Society & culture: general
Results 33601 - 33624 of 35159
Society & culture: general
Paperback. This book explores the economic, religious, political and personal forces that led to some 80,000 British children being sent to Canada between 1867 and 1915 and provides a vivid look at one aspect of the history of child welfare practices. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJC; JFFN; JKSB1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 175 x 21. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847426680
- ISBN
- 9781847426680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.01
€ 33.99
€ 33.01
Paperback. Updated edition of the international bestseller Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRCX7; JFFB; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340980088
- ISBN
- 9780340980088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.92
€ 14.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. In this comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual - that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment - Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. Num Pages: 464 pages, 2 line illustrations, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012462
- ISBN
- 9780674012462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.04
€ 37.99
€ 32.04
Hardcover. This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 348 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: APFA; HBTB; JFC; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895286
- ISBN
- 9780859895286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.52
€ 92.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Koschmann, J Victor (Cornell University, USA); Shinji, Yamashita; Keibo, Oiwa. Series: Cornell University East Asia Papers. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Cornell University East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780939657377
- ISBN
- 9780939657377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.57
€ 16.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. From the dangerous beings of ancient myths and medieval folklore, to the sanitized 'wingy thingies' of Shakespeare and the Victorians, and even modern myths of alien abduction, this book presents a history of fairies. It tells that they have a darker and menacing history - as troublemakers, child-snatchers, seducers and changelings. Num Pages: 236 pages, 200. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 25. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752440736
- ISBN
- 9780752440736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.02
€ 19.99
€ 16.02
Paperback. Shows that under the cover of national security and covert operations, the US government has repeatedly collaborated with and protected major international drug traffickers. Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLC; JFFH1; JKVC; JKVF; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520214491
- ISBN
- 9780520214491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.88
€ 34.99
€ 25.88
Paperback. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' conversation in class and senior managers' discussions in business meetings, it challenges the view that females are disempowered in mixed-sex settings. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 265.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554320
- ISBN
- 9780230554320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.70
€ 137.70
paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 35. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press Distributed for Arl
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780905223872
- ISBN
- 9780905223872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.00€ 20.66
€ 25.00
€ 20.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 46 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 208 x 18. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Imprint unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789881613875
- ISBN
- 9789881613875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Red Wheel/Weiser United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578634965
- ISBN
- 9781578634965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.15
€ 20.99
€ 20.15
Hardback. Offers a reappraisal of the role of women in the politics and practice of welfare in late Victorian and early Edwardian England. Using a working diary written by the activist and female poor law guardian Mary Haslam, this book portrays Bolton women as sophisticated political operators. Num Pages: 364 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJC; HBTB; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845190873
- ISBN
- 9781845190873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.58
€ 130.58
Paperback. This book providesa comprehensive study of the neglected story of the involvement of the women's movement with criminal justice policy in the 20th century. Taking the topic from the 'suffragette' era to the early days of 'second-wave' feminism, the book argues that criminal justice policy has been a continual concern for feminists." Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFK; JFSJ; JKV; MMJ; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- SKU
- V9781349364268
- ISBN
- 9781349364268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.97
€ 126.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, , colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 4. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bauhan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872331563
- ISBN
- 9780872331563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.82
€ 11.82
Paperback. This collection examines the changing roles of race and place in the politics of defining Indigenous identities in the Americas. Editor(s): Forte, Maxmillian C. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802095527
- ISBN
- 9780802095527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals. Examining novels such as Charlotte's Web, films such as Old Yeller and Babe, science and advertising, fashion and philosophy, the book evaluates the ways in which we think about animals and challenges a number of the assumptions we hold. Series: FOCI S. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891341
- ISBN
- 9781861891341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.51
€ 33.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JFSL; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816673032
- ISBN
- 9780816673032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. Sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. This book reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 384 pages, 60 b/w, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 1KLCM; JFFE; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282742
- ISBN
- 9780520282742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.17€ 73.24
€ 95.17
€ 73.24
Paperback. A study of the abortion controversy in the United States. It examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. It draws data from public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists. Series: California Series on Social Choice & Political Economy. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520055971
- ISBN
- 9780520055971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.93
€ 34.99
€ 25.93
Paperback. Analyses texts drawn from the Bleek and Lloyd Archive - one of the important collections for the understanding of South African cultural heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South Africa's 'first people'. This book offers an analysis of the corpus of /Xam narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; DSB; HBJ; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Witwatersrand University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868144709
- ISBN
- 9781868144709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Explores tribal-state interactions over land and sovereignty, taking a geographical look at issues such as environmental regulation, expansion of gaming, criminal jurisdiction, taxation and transportation. The contributors find that tribes and state have two choices: litigate or co-operate. Editor(s): Bays, Brad A.; Fouberg, Erin Hogan. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFSL; RGCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742510616
- ISBN
- 9780742510616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.00
€ 77.00
Paperback. When the author was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it. In this book, he argues for our right to choose - our right to a good life, and a good death too. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: JFME. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 112 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 48.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552172776
- ISBN
- 9780552172776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.15
€ 7.15
Hardback. This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness. In particular, the book explores how women initiate agency and espouse liberation and empowerment through something as seemingly problematic as pole classes. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFMX; JHB; JMU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- SKU
- V9780230210387
- ISBN
- 9780230210387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. An attack on critics who have, or seem to have, advocated the abolition of the family. Fletcher's targets include Edmund Leach, R.D. Laing, various Marxists, and feminists such as Betty Friedan, Kate Millett and Germaine Greer. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Previous owners name on FFEP, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0008983
- ISBN
- 9780415008754
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99