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Hardback. Arguing against the perception that the capitalist marketplace permits no alternatives, the author shows that a kind of economic "common sense" conditions how people organize their everyday lives and understand their powers as social agents within markets that are far from monolithic and uniform. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFC; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730853
ISBN
9780804730853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.55

Hardback. This book examines a wide range of intellectual, ethical, and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Peguy, on Bernard-Lazare, who was prominent during the Dreyfus Affair. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: BG; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730051
ISBN
9780804730051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.70

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.49

Hardback. This collection of 15 essays deals with the representations, theories, and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the 19th and 20th centuries Editor(s): Fisher, Dominique D.; Schehr, Lawrence R. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729741
ISBN
9780804729741
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.40

Hardback. Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729475
ISBN
9780804729475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.03

Hardback. The author reads four 18th-century satiric novels-Joseph Andrews, A Sentimental Journey, Humphrey Clinker, and Cecilia -"from below," exploring how the gentle authors' experiences of the poor shape the novels both thematically and formally. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729086
ISBN
9780804729086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.49

hardcover. This book traces the formation of historical consciousness among the Duna people of Papua New Guinea and explores how this is constituted differently for men and women. Num Pages: 260 pages, 18 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728997
ISBN
9780804728997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.44

Hardback. In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife's paid employment less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 565.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728355
ISBN
9780804728355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.89

Hardback. The author argues against much recent work on Baudelaire that assumes his modernism by emphasizing his relationship to current critical preoccupations such as issues of race and gender or by "correcting" his politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC; HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728096
ISBN
9780804728096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.92

Hardback. Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development by studying important critics, and analyzing cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy. Num Pages: 360 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; HP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727082
ISBN
9780804727082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.21

Hardback. This book uses 103 illustrations from the 16th century onward and the history of obstetrical and embryological knowledge to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined "fetal politics" and the contemporary abortion debates. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 176 pages, 103 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMA; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726474
ISBN
9780804726474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.77

Hardback. This work seeks to understand how, in 19th-century Germany, Jews and non-Jews shaped and experienced Jewish emancipation, a process whereby Jews were freed from ancient discriminatory laws and, over the course of decades, became citizens. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JFSR1; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726443
ISBN
9780804726443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.22

Hardback. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"--to call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period--as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters. Editor(s): Kuzniar, Alice A. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726146
ISBN
9780804726146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.92

Hardback. Is the "Oedipus complex" universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 705.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725767
ISBN
9780804725767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.05

Hardback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724630
ISBN
9780804724630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.34

Hardback. Combining detailed quantitative analysis of newspaper articles and television news stories with extensive interviews of leading journalists and government officials, the book demonstrates conclusively that the media, as an elite interest group, have the power to influence both the making of policy and the agenda for that policy. Num Pages: 204 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724395
ISBN
9780804724395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.95

Hardback. What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS?.. The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research. Translator(s): Gilgen, Peter; Curtis, Conrad Scott-. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFC; MJCJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724371
ISBN
9780804724371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.68

Hardback. This wide-ranging inquiry into the socio-cultural forces that define the three nations of North America seeks out ways in which the countries can become more comfortable with their collective future on the continent. Editor(s): Earle, Robert L.; Wirth, John D. Series: Comparative Studies in History, Institutions, & Public Policy. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 579.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724333
ISBN
9780804724333
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.03

Hardback. This work investigates a cluster of concepts that gather around the question of topography and its uses in criticism. They include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power and the relation of personification to landscape. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 396 pages, 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723787
ISBN
9780804723787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.60

Hardback. This analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by authors including Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722995
ISBN
9780804722995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.04

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