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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Threat of book burning ignites passionate discussion about censoring, banning, and other responses to books. Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFMD; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 228 x 5. Weight in Grams: 96.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888646798
ISBN
9780888646798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Factora-Borchers, Lisa. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 121 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
AK Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849351720
ISBN
9781849351720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.22

Paperback. Tim Wise addresses whites' anxiety about cultural shifts displacing their power and privilege--and offers ideas on how to move forward. Series: City Lights Open Media. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 177 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872865211
ISBN
9780872865211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.87

Paperback. Deals with the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud; to a life spent in a dark, dusty room weaving carpets; to a young girl brought up as a boy; to life as a widow shunned by society. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FCA; BT; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099542186
ISBN
9780099542186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Argues that understanding the relation between death and conversion in the Andes involves not only considering the obvious attempts to destroy the cult of the dead, but also investigating a range of policies and strategies whose application demanded continuous negotiation between Spaniards and Andeans. Series: History, Languages and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; HBJD; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 298 x 27. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040284
ISBN
9780268040284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Hardback. A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety. Series Editor(s): Lawler, Peter; Guittet, Emmanuel-Pierre. Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Num Pages: 208 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JHB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784993139
ISBN
9781784993139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.48

Paperback. Examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. This title provides the study of the representation of death and dying in mainstream Western cinema from its earliest to its latest renditions. It explores the impact of gender, race, nation and narration upon death's dramatics on screen and more. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402750
ISBN
9781474402750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Offers a look into the lonely, personal nightmares behind celebrity suicides. This book includes subjects that range from Virginia Woolf to Kurt Cobain, from Elliott Smith to Adolf Hitler and from Mark Rothko to Anne Sexton. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGF; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 135 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061728563
ISBN
9780061728563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.57

Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816695300
ISBN
9780816695300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JKSB1; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Human Rights Watch United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564321633
ISBN
9781564321633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.41

paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCS; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
HarperOne United States
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060859688
ISBN
9780060859688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.37

Hardback. Explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book shows how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. It helps discover the Baitshepi's maternal ethos. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 368 pages, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMB; HRCX6; JFFH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520259652
ISBN
9780520259652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.74
€ 73.01

Paperback. Though they were acquitted, these same defendants were soon being ostracized by their own neighbors, and within four months of Till's death, Southern blacks were staging the historic Montgomery bus boycott-the first major battle in the coming war against racial injustice that would lead to the passage of civil rights legislation a decade later. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; BGH; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801843266
ISBN
9780801843266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.05

Paperback. A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316332774
ISBN
9780316332774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Examines the negotiations and controversies that took place during the planning and construction of The Dalles Dam and the profound impact the project had on both the Indian community of Celilo Village and the non-Indian town of The Dalles, intertwined with local concerns that affected the entire American West. Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 photos. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; JFSL9; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 351.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295985466
ISBN
9780295985466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.14

Hardcover. In The Death Penalty: What's Keeping it Alive an award-winning criminal defense attorney turns a critical eye towards the death penalty in America. Filled with gripping case studies, the book analyzes why the death penalty remains active in most states in spite of well-documented flaws in the justice system. Num Pages: 174 pages, 1 maps, 2 charts, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JKVP; LNFX1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442232679
ISBN
9781442232679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.15

Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490831
ISBN
9781611490831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.63

Paperback. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Num Pages: 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1002. The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight: 1006.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
632
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520075375
ISBN
9780520075375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.48

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857386106
ISBN
9780857386106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 704 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 25 black & white tables, 2 black & white halftones, 3 blac. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFMC; JKVP; LNFX1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 187 x 235 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1040.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
5th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138940888
ISBN
9781138940888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.51

paperback. Examines how political rule in Arab countries is effectuated, organized, and executed, and how authoritarianism works in practice and how it can be grasped conceptually. Editor(s): Schlumberger, Oliver. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBX; HBJF1; JFC; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804763332
ISBN
9780804763332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Hardback. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of view and considers authenticity in terms of how meaning is produced in and through discourses about authenticity. Incorporating case studies from four continents, the topics reach from art and colonialism to exoticism-primitivism, film, ritual, and wilderness. Editor(s): Fillitz, Thomas; Saris, A. Jamie. Num Pages: 276 pages, 36 ills. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 186 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857454966
ISBN
9780857454966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.76

Paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 717.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
3rd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442208650
ISBN
9781442208650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.88

hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526105288
ISBN
9781526105288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.55

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