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Society & culture: general

Paperback. This study attempts to cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore and history in order to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia. Editor(s): Appadurai, Arjun; etc.; Korom, Frank J. (Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, USA); Mills, Margaret A. (Associate Professor of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, USA). Series: South Asia Seminar. Num Pages: 464 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FM; JFHF; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 227 x 31. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812213379
ISBN
9780812213379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.86

Paperback. Explores the allure of Cash's contradictory persona Series: Profiles in Popular Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGL; AVH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253220615
ISBN
9780253220615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.82

paperback. The nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose and identity. This book offers a cultural history of one nation's efforts to determine its nature, its destiny, and its place among the nations of the world. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520082847
ISBN
9780520082847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.99
€ 42.31

paperback. Tells the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. This volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations. Num Pages: 344 pages, 60 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300197204
ISBN
9780300197204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.16

hardcover. Editor(s): Luckman, Susan; Thomas, Nicola. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AC; JFCD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474259583
ISBN
9781474259583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.01
€ 90.86

Paperback. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world, this book engages readers in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in a historical and cultural context. It is suitable for disabled people, scholars, policy makers and activists. Editor(s): Albrecht, Gary L.; Seelman, Katherine Delores; Bury, Michael. Num Pages: 864 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 205 x 43. Weight in Grams: 2012.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
864
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761928744
ISBN
9780761928744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 109.08

Paperback. Shows how Western control of Africa's oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy, and how Africans have resisted the theft of their resources. Series: New Politics, Progressive Policy. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; JFFX; JPS; KCM; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745330457
ISBN
9780745330457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674016064
ISBN
9780674016064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.36
€ 54.32

paperback. How the misguided policy of reducing livestock on the Navajo reservation in the 1930s is still felt today by the people and the land Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 418 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; JFSL9; KNAC; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991412
ISBN
9780295991412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

hardcover. Num Pages: 284 pages, 4 maps, 17 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDFC; 1H; APFA; JFCA; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253020659
ISBN
9780253020659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Paperback. This innovative book is the first to couch the debate about animals in the language of justice, and the first to develop both ideal and nonideal theories of justice for animals. It rejects the abolitionist animal rights position in favor of a revised version of animal rights centering on sentience. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFZ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199936335
ISBN
9780199936335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.71

Paperback. Editor(s): Mossberger, Karen; Clarke, Susan E.; John, Peter. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 700 pages, 28 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFSG; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199385553
ISBN
9780199385553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.30

Paperback. This volume offers anthropological perspectives on landscape, a topic of emerging interest for anthropologists, geographers, art historians and archaeologists. It proposes that landscape be conceptualized as a cultural process situated between "place" and "space". Editor(s): Hirsch, Eric; O'Hanlon, Michael. Series: Oxford Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 280 pages, 36 black and white illustrations, line figures, tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198280101
ISBN
9780198280101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.29

Paperback. The first book to survey the history of Northern Ireland migration from partition in 1921 to the present, including the personal stories of individuals who emigrated to many destinations abroad, some of whom later returned. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD1; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781383063
ISBN
9781781383063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.10

Paperback. Traces Arsenio Rodriguez's early career in Cuba, his influence on Cuban and Latin popular music in the 1940s, his struggle for recognition at the height of mambo-mania in the 1950s, and his importance to Puerto Rican and Cuban communities in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Series: Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, 5 tables, 18 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; ASD; AVGE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592133864
ISBN
9781592133864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Bauer, Heike. Series: Sexuality Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 5SG; DS; HBL; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439912492
ISBN
9781439912492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardcover. Is the US today a "post-racial" society? Some might point to the election and re-election of a Black president as conclusive evidence of the progress made in race relations, but others are not so sanguine. In this volume, scholars in psychology, education, sociology, and related fields dissect the concept of colour-blind racial ideology. Editor(s): Neville, Helen A. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781433820731
ISBN
9781433820731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 81.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816691838
ISBN
9780816691838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Allen, Beverly; Russo, Mary. Num Pages: 423 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; JFC; JPFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
423
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816627271
ISBN
9780816627271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 graphs, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JFCV; JFFA; JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813573311
ISBN
9780813573311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

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