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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Light Inc United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597842105
ISBN
9781597842105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 113 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; JFC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
113
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607417392
ISBN
9781607417392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 93.36
€ 64.58

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
€ 33.73

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

€ 25.99
€ 21.96

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

€ 50.81
€ 39.73

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

€ 242.65

hardcover. Inventing American Religion traces the history of polling, examining its powerful rise in supplying information about the nation's faith, chronicling its current weaknesses, and tackling the difficult questions of how we should think about polls and surveys in American religion today. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAX; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PR United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190258900
ISBN
9780190258900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 38.97

Hardback. 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: 238 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277373
ISBN
9780520277373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.09
€ 45.72

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
€ 24.43

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
€ 28.07

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

€ 129.13

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

€ 35.55

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
€ 30.50

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

€ 130.32

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

€ 61.11

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

€ 17.63

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

€ 40.41

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

€ 70.24

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
€ 34.63

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

€ 35.99
€ 28.46

hardcover. Series: Suffolk Records Society. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1D; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Monthly Review Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853459606
ISBN
9780853459606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.42

paperback. Series: Cornerstone Books. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1D; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Monthly Review Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853459613
ISBN
9780853459613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.27

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

€ 34.09

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
€ 33.67

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