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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Exploring how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and limit the mobility of bodies in geographies of space and race, this book describes the ways contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value; topics include drone warfare, racial profiling in airports, anti-aging therapies and others. Editor(s): Randell-Moon, Holly; Tippet, Ryan. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFMG; JHB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137554079
ISBN
9781137554079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.98

Paperback. When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This book presents an exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. Num Pages: 293 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206984
ISBN
9780520206984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940322783
ISBN
9780940322783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.39

Paperback. .
Publisher
Four Corners Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909829077
ISBN
9781909829077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.10

Paperback. Editor(s): Shiva, Dr Vandana (Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi, India Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi Environmental activist, author and ecofeminist); Vandana, Shiva. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFCV; JFFS; JFSJ1; PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Frog Ltd United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781623170288
ISBN
9781623170288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Publisher
Apex Press United States
Number of pages
207
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781891843051
ISBN
9781891843051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.37

Paperback. Offers an alternative view of a world in which cultural mixing, not isolation, is the norm. This book contemplates how ethnic identity can be mobilized in the service of various kinds of goals - violent or nonviolent, laudable or despicable - and the unintended affects such mobilization invariably produces. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295989501
ISBN
9780295989501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Winner of the 2007 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise! Num Pages: 306 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HPQ; HRA; HRAM; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534937
ISBN
9781349534937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 306 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HRLB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403974358
ISBN
9781403974358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.37

Paperback. Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 259 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745664262
ISBN
9780745664262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99

hardcover. Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780745664255
ISBN
9780745664255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Paperback. Environmental history has traditionally told the story of Man and Nature. This book reintroduces gender as a meaningful category of analysis for environmental history, showing how women's actions, desires and choices have shaped the world and seeing men as gendered actors as well. Editor(s): Scharff, Virginia J. (Professor of History, University of New Mexico, USA). Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBT; JFSJ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612857
ISBN
9780700612857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.85

Hardback. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137476647
ISBN
9781137476647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.17

Hardback. If you're going to have an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book takes on one of the few topics that haven't figured in the heated debate over health care reform - the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment. Num Pages: 352 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: JFFJ; MBP; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674049055
ISBN
9780674049055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.10

Paperback. From 1918 into the early twenties, any African American who spoke out forcefully for their race-editors, union organizers, civil rights advocates, radical political activists, and Pan-Africanists - were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. This title presents an account of this story. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253213549
ISBN
9780253213549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.40

Hardcover. Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, the author demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period - and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 colour plates, 78 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; ACK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226169125
ISBN
9780226169125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.10
€ 49.03

Hardback. Traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. This title explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFCA; JFSL3; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056107
ISBN
9780674056107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. While religious history and intellectual history are both active, dynamic fields of contemporary historical inquiry, historians of ideas and historians of religion have too often paid little attention to one another's work. This title includes essays that show the issues related to the study of the history of religious ideas. Editor(s): Chapman, Alister; Coffey, John; Gregory, Brad S. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022983
ISBN
9780268022983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFZ; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330523646
ISBN
9780330523646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780800725327
ISBN
9780800725327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.96

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