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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Presents personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of authors united by their poor or working-class origins. Editor(s): Lopez, Lorraine M. Series: Class: Culture. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070787
- ISBN
- 9780472070787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.83
€ 98.83
Hardcover. Artists like Blind Arthur Blake, Sonny Terry, Arizona Dranes, and Art Tatum have appeared throughout the history of popular music in America - the list of visually impaired black musicians is long. This book examines the ways that blindness, like blackness, shaped both the music these artists produced and the way the nation received it. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVA; JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070640
- ISBN
- 9780472070640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.66
€ 98.66
Hardcover. Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status. This book explores the changing meanings of clerical work in nineteenth-century America, focusing on the discourse surrounding that work. Series: Class: Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 b&w illustrations, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070558
- ISBN
- 9780472070558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.34
€ 117.34
Hardcover. Fluid by design, the term Alt Country has forced even the genre's own mouthpiece, the magazine/website "No Depression", to declare its terrain to be 'alternative-country music (whatever that is)'. This book explores the influences, meanings, and identity of this significant contemporary music form. Editor(s): Fox, Pamela; Ching, Barbara. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGL; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070534
- ISBN
- 9780472070534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.18
€ 111.18
Hardcover. Investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. This work contends that law can never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice. Series: Law, Meaning & Violence. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070473
- ISBN
- 9780472070473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.01
€ 111.01
Hardcover. Explores the question of why Weimar Berlin has such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. This book examines the way in which architectural projects, debates, and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society. Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; AM; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070381
- ISBN
- 9780472070381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.03
€ 105.03
Paperback. Examines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events of the period. This book proves that - in America - advertising, publicity, and the development of the modern economy cannot be understood apart from the question of race. Series: Class: Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBH; JFC; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069873
- ISBN
- 9780472069873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.03
€ 41.03
Paperback. Presents a study of the creation of youth drug culture in Hamburg during the 1960s and 1970s and an exploration of the paradoxes of modernization. Placing Hamburg's drug scene within national and international contexts, this book examines the ways in which mass consumerism created complicated forms of resistance to state power and cultural norms. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 images, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBTB; JFC; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069736
- ISBN
- 9780472069736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.63
€ 33.99
€ 30.63
Paperback. Political parties have long sought to expand their electoral coalitions by making marginal changes to the way they project themselves to the public. This title offers an analysis of how political parties use racial images to make cosmetic changes to their parties' images, even when the parties do not alter their platforms. Series: Politics of Race & Ethnicity S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 figures, 28 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069675
- ISBN
- 9780472069675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.81
€ 37.81
Paperback. Investigates the extent to which German filmmakers have engaged with the ever more fluid trade of images, meanings, and identities in a globalizing world. This volume traces German cinema's negotiation of the global as a multilayered story in which hopes and fears about the prospect of a more cosmopolitan culture often go hand in hand. Editor(s): Schindler, Stephan K.; Koepnick, Lutz. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 b&w images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; APFA; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069668
- ISBN
- 9780472069668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.18
€ 43.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 28 photos. BIC Classification: 1FMM; JFSL. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069569
- ISBN
- 9780472069569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.75
€ 43.75
Paperback. Robert E. Lane illustrates his research by presenting a dialogue between two protagonists - two social scientists who regularly meet for lunch in a diner just off-campus. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069156
- ISBN
- 9780472069156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.96
€ 44.96
Paperback. This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068456
- ISBN
- 9780472068456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99
€ 41.99
Paperback. Makes explicit anthropology's implicit project to understand the self by way of the other Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ1; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 527.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068289
- ISBN
- 9780472068289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.04
€ 47.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: HPN; HPQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068180
- ISBN
- 9780472068180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.24
€ 27.99
€ 26.24
Paperback. American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068111
- ISBN
- 9780472068111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.25
€ 44.25
Paperback. A compelling study of male ritual secrecy and its impact on the cultures of Melanesia and Papua New Guinea Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067619
- ISBN
- 9780472067619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.33
€ 45.33
Paperback. International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world Editor(s): Haedicke, Susan C.; Nellhaus, Tobin. Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067602
- ISBN
- 9780472067602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.45
€ 43.99
€ 39.45
Paperback. An important ethnographic analysis of motherhood in one Melanesian society Num Pages: 264 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSL9; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067572
- ISBN
- 9780472067572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.50
€ 45.50
Paperback. A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; 2AB; DDS; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067541
- ISBN
- 9780472067541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.18
€ 35.18