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Society & culture: general
Paperback. As the author of "Evelina" and "Cecilia", both of which created new dimensions for the novel, Fanny Burney is as well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson, her mastectomy and her account of the Battle of Waterloo. This portrait of Burney paints a picture of this forward-looking woman. Num Pages: 112 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 125 x 0. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0020983
- ISBN
- 9781904095187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Reprint of the Harvard U. Press edition of 1984 endorsed by BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252062490
- ISBN
- 9780252062490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Hardback. * An outstanding introduction to the work of Franz Fanon, one of the most important and controversial thinkers of postwar period. * Fanon was an anti--colonial / postcolonial critic whose work spans across the political and academic disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, social science, and literature. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: BG; HPS; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622606
- ISBN
- 9780745622606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.62
€ 75.62
Paperback. Examines Frantz Fanon's relevance to contemporary South African politics and by extension research on postcolonial Africa and the tragic development of postcolonies. Scholar Nigel C. Gibson offers theoretically informed historical analysis, providing insights into the circumstances that led to the current hegemony of neoliberalism in South Africa. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTQ; JFSL3; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414779
- ISBN
- 9781137414779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.90
€ 70.90
Paperback. Henry Jenkins' pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture. This title takes readers from Jenkins' early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his work. Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814742853
- ISBN
- 9780814742853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Hardback. In Fans: The Mirror of Consumption Cornel Sandvoss explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. The scope of the book is impressive -- he looks not just at the nature and development of whole fan cultures, but also focuses on the experience and identity of the individual fan. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745629728
- ISBN
- 9780745629728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.84
€ 72.84
Paperback. Explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. This book describes the nature and development of whole fan cultures, and focuses on the experience and identity of the individual fan. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745629735
- ISBN
- 9780745629735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.73
€ 24.73
Hardback. This book is about cultural fantasies of fetishism, the different forms they take and the various ways in which the transformative processes they depict can reaffirm accepted definitions of identity or reconfigure them in an entirely new fashion. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JMAL; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 254 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748616169
- ISBN
- 9780748616169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.58€ 102.99
€ 106.58
€ 102.99
Hardback. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, this book traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification" - the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 273 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9781479812981
- ISBN
- 9781479812981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.43
€ 85.43
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479859498
- ISBN
- 9781479859498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813564487
- ISBN
- 9780813564487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.65
€ 160.65
Paperback. Includes stories of Indonesian women that have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. Editor(s): Sears, Laurie J. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822316961
- ISBN
- 9780822316961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100 black and white photos. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Plexus Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859654203
- ISBN
- 9780859654203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.38
€ 21.38
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Pankhurst, Kate. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; YB; YNH; YNM. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 305 x 238. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408889961
- ISBN
- 9781408889961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.58
€ 9.99
€ 8.58
Paperback. What could one man find if he embarked on a journey through fantasy world after fantasy world? In an enthralling blend of travelogue, pop culture analysis, and memoir, forty-year-old former D&D addict Ethan Gilsdorf crisscrosses America, the world, and other worlds-from Boston to New Zealand, and Planet Earth to the realm of Aggramar. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 25.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781599219943
- ISBN
- 9781599219943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.83
€ 16.99
€ 13.83
Paperback. The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume. This book probes Chinese, European, and American eco-desire and eco-technological dreams, and examines the solutions they offer to environmental degradation in this age of global economic change. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 b/w images, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTF; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 201 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284487
- ISBN
- 9780520284487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
hardcover. This collection of tales represents and preserves the oral heritage of Arctic and Subarctic ethnic groups, so that their stories are no longer in danger of becoming lost to future generations. Series: World Folklore Series. Num Pages: 290 pages, 28. BIC Classification: 1MTN; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781591587613
- ISBN
- 9781591587613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.66€ 51.10
€ 55.66
€ 51.10
Hardback. Drawing on the story of the 1771 Bloody Falls massacre, human geographer Emilie Cameron explores the relationship between stories and colonialism, challenging readers to examine their perceptions of the contemporary Arctic and its peoples. Num Pages: 15 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFSL9; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774828840
- ISBN
- 9780774828840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.50
€ 106.50
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFFN; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748642908
- ISBN
- 9780748642908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.58€ 102.03
€ 106.58
€ 102.03
Paperback. Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; KCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646176
- ISBN
- 9780745646176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.66
€ 22.66