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Paperback. Brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HRCX7; JFSL9; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270. 256 pages. Brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLS; HRCX7; JFSL9; WTL. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight: 266.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906011529
- ISBN
- 9781906011529
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.00
€ 17.99
€ 13.00
Paperback. A fantastically readable biography of a 19th-century Parisian courtesan who harbours an incredible secret Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785780448
- ISBN
- 9781785780448
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.77
€ 11.99
€ 9.77
Hardback. A fantastically readable biography of a 19th-century Parisian courtesan who harbours an incredible secret Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 171 x 35. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848319264
- ISBN
- 9781848319264
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 17.93
€ 26.99
€ 17.93
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Num Pages: 84 pages, 7 colour illustrations, 7 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBN; JFSJ1; JPA; JPB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 308 x 7. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319443133
- ISBN
- 9783319443133
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Condition: New
€ 69.55
€ 69.55
Paperback. Based on extensive archival research, this book explores the history of Frankism, a Jewish religious movement that began in Poland and spread into the Habsburg Empire and the German lands in the later eighteenth century. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JF; 3JH; HRJ; HRLP1; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223439
- ISBN
- 9780812223439
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.95
€ 37.99
€ 35.95
paperback. A history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, this book focuses on several dozen Mixtec communities in the region of Oaxaca during the period from about 1540 to 1750. Num Pages: 528 pages, 57 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751049
- ISBN
- 9780804751049
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.95
€ 40.99
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Paperback. An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349318292
- ISBN
- 9781349318292
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Condition: New
€ 150.00
€ 150.00
The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice (Palgrave M...
Keightley, Emily, Pickering, Michael
Hardcover. An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243361
- ISBN
- 9780230243361
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Condition: New
€ 149.91
€ 149.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JFFR; KJSM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306822537
- ISBN
- 9780306822537
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.44
€ 20.99
€ 19.44
Hardback. Using Dominicans in New York City as a case study, Ramona Hernandez challenges the old belief that workers necessarily migrate from one region to another because of supply and demand or because of a de facto government policy to make people leave or stay. As a result, she shows that the traditional correlation between migration and economic progress does not always hold true. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 1KJD; 3JJP; 3JM; JFFN; JHBL; KCB; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231116220
- ISBN
- 9780231116220
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Condition: New
€ 104.19€ 78.05
€ 104.19
€ 78.05
The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe. From Acquiescence to Pro...
. Ed(S): Chabanet, D; Faniel, J
Paperback. In the face of high unemployment in Europe for the past thirty years, the unemployed have organized themselves and mobilized at levels ranging from the local to the transnational. This work explores why, when, and how the unemployed move from acquiescence to protest. Editor(s): Chabanet, D; Faniel, J. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS; JPP; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349382156
- ISBN
- 9781349382156
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Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. In the face of high unemployment in Europe for the past thirty years, the unemployed have organized themselves and mobilized at levels ranging from the local to the transnational. This work explores why, when, and how the unemployed move from acquiescence to protest. Editor(s): Chabanet, Didier; Faniel, Jean. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619395
- ISBN
- 9780230619395
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Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Paperback. Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AKTH; JFCK; WJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486467627
- ISBN
- 9780486467627
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.51
€ 19.99
€ 14.51
Paperback. Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and the other two-sex tropes for the imagination, writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination. This text explores the process by which this happened. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919805
- ISBN
- 9780813919805
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Condition: New
€ 33.49
€ 33.49
Paperback. How we die reveals much about how we live. This book traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. It shows how over time, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFME. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133904
- ISBN
- 9780691133904
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.27
€ 46.99
€ 33.27
Paperback. "Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the "modern" and our own, postmodern, lives"-- Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; D; DS; JFC; JFD; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298068
- ISBN
- 9781349298068
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market. Early Childhood Educa...
. Ed(S): Kjorholt, Anne Trine; Qvortrup, Jens
Paperback. This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in instuitutions in a variety of countries. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of modern child life. Editor(s): Kjorholt, Anne Trine; Qvortrup, Jens. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JKSN; JN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367962
- ISBN
- 9781349367962
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Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Paperback. In this survey of the modern American Christmas, Waits shows how this holiday emerged, tracing its evolution from the days prior to 1880 to the present day. In addition, he examines the differing traditions of giftgiving to friends, employees, the poor, and among communtys. Series: The Modern Christmas in America. Num Pages: 290 pages, 77 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814792841
- ISBN
- 9780814792841
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
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€ 33.63
Paperback. During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her flashy, fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. This work tracks the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon during the 1920s and 1930s. Editor(s): Weinbaum, Alys Eve; Modern Girl Around the World Research Group; Thomas, Lynn M.; Ramamurthy, Priti; Poiger, Uta G.; Dong, Madeleine Yue. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 435 pages, 132 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343059
- ISBN
- 9780822343059
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.63
€ 33.99
€ 30.63
Paperback. With contributions from two dozen scholars, "The Modern Jewish Experience" presents practical information and guidelines intended to expand the teaching repertoire of those concerned with Jewish studies. Sample syllabi are included for survey courses set in diverse linguistic settings. Editor(s): Wertheimer, Jack. Num Pages: 410 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814792629
- ISBN
- 9780814792629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.45
€ 33.99
€ 33.45