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Society & culture: general
Paperback. On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize - winning economist Gary S Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A Posner announced the formation of the Becker-Posner Blog. This book gathers the most important and innovative entries from the blog. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 232 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226041025
- ISBN
- 9780226041025
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Paperback. Sets out to determine when and why valedictorians end up at less selective schools, showing that social class makes all the difference. This title traces valedictorians' paths to college and presents damning evidence that high schools do not provide sufficient guidance on crucial factors affecting college selection. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone, 17 line drawings, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSC; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226041001
- ISBN
- 9780226041001
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€ 34.99€ 27.29
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Paperback.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226040837
- ISBN
- 9780226040837
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€ 31.99€ 24.69
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Paperback. Doormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend time with, and whether they have kinky sex. But if doormen are unusually familiar with their tenants, they are also socially very distant. This book untangles this unusual dynamic to reveal the many ways tenants and doormen negotiate their complex relationship. Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries. Num Pages: 296 pages, tab. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226039701
- ISBN
- 9780226039701
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€ 40.99€ 31.01
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Paperback. This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFZ; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226039640
- ISBN
- 9780226039640
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€ 32.99€ 25.62
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Paperback. This text traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, and country through the rise of rock 'n' roll and the emergence of heavy metal, punk, and rap. The author argues that despite the balance of these origins, something has gone seriously wrong with the sound and sensibility of music. Num Pages: 462 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVGK; AVGL; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 35. Weight in Grams: 734.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 462
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226039596
- ISBN
- 9780226039596
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€ 36.99€ 29.38
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Paperback. Addresses the question: Why should Africa be studied in the American university? Put to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, prominent Africanists who are also leaders in their various disciplines, their responses make a strong case for the research on Africa. Editor(s): Bates, Robert H.; etc.; Mudimbe, V.Y.; O'Barr, Jean F. (Professor of the Practice of Women's Studies, Duke University, USA). Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFC; JH; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226039015
- ISBN
- 9780226039015
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Paperback. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in the face of counter evidence. It provides an analysis of whiteness and race in a non-Western society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 halftones, 2 maps, 4 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226038919
- ISBN
- 9780226038919
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€ 40.99€ 31.25
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Paperback. Evaluates the arguments of proglobalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets and wage levels, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices. Editor(s): Baldwin, Robert E.; Winters, L. Alan. Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Num Pages: 560 pages, 42 line drawings, 80 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 744.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226036168
- ISBN
- 9780226036168
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€ 52.99€ 40.29
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Paperback. Series: Black Literature & Culture S. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035437
- ISBN
- 9780226035437
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€ 40.99€ 30.97
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Paperback. Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2ABM; AV; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 339.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035383
- ISBN
- 9780226035383
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Paperback. Baker perceives the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. Num Pages: 142 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 146 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035253
- ISBN
- 9780226035253
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Paperback. This work explores the economic lives of gays and lesbians in the US. It debunks common stereotypical ideas about gay privilege, income and consumer behaviour. The author disproves the assumption that gay men and lesbians are more affluent than heterosexuals, and analyzes issues that affect them. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSK; JPV; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226034010
- ISBN
- 9780226034010
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€ 36.99€ 29.11
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Paperback. Examines how Pentecostalism has managed to achieve such ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominantly African descent. This book argues that it has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central themes in Jamaican religious life. Num Pages: 324 pages, 11 halftones, 4 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; HRCC99; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226032863
- ISBN
- 9780226032863
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€ 42.99€ 32.86
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Paperback. A collection of eleven fairy tales by Victorian women. Editor(s): Auerbach, Nina; Knoepflmacher, U. C. Num Pages: 380 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; DSY; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 584.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226032047
- ISBN
- 9780226032047
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€ 40.99€ 30.99
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Paperback. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Nina Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last 200 hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298. 240 pages, notes, index. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Nina Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last 200 hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; DSB; JFC. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight: 298.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226032023
- ISBN
- 9780226032023
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Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HRQX5; JFFE; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226029740
- ISBN
- 9780226029740
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Paperback. Dismissing oversimplified and politically-charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern Iran that exposes the roots of what became Khomeini's theocracy. Series: Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HRAM2; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226027845
- ISBN
- 9780226027845
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€ 40.99€ 31.15
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Paperback. By tracing the evolution of gay life and identity in San Francisco, Elizabeth Armstrong explores how the social movement has managed to combine a unified group identity with the celebration of cultural differences. Num Pages: 280 pages, 18 halftones, 12 figures, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226026947
- ISBN
- 9780226026947
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Paperback. Forges an alliance between deconstruction and feminist theology and theory by demonstrating deconstruction's usefulness in addressing feminism's trouble with race. The book shows how the writings of Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray can be used to uncover feminism's white presumptions. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRCM; JFC; JFFJ; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226026909
- ISBN
- 9780226026909
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Paperback. The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. This book deals with their response to centuries of exploitation. It focuses on the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 halftones, 2 maps, 1 figure, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFJA; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSP1; JFSP2; JPVR; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226026121
- ISBN
- 9780226026121
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€ 42.99€ 33.21
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Paperback. What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations - the blind and the transgendered, this title answers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMG; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226023632
- ISBN
- 9780226023632
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€ 33.99€ 26.37
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Paperback. From xenophobic appropriations of Joan of Arc to Afro-futurism, the "national" characters of the colonial era often seem to be dissolving into postnational and virtual subjects. This text analyzes the French colonial experience as a case study in the erosion of belief in national destiny. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226023502
- ISBN
- 9780226023502
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€ 42.99€ 33.01
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Paperback. How did Bill Clinton's clever dexterity help him recover from the Monica Lewinsky scandal? How did Barack Obama draw on his experience as a talented community activist to overcome his inexperience as a national leader? This title deals with these questions. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 280 pages, 53 line drawings, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; JFD; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226023151
- ISBN
- 9780226023151
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.19
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