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Society & culture: general

Paperback. This book offers an alternative way of taking up the American Philosophical tradition as a way of doing philosophy and a way of life. Douglas Anderson explores the relationship between American philosophy and other features of American culture, including where in that culture thinking that could be called "philosophical" is to be found. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 461.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780823225514
ISBN
9780823225514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world and the west's debts to Byzantium. This text aims to pose new questions, exploring how the meeting of cultures promotes historical change. Editor(s): Gyug, Richard Francis. Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823222131
ISBN
9780823222131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Hardback. Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world and the west's debts to Byzantium. This text aims to pose new questions, exploring how the meeting of cultures promotes historical change. Editor(s): Gyug, Richard Francis. Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823222124
ISBN
9780823222124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.43

Paperback. "This book is a thoughtful and thorough exploration."-Jewish Book Council Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HPDF; HRAB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 21. Weight in Grams: 539.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823220038
ISBN
9780823220038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. A biography of Carl Schurz, a German who took part in the 1848 revolution. He then went to America, where his ethnic connections enabled him to enter politics. He eventually became Secretary of the Interior. This book sheds light on the problems of immigration and the retention of ethnic identity. Series: North's Civil War. Num Pages: 386 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780823218554
ISBN
9780823218554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

Hardback. A biography of Carl Schurz, a German who took part in the 1848 revolution. He then went to America, where his ethnic connections enabled him to enter politics. He eventually became Secretary of the Interior. This book sheds light on the problems of immigration and the retention of ethnic identity. Series: North's Civil War. Num Pages: 386 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780823218547
ISBN
9780823218547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.72

Paperback. Editor(s): Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar; Thai, Hung Cam; Silvey, Rachel. Num Pages: 338 pages, 3. BIC Classification: GTB; JFMX; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 175 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822368465
ISBN
9780822368465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.27

Paperback. Moving among Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean, this title demonstrates the vibrancy and historical roots of Africana thought and philosophy. It includes an essay that reveals the intricate richness of Africana thought, moving through psychoanalysis, folktales, Western metaphysics, and a critique of the political. Editor(s): Farred, Grant. Series: A Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1293.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822367079
ISBN
9780822367079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.27

Paperback. September 11, the subway bombings in Europe, and Hurricane Katrina occurred in rapid succession. The outsized relationship between their historical significance and chronological span marked these episodes as 'events'. This book focuses on the rise of 'the event' as a form of experience and its re-emergence as a central term in critical theory. Series: Special Issue of Differences. Num Pages: 148 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822366904
ISBN
9780822366904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.27

Paperback. Noenoe K. Silva creates a model indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist by examining the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian language writers from the nineteenth-century whose prolific output across many genres created a record of Native Hawaiian cultural history and thought. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363682
ISBN
9780822363682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. Editor(s): Trnka, Susanna; Trundle, Ms Catherine. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: JF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363606
ISBN
9780822363606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Hardback. Noenoe K. Silva creates a model indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist by examining the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian language writers from the nineteenth-century whose prolific output across many genres created a record of Native Hawaiian cultural history and thought. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363521
ISBN
9780822363521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Paperback. Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim explore how working- and middle-class mothers of young children negotiate difficulties of holding a family together during difficulties such as job loss, health scares, and weakening social services through their everyday engagement with digital media. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363477
ISBN
9780822363477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Hardback. Editor(s): Barker, Joanne. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; JFSJ5; JFSK2; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363392
ISBN
9780822363392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.64

Hardback. Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim explore how working- and middle-class mothers of young children negotiate difficulties of holding a family together during difficulties such as job loss, health scares, and weakening social services through their everyday engagement with digital media. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363361
ISBN
9780822363361
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Hardback. Attiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFSJ5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363330
ISBN
9780822363330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Hardback. Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression. Translator(s): Dubois, Laurent. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363323
ISBN
9780822363323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

Paperback. Michelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa. Num Pages: 296 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363231
ISBN
9780822363231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363224
ISBN
9780822363224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Paperback. Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive, showing that alternative critical imaginings juxtaposed against traditional historical research can help to locate where agency and will may reside. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; AN; HBJH; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363200
ISBN
9780822363200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

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