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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Series: War Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; APFA; HBJK; HBLX; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813564029
ISBN
9780813564029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

Paperback. This text tells the story of how the idea that physical suffering could be a path to redemption became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Using documents from criminal cases, it looks at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HRAB; JFCX; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226757544
ISBN
9780226757544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. As a child, Victoria Spry was brutally beaten, neglected and starved by the woman she called Mummy. It took eighteen years of heartache and despair before she found the courage to expose her mum. Tortured is Victoria's gripping story of survival. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Ebury Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091960353
ISBN
9780091960353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Hardback. Why do people enter total institutions -- places that confine and control them around the clock -- and how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman's classic model by introducing the Re-inventive Institution, where members voluntarily commit themselves to pursue regimes of self-improvement. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JHMC; JMH; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230232013
ISBN
9780230232013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHB; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816687770
ISBN
9780816687770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.91

paperback. Designed as an answer to the question of the inclusiveness of the popular culture, this book argues that the values of popular music, media, politics, debates over social issues, and international trade have become everyday propaganda to which everyone relates in some way. Series: Routledge Communication Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780805808926
ISBN
9780805808926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.21

Paperback. Total Quality Management (TQM) is shaping the management of the 1990s. This book is the first to present TQM concepts with social service administrators in mind. With examples drawn from public administration, gerontology, public health and non-profit-making organizations, the book provides sound background information on TQM for practitioners. Series: Sage Human Services Guides. Num Pages: 112 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 170. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Small stain to bottom corner of pages. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0006882
ISBN
9780803949508
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 6. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888394682
ISBN
9780888394682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. This book is Dunham's story of the chaos and conflict that entered her childhood after her mother's early death. In stark prose, she tells of growing up in both black and white households and of the divisions of race and class in Chicago that become the harsh realities of her young life. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFF; JFSL1; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226171128
ISBN
9780226171128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.05

Paperback. The harrowing but ultimately inspirational story of a little girl who was beaten, raped, neglected and despised, but rescued from despair by an angel - her twin sister Lucy. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFE1; VXP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340951293
ISBN
9780340951293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. This book addresses how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet communications. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226870069
ISBN
9780226870069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.58

Paperback. Brings together the author's explorations of emotion and expression. This work also offers "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," and in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion." Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 figure, 1 photo. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330158
ISBN
9780822330158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardcover. This gripping memoir tells the personal story of a man who has lived at the epicenter of the major events of modern Jewish history. From the ashes of Auschwitz to statehood and theingathering of the exiles, Rabbi Sholom Gold has lived through the most traumatic, tragic, and majestic period in the four-thousand-year saga of thr Jewish people. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; BM; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 976.
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House Israel
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652296399
ISBN
9789652296399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 27.57

hardcover. As is the case in Western industrialized countries, Japan is seeing a rise in the number of unmarried couples, later marriages, and divorces. What sets Japan apart, however, is that the percentage of children born out of wedlock has hardly changed in the years. This book provides a study of single motherhood in contemporary Japan. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 tables, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761291
ISBN
9780804761291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.63

Paperback. Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JFF; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813562308
ISBN
9780813562308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.46

Hardback. "Tough Sell: Fighting the Media War in Iraq" takes readers on the behind-the-scenes rollercoaster ride of Tom Basile's time as a civilian adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq during the War or Terror. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; JFD; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612349008
ISBN
9781612349008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.27

hardcover. Providing a synthesis of tourism as a source of injustice and as a means to address inequality throughout the world, this book addresses a wide range of interrelated forms of inequality and routes towards social justice. It also includes relations of class, nation, ethnicity, race, gender, disability and age to social justice initiatives. Editor(s): Cole, S.; Morgan, Nigel. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; KNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 738.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
CABI Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781845936624
ISBN
9781845936624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.91

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
CABI Publishing United Kingdom
Edition
First
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845936907
ISBN
9781845936907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 51.11

Hardcover. Recent years have witnessed a change from the passive, low key use of rural areas for recreation to the explosion of tourism as a highly active and dominant agent of change and control in the countryside and associated rural communities. Editor(s): Butler, Richard W.; Hall, C. Michael; Jenkins, John. Num Pages: 274 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JFSF; KNSG; KNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471976806
ISBN
9780471976806
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.56

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
CABI Publishing United Kingdom
Edition
First
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845936099
ISBN
9781845936099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 209.99

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