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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Contributing to our understanding of the reasons for the uneven geographic emergence of innovative start-ups and human capital, this book uses extensive datasets from West German regions and advanced econometric tools to confirm a strong relationship between the presence of higher education institutions and innovative start-ups. Series: Contributions to Economics. Num Pages: 179 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; KCP; KFFH; KJMV6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319444611
- ISBN
- 9783319444611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Paperback. Highly topical overview of the future of journalism. Series: RISJ Challenges Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ; UG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784534165
- ISBN
- 9781784534165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.44
€ 25.99
€ 22.44
Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFS; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816619245
- ISBN
- 9780816619245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.82
€ 24.99
€ 22.82
Hardback. This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans. Editor(s): Bateman, Simone; Gayon, Jean; Allouche, Sylvie; Goffette, Jerome; Marzano, Michela. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JFMG; PDR; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137542465
- ISBN
- 9781137542465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Inquiring into Human Enhancement: Interdisciplinary and International ...
Allouche, Sylvie, Gayon, Jean, Marzano, Miche...
Hardcover. Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMG; PDR; PSAD; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137530066
- ISBN
- 9781137530066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardback. Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 maps, Line drawings, black & white|Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTQ; JFFN; JFSC; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087240
- ISBN
- 9780719087240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.26
€ 56.26
Paperback. Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ; JFSL; JPQB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 379.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439980
- ISBN
- 9781349439980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.87
€ 61.87
Hardback. Offers an understanding of the nature and the impact of sexual boundary violations. This book provides evidence that the embodiment of sexual violation experience is informed by situated logic and rationality. It argues that the universe of socio-culturally constituted meaning and that of scientifically constructed knowledge are incompatible. Num Pages: 474 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; MBDC; MJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 168 x 35. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 474
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370192
- ISBN
- 9780792370192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.64
€ 189.64
Paperback. Roger Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing or of publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, or narrative ends. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812220469
- ISBN
- 9780812220469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816667406
- ISBN
- 9780816667406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.33
€ 29.99
€ 27.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JF; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781468440003
- ISBN
- 9781468440003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.02
€ 63.02
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716530473
- ISBN
- 9780716530473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.27
€ 27.99
€ 21.27
paperback. Offers a full-length study of the Australian femocrats published in the United States. This book analyzes the implicit political theory of the femocrats and addresses the issues of strategies for social change, class, race and racism, sexuality and sexual politics, "gendered" experience, and accountability to the women's movement. Series: Women in the Political Economy. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFFK; JPA; JPQ; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Temple University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566393881
- ISBN
- 9781566393881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 37.07
€ 37.99
€ 37.07
Hardback. Series: Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HPCD1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783082315
- ISBN
- 9781783082315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.32
€ 130.32
Hardcover. Num Pages: 150 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; HBJF; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 266 x 18. Weight in Grams: 960.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894898911
- ISBN
- 9781894898911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 27.12
€ 41.99
€ 27.12
Paperback. This volume takes the reader on a tour of 160 homes in and around New York City, from affluent townhouses on Manhattan's Upper East Side and rowhouses in blue-collar Brooklyn to the middle- and upper-class suburbs of Long Island. Num Pages: 278 pages, 66 halftones, 5 maps, 28 line drawings, 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMR; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition, 2nd Printing
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226313689
- ISBN
- 9780226313689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
€ 40.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. Presents the story of the changing life of a community, revealing historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves. This book relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. It reveals their confidence and anxiety. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022522
- ISBN
- 9780674022522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.25
€ 27.99
€ 26.25
Hardcover. Num Pages: 253 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934211710
- ISBN
- 9780934211710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.25
€ 26.99
€ 20.25
Paperback. The notorious Linda Lovelace was America's first Queen of Porn during the decadent 1970s. But at decade's end, Linda, in a complete about-face, emerged as one of the more compelling voices in the feminist movement, denouncing the degradations of her cinematic past. This book tells her story. Num Pages: 640 pages, 75 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGF; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1098.
- Publisher
- Blood Moon Productions, Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936003334
- ISBN
- 9781936003334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Paperback. A disturbing look at the hidden world of organized racism, this text focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews, the author dispels many misconceptions of organized racism. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520240551
- ISBN
- 9780520240551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.51
€ 33.99
€ 24.51