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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFFC; JKSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
212
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439913703
ISBN
9781439913703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

Hardback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFFC; JKSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439913697
ISBN
9781439913697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138905320
ISBN
9781138905320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.30

Paperback. With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745640020
ISBN
9780745640020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.39

Hardback. With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745639796
ISBN
9780745639796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Hardback. Uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. This book also explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker's production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Num Pages: 216 pages, 24 color photographs, 28 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AGB; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 188 x 263 x 19. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288928
ISBN
9780520288928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.70

Hardback. This course text should encourage students to understand what contemporary audiences are all about. It is based on a recent survey of audiences undertaken by the ITC, and extrapolates from the most recent findings about the future prospects for both terrestrial and satellite/cable broadcasts. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 262 x 189 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631202332
ISBN
9780631202332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.29

Paperback. aeo Written clearly and simply, and devoid of jargon. aeo Covers both the empirical and theoretical ground in a lively manner. aeo Unlike most books on the television audience, this volume looks at the programmes themselves, as well as the production process (including policies which affect television production). Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631202349
ISBN
9780631202349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.46

Paperback. A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of 'true' love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. It studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of cliches and images. Num Pages: 332 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First Edition (US) First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520205710
ISBN
9780520205710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.39

Paperback. From the novels of Anne Rice to 'The Lost Boys', from 'The Terminator' to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within popular culture. In this work Rob Latham explains why, giving a perspective on youth culture and the media. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468921
ISBN
9780226468921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. This book provides a clear and concise introduction to the concept of consumption and to the wide--ranging debates about the nature and consequences of consumer society. Community and social class appear to be in irreversible decline. Series: Key Concepts. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFT; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745625300
ISBN
9780745625300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.39

Hardcover. This ethnographic examination of a middle-class group that must re-position itself--schoolteachers in 1990s Russia--depicts the interplay between identity, morality and consumption. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFSC; JHBL; JHM; JNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804700696
ISBN
9780804700696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.53

Hardback. Series: Economic Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFT; KJSM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674166356
ISBN
9780674166356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.85
€ 52.48

Paperback. Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFT; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745669717
ISBN
9780745669717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.41

Hardcover. Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFT; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780745669700
ISBN
9780745669700
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.45

Paperback. Examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in Sao Paulo redefined their class during Brazil's economic crisis of 1981-1994. Illuminating the intricate relation between identity and local and global consumption, this work is suitable for students and scholars in anthropology and Latin American studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 b&w photos, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFCA; JFFT; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328940
ISBN
9780822328940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. The making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails scarching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. This book proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 180 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226517353
ISBN
9780226517353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Utilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself Editor(s): Magnusson, Bruce. Series: Global Re-Visions. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991733
ISBN
9780295991733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Hardcover. Explain the rise, decline, or stagnant levels of women's political participation, considering how representation is contagious across political institutions Num Pages: 208 pages, 31 figures, 28 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814784174
ISBN
9780814784174
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.91

Paperback. Argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. This title presents cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines the next Great Plague. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 392 pages, 9 illustrations, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341536
ISBN
9780822341536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

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