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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Unequal Health examines why stark differences in health and well-being persist across demographic groups. The third edition features a new chapter on diet, new discussions of substance abuse and the attention it receives depending on who is using, new discussion of the Affordable Care Act and its impact, and more. Num Pages: 214 pages, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; MBN; MBP; MBS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442248502
- ISBN
- 9781442248502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.86
€ 55.86
Paperback. This book shows conclusively that inequalities in health are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the near future. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFFJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447305132
- ISBN
- 9781447305132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.54
€ 50.54
Paperback. Users of social and health care services play an increasingly significant part within systems of local governance. This report examines the strategies user groups adopt to seek their objectives, and explores issues relating to notions of consumerism and citizenship. It should be read by anyone involved in health and social care policy and practice. Num Pages: 120 pages, 2tabs. BIC Classification: JFFG; JPR; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861340566
- ISBN
- 9781861340566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.18
€ 31.99
€ 30.18
Paperback. Did Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with consequences lasting to this day? This book incorporates specific examples from headlines and proposes specific legal remedies that could truly save the world from political, economic and ecological disaster. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFT; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781605095592
- ISBN
- 9781605095592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.28
€ 21.99
€ 20.28
Paperback. Race is a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this relationship, this book lays out how decades of racism helped shape a punitive US drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been ignored by Congress and the courts. Num Pages: 216 pages, 16 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JKVG; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226684628
- ISBN
- 9780226684628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99
€ 40.99
paperback. Editor(s): Foster, Michael Dylan; Gilman, Lisa. Series: Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 188 pages, 16 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 241.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253019400
- ISBN
- 9780253019400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. Series: Women in Culture & Society S. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- V9780226675305
- ISBN
- 9780226675305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.97
€ 59.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 341 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; JFFA; JPQB; KCM; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813142463
- ISBN
- 9780813142463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.27
€ 33.27
Paperback. Telling the personal stories of Australians in Japan and Japanese in Australia, this book explores issues of race, identity and ambition in times of war and peace. These essays illuminate a variety of fascinating lives and individual achievements, from trade to literature and the arts, the media and the justice system. Editor(s): Ackland, Michael; Oliver, Pamela. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Monash Asia Institute
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781876924508
- ISBN
- 9781876924508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.85
€ 32.99
€ 23.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816665082
- ISBN
- 9780816665082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.43
€ 34.43
Paperback. Editor(s): Royal, Derek. Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 330 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535849
- ISBN
- 9781557535849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.24
€ 61.24
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583947227
- ISBN
- 9781583947227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.68
€ 19.99
€ 19.68
Paperback. Shaw, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia; Frances K. Stage, New York University; Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Teachers College, Columbia University; Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University; Kelly Ward, Washington State University; Lisa Wolf-Wendel, University of Kansas Editor(s): Glazer-Raymo, Judith. Num Pages: 320 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801888632
- ISBN
- 9780801888632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.22
€ 32.99
€ 29.22
Paperback. Unfinished Business illuminates the challenges in overcoming the current inequities in public education. Fifty years after Brown v. Editor(s): Noguera, Pedro A.; Wing, Jean Yonemura. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470384442
- ISBN
- 9780470384442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.84
€ 26.84
Paperback. A compelling clarion call for a cultural shift that will enable us all to live more balanced lives Shortlisted for the FT McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015 Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBK; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780748702
- ISBN
- 9781780748702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.97
€ 17.99
€ 13.97
Paperback. Presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 312 pages, 48 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226768106
- ISBN
- 9780226768106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.35
€ 47.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; 3JJ; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271020242
- ISBN
- 9780271020242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.96
€ 62.96
Paperback. The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked in meaning-making? In this experiment in visual thinking, drawn in comics, Nick Sousanis defies conventional discourse to offer readers a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FXZ; HPK; JFC; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 261 x 24. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674744431
- ISBN
- 9780674744431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.83
€ 37.83
hardcover. A unique approach to understanding the changing face of youth transitions, addressing the question of how gender identities are constituted in late modern culture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 172. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847420510
- ISBN
- 9781847420510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.48
€ 167.48
Paperback. A unique approach to understanding the changing face of youth transitions, addressing the question of how gender identities are constituted in late modern culture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSP2; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 175 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847429025
- ISBN
- 9781847429025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.54
€ 50.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE2; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Manor House Publishing Inc Canada
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897453063
- ISBN
- 9781897453063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.88
€ 26.99
€ 18.88
Hardcover. As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations. Num Pages: 236 pages, 11 ills. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFH; MJND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383543
- ISBN
- 9781782383543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.40
€ 135.40
Paperback. Editor(s): Choudry, Aziz; Smith, Adrian A. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFN; JHBL; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629631493
- ISBN
- 9781629631493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.09
€ 20.99
€ 19.09
Paperback. Offers an alternative to the Euro-American warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, this book reveals early rabbis - studious, family-oriented - as exemplars of manhood and the prime objects of female desire in traditional Jewish society. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 433 pages, 16. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSJ; JFSR1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210509
- ISBN
- 9780520210509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.26
€ 38.99
€ 28.26