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Paperback. Tells the story of the veils' and headscarves' resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggesting a portrait of contemporary Islam. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFM; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
5.6.2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300181432
ISBN
9780300181432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.73

Paperback. Argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. This title explores the crafts of reading and writing, the identity granted to us by literature, the far-reaching shadow of Jorge Luis Borges, to whom the author read as a young man, and the links between politics and books and between books and our bodies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300172089
ISBN
9780300172089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.14

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bookmarks
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910885123
ISBN
9781910885123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.56

Paperback. The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as a resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. This book describes development of religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks were able to cultivate a sense of individual. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 bibliog. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HRAX; HRKT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253216106
ISBN
9780253216106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Paperback. An analysis of the writings and speeches of the American founders. Kann (political science, U. of Southern Calif.) looks at how the founders deployed a "grammar of manhood" that provided informal rules for stigmatizing disorderly men, justifying citizenship for deserving men, and elevating exceptio Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814747148
ISBN
9780814747148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. Providing a re-assessement of the cause of Bolivia's 1952 revolution, this book argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous struggles for land and justice that swept through Bolivia during the first half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that rural indigenous activists helped shape populist projects of 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; HBTV; JFC; JFSL9; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340676
ISBN
9780822340676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
8.7.2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152608
ISBN
9780691152608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

paperback. Compelling analysis of the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing needs of a large portion of its people. Editor(s): Hartman, Chester; Bratt, Rachel G.; Stone, Michael. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JKSB; JPQB; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 4531 x 712. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134328
ISBN
9781592134328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.28

Paperback. Editor(s): Tahirovi?-Sijer?i?, Hedina; Levine-Rasky, Assistant Professor of Sociology Cynthia (Queen's University). BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771334013
ISBN
9781771334013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.60

Hardcover. The world of Saul Bellow is peopled largely by men - often intellectuals - who manifest Bellow's unique conception of American masculinity. This work analyzes Bellow's oeuvre from a feminist perspective. It incorporates the insights of French feminist theory on Western male philosophers. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HPC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815628620
ISBN
9780815628620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.67

Paperback. Virginia Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of writers and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 161 x 9. Weight in Grams: 92. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
UK ed.
Format
Paperback
SKU
KKD0006134
ISBN
9780141018980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; 3JJG; DNF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509843183
ISBN
9781509843183
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Hardback. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, this title is one of the feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Bronte, and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. It justifies the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 176 x 105 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141395920
ISBN
9780141395920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. She raises questions concerning militarism, education, and social and gender inequality that are relevant to this day. Editor(s): Snaith, Anna. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 pages black and white images. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199642212
ISBN
9780199642212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Offers a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. This title is also a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism. Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870874
ISBN
9781784870874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. With fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history from a stellar collection of writers, including Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Washington Irving, Henry Miller, Sylvia Plath, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John Steinbeck, A Route 66 Companion offers a literary historical portrait of the most legendary open road in America Editor(s): Dunaway, David King. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 330. Weight in Grams: 245.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292726604
ISBN
9780292726604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.94

Paperback. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This title deals with the two artists, who at the height of their powers, answer their needs to document human struggle. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BJ; HBJD; HBLW3; JFC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This title deals with the two artists, who at the height of their powers, answer their needs to document human struggle. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BJ; HBJD; HBLW3; JFC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141186337
ISBN
9780141186337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. A collection of illuminating conversations, where renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom. Editor(s): Cousineau, Phil. Num Pages: 253 pages, 17 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JPVH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251694
ISBN
9780520251694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.15

Hardcover. Num Pages: 64 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 234 x 10. Weight in Grams: 410. 64 pages, col. Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFCA; JFCV. Dimension: 232 x 234 x 10. Weight: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Akashic Books
Edition
1ST
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9781617751349
ISBN
9781617751349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.32

Hardback. Unraveling the influence and power of antebellum secret societies Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252036552
ISBN
9780252036552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.65

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