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Paperback. A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center and one of the original settlements, established in 1909. The book describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the difficulties and challenges of this endeavor. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 figures, 66 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804750196
- ISBN
- 9780804750196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardback. Addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. This book shows how 'a woman's place' in late-nineteenth-century Japan was characterized by contradictions and unexpected consequences, by new opportunities and new constraints. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056053
- ISBN
- 9780674056053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.32
€ 45.99
€ 38.32
Hardback. This book provides an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary and international essays examining the food-place relationship. It explores such topics as the history of food and agriculture, the globalization and localization of food, and the role of place in defining the broader societal consequences of this ever-changing phenomena. Editor(s): Fitzpatrick, Kevin M.; Willis, Don. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 maps, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCV; RGC; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408365
- ISBN
- 9781137408365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.49
€ 127.49
Paperback. Presents an extended case study of the 20th-century AIDS epidemic and the cultural circumstances from which it emerged. The book brings together anthropology, demography and epidemiology to explain how the Chagga people of Tanzania in Africa experience AIDS. Series: Worlds of Desire S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 maps, 6 line drawings, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; JFFH2; JHMC; MBNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748863
- ISBN
- 9780226748863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Hardback. This book explores young people's 'nested' and 'political' ecological relationships with crime through an empirical investigation of the important 'places' and 'spaces' in young people's lives; in their social relationships with peers and family members; and within formal institutional systems such as education, youth justice and social care. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKV; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230280533
- ISBN
- 9780230280533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JMG; JFFN; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811022111
- ISBN
- 9789811022111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. This is the comprehensive guide to delivering personalisation in health and social care using person centred approaches. It covers what personalisation and person centred approaches are, the different elements involved, and how to carry it out with all those receiving care and support, from people with disabilities to people at the end of life. Num Pages: 240 pages, 58 figures. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKSN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 296 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849051941
- ISBN
- 9781849051941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.27
€ 41.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. Dimension: 136 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Gotham
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592404308
- ISBN
- 9781592404308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.27
€ 18.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. This book is a practical tool for the assessment of adults who sexually abuse children. It examines the impact of sexual abuse on children, enables professionals to evaluate the risk presented by adults who have sexually abused children, and provides a framework for the assessment of parents or carers and their ability to protect their children. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JFFE2; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843106395
- ISBN
- 9781843106395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252068836
- ISBN
- 9780252068836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing?
Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process. Series: Digital Media and Society. Num Pages: 210 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745645247
- ISBN
- 9780745645247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Paperback. This work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226815350
- ISBN
- 9780226815350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. The Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGM; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067725
- ISBN
- 9780472067725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God 'live and direct' from the Holy Spirit. This book documents how this rejection of scripture speaks to longstanding concerns within Christianity over mediation and authority. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 321 pages, 3 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; HRC; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 321
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249042
- ISBN
- 9780520249042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Blanton, Carlos Kevin. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 b&w map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477309032
- ISBN
- 9781477309032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFDT; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230362833
- ISBN
- 9780230362833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.51
€ 116.51
Paperback. This work provides citizens outside government with their own instrument for transforming conflict. The author outlines a systematic approach for citizens to use in reducing racial, ethnic and other deep-rooted tensions in their countries, communities and organizations. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFF; JFSL1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293383
- ISBN
- 9780312293383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.57
€ 94.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807044650
- ISBN
- 9780807044650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.64
€ 24.99
€ 18.64
Paperback. Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical or tender, discreetly coded or defiantly outspoken. Num Pages: 160 pages, 75 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Tate Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849765039
- ISBN
- 9781849765039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816639649
- ISBN
- 9780816639649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56