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Society & culture: general
Paperback. This text aims to recover the ancient philosophical ideal of self-knowledge, in the context of our historical situation. It considers and rejects claims that we can attain self-knowledge through theory, anti-theory, or narrative and defends philosophy as a humanist rather than scientific, endeavor. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847684182
- ISBN
- 9780847684182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.33
€ 65.33
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447301042
- ISBN
- 9781447301042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.51
€ 104.51
Paperback. Brings together the main findings from the Nuffield Foundation's Changing Adolescence Programme and explores how social change may affect young people's behaviour, mental health and transitions toward adulthood. This book is suitable for policy makers and service providers, as well as voluntary organisations and campaign groups. Editor(s): Hagell, Ann. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSP1; JKS; MBPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447301035
- ISBN
- 9781447301035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.61
€ 33.99
€ 32.61
Hardcover. Reverdy Cassius Ransom spent his life as a pastor, editor, politician, writer, civil rights leader, and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. This work offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 photographs, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBTB; HRCC95; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kent State Univ Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873387484
- ISBN
- 9780873387484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.18
€ 42.18
Hardback. Each year, more than 2.5 million cases of battering are reported in the Unites States. This book describes how sixteen women got away for good. It recounts not only the stories of their abuse but also the women's life histories leading up to the battering and the resources they drew upon to escape. It helps women discover solutions to problems. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE3; JFSJ1; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231116480
- ISBN
- 9780231116480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.96
€ 135.96
Hardcover. Series: Studies in Forced Migration. Num Pages: 12 illustrations, 6 tables, 5 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKN; 1FPCT; JFFD; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571811578
- ISBN
- 9781571811578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.19
€ 156.19
Paperback. Survival in the harsh sub-arctic environment requires resourcefulness and ingenuity. This book explores the manifestations of Yup'ik technology by following the seasonal cycle of harvests and ceremonial renewals. Num Pages: 376 pages, 360 illus., 320 in color, 10 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 312 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1752.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295986692
- ISBN
- 9780295986692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.66
€ 46.99
€ 41.66
paperback. Explores the boundaries of this paternalistic order by investigating workers' strategies of conformity and resistance and by tracing the disciplinary practices of managers during the period from the turn of the century to a massive reorganisation of the mills in the late 1950s. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b&w photographs, 8 tables, 4 maps, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324973
- ISBN
- 9780822324973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.51
€ 43.51
Hardcover. A pioneering study that fuses cultural geography and contemporary Spanish culture, asking what it means to think of space and place in specifically Spanish terms. It examines how themes of memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration are explored in contemporary Spanish film and literature. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 200 pages, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JFC; RGC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 10. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318221
- ISBN
- 9781846318221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.77
€ 52.77
hardcover. Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and cultural critique in search of ways of writing about depression as a public cultural and political phenomenon rather than as a personal medical pathology. Num Pages: 296 pages, 38 illustrations, including 14 in color. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352235
- ISBN
- 9780822352235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Paperback. Argues for the importance of recognizing - and archiving - accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. This title contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 368 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330882
- ISBN
- 9780822330882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.77
€ 34.99
€ 31.77
Hardcover. Addresses seven philosophically significant questions regarding feminism, its central concepts of sex and gender, and the project of centering women's experience. This book contains topics that include the nature of sexist oppression, the sex/gender distinction, and how gender-based norms influence conceptions of rationality. Editor(s): Cudd, Ann E.; Andreasen, Robin O. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HP; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405116602
- ISBN
- 9781405116602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.44
€ 178.44
Paperback. Addresses seven philosophically significant questions regarding feminism, its central concepts of sex and gender, and the project of centering women's experience. This title features an introductory overview illustrating the development of feminism as a philosophical movement. It contains both classic and contemporary sources of feminist thought. Editor(s): Cudd, Ann E.; Andreasen, Robin O. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 169 x 33. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405116619
- ISBN
- 9781405116619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.79
€ 56.79
Coping With Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Fa...
Ann Chih Lin Sheldon Danziger
Paperback. Qualitative research seeks to place poverty among African-Americans into the context of family, work, and community Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472086979
- ISBN
- 9780472086979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.48
€ 61.48
Paperback. This second edition explores the use of play therapy with abused children as a way of helping them heal their distress and make sense of their experiences through expanding their own creativity in play. The book provides practical ways of starting play therapy with abused children and explains how the child can use this process for healing. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JKS; JMC; MJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843105879
- ISBN
- 9781843105879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.97
€ 40.99
€ 40.97
Paperback. Expands the field of masculinities and develops new thinking about important issues in feminist and critical race theories Editor(s): Cooper, Frank Rudy. Series: Families, Law, and Society. Num Pages: 315 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ2; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814769690
- ISBN
- 9780814769690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151849
- ISBN
- 9780231151849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.29
€ 47.29
Paperback. Although most families do not repeat the patterns of abuse of their childhood, there is evidence that, for whatever reason, substantial numbers do. Series: Wiley Series in Child Care & Protection. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JMAL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Chichester
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- SKU
- KAK0012684
- ISBN
- 9780471958895
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages, 31 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; JFHF; VXQG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764350344
- ISBN
- 9780764350344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.74
€ 20.99
€ 15.74
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415536660
- ISBN
- 9780415536660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.44
€ 82.44
Paperback. Offers a chronicle of two teachers and their own educational progress. In processing their own responses to the encounter, along with their students', the authors meditate on their own ideas on teaching and learning, and redefine the obligation that a teacher has to his or her students. Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JNK; JNL; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398763
- ISBN
- 9781566398763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.81
€ 33.81
Paperback. Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives an insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Useful for all Americans, "The Farmworkers' Journey" traces the human consequences of our policy decisions. Num Pages: 361 pages, 38 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 6 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLCM; JFFN; JFSF; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520250734
- ISBN
- 9780520250734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
Paperback. Explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. This book contains essays that reveal the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319696
- ISBN
- 9780822319696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.63
€ 33.99
€ 30.63
Paperback. Nelson Island elders describe hundreds of traditionally important places in the landscape Editor(s): Fienup-Riordan, Ann. Translator(s): Rearden, Alice. Num Pages: 496 pages, 97 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; JFSL9; RG; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1021.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991351
- ISBN
- 9780295991351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.93
€ 64.93