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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self. This book looks at the roots of this particular form of celebrity. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press New Jersey
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691048697
- ISBN
- 9780691048697
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€ 46.99€ 33.80
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Paperback. Provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume draws attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the social knowledge. Editor(s): Silverberg, Helene. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691048208
- ISBN
- 9780691048208
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€ 65.41€ 51.27
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Paperback. Explores how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. This book provides a glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 charts 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691044675
- ISBN
- 9780691044675
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€ 59.47€ 46.93
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Paperback. Brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia that highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law. Editor(s): Metcalf, Barbara D. Series: Princeton Readings in Religions. Num Pages: 504 pages, 23 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 265 x 35. Weight in Grams: 748.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691044200
- ISBN
- 9780691044200
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€ 54.99€ 39.22
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Paperback. Exploring the global dimensions of children at risk, this book discusses the notion of children's rights, and the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. It reveals how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies. Editor(s): Stephens, Sharon. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691043289
- ISBN
- 9780691043289
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€ 65.41€ 51.30
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Paperback. From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. This title paints a portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 halftones 31 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBTB; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691037875
- ISBN
- 9780691037875
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€ 65.41€ 51.21
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Paperback. Health care, Social Security, employment programs - are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. This collection of essays shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental institutions and political alliances, can illuminate the limits and possibilities of American social policymaking. Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691037851
- ISBN
- 9780691037851
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€ 65.41€ 51.27
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Paperback. According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. This title explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity. Translator(s): Levine, Caroline. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 line drawings, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691037622
- ISBN
- 9780691037622
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€ 65.41€ 51.30
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Paperback. A feminist ethnography of the violence in Northern Ireland, this book presents an analysis of a political conflict through the lens of gender. The case in point is the working-class Catholic resistance to British rule in Northern Ireland. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 halftones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JFFK; JHM; JPFN; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691037547
- ISBN
- 9780691037547
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€ 43.99€ 30.65
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Paperback. Offering a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic community fairs to pioneer celebrations, this title explores the stories, ideas, and symbols behind American commemorations over the last century. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691034959
- ISBN
- 9780691034959
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€ 53.52€ 42.52
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Paperback. Offering a comprehensive social history of the Bon Marche, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, this title explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the emporia so vividly dramatized. Num Pages: 304 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSC; KCZ; KNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 213 x 10. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691034942
- ISBN
- 9780691034942
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Condition: New
€ 53.52€ 41.80
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Hardback. Offers a historical reconstruction of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. This book argues that the evolutionary synthesis was part of a larger process of unifying the biological sciences. It suggests that the drive to unify the sciences of evolution and biology was part of a global philosophical movement toward unifying knowledge. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDA; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691033433
- ISBN
- 9780691033433
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€ 109.42€ 83.47
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Paperback. The ideology of the American dream - the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort - is the very soul of the American nation. This book talks about America's racial conflicts, and claims that the alternative lies in the inclusiveness, optimism, discipline, and high-mindedness of the American dream at its best. Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives. Num Pages: 440 pages, 10 figs. 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029207
- ISBN
- 9780691029207
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€ 52.99€ 38.17
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Paperback. Challenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 tables 25 line drawings 20 figs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691028989
- ISBN
- 9780691028989
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€ 59.47€ 46.93
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Paperback. Challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting. This book argues that we need to explain how race is experienced by people as a daily reality. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 halftones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; JFSL; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 571.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691028859
- ISBN
- 9780691028859
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€ 65.41€ 50.39
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Paperback. Spanish villagers tell many folktales that describe in metaphorical language the struggles of young men and women as they emerge from their parental families and join in love. This book presents orally transmitted tales, including "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," "Blancaflor," and dragonslayer stories. Num Pages: 272 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JFHF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691028521
- ISBN
- 9780691028521
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€ 54.99€ 39.91
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Paperback. Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, this work explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, and artistic production in France and Italy. It investigates the intersection of fascist ideology and aesthetics through a range of historical examples. Editor(s): Affron, Matthew; Antliff, Mark. Num Pages: 296 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACX; JFC; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Paperback
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691027371
- ISBN
- 9780691027371
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Condition: New
€ 71.36€ 55.68
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Paperback. Encourages us to look more closely at the issues of violence, ethnicity, and the state by focusing on specific instances of violence in their local contexts. This book shows how, out of many interpretations applicable to these incidents, government and the media select those that support existing relations of power in state and society. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 317 pages, 3 line illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM; JPA; JPH; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691026503
- ISBN
- 9780691026503
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Condition: New
€ 53.52€ 42.02
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Hardback. Presents a selection of the Nart Sagas. This book features ninety-two tales and includes an appendix offering linguistic commentary. Num Pages: 576 pages, 2 maps. 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 158 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691026473
- ISBN
- 9780691026473
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Condition: New
€ 109.78
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Paperback. Offers an analysis of Daniel Paul Schreber's "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness". This book denies that Schreber's delusional system prefigured the totalitarian solution to a defining structural crisis of modernity. It shows how this figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFC; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691026275
- ISBN
- 9780691026275
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€ 46.99€ 33.72
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Paperback. Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. This title challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691026077
- ISBN
- 9780691026077
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Condition: New
€ 53.52€ 42.55
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Paperback. A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the 'serious' medical literature of the fin de siecle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. This book argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 293 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSR1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025865
- ISBN
- 9780691025865
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Condition: New
€ 53.52€ 41.80
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Paperback. Focusing on the political life of the sha'b in Cairo, this book shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them. It examines communal patterns of allocation, distribution, and decision-making. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 358 pages, 15 halftones 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSG; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025681
- ISBN
- 9780691025681
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Condition: New
€ 65.41€ 51.27
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Paperback. A collection of essays, which examine 19th-and early 20th-century debate among British scholars on the viability and desirability of the multinational state, the American "nation-building" school of thought that dominated the literature on political development in the post-World War II era, and the explosion of literature on ethnonationalism. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025636
- ISBN
- 9780691025636
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Condition: New
€ 59.47€ 46.84
€ 59.47
€ 46.84