Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways. This title shows how the modern national state developed in tandem with social movement mobilization, arguing that to understand the state fully, you cannot ignore the role of political protest. Series: Polity Political Sociology Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646268
- ISBN
- 9780745646268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways. This title shows how the modern national state developed in tandem with social movement mobilization, arguing that to understand the state fully, you cannot ignore the role of political protest. Series: Polity Political Sociology Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646275
- ISBN
- 9780745646275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.74
€ 25.74
Paperback. Series: Borderlines. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFFD; JPA; JPS; LBBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816631674
- ISBN
- 9780816631674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 27.09
€ 27.99
€ 27.09
Paperback. The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Using a broad multicultural approach, "States of Confinement" uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in policing and punishment systems. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK; JFSL1; JKVF; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294502
- ISBN
- 9780312294502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.79€ 46.14
€ 51.79
€ 46.14
Paperback. A New book by one of the most important names on the Polity list. Stan Cohen is one of the world's most respected criminologists, and author of many classic studies in the field. Num Pages: 360 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFFH; JMAL; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745623924
- ISBN
- 9780745623924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.32
€ 26.32
Paperback. Argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography legitimize the state. This book insists that true democracy requires sharing power, not regulation by it. It applies this argument to various topics, from the basis of litigiousness in political life to the appearance on the academic Left of themes of revenge and a thwarted will to power. Num Pages: 219 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029894
- ISBN
- 9780691029894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.41
€ 54.99
€ 39.41
Paperback. Illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative, cross-case perspective. This book emphasizes that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory - its place in social relations and the forms it takes-varies over time. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330639
- ISBN
- 9780822330639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
Paperback. Exploring violence as part of political economy and rejecting stereotypical explanations of African violence as endemic or natural to African cultures, this work examines a continent where the boundaries on acceptable force are always shifting and the distinction between violence by the state and against the state is not always clear. Editor(s): Bay, Edna G.; Donham, Donald L. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; 3JMC; JFFE; JFSP2; JPWS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925776
- ISBN
- 9780813925776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.70
€ 39.70
Paperback. Argues that demographic and environmental stress - the interactions among rapid population growth, environmental degradation, inequality, and emerging scarcities of vital natural resources - represents one important source of turmoil in today's world. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 line illus. 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JFFE; JPB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138350
- ISBN
- 9780691138350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior and how our increasingly media-saturated culture impoverishes our interior lives. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343776
- ISBN
- 9780822343776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback / so. Series: Uni-Taschenbucher. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783322955807
- ISBN
- 9783322955807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.33
€ 79.33
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA1; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138138
- ISBN
- 9780691138138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.93
€ 52.99
€ 37.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFSC; MBNH; VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408872680
- ISBN
- 9781408872680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.17
€ 17.99
€ 13.17
Hardback. Consumption takes place in settings or environments which have both direct and indirect effects on its dynamic path. This title examines microprocessing in consumer activities for status as it interacts with structure in the environments of these activities. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1080.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402070013
- ISBN
- 9781402070013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.71
€ 68.71
Paperback. A book that analyzes status-building techniques - such as self-branding, micro-celebrity, and life-streaming - to show that Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social stratification, demarcated by race, class and gender. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSC; UDBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300209389
- ISBN
- 9780300209389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.94
€ 28.94
Hardcover. Scouted at the age of ten, signed to an international modeling agency by twelve, and now considered the most in-demand model at only eighteen, the author is lucky. In this book, you can get a front row look at the fashion and modeling world, through his eyes, as he shares his personal stories, photographs and letters. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGFA; JFCA; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780593077764
- ISBN
- 9780593077764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.53
€ 23.99
€ 16.53
Paperback. Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. This book recounts individual suicide cases from the Bible and ancient Greeks to the present day and analyzes how ideas about suicide have changed over time. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 206 x 25. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300209365
- ISBN
- 9780300209365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.44
€ 17.99
€ 14.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFCV; JFFK; JPQB; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- Frog Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781623170516
- ISBN
- 9781623170516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 15.06
€ 23.99
€ 15.06
Hardback. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies which play a role in the 'construction' of a Kazakhstani German identity. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kazakhstan. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, 14 figures, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FCZ; JFFN; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785331923
- ISBN
- 9781785331923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.88
€ 154.88
paperback. Donna J. Haraway refigures our current epoch, moving away from the Anthropocene toward the Chthulucene: an epoch in which we stay with the trouble of living and dying on a damaged earth while living with and understanding the nonhuman in complex ways conducive to building more livable futures. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 312 pages, 31 illustrations, incl. 2 in color. BIC Classification: JFFK; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362241
- ISBN
- 9780822362241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.48
€ 31.99
€ 28.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 468 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFC; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The New Press United States
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595587077
- ISBN
- 9781595587077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.38
€ 25.99
€ 24.38
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Periscope
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902932538
- ISBN
- 9781902932538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Hardback. Drawing on sources that include interviews, government documents, patents, sociological and psychological studies, magazines, monographs, scholarly periodicals, film, fiction, and digital gaming, Heitmann and Morales tell a story that highlights both human creativity and some of the paradoxes of American life. Num Pages: 232 pages, 13, 8 black & white halftones, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; PDX; WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412979
- ISBN
- 9781421412979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.19
€ 35.99
€ 30.19
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 19 halftones. 11 line illus. 2 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165127
- ISBN
- 9780691165127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.04€ 44.75
€ 57.04
€ 44.75