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Society & culture: general

hardcover. This book examines the history of male opinion about women's participation in procreation and explores the status of women in classical Europe, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and today's American procreative policies. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFMA; JFSJ1; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761857587
ISBN
9780761857587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.88

Paperback. These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality", derive from a series of seminars on hospitality conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. They examine "hospitality" and its implications on political and ethical debate. Translator(s): Bowlby, Rachel. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 112 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734066
ISBN
9780804734066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. In developing his own conception of the 'figure', Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. Newly available in paperback. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; HPN; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. 208 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. In developing his own conception of the 'figure', Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. Newly available in paperback. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; HPN; JFSR1. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 13. Weight: 334.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643172
ISBN
9780748643172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Offers a collection of stories, essays, and poems by a range of Indian writers. This title challenges cozy assumptions about motherhood to reveal messy but affirming truths about this vital role and the way we experience it. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
284
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
SKU
V9789381017869
ISBN
9789381017869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.29

Paperback. A sensitive and original reading of Plato's Republic that foregrounds the power of myth in the shaping of history. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HPCA; JFHF; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253214850
ISBN
9780253214850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Presents a fresh sociological understanding of the relationship between social exclusion and mental disability. This book examines the way insanity became synonymous with other afflictions: homelessness, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; JM; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134045
ISBN
9781592134045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. This stunning work illuminates today's black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets. Editor(s): Warr, Michael. Num Pages: 288 pages, 75 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCP; DCQ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393352733
ISBN
9780393352733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.55

Paperback. The second in a three-volume study, this volume explores colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. It shows how the relationship between the British evangelists and the Southern Tswana created complex exchanges of goods, signs and cultural markers which affected both Africans and Britons. Num Pages: 606 pages, 33 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBTQ; HBTR; HRCX7; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 192 x 231 x 40. Weight in Grams: 948.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
606
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226114446
ISBN
9780226114446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.35

Hardback. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTG; JFSR2; JHM; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691164441
ISBN
9780691164441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 46.32

paperback. Bringing cognitive methodologies to the analysis of Chicano/a fiction for the first time, this book maps ethics of "persistence" and "transformation" in the fiction of Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Rolando Hinojosa, Arturo Islas, John Rechy, Alfredo Vea, and Helena Maria Viramontes Series: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292743977
ISBN
9780292743977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. This is a collection of creative works by photographers, writers, poets and artists from Vietnam and its diasporas, and critical pieces by scholars in the fields of anthropology, art history, history, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American and Vietnamese Francophone literary and cultural studies. Editor(s): Winston, Jane Bradley; Chau-Pech, Leakthina. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMV; DQ; DSBH; GTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 543.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312238728
ISBN
9780312238728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.97

This index helps to illuminate why women's sexuality, dress, and image so compel militant Muslim outrage and sometimes violent action, revealing a deeper human story of how women's status defines competing moral visions of society and why this present clash is erupting with such ferocity. Series: Themes in Global Social Change. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407531
ISBN
9781421407531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.57

Paperback. This index helps to illuminate why women's sexuality, dress, and image so compel militant Muslim outrage and sometimes violent action, revealing a deeper human story of how women's status defines competing moral visions of society and why this present clash is erupting with such ferocity. Series: Themes in Global Social Change. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407548
ISBN
9781421407548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.66

Hardcover. Digs deep into the terrain of fatherhood. This title explores the nature and aftereffects of combat, the culture of fear during the Cold War, the ways that fear altered the lives of racial and sexual minorities, and how the civil rights movement affected families both black and white. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226467429
ISBN
9780226467429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.98
€ 101.01

Paperback. Digs deep into the terrain of fatherhood. This title explores the nature and aftereffects of combat, the culture of fear during the Cold War, the ways that fear altered the lives of racial and sexual minorities, and how the civil rights movement affected families both black and white. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226467436
ISBN
9780226467436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.11

Paperback. Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation, Loyola University, Chicago, 2012. Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HPQ; HRAM9; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231173698
ISBN
9780231173698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.15

Hardback. Ten scholars with diverse geographical, theoretical, and topical interests take a close, critical look at the vexed relationship between public identities and the intimate spheres in which they are made. They ask how scholars and activists can engage more creatively with problems encountered on this awkward terrain. Editor(s): Shyrock, Andrew. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750066
ISBN
9780804750066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.49

Paperback. Ten scholars with diverse geographical, theoretical, and topical interests take a close, critical look at the vexed relationship between public identities and the intimate spheres in which they are made. They ask how scholars and activists can engage more creatively with problems encountered on this awkward terrain. Editor(s): Shyrock, Andrew. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750073
ISBN
9780804750073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 164 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 170 x 9. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
164
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763505093
ISBN
9788763505093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.74

Paperback. Exploring how adults mistreat children, this book focuses on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners. Num Pages: 332 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY; JFC; JFHF; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000886
ISBN
9780691000886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback / so. Series: Beitrage Zur Politik Und Zeitgeschichte. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 221.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810020635
ISBN
9783810020635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.03

paperback. Series: Schriftenreihe Medienforschung Der Landesanstalt Fur Medien. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9783663109297
ISBN
9783663109297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.49

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Edeling, Thomas; Jann, Werner; Wagner, Dieter; Reichard, Christoph. Series: Interdisziplinare Organisations- Und Verwaltungsforschung. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810028396
ISBN
9783810028396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.06

Paperback / so. Series: Interdisziplinare Organisations- Und Verwaltungsforschung. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810034069
ISBN
9783810034069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.58

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