Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. * Natural disasters regularly reach a high degree of prominence in the media, but we rarely see the political aspects of the ways that disasters are managed and dealt with. * This book offers a comprehensive survey of the political history of disaster management, from World War I onwards. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPS; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650692
- ISBN
- 9780745650692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.73
€ 24.73
Hardback. * Natural disasters regularly reach a high degree of prominence in the media, but we rarely see the political aspects of the ways that disasters are managed and dealt with. * This book offers a comprehensive survey of the political history of disaster management, from World War I onwards. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPS; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650685
- ISBN
- 9780745650685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardback. Deals with important social-science issues of law and legal control pertaining to disasters and hazards in a variety of contexts. This title includes: legal controls pertaining to disaster prevention, response, and mitigation; regulations and policies concerning hazardous conditions; and crime and the control thereof in post-disaster situations. Editor(s): Deflem, Mathieu. Series Editor(s): Deflem, Mathieu. Series: Sociology of Crime, Law & Deviance. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKS; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780529141
- ISBN
- 9781780529141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.20
€ 135.20
Hardback. There is no European society whose modern history has been more deeply marked by disasters, both natural and social, than has Italy's. This volume brings new research on all aspects of the Italian experience of disaster from unification to the present day. Editor(s): Dickie, John; Foot, John; Snowden, Frank M. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLW; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 351
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239602
- ISBN
- 9780312239602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.79
€ 122.79
Paperback. BIC Classification: HRCS; HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Moody Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Revised, Updated ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802450128
- ISBN
- 9780802450128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.43
€ 17.99
€ 14.43
Paperback. This study examines 17th-century mathematical sciences - astronomy, optics and mechanics - not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle and the Jesuits are discussed. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JD; JFCX; PB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226139449
- ISBN
- 9780226139449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.27
€ 52.99
€ 41.27
Paperback. Editor(s): Hansen, Hans Lauge. Num Pages: 246 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CJA; CJBG; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772899404
- ISBN
- 9788772899404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.35
€ 47.99
€ 34.35
Hardback. A long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823244966
- ISBN
- 9780823244966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.64
€ 83.64
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 148 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACK; AMA; AMN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1134.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271017167
- ISBN
- 9780271017167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.95€ 111.42
€ 134.95
€ 111.42
Paperback. An account of family and community life that describes the moral imagination with which Flathead Indian people weave together historical and personal loss, American Indian identity, and social responsibility. It locates Flathead depression in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people. Num Pages: 265 pages, 3 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JHM; JMH; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520214460
- ISBN
- 9780520214460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.22
€ 39.22
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Crossway Books United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433526022
- ISBN
- 9781433526022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.58
€ 19.99
€ 18.58
Paperback. Lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 45 line drawings, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226768779
- ISBN
- 9780226768779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Hardback. Lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 45 line drawings, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKS; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226768762
- ISBN
- 9780226768762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.93€ 80.12
€ 95.93
€ 80.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: HR; JFSR1; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 231 x 36. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Publisher
- Bnei Baruch, Laitman Kabbalah
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897448977
- ISBN
- 9781897448977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.39
€ 31.99
€ 21.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Shelton, Dean. Num Pages: 61 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634635875
- ISBN
- 9781634635875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.00€ 70.11
€ 101.00
€ 70.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cowley Publications
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781561012282
- ISBN
- 9781561012282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.59
€ 16.99
€ 15.59
Paperback. The 1970s tend to be allocated a slender role in American cultural and social history. The essays in Disco Divas reveal that the 1970s, far from being an era of cultural stasis, were a time of great social change, particularly for women. Editor(s): Inness, Sherrie A. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812218411
- ISBN
- 9780812218411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. Experiencing Disco, HipHop, House, Techno, Drum 'n' Bass and Garage Discographies traces the history of ideas about music and dance in Western culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415170338
- ISBN
- 9780415170338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.60
€ 55.60
Hardcover. Editor(s): Dublanc, Gregory. Num Pages: 316 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608761357
- ISBN
- 9781608761357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.57€ 139.42
€ 205.57
€ 139.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFHC; JPSH; JPWL2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Trine Day United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984185856
- ISBN
- 9780984185856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.25
€ 26.99
€ 24.25