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Society & culture: general
Paperback. In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631168140
- ISBN
- 9780631168140
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Condition: New
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
Paperback. Combines scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into a story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries. The book shows what it means to say that sexuality has a history by pointing to experiences of love/desire that were understood in radically different ways. Num Pages: 234 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226731568
- ISBN
- 9780226731568
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. This title reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. It assembles a compendium of Arabic writing to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. Num Pages: 472 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBF; DSBH; JFSL; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226509594
- ISBN
- 9780226509594
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Condition: New
€ 28.64
€ 28.64
Paperback. This lively, engaging book investigates the relationship between some of our more beloved popular expressions of national identity and the extent to which the interests of the state appeal to the pleasures of citizens, thus shaping our understanding of what it means to be Canadian. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442613911
- ISBN
- 9781442613911
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Argues that the creation of such "desiring subjects" is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339472
- ISBN
- 9780822339472
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.67
€ 37.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Argues for the possibility of theological thinking in a postmodern secular milieu, equating a desire to think theologically with a desire for thinking that does not disappoint. Winquist suggests that, in the wake of psychoanalysis, theology must elaborate the meaning of desire in its own discourse. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226902135
- ISBN
- 9780226902135
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Hardback. In readings ranging from early-16th- through late-17th-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in society and by their articulation of the desire to write. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729826
- ISBN
- 9780804729826
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Condition: New
€ 145.14
€ 145.14
Paperback. In a set of readings ranging from early-16th- through late 17th-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in their culture and a variety of desires. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729833
- ISBN
- 9780804729833
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816681150
- ISBN
- 9780816681150
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Condition: New
€ 102.86
€ 102.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816681167
- ISBN
- 9780816681167
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Explores the world of second-generation Indian American youth to learn how they manage the contradictions of gender roles and sexuality, how they handle their "model minority" status and expectations for class mobility in a society that still racializes everyone in terms of black or white. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; GTB; JFCA; JFSL1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399272
- ISBN
- 9781566399272
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.72
€ 31.99
€ 28.72
Hardcover. This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230342330
- ISBN
- 9780230342330
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JFSJ; JHBL; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349344468
- ISBN
- 9781349344468
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. Provides a unique perspective on cultural life during the German Occupation, & offers crucial insights into the mind and art of one of the most original writers in the second half of the twentieth century Translator(s): Holand, Michael. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251001
- ISBN
- 9780823251001
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. What if you didn't have to do motherhood alone? Bestselling author and influential blogger Sarah Mae and speaker and author Sally Clarkson explain why you don't have to. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781400204663
- ISBN
- 9781400204663
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.38
€ 18.99
€ 17.38
Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Sch...
Lewis, Amanda E.; Diamond, John B.
paperback. A rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation. Series: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780190669829
- ISBN
- 9780190669829
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Condition: New
€ 43.49
€ 43.49
paperback. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; AV; JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- SKU
- V9781349311491
- ISBN
- 9781349311491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN; AVGM; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444. Music, Masculinity and Mayhem. 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN; AVGM; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230491
- ISBN
- 9780230230491
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Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Paperback. This major new book is the most up--to--date account of current feminist debates, written by some of the worlda s leading feminist thinkers. The 1980s saw a devastating critique of the simple unities of woman or womana s experience as a theoretical basis for feminist politics. Editor(s): Phillips, Revd Dr Anne. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745607955
- ISBN
- 9780745607955
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Condition: New
€ 26.08
€ 26.08
Paperback. Takes the reader on a journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, 'What does it mean to show?' this title explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. Num Pages: 311 pages, 98 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: GM; JFC; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 20. Weight in Grams: 952.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 311
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520209664
- ISBN
- 9780520209664
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 32.16
€ 44.99
€ 32.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH; VFJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Hazelden Information & Educational Services United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592850372
- ISBN
- 9781592850372
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.87
€ 17.99
€ 15.87
Paperback. Offers knowledge and insight to those who want to understand the movements and events behind the modern-day hostilities wracking Western and Islamic societies. This title clarifies how the Muslim world, sees the history of the world, and what they therefore make of our own version of events. Num Pages: 416 pages, 30 maps throughout. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781586488130
- ISBN
- 9781586488130
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.31
€ 25.99
€ 21.31
Hardcover. Sequel to: The Babri Masjid question 1528-2003: a matter of national honour. Num Pages: 520 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFJ; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Tulika Books
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789382381471
- ISBN
- 9789382381471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.86€ 48.71
€ 61.86
€ 48.71
Paperback. Immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks tell their personal stories in a collection which explores themes of transnationalism, racialization, and the global war on terror, and explains the human cost of suspending civil liberties after a wartime emergency. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; HBTD; JFSR2; JPVH1; JPWL2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103825
- ISBN
- 9780230103825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.74
€ 36.74