Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. This title also investigates the means by which books were sold, and lends insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. Num Pages: 304 pages, 90 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: GL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300164046
- ISBN
- 9780300164046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.40
€ 18.99
€ 15.40
Hardcover. Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory. Editor(s): Cotter-Lynch, Margaret; Herzog, Brad. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619869
- ISBN
- 9780230619869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Paperback. Reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native American women. This collection examines the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms. Editor(s): Hernandez-Avila, Ines. Series: Contemporary Native American Communities. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759103726
- ISBN
- 9780759103726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.44
€ 67.44
Hardback. Sonia Ryang casts new light on the study of North Korean culture and society by reading literary texts as sources of ethnographic data. Ryang focuses critical attention on three central themes--love, war, and self--that reflect the nearly complete overlap of the personal, social, and political realms in North Korean society. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 244 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062474
- ISBN
- 9780674062474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.89
€ 44.99
€ 37.89
Paperback. Reveals the sources of Barack Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. This title traces the origins of his ideas and establishes him as the most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the past century. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFCX; JPA; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- With a New preface by the author
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154336
- ISBN
- 9780691154336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.29
€ 19.99
€ 16.29
Hardback. Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. This title reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFCX; JPA; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147468
- ISBN
- 9780691147468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCX; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press Ithaca
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801488252
- ISBN
- 9780801488252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.30
€ 46.99
€ 42.30
Hardback. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APW; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137576569
- ISBN
- 9781137576569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. This collection of original essays develops new, intertextual approaches to thinking about rock music. Editor(s): Dettmar, Kevin J. H.; Richey, William. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113991
- ISBN
- 9780231113991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.68
€ 36.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies. Editor(s): Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137525031
- ISBN
- 9781137525031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. This study examines the power of literature to affect readers' minds, bodies and souls, the theory of reading, and of mind and body. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349515677
- ISBN
- 9781349515677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. Praised for its unabashed portrait of the Death Care industry, HBO's Six Feet Under is less about the business of death than the art of living well. It was created by Alan Ball and centres on a Pasadena undertakers run by two brothers with their mother and teenage sister making up the dysfunctional family quartet. Editor(s): Akass, Kim; McCabe, Janet. Series: Reading Contemporary Television. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850438090
- ISBN
- 9781850438090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.76
€ 25.99
€ 22.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226312781
- ISBN
- 9780226312781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.61
€ 46.99
€ 36.61
hardcover. Features twelve essays on southern indigence between the World Wars, which share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of the marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. This volume shows that those who work to eradicate poverty can hesitate to cross the line of race, gender, memory, or tradition in pursuit of their goal. Editor(s): Godden, Richard; Crawford, Martin. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJG; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780820327082
- ISBN
- 9780820327082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Hardback. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403967961
- ISBN
- 9781403967961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Betty Joseph offers an account of how archives - and the practice of archiving - shaped colonial ideologies in Britain and British-controlled India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226412030
- ISBN
- 9780226412030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. "The L Word" captured international attention when it appeared on American screens in 2004. Aiming to uncover what makes this show so compelling, this collection brings together leading academics, feminist critics, and journalists to discuss "The L Word". It also includes interviews with the actors Erin Daniels and the writer, Guinevere Turner. Series: Reading Contemporary Television. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA; JFD; JFSK1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845111793
- ISBN
- 9781845111793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.74
€ 24.99
€ 21.74
Hardback. From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance-and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JFCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420608
- ISBN
- 9781421420608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.64€ 47.68
€ 50.64
€ 47.68
Paperback. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807843499
- ISBN
- 9780807843499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.30
€ 43.30
Hardback. Editor(s): Harper, Thomas L.; Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 632 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBD; DSK; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166584
- ISBN
- 9780231166584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.79€ 57.47
€ 72.79
€ 57.47
Hardback. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; DSA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252040481
- ISBN
- 9780252040481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; CJBR; DSA; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081958
- ISBN
- 9780252081958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardcover. This teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by US Latina and Latin American women writers. It should assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, course design and classroom presentation. Editor(s): Quintana, Alvina E. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 2JS; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294137
- ISBN
- 9780312294137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
paperback. Editor(s): Quintana, Alvina E. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBTB; JFSJ; JFSL; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- SKU
- V9781403969453
- ISBN
- 9781403969453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88