Society & culture: general
Results 29209 - 29232 of 42272
Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Drawing on the analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11 - including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq - this title presents a case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 248 pages, 50 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JFD; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226567181
- ISBN
- 9780226567181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.17€ 77.34
€ 94.17
€ 77.34
Paperback. Drawing on the analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11 - including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq - this title presents a case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 248 pages, 50 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JFD; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226567198
- ISBN
- 9780226567198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages, 16 color illus., 5 tables. BIC Classification: JFCV; KCM; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253026989
- ISBN
- 9780253026989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH; MBP; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173580
- ISBN
- 9780691173580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.77
€ 33.99
€ 24.77
paperback. A diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way. Editor(s): van der Meulen, Emily; Durisin, Elya M.; Love, Victoria. Series: Sexuality Studies. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5; JKV; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824491
- ISBN
- 9780774824491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.91
€ 40.99
€ 35.91
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814772584
- ISBN
- 9780814772584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.43
€ 33.99
€ 33.43
Hardback. A diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way. Editor(s): van der Meulen, Emily; Durisin, Elya M.; Love, Victoria. Series: Sexuality Studies Series. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JHB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824484
- ISBN
- 9780774824484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.73
€ 113.73
Paperback. From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, this title explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. It uncovers the origins of the culture industry in music and chronicles how music ignited an auditory explosion that penetrated various aspects of society. Num Pages: 368 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; JFCA; KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674064041
- ISBN
- 9780674064041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.45
€ 35.99
€ 30.45
Paperback. In this study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, the author shows that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. It shows that liberal marketplace principles have come into contradiction with themselves. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPQB; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226777221
- ISBN
- 9780226777221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
Tourists may want a life uncomplicated by technology, but would they be willing to drive around in horse-drawn buggies in order to achieve it?Trollinger's answers to important questions in her fascinating study of Amish Country tourism are sure to challenge readers' understanding of this surprising cultural phenomenon. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20, 4 maps, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; JFSR; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404196
- ISBN
- 9781421404196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Paperback. Reveals the history of how the emergence of the DVD market changed cultural and industrial attitudes about horror movies and film ratings. This title presents a re-evaluation of the history of the horror film from an industry studies perspective. It also features an exploration of the relationship between DVDs and film ratings. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474405584
- ISBN
- 9781474405584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFD; KJSA; KNTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442613072
- ISBN
- 9781442613072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.69
€ 40.99
€ 36.69
Hardback. Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. This work serves as an indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 line illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ; KJMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126432
- ISBN
- 9780691126432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.98
€ 29.99
€ 21.98
Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270909
- ISBN
- 9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.58€ 64.09
€ 83.58
€ 64.09
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813576329
- ISBN
- 9780813576329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.02
€ 41.99
€ 37.02
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813576336
- ISBN
- 9780813576336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.63
€ 169.63
Hardback. Tells the story of how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society. This book traces the histories of punk, hardcore, heavy metal, glam, thrash, alternative rock, grunge, and riot grrrl music, and relates them to wider social changes that have taken place. Num Pages: 286 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814757475
- ISBN
- 9780814757475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.16
€ 97.16
Paperback. Tells the story of how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society. This book traces the histories of punk, hardcore, heavy metal, glam, thrash, alternative rock, grunge, and riot grrrl music, and relates them to wider social changes that have taken place. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Edition
- 11/15/09
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814757482
- ISBN
- 9780814757482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 394 pages, 25 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813168463
- ISBN
- 9780813168463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.90
€ 32.90
Paperback. Drawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this gripping account offers a brief and nuanced narrative of this critical phase of the black freedom struggle. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421605
- ISBN
- 9781421421605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.98
€ 28.98
Hardback. Drawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this gripping account offers a brief and nuanced narrative of this critical phase of the black freedom struggle. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781421421599
- ISBN
- 9781421421599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 43.37
€ 52.99
€ 43.37
Hardback. This text draws upon ethnographic research in Nepal to examine how selves, identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships through time in a multi-ethic nation-state and within a discourse of nationalism. Editor(s): Holland, Dorothy; Pach, Alfred, III; Skinner, Debra. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKN; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847685981
- ISBN
- 9780847685981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.19
€ 184.19
Hardback. Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Num Pages: 158 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; CFK; JFFK; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137598424
- ISBN
- 9781137598424
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2J; DSB; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714529677
- ISBN
- 9780714529677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.22
€ 16.99
€ 15.22