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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Examining the relationship between societal practice, historical processes, and culture in a Nepali society, this book tells the story of the Thakali's search for identity and their efforts to clarify and represent their culture and history. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKN; JFSL9; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231110877
ISBN
9780231110877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.82

Hardback. An unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which we are asked to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism. While many people look to humanist ideals as a deterrent to nationalist chauvinism, Finkielkraut challenges the abstract idea of universalism by describing the terrible crimes "civilized" Europe has committed in its name. Translator(s): Friedlander, Judith. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231110204
ISBN
9780231110204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.86
€ 46.12

Hardback. Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three 20th-century writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Roland Barthes. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231109963
ISBN
9780231109963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.59
€ 78.42

Paperback. Balgopal and contributors explore ideas and skills that help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of newly arrived immigrants and refugees. Editor(s): Balgopal, Pallassana R. Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFD; JFFN; JFS; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231108577
ISBN
9780231108577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.09

Hardback. Balgopal and contributors explore ideas and skills that help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of newly arrived immigrants and refugees. Editor(s): Balgopal, Pallassana R. Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFD; JFFN; JFS; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231108560
ISBN
9780231108560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.72
€ 88.69

Paperback. A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity. Num Pages: 409 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
409
Condition
New
Edition
With a new preface
SKU
V9780231108416
ISBN
9780231108416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.82

paperback. This text looks at opinion polls, the news media, special interest groups, and interviews with congressional members, using the Iran-Contra hearing as a case study. It explores the construction, interpretation and uses of public opinion and questions the media's role in forming public policy. Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics into the 21st Century. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPA; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231108218
ISBN
9780231108218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.82

Hardback. John F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. Not the history of a man's life but the biography of his idea, The Kennedy Obsession traces the creation of Kennedy's image as an inspired-and inspiring-fiction. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231107983
ISBN
9780231107983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.30
€ 81.41

Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107532
ISBN
9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.96

Hardback. Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role reading played in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. The "ubiquitous urban texts"--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs to handbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a new kind of public life that emerged first in New York. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 28 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107440
ISBN
9780231107440
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.30
€ 81.84

Paperback. Today's discourse on nationalism is engaged by dynamic theoretical models derived from studies in literary criticism, cultural anthropology, socioeconomics, and psychology. This is the first book of its kind to apply this new theoretical framework to the Arab Middle East, with essays by Beth Baron, Fred Halliday, Rashid Khalidi, and Emmanuel Sivan. Editor(s): Gershoni, Israel; Jankowski, James P. Num Pages: 408 pages, 9 photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLW; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106955
ISBN
9780231106955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.78

paperback. Twelve essays provide a nuanced portrait of why public sexual activity is such an integral part of gay culture. Contributors explore issues such as visibility and secrecy, as well as economic status and social class, and interrogate the historical trajectories through which certain locations come to be favored sites for sexual encounters. Editor(s): Leap, William L. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 photos. BIC Classification: JFSK2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231106917
ISBN
9780231106917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.11

Paperback. This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; HB; JFMX; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106436
ISBN
9780231106436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.91

Paperback. Contributors discuss the differences between women within and across cultures and how local attitudes and traditions can affect the prevention of, or vulnerability to, HIV / AIDS. Editor(s): Long, Lynellyn D.; Ankrah, E.Maxine. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JFSJ1; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106054
ISBN
9780231106054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.11

Hardback. Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume One, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korean from ancient times through the sixteenth century. Editor(s): Lee, Peter H.; Ch'oe, Yongho; De Bary, William Theodore; Kang, Hugh H.W. Series: Introduction to Asian Civilizations. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Edition
Abridged
SKU
V9780231105668
ISBN
9780231105668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.44
€ 106.65

Paperback. This is an oral history of a second-generation, urban-born woman who struggles to survive in the poor, Andean city of La Paz. It shows how her identity shifts over time, shaped by the major events in her life. Topics range fron social networks to magical interventions and clairvoyant dreaming. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; BGHA; HBTD; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104678
ISBN
9780231104678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.90

Hardback. Linking narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory, this text explores the place of homosexuality, in particular the lesbian, in the tradition of the Western narrative. The author shows how sexuality and narrative must be disentangled to alter oppressive social practices. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104364
ISBN
9780231104364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.83
€ 84.41

Paperback. This book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within a richly detailed account of its working at the village level. Num Pages: 392 pages, 35 photos. BIC Classification: 1FMT; JFC; JFSF; JHM; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103916
ISBN
9780231103916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.90

Hardback. A spirited exploration of the culture created when advertising becomes not just a central institution, but the central institution. Num Pages: 296 pages, 181 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103244
ISBN
9780231103244
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.59
€ 77.94

Hardback. Examining Jewish presence in French literature, this book explores the many shapes and forms in which Jews are perceived, spoken, and written about. It looks at strains of antisemitism running through French literature, analyzing such antecedents as the nihilism of the 1880s and its meditation on death and absence. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103084
ISBN
9780231103084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.74
€ 49.90

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