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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. This book delves into the heart of Traveller life, focusing on three aspects that have coloured perceptions of Travellers among the wider community: family feuds, bare-knuckle fights and trading. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848271692
- ISBN
- 9781848271692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. Introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. This book helps us understand how the media that predate interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Editor(s): Huhtamo, Erkki; Parikka, Jussi. Num Pages: 368 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AFKV; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582. Approaches, Applications, and Implications. 368 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Huhtamo, Erkki. Introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. This book helps us understand how the media that predate interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AFKV; JFD. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight: 502.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262744
- ISBN
- 9780520262744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.94
€ 40.99
€ 28.94
Paperback. The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance - from Ancient Athens to the present day. Series: Theatre and. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: AN; JFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 113 x 178 x 6. Weight in Grams: 72.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 88
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390966
- ISBN
- 9780230390966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.26
€ 11.26
Paperback. Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662534
- ISBN
- 9780745662534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.95
€ 22.95
Paperback. What if you didn't have to do motherhood alone? Bestselling author and influential blogger Sarah Mae and speaker and author Sally Clarkson explain why you don't have to. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781400204663
- ISBN
- 9781400204663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.47
€ 17.99
€ 16.47
Paperback. The true story of an orphaned Cambodian girl who spent her childhood in slavery and prostitution and now combats trafficking. Somaly Mam has a strong international profile and supporters include Hillary Clinton, the Queen of Spain and Angelina Jolie. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8pp of colour photos. BIC Classification: BGA; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083466
- ISBN
- 9781844083466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 458 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638. Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Series: Latin America Otherwise. 458 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps, 2 figures. Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTR; JFC. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 27. Weight: 644.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 458
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350781
- ISBN
- 9780822350781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.47
€ 33.99
€ 33.47
Paperback. The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Editor(s): Jarrett, Gene Andrew. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 1114 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DQ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1660.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470671931
- ISBN
- 9780470671931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.07
€ 50.07
Paperback. Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful method for analyzing them. It uses literary concepts to ask social scientific questions: how do stories make life better, and when do they endanger it? Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226004839
- ISBN
- 9780226004839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.84
€ 27.99
€ 22.84
Paperback. Confronting the cultural stereotypes that have been attached to Asian-Americans over the last 150 years, this title seizes the label "Oriental" and asks where it came from. It shows how the bewildering array of racialized images first proffered by music hall songsters and social commentators have evolved and become generalized to Asian-Americans. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 50318th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566397537
- ISBN
- 9781566397537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.49
€ 32.99
€ 32.49
Paperback. There is a myth about how something new comes to be; that geniuses have dramatic moments of insight where great things and thoughts are born whole. Symphonies are composed complete. Science is accomplished with eureka shrieks. Businesses are built by magic touch. The myth is wrong. This book dispels the myths around genius and creativity. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; TBY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099591771
- ISBN
- 9780099591771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- CPAG United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901698930
- ISBN
- 9781901698930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 4.89
€ 14.99
€ 4.89
Paperback. Editor(s): Heinze, Rudiger; Kramer, Lucia. Num Pages: 184 pages, 4 b/w & 7 colour illus. BIC Classification: DS; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837628944
- ISBN
- 9783837628944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 32.24
€ 44.99
€ 32.24
Paperback. In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores what it means to be an African American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of face, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the 19th century. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195068528
- ISBN
- 9780195068528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.81
€ 39.81
Paperback. In this fascinating volume, renowned historian Howard M. Sachar relates the tragedy of twentieth-century Europe through an innovative, riveting account of the continent's political assassinations between 1918 and 1939 and beyond. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442609181
- ISBN
- 9781442609181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.69
€ 38.99
€ 36.69
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Original ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892815739
- ISBN
- 9780892815739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.68
€ 20.68
Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Fine in fine dustwrapper
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS0057299
- ISBN
- 9780815623946
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 28.00€ 11.00
€ 28.00
€ 11.00
Hardcover. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HRCC7; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. . 187pp
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KCBK000024
- ISBN
- 9780815623946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 28.00€ 14.00
€ 28.00
€ 14.00
Paperback. Addresses the issues about increased violence in the developing countries with two common perspectives. The first is the liberal interpretation, and the second is a romantic, utopian view of violence. This book aims to forge an alternative way of understanding the role of violence in the transition to capitalism and a global economy. Num Pages: 329 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JFFE; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- HURST and COMPANY
- Number of pages
- 329
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850658214
- ISBN
- 9781850658214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.23
€ 36.99
€ 33.23
Paperback. Romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution'. Illustrator(s): Boreham, Judy. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSB; HPCD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 121 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Icon Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848311787
- ISBN
- 9781848311787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.69
€ 11.99
€ 9.69