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Society & culture: general

Hardcover. This text examines black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations and 20th-century cultural nationalism in the United States. The author seeks to expose the oversimplifications and misrepresentations of popular readings of the "Harlem Renaissance". Num Pages: 560 pages, epilogue, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 172 x 34. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674372627
ISBN
9780674372627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.74
€ 73.50

Paperback. This thought-provoking combination of social history and intellectual art criticism opens this powerful moment in history to renewed and dynamic interpretation and sharper discussion. Editor(s): Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894619
ISBN
9780801894619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.28

paperback. This Very Short Introduction offers an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. Cheryl A. Wall brings readers to the Harlem of 1920s to identify the cultural themes and issues that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 173 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0024664
ISBN
9780199335558
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Tells the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; JFSS; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 447 x 33. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
HarperOne
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061655944
ISBN
9780061655944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK1; JFSK2; UDB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560233534
ISBN
9781560233534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRHC; JFFN; JPA; WJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776851
ISBN
9780804776851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408857977
ISBN
9781408857977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. This is the first concise handbook on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health in the past few years. It is an advanced-level text accessible to a broad audience that breaks the myths, breaks the silence, and breaks new ground on this subject. Editor(s): Meyer, Ilan H. (Columbia University); Northridge, Mary E. (Columbia University). Num Pages: 731 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ5; JFSK; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 48. Weight in Grams: 3600.
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2007 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387288710
ISBN
9780387288710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 299.01

paperback. Weaving a complex story of Native Hawai ian health in its historical, political, and cultural context, Juliet McMullin shows how traditional practices that integrated relationships of caring for the land, the body, and the ancestors are being revitalized both on the islands and in the indigenous diaspora." Series: Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology. Num Pages: 200 pages, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Routledge United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781598745009
ISBN
9781598745009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.88

Paperback. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing to a relational ethic of strict self-discipline for the common good. This title demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the 'normal' American. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 photo, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSK; JHMP; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822339489
ISBN
9780822339489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardback. Num Pages: 315 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFC; MBN; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306441301
ISBN
9780306441301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardcover. If there's one distinctive feature of the British countryside, it has to be the hedgerow. Hedgerows can provide a great fund of fresh, wild food for us. In this book, the author reintroduces the wild and natural hedgerow ingredients that our grandmothers used on a regular basis - but gives them a fresh and contemporary twist. Num Pages: 240 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFHF; VSZ; VXHT; WBH; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Square Peg
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224086714
ISBN
9780224086714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 b/w photos. BIC Classification: AVGU; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
A Cappella Books United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556527616
ISBN
9781556527616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.41

Paperback. The construction of masculinity is becoming a field of growing interest because it is opening up new and fascinating perspectives, thus adding a further dimension to Gender Studies. However, so far the analysis has focused mostly on homosexuality. By contrast, the author examines social processes and relations that constitute hegemonic masculinity. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. Num Pages: 192 pages, Bibliog., Index. BIC Classification: 1DSP; JFSJ2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 162 x 10. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571818911
ISBN
9781571818911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.82

Paperback. An introduction to Heidegger's essential writings Editor(s): Figal, Gunter. Translator(s): Veith, Jerome. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221278
ISBN
9780253221278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. Provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 494 pages, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
494
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520083295
ISBN
9780520083295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.06
€ 73.24

Paperback. The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. This book explores the social and economic context in which the clubs emerged and flourished; their various phases, which first involved violence as an assertion of masculinity, then religious blasphemy, and later sexual indulgence. Num Pages: 250 pages, black-&-white plate section. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300164022
ISBN
9780300164022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Paperback. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "[A] commanding and important book."-Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Num Pages: 816 pages, 37 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1044.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
800
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393337761
ISBN
9780393337761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.64

Paperback. 'I loved it .. funny, serious, richly vivid .. Read this book.' Daily Telegraph Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330535861
ISBN
9780330535861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Hardback. Proceeds from about 1800 BC to 1800 AD, discussing, for example, the Renaissance method for solving cubic and quartic equations and providing rigorous elementary proof that certain geometrical problems posed by the ancient Greeks cannot be solved by ruler and compass alone. Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Num Pages: 341 pages, 4 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; PBB; PDX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
1st ed. 1995. Corr. 2nd printing 1998
Number of pages
341
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387945446
ISBN
9780387945446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 3JH; JFSV1; VXW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877288381
ISBN
9780877288381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.89

Hardback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 11 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JM; JFFA; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 760.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162843
ISBN
9780691162843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 10 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JM; JFFA; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 277 x 29. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691173054
ISBN
9780691173054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell. Num Pages: 352 pages, 72 Black and White Photos, 24 Black and White Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGXA; HRAC; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
New World Library United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608681891
ISBN
9781608681891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.49

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