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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Harry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447322566
- ISBN
- 9781447322566
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.59
€ 36.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. Series: Latino Pop Culture. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349505517
- ISBN
- 9781349505517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Paperback. Explains how as a result of British efforts to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBT; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849044721
- ISBN
- 9781849044721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Torres, Denise. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781536103182
- ISBN
- 9781536103182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 93.03€ 72.36
€ 93.03
€ 72.36
Paperback. Motivated by the death of his partner, the author seeks to redefine the closet as a relational construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage--entering it, inhabiting it, and coming out of it--and strategies are offered for reframing difficult closet experiences. Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Left Coast Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781598746204
- ISBN
- 9781598746204
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Condition: New
€ 61.96
€ 61.96
Hardback. The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. Num Pages: 210 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCS; JFSL; JFSP1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422. Childhood, Adolescence, and Autobiography Among the Eveny. 228 pages, 9 ills & tables, 1 map. The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FCS; JFSL; JFSP1; JHMC. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 16. Weight: 422.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 210
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457660
- ISBN
- 9780857457660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.35
€ 162.35
Hardback. Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative, models a new method of studying Talmudic law, and fills out the picture of the cultural life of the rabbis who contributed to the Talmud. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 523.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242997
- ISBN
- 9780812242997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.69
€ 87.69
Paperback. In recentyears controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in representing the past illuminate issues which are central to all literary narrative." Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBAH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314133
- ISBN
- 9781349314133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. A study of distinct forms of mass violence, the narratives each kind demands, and the collective identities constructed from and upon these, this book focuses around readings of popular and influential novels such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349305070
- ISBN
- 9781349305070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Narratology has been conceived as a project that transcends disciplines and media. This book investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. It addresses the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803289932
- ISBN
- 9780803289932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.28
€ 36.99
€ 34.28
Paperback. In this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics are added to the mix. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446186
- ISBN
- 9781349446186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. In this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics are added to the mix. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275448
- ISBN
- 9781137275448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken-or hopes to take-in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story. Num Pages: 304 pages, 22, 10 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417974
- ISBN
- 9781421417974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.75
€ 40.99
€ 34.75
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813552507
- ISBN
- 9780813552507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813552514
- ISBN
- 9780813552514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. Details the life of the author from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 201 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143107309
- ISBN
- 9780143107309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Editor(s): McKivigan, John; Hinks, Peter P.; Kaufman, Heather L. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300204711
- ISBN
- 9780300204711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.02
€ 11.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement. This book describes the life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of our most important writers. It is suitable for those interested in American literature and history. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674034013
- ISBN
- 9780674034013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.50
€ 14.99
€ 14.50
Paperback. Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349332694
- ISBN
- 9781349332694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. This book presents the first attempt by a sociologist to unearth the long hadith transmission network from ancient historical sources and analyze it using the most recent qualitative and quantitative analytical tools. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 tables, 38 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804752077
- ISBN
- 9780804752077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; JFD; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349545056
- ISBN
- 9781349545056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. This book examines how women experiencing domestic violence employ strategies of resistance and survival, and how narrative therapy helps them define their identities and resist abuse. It demonstrates how an understanding of this resistance can help practitioners effectively intervene and support these women in transitions from abuse to safety. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JKSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849051903
- ISBN
- 9781849051903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.82
€ 38.82
Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801497704
- ISBN
- 9780801497704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Hardcover. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617611032
- ISBN
- 9781617611032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.03€ 101.89
€ 146.03
€ 101.89