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Society & culture: general
Paperback. This text provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. It examines topics such as role of melody in generating rhythm. Num Pages: 210 pages, 15 halftones, 14 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AVGH; JFSP1; JFSP2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226055114
- ISBN
- 9780226055114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.64
€ 40.99
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Paperback. In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. This title tells the story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1K; 3H; JFHF; RGR; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571243785
- ISBN
- 9780571243785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.01
€ 17.99
€ 13.01
Venezuela Reframed: Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms o...
Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez
Paperback. Bolivarian governments it would seem, have enfranchised the indigenous population in Venezuela like nowhere before, this book however shows that these governments are still falling short of materializing constitutional ideals of indigenous free-determination and explains why. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JFSL9; JPFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783601974
- ISBN
- 9781783601974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.69
€ 31.99
€ 26.69
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Officina Libraria
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788899765293
- ISBN
- 9788899765293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.53
€ 17.99
€ 16.53
Hardback. Offers an analysis of masking in Venice city. This title explores the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. Num Pages: 336 pages, 52 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; ASZP; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 670. Masks in the Serene Republic. 336 pages, Illustrations. Offers an analysis of masking in Venice city. This title explores the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DST; ASZP; HBTB; JFCK. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 32. Weight: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267718
- ISBN
- 9780520267718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.47€ 64.89
€ 83.47
€ 64.89
Paperback. Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side. The author invites the reader on an ethnographic tour of this legendary California beach community and the people who live there. Num Pages: 312 pages, 18 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448. A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles. 312 pages, 18 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables. Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side. The author invites the reader on an ethnographic tour of this legendary California beach community and the people who live there. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSG. Dimension: 150 x 226 x 18. Weight: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226140018
- ISBN
- 9780226140018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.56
€ 41.99
€ 32.56
Paperback. Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as "Through the Looking Glass", lurks the spectre of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. The author considers the relationships between adults and children, and adults and their own childhood selves. Num Pages: 464 pages, 39 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSY; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226448169
- ISBN
- 9780226448169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.64
€ 40.99
€ 31.64
Paperback. Editor(s): Brenkman, John. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140. Weight in Grams: 401. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- G&B Arts International
- Number of pages
- 172
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KEX0208395
- ISBN
- 9789057013911
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Records the relationship that developed between the author and Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society - except arms and legs. This work argues that DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 299 pages, 21 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFSJ1; JHMC; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520217164
- ISBN
- 9780520217164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.55
€ 35.99
€ 26.55
Hardback. This is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth . Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631147152
- ISBN
- 9780631147152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.61
€ 105.61
Hardcover. This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanzibar, and Lilongwe, and the workings of power in the planning processes for each city. It covers colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629726
- ISBN
- 9780815629726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.97
€ 56.97
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631790
- ISBN
- 9780691631790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Blake, Megan; Reid, Bonnie; Bourke, Annie. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 2AB; DSB; JFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 12th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925495065
- ISBN
- 9781925495065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.32
€ 18.99
€ 15.32
Hardback. This book is about religious change. More particularly it is about the changes brought about when Christianity was introduced to a remote tribal group in the highlands of what is now Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Series: American Society of Missiology Dissertation Series. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HRCV; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761807605
- ISBN
- 9780761807605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.53
€ 133.53
Hardback. Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, Kirsten Fudeman demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812242508
- ISBN
- 9780812242508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.38
€ 89.38
Hardcover. Examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. This book sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSC; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993690
- ISBN
- 9780295993690
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.57
€ 132.57
Paperback. The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes. 312 pages, 8 photographs, 3 maps, 3 figures. Shows how the General Resettlement in the Andes added another layer to a complex web of settlement rather than displacing or destroying it. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; JFSL9. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 19. Weight: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353102
- ISBN
- 9780822353102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155684
- ISBN
- 9781903155684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.17
€ 19.99
€ 19.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061914317
- ISBN
- 9780061914317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.48
€ 15.99
€ 14.48
Paperback. An overview of Roman women's roles and functions in religion and, by extension, in Rome's history and culture during both the republic and the empire. This work examines major female deities and cults, to show how conservative Roman society adopted and integrated Greek culture into its mythic history, artistic expressions, and religion. Num Pages: 222 pages, 9 b&w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 3D; HRKP; HRLF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292716940
- ISBN
- 9780292716940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51