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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, Puerto Rico Is in the Heart examines the emigration, labor, and political experiences of documentary photographer, human rights activist, and Puerto Rican community leader Frank Espada and considers the cultural impact of neoliberal programs directed at Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans. Num Pages: 148 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: A; D; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331410
- ISBN
- 9781137331410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Paperback. In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Police stops are among the most frequently criticized incidences of racial profiling, and studies have shown that minorities are pulled over at higher rates. This book deftly traces the strange history of the investigatory police stop. Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 line drawings, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFSL; JKSW1; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226113999
- ISBN
- 9780226113999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.45
€ 33.99
€ 26.45
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226113852
- ISBN
- 9780226113852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.42€ 77.43
€ 94.42
€ 77.43
Paperback. Takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World"; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099572350
- ISBN
- 9780099572350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.20
€ 25.99
€ 19.20
paperback. While many cultures eat pumpkin year round, North Americans reserve it for a set of beloved autumn rituals that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. This book shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to connect with nature and our agrarian roots - and, ironically, how this process has revitalized small farms and rural communities. Series: Weyherhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 336 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; WB; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 174 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993324
- ISBN
- 9780295993324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.37
€ 25.99
€ 23.37
Paperback. Examines the difficult lives of young Latino and African American boys caught in a cycles of delinquency in a legal system that limits their opportunities Series: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law. Num Pages: 237 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFSL3; JFSL4; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 237
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814776384
- ISBN
- 9780814776384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.27
€ 32.99
€ 31.27
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814749036
- ISBN
- 9780814749036
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.26
€ 32.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKVP; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First edition, paperback issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822344223
- ISBN
- 9780822344223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. Denies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226766102
- ISBN
- 9780226766102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
€ 32.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. Denies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226766096
- ISBN
- 9780226766096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.42€ 77.43
€ 94.42
€ 77.43
Paperback. A look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women?s prisons and a suggestion that the prison system itself, given its primary functions of custody and punishment, is consistent in thwarting attempts at progressive reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSJ1; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802082749
- ISBN
- 9780802082749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 39.04
€ 42.99
€ 39.04
paperback. This collection, from a range of leading international scholars, looks at penal practice in a variety of different European countries. Noting particularities as well as similarities, such as the overuse of imprisonment and the use of harsher sanctions against the poor, this book questions how we justify and deliver punishment in Europe. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JKV; JKVP; JP; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349439966
- ISBN
- 9781349439966
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Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349441280
- ISBN
- 9781349441280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Mitra analyzes how race and class of immigrant Punjabi taxi drivers influence their settlement patterns in the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032843
- ISBN
- 9781137032843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPL; AVGU; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Publisher
- Carpet Bombing Culture
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908211446
- ISBN
- 9781908211446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.28
€ 19.99
€ 18.28
Hardcover. 1977 is usually associated with West German terrorism, but it witnessed another cultural watershed: punk music. A new reckoning with the legacy of political and aesthetic spaces, this book argues the centrality of punk music for understanding crises of state and terrorist violence, American racism and German fascism, and aesthetic production. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; AVGU; HBJD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343666
- ISBN
- 9781137343666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire and invigorate sociology. It uses punk to think creatively about what sociology is and how it might be conducted and aims to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists at any stage of their careers, from new students to established professors. Num Pages: 90 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGU; JFC; JFS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371201
- ISBN
- 9781137371201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.39
€ 61.39
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFCX; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801438554
- ISBN
- 9780801438554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.97
€ 93.97
A close look at milk and its history as a pure and modern consumer product in American culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 hts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; JFCV; TDCT; TVHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199899128
- ISBN
- 9780199899128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.53
€ 97.53
paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 halftones, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASZP; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816647903
- ISBN
- 9780816647903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.80
€ 24.99
€ 24.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Baker Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801072062
- ISBN
- 9780801072062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.94
€ 21.94
Paperback. Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor." This title offers the novel concept of "design politics" to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 384 pages, 63 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: AM; JFFB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226012452
- ISBN
- 9780226012452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.15
€ 37.99
€ 29.15
Hardback. How can we comprehend the sociopolitical processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing, or genocide? This title demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina while respecting the specificities of each appalling phenomenon. Series: The CERI Series in Comparative Politics & International Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JFFE; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231142823
- ISBN
- 9780231142823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.22
€ 127.22
paperback. In this classic work Mary Douglas identifies the concern for pirity as a key theme at the heart of every society. She reveals its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes tp society, values, cosmology and knowledge. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415289955
- ISBN
- 9780415289955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.92
€ 23.99
€ 21.92