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Society & culture: general
hardcover. This study uses longitudinal data - information gathered over a considerable period of time - to provide new insights into the changing dynamic lives of women today. Editor(s): Ruspini, Elisabetta; Dale, Angela. Num Pages: 312 pages, 23 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861343321
- ISBN
- 9781861343321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.82
€ 102.82
Paperback. In this work, the author analyzes the ways in which law legitimizes the social segregation of the sexes through legal decisions and illustrates the ways in which men's and women's oppressions are intertwined and how law molds the very definition of masculinity. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FV; JFSJ; LAB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814751220
- ISBN
- 9780814751220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.47
€ 33.99
€ 33.47
Hardcover. Series Editor(s): Yang, Anand A.; Sivaramakrishnan, K.; Kaimal, Padma. Series: Global South Asia. Num Pages: 352 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 33 illus. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JFSJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295995649
- ISBN
- 9780295995649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.50
€ 131.50
Paperback. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 black & white photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282490
- ISBN
- 9780520282490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
paperback. In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution and perversion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674341944
- ISBN
- 9780674341944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.28
€ 46.99
€ 38.28
Hardback. The second edition of The Gender of Sexuality remains a lively introduction to the concepts of gender and sexuality, with updates from research and popular culture throughout. The new edition features significant new material on the changing status of gender, same sex marriage, and transgender. Series: Gender Lens Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742570030
- ISBN
- 9780742570030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.85
€ 179.85
paperback. Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. This book treats the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. Series: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology. Num Pages: 437 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520072022
- ISBN
- 9780520072022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.15
€ 35.99
€ 26.15
Paperback. This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive workbook will help you navigate your gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; MBNH9; MMJT1; VFJB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- New Harbinger Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Csm Wkb
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626252974
- ISBN
- 9781626252974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.04
€ 25.99
€ 18.04
Paperback. Provides a detailed account of how today's parents understand, enforce, and resist the gendering of their children Num Pages: 297 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 7/28/12
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814737835
- ISBN
- 9780814737835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.67
€ 33.99
€ 33.67
Hardcover. This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response. Anderson contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilising gender as structural violence and identifies how gendered power structures are responded to at the local level in Malawi. Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; JFFH2; JFSJ; JPVH; KCQ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230292888
- ISBN
- 9780230292888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardback. Editor(s): Martin, Janet M.; Borrelli, MaryAnne. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPHF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439913635
- ISBN
- 9781439913635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.53
€ 100.53
hardcover. Series: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; HRCC9; JFSJ; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- SKU
- V9783319399775
- ISBN
- 9783319399775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.36
€ 108.36
paperback. Emphasising the integration of traditional labour history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, and community, this volume explores working women's agency and consciousness and offers details regarding women's lives as daughters, housewives, mothers, factory workers, trade union leaders, and political activists. Editor(s): French, John D.; James, Daniel. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 5 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822319962
- ISBN
- 9780822319962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.33
€ 31.99
€ 30.33
Hardcover. This book explores the gendered nature of the historical emergence of modern finance markets and their expansion to a now global scale. It analyses the ways in which women were and still are marginalized in terms of financial activity and associated structures of power which play a critical role in shaping the contemporary global political economy. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPS; KCM; KCP; KFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517936
- ISBN
- 9780230517936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.85
€ 118.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801499715
- ISBN
- 9780801499715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.43
€ 46.99
€ 41.43
Paperback. Gives us an account of the fundamental unit of heredity - and a vision of both humanity's past and future. In this book, the story begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a "Unit of heredity". It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: JFMG; PDR; PDX; PDZ; PSAK; TCBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099584575
- ISBN
- 9780099584575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. Analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. In this book, the author examines genetic history's working assumptions about culture and nature, identity and biology, and the individual and the collective. Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226154701
- ISBN
- 9780226154701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.27
€ 34.99
€ 27.27
paperback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 57 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444. Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. Series: Gender and Culture Series. 320 pages, 57 black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 15. Weight: 426.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231156530
- ISBN
- 9780231156530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.21
€ 37.99
€ 27.21
Hardback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, B&W Illus.: 57,. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231156523
- ISBN
- 9780231156523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.19€ 78.75
€ 104.19
€ 78.75
The Genius of Archimedes - 23 Centuries of Influence on Mathematics, S...
. Ed(S): Paipetis, S. A.; Ceccarelli, Marco
Paperback. Archimedes is regarded as one of the most brilliant scientists of all time. These proceedings contain original, unpublished papers with the primary emphasis on the scientific work of Archimedes and his extensive influence. Editor(s): Paipetis, S. A.; Ceccarelli, Marco. Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science. Num Pages: 525 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; JFC; JHM; PBX; PDX; TGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 801.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 525
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400797635
- ISBN
- 9789400797635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 234.46
€ 234.46
Paperback. This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351787
- ISBN
- 9781349351787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391864
- ISBN
- 9780230391864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Paperback. Covers various aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male. This book shows that the reactions of the women to their frontier experience were as important as male reactions in the development of American mores and American democracy. Num Pages: 335 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803250253
- ISBN
- 9780803250253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.88
€ 19.99
€ 19.88
Paperback. Gentlemen - make sure your conduct is up to scratch! From advice on how to treat ladies, how to behave at a party and rules for travelling abroad, this handy nineteenth century guidebook will provide entertaining nuggets of wisdom. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; WJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843915416
- ISBN
- 9781843915416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.71
€ 17.99
€ 16.71