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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Series: New Critical Theory. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL3; JPFC; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742513013
- ISBN
- 9780742513013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.26
€ 178.26
Paperback. Demonstrates that women are creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labour-nationalism. This title examines the tensions of the 1910s that led to the 1919 anti-colonial riot; and the militant anti-colonial labour movement of the 1930s. Series: Engendering Latin America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 photographs, 2 maps, 5 tables, index. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLCM; HB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803224926
- ISBN
- 9780803224926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
paperback. This study focuses on the contribution that studies of the post-war 'welfare state' can make to debates about welfare. Drawing on community care debates from 1971 to 1993, it illuminates contemporary concerns about issues as rationing care, the health and social care divide, residential care and growing emphasis on provider competition. Num Pages: 212 pages, 14figs.9tabs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFSP31; JHBC; JKSB; JKSG; JPRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861342652
- ISBN
- 9781861342652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.93
€ 38.99
€ 36.93
Hardcover. Contains papers presented at the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology held in South Korea in 2008. This book provides an international view of the advanced production in rural sociology. Editor(s): Bonanno, Alessandro; Baker, Hans; Jussaume, Raymond; Kawamura, Yoshio; Shuksmith, Mark. Series Editor(s): Marsden, Terry. Series: Research in Rural Sociology & Development. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSF; JHB; RPG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857242815
- ISBN
- 9780857242815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.15
€ 124.15
Paperback. In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was born. This book examines the Council's work and the challenges it faced in an atmosphere of pervasive wartime racism. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JFSL; JNKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252074493
- ISBN
- 9780252074493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.12
€ 29.12
Hardback. From Continuity to Contiguity breaks away from previous attempts attempts to define a common denominator that unifies the various modern Jewish literatures by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804762007
- ISBN
- 9780804762007
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.73
€ 90.73
Paperback. This book is about the need for an alternative to capitalism. But what does that alternative look like? BIC Classification: JFFS; KCA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552668726
- ISBN
- 9781552668726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.30
€ 26.99
€ 23.30
Paperback. Details the story of a group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs - Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. While tracing the transformation of how our networked culture came to be, this book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think. Num Pages: 354 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226817422
- ISBN
- 9780226817422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.09
€ 23.99
€ 19.09
Hardcover. Details the story of a group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs - Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. While tracing the transformation of how our networked culture came to be, this book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226817415
- ISBN
- 9780226817415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.23
€ 35.99
€ 28.23
Paperback. Deals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this narrative, the author explores the role of women in Cuban political culture by examining the rise of economies of sex, romance, and money since the early 1990s. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFMX; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282988
- ISBN
- 9780520282988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292701717
- ISBN
- 9780292701717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.97
€ 26.99
€ 26.97
Paperback. The book is the English edition of a collection of essays by Jacob Taubes, one of the most creative and idiosyncratic philosophers of religion in Germany of the second half of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva; Engel, Amir. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739849
- ISBN
- 9780804739849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.27
€ 29.27
Hardcover. Editor(s): Hanewald, Ria. Num Pages: 398 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFP; JNHB; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 257 x 177 x 24. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626181793
- ISBN
- 9781626181793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 251.73€ 168.77
€ 251.73
€ 168.77
Paperback. A story of fits and starts that provides a chronicle of the history of wine in the United States told through the lens of the law. It explains how laws shape the wine industry in such areas as pricing and taxation, licensing, appellations, health claims and warnings, labeling, and domestic and international commerce. Num Pages: 320 pages, 26 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; KNDF; LAZ; WBXD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268005
- ISBN
- 9780520268005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.74
€ 31.99
€ 22.74
Paperback. In blood-soaked lore handed down the centuries, the vampire is a monster of endless fascination: from Bram Stoker's "Dracula" to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", this seductive lover of blood haunts popular culture and inhabits our darkest imaginings. This book tells the history of the vampire, and reveals why the vampire myth fascinates us. Num Pages: 224 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861894038
- ISBN
- 9781861894038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.73
€ 29.73
paperback. This report presents an evaluation of a programme to integrate drug and alcohol treatment with mental health services, education, training and employment support. It provides an invaluable insight into the challenges and difficulties of integrating services in this way and highlights important lessons for central and regional government. Series: Researching Criminal Justice Series. Num Pages: 88 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 170. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9781861346605
- ISBN
- 9781861346605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.32
€ 26.99
€ 26.32
Paperback. Series: Latina/O Sociology. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFN; JFSL4; JKV; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479831180
- ISBN
- 9781479831180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Hardback. Series: Latina/O Sociology. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFN; JFSL4; JKV; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479804665
- ISBN
- 9781479804665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.19
€ 102.19
Paperback. A unique approach to exploring a key social trend, which gives a human voice to the workplace revolution, this play examines the commercial and social revolution in South-East London when the Surrey Docks were transformed from a hub for large corporations to their present identity. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMC; DD; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 5. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Aurora Metro Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906582548
- ISBN
- 9781906582548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.24
€ 12.24
Paperback. Series: Studies in Language Gender and Sexuality. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ2; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195390186
- ISBN
- 9780195390186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.31
€ 55.31
Paperback. Notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for 'what others might say'. This book traces shifts in the meaning of 'tradition', suggesting that although 'modern' people cannot 'be' traditional, they must have traditions to produce themselves. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JFC; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691016641
- ISBN
- 9780691016641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.19€ 41.82
€ 53.19
€ 41.82
paperback. In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323723
- ISBN
- 9780822323723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.33
€ 31.99
€ 30.33
Hardback. This work examines the history of Hungary's Jewish community in the period 1848-1945. Despite significant contributions to the development of the nation, and intense patriotism in times of national peril, the author finds that Jews remained perennial aliens in the land of Hungary. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817598
- ISBN
- 9780761817598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.68
€ 146.68
Paperback. Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Introductory sections explain the context and importance of the sources. Editor(s): Lavin, Carmen (Open Unviersity); Donnachie, Ian. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719066719
- ISBN
- 9780719066719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.34
€ 38.34