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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Loebel-Fried, Caren. Num Pages: 704 pages, 10 haltone illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; HRJ; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195327137
ISBN
9780195327137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816627110
ISBN
9780816627110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Hardback. This companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. It has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought; the history of economics as a discipline; and the historiography of economic thought. Editor(s): Samuels, Warren J.; Biddle, Jeff E.; Davis, John B. Series: Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics. Num Pages: 736 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631225737
ISBN
9780631225737
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 225.91

Paperback. Tackles the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space, the author envisions Africa, and in particular the nation of Ghana, as a place whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics. Num Pages: 280 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFSL3; JHMC; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462. Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. 280 pages, 23 halftones. Tackles the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space, the author envisions Africa, and in particular the nation of Ghana, as a place whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFSL3; JHMC; JPH. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 16. Weight: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226923031
ISBN
9780226923031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Paperback. Editor(s): Findlen, Barbara. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Seal Press
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580050548
ISBN
9781580050548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.22

Paperback. Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JFFE; JFFG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362883
ISBN
9780822362883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Hardback. Using extensive evidence from archival documents from both the ecclesiastical court system and the records of city and royal government, as well as advice manuals, chronicles, moral tales, and liturgical texts, McSheffrey examines how marital and sexual relationships were woven into the fabric of late medieval London. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBLC; JFC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239386
ISBN
9780812239386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.98

Paperback. This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Editor(s): Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781145
ISBN
9780804781145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. The first comprehensive portrait of the Roman Renaissance world. Num Pages: 480 pages, 37 b&w photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253212085
ISBN
9780253212085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.80

Paperback. Offers an inquiry into how to understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment. This book argues that predictions that post-modernity would emerge as a global successor to modernity have not materialized as anticipated. Editor(s): Enwezor, Okwui; Condee, Nancy; Smith, Terry. Num Pages: 456 pages, 77 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342038
ISBN
9780822342038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JNF; JNM; LNHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Beacon Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807078129
ISBN
9780807078129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.84

Paperback. The author challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze. The extent of women's involvement in the popular field of visual Orientalism is revealed. Num Pages: 324 pages, 40 photographs. BIC Classification: AGP; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415124904
ISBN
9780415124904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.84

Paperback. Collects together key papers by international leaders in the field from a range of sources that explain the concepts, actors and processes that constitute global social policy. This book covers emergence of global social policy as an expanding field of practice, and the impact of globalisation on key welfare discourses and governance mechanisms. Editor(s): Yeates, Nicola; Holden, Chris. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 172 x 29. Weight in Grams: 914.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847423771
ISBN
9781847423771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 25.89

Paperback. Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in "primitive societies." Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine; Lebner, Ashley. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Edition
new edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350934
ISBN
9781584350934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? This book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780718193669
ISBN
9780718193669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.67

Paperback. Chicken provides insight into the astonishing world of the chicken and contains many intriguing facts, including why the largest predator ever to walk the earth is considered the ancestor of the modern chicken and how mother hens communicate with their chicks while they're still in the egg. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 216 pages, 72 colour illustrations, 103 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; WNCB; WNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861898586
ISBN
9781861898586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.52

Paperback. Community, Class and Schooling. 136 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBCO; JFSP2; JN. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 8. Weight: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552664704
ISBN
9781552664704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.52

Paperback. Gathers Garvey's speeches and essays about Black pride. Editor(s): Hill, Robert A.; Bair, Barbara. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520062658
ISBN
9780520062658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 625.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252061561
ISBN
9780252061561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. This book focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million), and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations facsim., maps, plan, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DV; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st Edition Thus.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099740216
ISBN
9780099740216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: AVGM; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
McFarland
Condition
New
SKU
V9780786498611
ISBN
9780786498611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.91

Paperback. Featuring a sensitive and loving portrait of mankind as a community, as a family but most importantly as individuals, this book tries to answer the universal and ancient question of who we are and what we aspire to. It also reveals the dark side of the human condition, but it also sheds light on the best of it. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; RNK; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 286 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1098.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780500292143
ISBN
9780500292143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. Translator(s): Howard, Richard. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1. BIC Classification: AJB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099225416
ISBN
9780099225416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 4.82

Hardcover. Written in an accessible tone but grounded in years of research, this book charts the nautical influence on fashion over five chapters, each of which considers a particular maritime profession: The Officer, The Sailor, The Fisherman, The Sportsman and The Pirate. Num Pages: 224 pages, 210 illustrations, 141 in colour. BIC Classification: AKTH; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780500517802
ISBN
9780500517802
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.00

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