Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious "paper families" to subvert immigration policies. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337478
- ISBN
- 9780822337478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Paperback. A book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). Whether examining late-nineteenth-century commercial, or "job" printing, or the Xerox machine and the role of reproduction in our understanding of the document, it reveals a keen eye for vernacular uses of technology. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 photographs. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356578
- ISBN
- 9780822356578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.43
€ 27.99
€ 26.43
Paperback. This book draws together essays that play in various ways upon questions involving books, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Translator(s): Bowlby, Rachel. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746205
- ISBN
- 9780804746205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Hardback. This book draws together essays that play in various ways upon questions involving books, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Translator(s): Bowlby, Rachel. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804746199
- ISBN
- 9780804746199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.57
€ 108.57
Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peop...
Brendan Frederick R. Edwards
paperback. A scholar of library and information science, Canadian studies, and native studies, Edwards traces the introduction of books and print culture to Aboriginal people in Canada from the first endeavors of missionaries in the 1820s to the opening of the first official public library for natives. The overarching question he asks is what the motivations Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBC; CFC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810851139
- ISBN
- 9780810851139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.96
€ 121.96
Paperback. Tango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation's sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerises dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. This title examines the poetics of the tango while describing author's own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances. Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 160 pages, 89 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; ASD; AVGF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321910
- ISBN
- 9780822321910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1FMS; AJCR; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 214 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Blacksmith Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789881900388
- ISBN
- 9789881900388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Hardcover. From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393239614
- ISBN
- 9780393239614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.78
€ 30.99
€ 25.78
Hardback. Series: Global Research Studies. Num Pages: 180 pages, 6 b&w illus., 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDU; HBJD1; JFCV; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253019387
- ISBN
- 9780253019387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.98
€ 86.98
Paperback. Series: Global Research Studies. Num Pages: 6 b&w illus., 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDU; HBJD1; JFCV; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253019462
- ISBN
- 9780253019462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.59
€ 30.99
€ 27.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781605988283
- ISBN
- 9781605988283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.25
€ 16.99
€ 12.25
Hardback. Views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328827
- ISBN
- 9780822328827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.37
€ 113.37
Hardback. A reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231070508
- ISBN
- 9780231070508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.58€ 79.12
€ 104.58
€ 79.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Atlantis Rising LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780990690405
- ISBN
- 9780990690405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.45
€ 18.99
€ 17.45
paperback. This straightforward examination of globalization within a Canadian context considers its effects on sovereignty, covers democratic governance, and looks at the losers and winners of a globalized Canada. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fernwood Books Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552660614
- ISBN
- 9781552660614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.48
€ 25.99
€ 22.48
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Martinsen, Renate; Simonis, Georg. Num Pages: 410 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810014030
- ISBN
- 9783810014030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.79
€ 70.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226505237
- ISBN
- 9780226505237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.83
€ 37.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199945894
- ISBN
- 9780199945894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.77
€ 124.77
Hardback. This text provides a detailed case study of the origins of millenarianism within the vast opera of one of its earliest and most influential Calvinist exponents: the Herborn encyclopaedist Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638). Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367871
- ISBN
- 9780792367871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.62
€ 127.62
Paperback. Reveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure, status, and our experiences of nature and community. Num Pages: 304 pages, 46. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFFN; JHMC; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277779
- ISBN
- 9780520277779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
paperback. Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer exceptional. This title features women who have renounced consumerism and careerism in order to reclaim home and family. It profiles some thirty natural mothers, probing into their choices and asking whether they are reforming or conforming to women's traditional role. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBK; VFXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781566399074
- ISBN
- 9781566399074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.83
€ 31.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. A multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social. It is centered on the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous-a radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 color, 3 tables. BIC Classification: AMV; JFC; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285026
- ISBN
- 9780520285026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DND; JFMD; JFSR2; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173627
- ISBN
- 9780691173627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 14 line illus. 29 tables. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSR2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691161105
- ISBN
- 9780691161105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37