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paperback. This work offers a mapping of the cultural landscape of China in the late 20th century. By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the book dissects the intellectual, economic and political contradictions of a turbulent era. Num Pages: 344 pages, 32 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804742047
- ISBN
- 9780804742047
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 45.98
€ 47.99
€ 45.98
paperback. Traditionally child sexual abuse has been perceived as a male crime, however, research suggests that a minority of offenders are female. While recognizing the importance of male perpetrators, this book highlights the problems inherent in protecting children. It offers a critical understanding of the notions of harm and the rights of the child. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415882941
- ISBN
- 9780415882941
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Condition: New
€ 61.21
€ 61.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, 50 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBK; JMF; MMJT. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 253 x 24. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415844482
- ISBN
- 9780415844482
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Condition: New
€ 100.92
€ 100.92
Paperback. Examining sport within context of urban regeneration, this book looks at the place of sport within planning agendas for 'cities of culture'. It also examines sport stadiums in city 're-imaging' in relation to matters such as public funding, environmental impact and urban infrastructure. Editor(s): Sam, Michael P.; Hughson, John. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 9. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415828208
- ISBN
- 9780415828208
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Condition: New
€ 71.31
€ 71.31
hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JM; HBJD; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Continuum
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781472942241
- ISBN
- 9781472942241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.10
€ 24.99
€ 17.10
paperback. No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. This work presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 608 pages, 50 illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780691029153
- ISBN
- 9780691029153
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Condition: New
€ 64.99€ 44.90
€ 64.99
€ 44.90
paperback. The National Film Board of Canada is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. This book shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, is involved in the discourses of nation, technology, and social scientific knowledge that shape the Canadian cultural landscape. Num Pages: 256 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APF; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780773532595
- ISBN
- 9780773532595
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.73
€ 34.99
€ 31.73
Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges
. Ed(S): Gutierrez, Ramon A.; Zavella, Patric...
paperback. Exploring the past, present, and future of ethnic Mexicans in California Editor(s): Gutierrez, Ramon A.; Zavella, Patricia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 line drawings; 22 maps/graphs; 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLCM; JFSL4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076077
- ISBN
- 9780252076077
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.22
€ 27.99
€ 26.22
paperback. Demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system. This book also shows that although large plantations languished, many former slaves worked tirelessly and became successful small-scale landowners. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJWJ; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073274
- ISBN
- 9780252073274
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.33
€ 30.99
€ 27.33
paperback. Eschewing reassuring platitudes and sensational pleas for sympathy, the author charts her struggles with juvenile diabetes, blindness, and a host of other hardships, sharing her feelings of despair and frustration as well as her hard-won triumphs. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 407. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252072192
- ISBN
- 9780252072192
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.53
€ 18.99
€ 18.53
paperback. Six annotated pamphlets on the role of women in 15th Century society. They give insight into debates within English culture on gossips, treatises against wife-beating, superiority of women, and cross-dressing. They constitute a significant body of primary literature, allowing the contending voices to be heard. Editor(s): O'Malley, Ms Susan Gushee. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBT; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071287
- ISBN
- 9780252071287
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.92
€ 37.99
€ 33.92
paperback. A collection of searching conversations - ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes - on the issues that face literary and cultural critics. It bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. It provides insider information for students contemplating an academic career. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069611
- ISBN
- 9780252069611
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.34
€ 42.99
€ 38.34
paperback. A comparative study of European and American cultural traditions and their influence on conceptions of community. It discusses European and American attitudes toward the welfare state, the human rights tradition in the United States, and the role of regionalism in shaping conceptions of national identity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069093
- ISBN
- 9780252069093
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.34
€ 42.99
€ 38.34
paperback. Explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to place women's employment rights on the national agenda, decisively influencing both the contemporary labor movement and second-wave feminism. This title unravels a complex history of how labor leaders accommodated and resisted working women's demands for change. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252068348
- ISBN
- 9780252068348
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.62
€ 33.99
€ 30.62
paperback. Featuring a discussion that shows how science fiction's ability to make the familiar strange, this book comments on entrenched attitudes toward gender roles and feminist issues. By having aliens or sexually neutral beings enact female dominance or passivity, it provides a view on these experiences and an antidote to explicit cultural biases. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; FLS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252068102
- ISBN
- 9780252068102
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.52
€ 32.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. Places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context i Editor(s): Counts, Dorothy Ayers; Brown, Judith K.; Campbell, Jacquelyn C. Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067976
- ISBN
- 9780252067976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.73
€ 34.99
€ 31.73
paperback. Through a variety of texts - novels, memoirs, film, drama, theory, museum exhibits, legal cases - this title demonstrates the dynamics of passing, presenting it not as the assumption of a fraudulent identity but as the recognition that the assumption of any identity, including for the purposes of teaching, is a form of passing. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 photographs. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067709
- ISBN
- 9780252067709
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.23
€ 41.99
€ 37.23
paperback. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel characterized Unsecular Media as a book that leaves you thinking about the saintly role that religion has acquired in our allegedly irreligious media.Mark Silk's book is the first to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of how American news media cover religion. Series: Public Express Religion America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067426
- ISBN
- 9780252067426
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.22
€ 27.99
€ 26.22
Women among Women: Anthropological Perspectives on Female Age Hierarch...
. Ed(S): Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette; Brown, J...
paperback. Editor(s): Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette; Brown, Judith K. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252066832
- ISBN
- 9780252066832
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.33
€ 30.99
€ 27.33
paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- V9780252066658
- ISBN
- 9780252066658
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.44
€ 44.99
€ 39.44
paperback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSGS; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780231164870
- ISBN
- 9780231148498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.87
€ 18.99
€ 13.87
Paperback. Based on case studies from Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, the overall findings are illustrative of narratives and images common to museums and the media throughout the world. They aim to challenge political rhetoric and populist media imagery and consider what forms of dissent are likely to be sustained.. Editor(s): Goodnow, Katherine; Lohman, Professor Jack; Marfleet, Philip. Num Pages: 206 pages, 38 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1MBF; GM; JFFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 270 x 215 x 9. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455422
- ISBN
- 9781845455422
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Condition: New
€ 74.44
€ 74.44
paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSJ1; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816674671
- ISBN
- 9780816674671
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Condition: New
€ 30.13
€ 30.13
In this volume examines the situation and discrimination of the Roma ethnic minority in Slovakia from the perspective of environmental conditions and injustice. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, charts, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVKS; JFF; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9786155225130
- ISBN
- 9786155225130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 89.84
€ 89.84