Paperback. The firstbook-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage.Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art." Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 319 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; D; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349294350
- ISBN
- 9781349294350
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.16
€ 53.36
€ 47.16
Hardcover. Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strategies across the Hollywood film, Broadway theatre and American television industries. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 238 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464. Survival and Prolonged Adaptation. 232 pages, Illustrations. Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strategies across the Hollywood film, Broadway theatre and American television industries. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: APF; JFD. Dimension: 165 x 238 x 17. Weight: 464.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748649587
- ISBN
- 9780748649587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.66€ 103.50
€ 111.66
€ 103.50
Paperback. Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HFMS; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152967
- ISBN
- 9780691152967
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied post apartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HFMS; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152950
- ISBN
- 9780691152950
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Condition: New
€ 108.13€ 84.01
€ 108.13
€ 84.01
Paperback. An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, this title tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering, and the reasons for the profound mourning over their deaths. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226102702
- ISBN
- 9780226102702
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32
Paperback. Drawing from a wide spectrum of literary and autobiographical texts from the past and present, such as Jane Austen's Emma and Tina Turner's I, Tina, Frances L. Restuccia moves from a psychoanalytic explanation of the formation of women melancholics to the cultural co-construction of battered women. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFE3; JFSJ1; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847698295
- ISBN
- 9780847698295
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Condition: New
€ 60.27
€ 60.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444557
- ISBN
- 9781349444557
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Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Hardback. This is a study of the critics of Christianity in philosophic history, discussing the writings of Hume and Gibbon, and looking at other attacks on orthodoxy such as persecution, fanaticism and "the virulence of metaphysics". Series: Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees./International Archives of the History of Ideas. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCM; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 693.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792347859
- ISBN
- 9780792347859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.20
€ 201.20
Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Ingram, A.; Sim, S.; Terry, R.; Baker, J.; La...
Paperback. "Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience"-- Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319497
- ISBN
- 9781349319497
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardback. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 472 pages, 7 illus., 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFFN; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140768
- ISBN
- 9780231140768
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Condition: New
€ 128.11€ 98.65
€ 128.11
€ 98.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1MBFV; HBTB; JFSL9; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781922059710
- ISBN
- 9781922059710
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.67
€ 26.99
€ 20.67
Paperback. Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics. Editor(s): Stewart, M. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457502
- ISBN
- 9781349457502
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. This work shows how immigrants in the USA responded to the Civil War. It stresses the social and political situation in the US from which the phenomonon of the ethnic regiments emerged, the relationships the groups had within larger society, and the impact the war had on the ethnics. Series: North's Civil War. Num Pages: 282 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBW; JFFN; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823218288
- ISBN
- 9780823218288
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.83
€ 41.99
€ 37.83
Paperback. Mema lives in a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her house is a sanctuary for young homosexual men and transvestites. Mema is an AIDS educator and leader of the group. This study follows the transvestites in their daily activities, and analyzes their complicated relations. Series: Worlds of Desire S. Num Pages: 306 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSJ; JFSK2; JMU; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226682570
- ISBN
- 9780226682570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
Hardcover. Provides an integrated view of the five kinds of enabling technologies in terms of knowledge media architectures such as: multimedia and hypermedia, object oriented GUI and visual programming, reusable component software and component integration, network publishing and electronic commerce, and object oriented and multimedia databases. Num Pages: 498 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; JFD; UYQE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 187 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1082.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 498
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471453789
- ISBN
- 9780471453789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 204.42
€ 204.42
Paperback. Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge. Num Pages: 216 pages, 23 figures. BIC Classification: JFD; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 175 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262525435
- ISBN
- 9780262525435
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.83
€ 19.99
€ 14.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 10 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BG; HBJK; HBLW; JFHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Trine Day United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936296057
- ISBN
- 9781936296057
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.51
€ 21.99
€ 19.51
This text offers both first-hand witness to women's resistance to state violence, and insights into the formation of women's community. It describes how political prisoners forged alliances to demand better conditions and to maintain their sanity in the confines of their cramped cell. Translator(s): Booth, Marilyn. Series: Literature of the Middle East S. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; BG; JFSJ1; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520088887
- ISBN
- 9780520088887
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Condition: New
€ 38.14
€ 38.14
Hardback. Once a Soviet scientist, Tarnopolsky became a refusnik activist arguing the right to emigrate. As a result, he spent the year of 1984 in a Siberian labour camp. Scenes of camp life are interspersed with essays on topics such as the Russian mentality, moral choices, and modern Jewish problems. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPN; BGA; JFSR1; JPVH; JPVR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819191977
- ISBN
- 9780819191977
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Condition: New
€ 124.20
€ 124.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJH; JFFJ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609806828
- ISBN
- 9781609806828
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.55
€ 18.99
€ 16.55
Paperback. Third reprint of memoirs that have not ceased to fascinate since the first edition. Winner of H.H. Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction, 1987 Num Pages: 273 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FBH; 1FBP; BGHA; JFSR1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Peter Halban Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870015691
- ISBN
- 9781870015691
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Condition: New
€ 6.35
€ 6.35
Hardback. This full, critical edition of the Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother uses women's experience to depict the emergence of Jewish modernity in Russia in the nineteenth century and comment upon the role of gender in shaping Jewish experience. Translator(s): Magnus, Shulamit S. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: BG; BM; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768795
- ISBN
- 9780804768795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.95
€ 81.95
Paperback. The first translation into English of a startling 1907 memoir of a writer who was born a boy, was raised as a girl, and who lived as a man. Who was the real N.O. Body, and why did he go to such lengths to hide not just his name but his Jewish identity? Translator(s): Simon, Deborah. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812220612
- ISBN
- 9780812220612
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. The first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA; BM; HBJF1; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745333564
- ISBN
- 9780745333564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.07
€ 33.99
€ 23.07