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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Editor(s): White, Roger D. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: JFFB; JKS; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 183 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634820134
- ISBN
- 9781634820134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 231.69€ 173.97
€ 231.69
€ 173.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604865301
- ISBN
- 9781604865301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.43
€ 17.99
€ 16.43
Hardcover. American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive. Num Pages: 149 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFDT; JHBS; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555885
- ISBN
- 9781137555885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardback. Editor(s): Major, John S.; Queen, Sarah A.; Meyer, Andrew Seth. Translator(s): Major, John S.; Queen, Sarah A.; Meyer, Andrew Seth. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 1016 pages, 2 tables in the interior. BIC Classification: HPDF; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1500. A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, by Liu An, King of Huainan. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. 1016 pages, 2 tables in the interior. Editor(s): Roth, Harold D. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPDF; JF. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 54. Weight: 1476. Translator(s): Major, John S.; Queen, Sarah A.; Meyer, Andrew Seth.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 1016
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231142045
- ISBN
- 9780231142045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.56€ 98.47
€ 104.56
€ 98.47
Hardback. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789024736454
- ISBN
- 9789024736454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.76
€ 130.76
Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HRAB; JFSR; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 479.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319443904
- ISBN
- 9783319443904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardback. In this volume some of the world's authorities on embryology trace the tradition of enquiry over two and a half thousand years. The answers given in related cultures reflected the purposes to be served at different times, in medical practice, penitential discipline, canon law, common law, human feeling. Editor(s): Dunstan, G. R. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859893404
- ISBN
- 9780859893404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.47
€ 144.47
The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability. New Bodies for a Better L...
. Ed(S): Eilers, M; Gruber, K; Rehmann-Sutter...
Paperback. Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition. Editor(s): Eilers, M; Gruber, K; Rehmann-Sutter, C. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; MBS; MN; MQW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487752
- ISBN
- 9781349487752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardback. Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition. Editor(s): Eilers, Miriam; Gruber, Katrin; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph (University of Basel). Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405524
- ISBN
- 9781137405524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Paperback. Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum. Num Pages: 432 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 238 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520078277
- ISBN
- 9780520078277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.31
€ 41.99
€ 30.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HPJ; HRAB; HRAC; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1993
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349225255
- ISBN
- 9781349225255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.22
€ 71.22
Paperback. Describing research and practice from diverse fields of positive psychology, and covering topics such as motivation, happiness and academic performance, this book assembles contributions from around the world and especially from Europe's growing cohort. Editor(s): Brdar, Ingrid. Num Pages: 290 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JMH; JMS; MBNH9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401783330
- ISBN
- 9789401783330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. Describing research and practice from diverse fields of positive psychology, and covering topics such as motivation, happiness and academic performance, this book assembles contributions from around the world and especially from Europe's growing cohort. Editor(s): Brdar, Ingrid. Num Pages: 271 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JMH; MBNH9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400713741
- ISBN
- 9789400713741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.81
€ 128.81
Hardback. Num Pages: 214 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319534886
- ISBN
- 9783319534886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Hardcover. Since 1989, when the movement for Kashmiri independence took the form of an armed insurgency, it has been one of the most highly militarized regions in the world. This book is based on the idea that preserving memory is central to the struggle for justice and to someday rebuild a society shattered by two decades of armed conflict. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJP; JFFE; JPVH; JPVR; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137509055
- ISBN
- 9781137509055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Paperback. This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JMAL; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099482116
- ISBN
- 9780099482116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Hardback. Wilfred L. David makes a plea for the fundamental reorientation of the economics that guide conventional development discourse, moving toward an emancipatory conversation focusing on human well-being or people-centred liberation. Num Pages: 374 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; KCS; WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761827559
- ISBN
- 9780761827559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.61
€ 156.61
Paperback. Argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' This title explores a number of linked problems: the role, at once inspiring and disturbing, played by modern philology in the discipline's formation; and, the reasons behind the humanities' perpetual state of crisis. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: H; JFCX; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226316994
- ISBN
- 9780226316994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Hardback. Editor(s): Chan, Evelyn T y; O'Sullivan, Michael (King's College London UK). Series: The Humanities in Asia. Num Pages: 159 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CFG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811022654
- ISBN
- 9789811022654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
paperback. An exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. The author reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and taboos surrounding it, relate to universal and profound truths about the human animal and its deepest yearnings. Num Pages: 268 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226425689
- ISBN
- 9780226425689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Hardcover. These charged images from the Great War cover a wide range of products, including trench coats, motor-cycles, gramophones, cigarettes and invalid carriages, all bringing an insight into the preoccupations, aspirations and necessities of life between 1914 and 1918. Num Pages: 112 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBWN; JFDV; WZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243990
- ISBN
- 9781851243990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 7.53
€ 7.53
Paperback. His compelling narrative gives undergraduate students of early America and the Atlantic World a revealing glimpse into this fascinating-and surprising-meeting of cultures. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10, 8 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801898556
- ISBN
- 9780801898556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.90
€ 27.99
€ 24.90
Hardback. His compelling narrative gives undergraduate students of early America and the Atlantic World a revealing glimpse into this fascinating-and surprising-meeting of cultures. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10, 8 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801898549
- ISBN
- 9780801898549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.06€ 50.27
€ 54.06
€ 50.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSJ; JFSR; JHB; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349488100
- ISBN
- 9781349488100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.99
€ 77.99