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Society & culture: general

Num Pages: 160 pages, 450 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFCK; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 287 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1192.
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764314032
ISBN
9780764314032
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 32.58

Hardback. Editor(s): Magnusson, Bruce; Zalloua, Zahi. Series: Global Re-Visions. Num Pages: 238 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFFS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295995021
ISBN
9780295995021
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.93

Hardback. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; HRKN; HRLF; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033047
ISBN
9780674033047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.46

Paperback. China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified citysca Editor(s): Kloet, Jeroen de; Scheen, Lena. Series: Cities and Cultures. Num Pages: 278 pages, 28 colour 30 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
278
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789089644459
ISBN
9789089644459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 96.00

Paperback. Editor(s): Cohen, Margaret; Prendergast, Christopher. Series: Cultural Politics S. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816625215
ISBN
9780816625215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.52

Hardback. Exploring the interface between cultural politics of Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, this book shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of authentic blackness as a cultural identity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928593
ISBN
9780813928593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.08

Paperback. Exploring the interface between cultural politics of Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, this book shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of authentic blackness as a cultural identity. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928609
ISBN
9780813928609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.64

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 b/w; 6 colour. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSG; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199465132
ISBN
9780199465132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.10

Hardback. During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, 'whore', celebrity, muse, and creative agent. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 85 b&w illustrations and 50 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1565.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135442
ISBN
9780300135442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.49
€ 42.55

Paperback. Drawing on a range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, this title argues that "spectacular realities" are part of the foundation of modern mass society. Num Pages: 243 pages, 50 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFSG; JHBS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356. Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris. 243 pages, 52 b&w photographs, 1 map. Drawing on a range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, this title argues that "spectacular realities" are part of the foundation of modern mass society. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFSG; JHBS; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520221680
ISBN
9780520221680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.80

Paperback. Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349518
ISBN
9780822349518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.32

paperback. Considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory. Series: Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: AN; APFA; DSG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1062.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253212924
ISBN
9780253212924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.37

Paperback. Addresses the topic of the political, cultural and moral effects of other people's mediated suffering. This work offers a theoretical perspective on the role of media in global civil society, and looks at how we might begin to analyse the ways in which distant suffering is portrayed, reproduced and consumed. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761970408
ISBN
9780761970408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.14

Paperback. Tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. This title provides graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country's child wives. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337959
ISBN
9780822337959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.67

Paperback. From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; VXQG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Popular Press 3
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299199548
ISBN
9780299199548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816678969
ISBN
9780816678969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.65

Paperback. Translator(s): Gill, Gillian C. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801493300
ISBN
9780801493300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Tughra Books United States
Number of pages
133
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597842167
ISBN
9781597842167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Paperback. With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 174 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
174
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350408
ISBN
9781584350408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

Hardback. A collection of twelve articles that explore various events in the history of witch-hunting and its demonization of women in American and American women's own use of witchcraft as a source of identity and strength, as well as the complicated relationship between the two. Editor(s): Reis, Elizabeth. Series: The Worlds of Women Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HRQX9; JFSJ1; VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842025768
ISBN
9780842025768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.28

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