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Hardback. A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. Editor(s): Jones, Claire L. Series Editor(s): Anderson, Julie. Series: Disability History. Num Pages: 216 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526101426
- ISBN
- 9781526101426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.73
€ 167.73
Paperback. In the first two decades after WWII, social scientist heralded Turkey as an exemplar of a 'modernizing' nation in the Western mold. This book examines the Turkish experiment with modernity from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the fields of history, the social sciences, the humanities, architecture, and urban planning. Editor(s): Bozdogan, Sibel; Kasaba, Resat. Series: Publications on the Near East. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HBJF; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295975979
- ISBN
- 9780295975979
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.98
€ 32.99
€ 29.98
Paperback. Today's discourse on nationalism is engaged by dynamic theoretical models derived from studies in literary criticism, cultural anthropology, socioeconomics, and psychology. This is the first book of its kind to apply this new theoretical framework to the Arab Middle East, with essays by Beth Baron, Fred Halliday, Rashid Khalidi, and Emmanuel Sivan. Editor(s): Gershoni, Israel; Jankowski, James P. Num Pages: 408 pages, 9 photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLW; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106955
- ISBN
- 9780231106955
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. A collection of essays, which embrace environmental philosophy in its broadest sense. It covers topics such as environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, ontology, theology, gender and the environment, and the role of science and technology in forming knowledge about our world. Editor(s): Foltz, Bruce V.; Frodeman, Robert. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: HPC; JFM; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217028
- ISBN
- 9780253217028
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardcover. Includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. This title examines the complex dynamics of race relations and racial meaning in America under the Obama administration. It assesses the meanings of race and religion in America under the Obama administration. Editor(s): Go, Julian. Series Editor(s): Go, Julian. Series: Political Power and Social Theory. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMG; JFSL1; JFSR; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857249111
- ISBN
- 9780857249111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.46
€ 134.46
Paperback. This insightful re-examination of the nature of old age presents a unique theoretical account of the fourth age as the embodiment of the most feared and marginalized aspects of old age, addressing contemporary society's anxieties and offering opportunities for re-framing conceptions of old age. Num Pages: 184 pages, 3 black & white tables, 13 figures. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHBZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383983
- ISBN
- 9781137383983
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Condition: New
€ 57.30
€ 57.30
Paperback. Editor(s): Falkenhayner, Nicole; Langenohl, Andreas; Scheu, Johannes; Schweitzer, Doris; Szulecki, Kacper. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837624724
- ISBN
- 9783837624724
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
Hardback. This book examines how the Security Council has approached issues of gender equality since 2000. Written by academics, activists and practitioners the book challenges the reader to consider how women's participation, gender equality, sexual violence and the prevalence of economic disadvantages might be addressed in post-conflict communities. Editor(s): Heathcote, Gina; Otto, Dianne. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSJ1; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400208
- ISBN
- 9781137400208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Paperback. This book examines how the Security Council has approached issues of gender equality since 2000. Written by academics, activists and practitioners the book challenges the reader to consider how women's participation, gender equality, sexual violence and the prevalence of economic disadvantages might be addressed in post-conflict communities. Editor(s): Heathcote, Gina; Otto, D. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFF; JHB; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486083
- ISBN
- 9781349486083
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Condition: New
€ 138.42
€ 138.42
Hardback. Rethinking Poles and Jews focuses on the role of Holocaust-related material in perpetuating anti-Polish images and describes organizational efforts to combat them. Without minimizing contemporary Polish anti-Semitism, it also presents more positive material on contemporary Polish-American organizations and Jewish life in Poland. Editor(s): Cherry, Robert; Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742546653
- ISBN
- 9780742546653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.34
€ 167.34
Paperback. Selects some of the important work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon developments in cultural theory and the techniques of critical analysis, this title includes essays that break down disciplinary boundaries in a fresh fashion. It touches on a variety of features of popular culture, from photography to fashion, romance novels to television. Editor(s): Mukerji, Chandra; Schudson, Michael. Num Pages: 512 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520068933
- ISBN
- 9780520068933
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.31
€ 41.99
€ 30.31
Paperback. Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial idea. He questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the postcolonial field by introducing ground-breaking theoretical concepts. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362646
- ISBN
- 9781349362646
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael Hardimon criticizes this thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674975668
- ISBN
- 9780674975668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 41.41
€ 48.99
€ 41.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFE2; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487187
- ISBN
- 9780801487187
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.36
€ 38.99
€ 35.36
Hardcover. Based on historic and ethnographic approaches, this volume examines how the ideological images of Asian women are produced, circulated, appropriated, and pluralized. Contributors analyze the interactions between the politicized formation of ideological representations and the everyday practices of women who resist and re-contextualize these images. Editor(s): Ijichi, Noriko; Kato, Atsufumi; Sakurada, Ryoko. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137531513
- ISBN
- 9781137531513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and representations of rurality that challenge simplistic conceptions of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined world beyond the metropolis. Editor(s): Green, Bill. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFC; JFSF; JNFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275486
- ISBN
- 9781137275486
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Condition: New
€ 95.82€ 80.73
€ 95.82
€ 80.73
Paperback. Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts. Editor(s): Saltmarsh, Sue. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JKV; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349366637
- ISBN
- 9781349366637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts. Editor(s): Saltmarsh, Sue. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ; JFSP2; JNHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576698
- ISBN
- 9780230576698
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardback. Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change challenges prevailing notions that science and technology are socially shaped or constructed. The text puts forth a case for technological determinism, based on a realist and pragmatist account of science and technology, informed by historical comparisons. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 table, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JFC; JH; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804755887
- ISBN
- 9780804755887
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Condition: New
€ 81.72
€ 81.72
Hardback. Rethinking Sexual Identity in Education responds to the wide-spread abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons (LGBTQs) in diverse educational environments by utilizing published narratives of LGBTQs educational experiences. Series: Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)sexualities Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742542945
- ISBN
- 9780742542945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.67
€ 151.67
paperback. Rethinking Sexual Identity in Education responds to the wide-spread abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons (LGBTQs) in diverse educational environments by utilizing published narratives of LGBTQs educational experiences. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 165 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742542952
- ISBN
- 9780742542952
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Condition: New
€ 65.29
€ 65.29
Paperback. The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR; JHBA; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336180
- ISBN
- 9781349336180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardcover. The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; JFSC; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300354
- ISBN
- 9780230300354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFF; JFSL9; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 232 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781922059161
- ISBN
- 9781922059161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05