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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Talks about the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. This book reflects on the momentum of LA's progressive movement, including the 2005 landslide victory of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 8 line illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition,Revised
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520250093
- ISBN
- 9780520250093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Acknowledging that technology is an inescapable aspect of our lives, author and blogger Tim Challies provides guidance and direction for readers who struggle with the changes brought about by the digital revolution. He helps readers understand why digital technology exists and how a Christian can use new technologies with biblical discernment. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Edition
- Exp Upd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310515050
- ISBN
- 9780310515050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.07
€ 16.99
€ 15.07
Paperback. "American Bandstand", one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. This book reveals how the program directed at teens discriminated against black youth and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJPG; APT; JFCA; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272088
- ISBN
- 9780520272088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.98
€ 33.99
€ 24.98
The Niche of Lights (Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Se...
Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali
Hardcover. This work, written towards the end of Al-Ghazali's career as a philosopher, advances the idea that reason can serve as a connection between the devout and God. Exploring the boundary between philosophy and theology, it seeks to understand the role of reality in the perception of the spiritual. Series: Brigham Young University's Islamic Translations S. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPD; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Brigham Young University
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842523530
- ISBN
- 9780842523530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.60
€ 30.99
€ 24.60
Paperback. Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. This title offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German life and politics. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 337 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HPC; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520085558
- ISBN
- 9780520085558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.42
€ 38.99
€ 28.42
Hardback. The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that took Florence Aubenas - one of France's most accomplished undercover journalists - on a journey into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCFM; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651996
- ISBN
- 9780745651996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.95
€ 10.99
€ 9.95
Paperback. A Mexican native, Carrillo has written an insightful study of the relations between sexuality and social change in Mexico during the time of AIDS. Carrillo argues that there is a demand for a new approach to AIDS prevention and education in Mexico. Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender & Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFFH2; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226093031
- ISBN
- 9780226093031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.06
€ 31.99
€ 25.06
The Nightly News Nightmare. Media Coverage of U.S. Presidential Electi...
Farnsworth, Stephen J.; Lichter, S. Robert
Hardback. Num Pages: 246 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442200678
- ISBN
- 9781442200678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.20
€ 162.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 660 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCX; JPF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 39. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845197957
- ISBN
- 9781845197957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 47.27
€ 52.99
€ 47.27
paperback. First published in 1600 in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects, this polemic displays Lucrezia Marinella's knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso. Translator(s): Dunhill, Anne; Panizza, Letizia. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226505466
- ISBN
- 9780226505466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.85
€ 32.99
€ 25.85
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; JFSC; JFSG; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643373
- ISBN
- 9780691643373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.56
€ 117.56
Paperback. What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? Lee Horsley's updated study of the genre, now available in paperback, ranges over hundreds of novels from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218864
- ISBN
- 9780230218864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 124.70
€ 124.70
Hardback. This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'election, a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an extreme identity.. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFS; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454265
- ISBN
- 9781845454265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.45
€ 155.45
Hardback. In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137502865
- ISBN
- 9781137502865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.74
€ 64.74
Paperback. Editor(s): Grusin, Richard. Series: 21st Century Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11. BIC Classification: HP; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816694679
- ISBN
- 9780816694679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.59
€ 30.99
€ 27.59
Paperback. Tasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around the world by millions, they appeal to young and old, affluent and impoverished alike. This title examines the history, manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of instant noodles. Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFCV; JFFT; KNDF; TDCT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276345
- ISBN
- 9780520276345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750967921
- ISBN
- 9780750967921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. Translator(s): Fawcett, Carolyn R. Num Pages: 327 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299595
- ISBN
- 9780942299595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.43
€ 37.99
€ 27.43
Paperback. This is a topical and saleable theme, and should attract a wide general audience. Ulrich Beck is one of today's leading European sociologists, he is best known for his work The Risk Sociey (Sage 1992). This book will have a wide cross-disciplinary appeal. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745613826
- ISBN
- 9780745613826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.89
€ 25.89
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Dunedin Academic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780460352
- ISBN
- 9781780460352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 47.25
€ 52.99
€ 47.25
Hardcover. Who were the Norse gods - the mighty Aesyr, led by Odinn, and the mysterious Vanir? This book describes the myths' origins in pre-Christian Scandinavia and Iceland, and their survival in artefacts and written sources, from Old Norse sagas and poems to the less approving accounts of medieval Christian writers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 102 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 202 x 27. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500251966
- ISBN
- 9780500251966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.98
€ 19.99
€ 15.98
Hardcover. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 152 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1322.
- Publisher
- Taschen
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Sew Rep
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783836550567
- ISBN
- 9783836550567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 28.96
€ 28.96
Hardback. Based on extensive sources, including newspapers, trial documents, and local histories, this gripping account of a seemingly typical woman who achieved extraordinary notoriety will appeal to true crime lovers and historians alike. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19, 7 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BTC; HBJK; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420202
- ISBN
- 9781421420202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.28
€ 41.99
€ 34.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157438
- ISBN
- 9780231157438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82