Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics. Editor(s): Childers, Joseph; Hentzi, Gary. Num Pages: 362 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA; GBC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072434
- ISBN
- 9780231072434
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
€ 46.99
€ 33.64
Hardback. All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? This book illuminates the myriad ways in which immigration, racial, and ethnic histories have shaped the contours of contemporary American society. Editor(s): Bayor, Ronald H. Num Pages: 1104 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 179 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119948
- ISBN
- 9780231119948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.77
€ 146.77
Hardback. Presents the Asian American heritage through various sources including speeches, diary entries, editorials, and more. This work tells the story of South and Southeast Asians' transplantation to a new culture, and covers the issues of gender relations and sexuality, racial profiling and stereotyping, and diasporic connections to homeland cultures. Editor(s): Odo, Franklin. Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 37. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110303
- ISBN
- 9780231110303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.35
€ 131.35
Hardback. Addresses questions such as: What are the best anthologies of African-American poetry? What have African-American poets written about such highly charged issues as religion? Politics? Patriotism? Slavery? Racism? Money? Sex? What have they written about Harlem? The civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King Jr? Editor(s): Frankovich, Nicholas; Larzelere, David. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC; GBCR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 180 x 17. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231112345
- ISBN
- 9780231112345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.54€ 111.05
€ 148.54
€ 111.05
Paperback. Editor(s): Harris, Robert L.; Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. Series: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138116
- ISBN
- 9780231138116
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Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 35.96
€ 50.99
€ 35.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231127912
- ISBN
- 9780231127912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Hardback. Offers students of women's history and nineteenth-century American culture with a source of information and interpretation. This book focuses on areas in which scholars have identified changes (such as suffrage and reform), and innovative explorations (for example, work on female sexuality). It features alphabetical encyclopedia-like entries. Series: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; GBC; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109208
- ISBN
- 9780231109208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.66
€ 146.66
Hardback. Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic attempt to take stock of this field of study. Series: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 180 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231115100
- ISBN
- 9780231115100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.32
€ 135.32
Paperback. Series: Columbia Histories of Modern American Life. Num Pages: 512 pages, 75 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; GB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 172 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1016.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121651
- ISBN
- 9780231121651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Covers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics. Editor(s): Kritzman, Lawrence D. Translator(s): DeBevoise, Malcolm. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 206 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 816
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231107907
- ISBN
- 9780231107907
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Hardback. Aiming to provide a corrective to the rhetoric of suspicion and fear surrounding discussions of Muslims in the United States, this book emphasizes Muslims' continuing impact on American society and culture. It also includes records from the large-scale migrations of the 1880s; and racial, ethnic, and religious trends of the 1960s. Editor(s): Curtis, Edward E., IV. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139564
- ISBN
- 9780231139564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.39
€ 165.39
Paperback. Translator(s): King, John. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146418
- ISBN
- 9780231146418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire built by Comanche Indians rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This book uncovers the lost story of Comanches. Series: The Lamar Series in Western History. Num Pages: 512 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations + 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300151176
- ISBN
- 9780300151176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.88
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 588
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803277922
- ISBN
- 9780803277922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.78
€ 32.99
€ 29.78
Paperback. The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644042
- ISBN
- 9780745644042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.30
€ 23.30
Hardback. The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644035
- ISBN
- 9780745644035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Paperback. In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the comfort women - mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by Japanese army - endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. This study reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together determined the fate of Korean comfort women. Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender & Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 halftones, 4 maps, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JJH; HBTB; JFMX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226767772
- ISBN
- 9780226767772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.63
€ 37.99
€ 29.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, 7tabs.5M. BIC Classification: 1H; JFMX; JFSJ1; JHM; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226895079
- ISBN
- 9780226895079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.73
€ 40.99
€ 31.73
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Random House USA Paperbacks
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780375707599
- ISBN
- 9780375707599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.10
€ 20.99
€ 18.10
Paperback. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 line illustrations, 3 maps, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid it. 264 pages, illustrations. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight: 370.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271234
- ISBN
- 9780520271234
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. : A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance. Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JPFB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 117 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350804
- ISBN
- 9781584350804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. This book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence. Series: Extraordinary World. Num Pages: 189 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Bison Books ed.
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803266551
- ISBN
- 9780803266551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
€ 17.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. Gathers some of the author's widely read articles. This book reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work. Num Pages: 322 pages, 2 charts. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520214880
- ISBN
- 9780520214880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Through a study of industry publications over much of the century, shows how the U.S. children's clothing industry produced increasingly refined categories of childhood Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 illus., 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP1; KNSX; TDPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332688
- ISBN
- 9780822332688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.35
€ 27.99
€ 26.35