Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Exploring the forms and meanings of mediated politics beyond the news cycle, this book encompasses genres drawn from television, radio, the press and the internet, assessing their individual and collective contribution to contemporary political culture through textual analysis and thematic review. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346226
- ISBN
- 9781349346226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.22
€ 38.22
Paperback. In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian problem" by arguing that the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian criminal justice system is not an Indian problem, but a colonial one. Num Pages: 448 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL9; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 30. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442606623
- ISBN
- 9781442606623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.64€ 47.76
€ 50.64
€ 47.76
Paperback. Does txtng spell the end of literacy? David Crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it's used, and how it works. Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 is entertaining and instructive: reassuring for parents, illuminating for teenagers, fascinating for everyone. Num Pages: 256 pages, Cartoons. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199571338
- ISBN
- 9780199571338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.30
€ 13.99
€ 11.30
Paperback. Series: Learning to Live. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1; HPCA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062215451
- ISBN
- 9780062215451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.70
€ 20.99
€ 18.70
Anti-Intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universitie...
Barbara F. Tobolowsky (Ed.)
Hardback. Editor(s): Tobolowsky, Barbara; Reynolds, Pauline J. Series: Higher Education and Society. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JNC; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 278 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137570031
- ISBN
- 9781137570031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.42
€ 138.42
Paperback. Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word salary comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? This title tells the strange tales behind our favourite dishes and drinks and where they come from. Num Pages: 368 pages, 40 b/w. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141043449
- ISBN
- 9780141043449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.71
€ 20.99
€ 16.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1MBFN; HBJM; JFSL9; JPVH3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Aboriginal Studies Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781922059901
- ISBN
- 9781922059901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.80
€ 35.99
€ 26.80
Paperback. This title on black social movements outside the South reveals distinctive forms of US racism according to place, the varieties of tactics that community members used to attack these inequalities, and the prevalence of integrationist and nationalist thinking between the 1940s and the 1970s. Editor(s): Theoharis, Jeanne; Woodard, Komozi; Countryman, Matthew J. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 141 x 218 x 28. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294687
- ISBN
- 9780312294687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. Goldsmith examines how sectarian insecurity obstructs the emergence of genuine political pluralism in the Middle East, taking Syria's Alawites under the Asad dynasty as an example. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 243 x 24. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849044684
- ISBN
- 9781849044684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.70
€ 33.99
€ 30.70
Paperback. In the West during the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherised possession. This text documents a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom were instruments - whether they knew it or not - of America's secret service. Num Pages: 544 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJH; HBLW3; JFC; JPA; JPFK; JPSH; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 35. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Granta
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862073272
- ISBN
- 9781862073272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.60
€ 19.99
€ 14.60
Paperback. This important book brings together the previously unpublished letters of three women, Lilian Ngoyi, Bessie Head and Dora Taylor. These letters record the writers' joys and sorrows as they struggled to live principled lives in adversity. It invites readers to taste the intriguing and sometimes disturbing pleasures of reading personal letters. Editor(s): Daymond, M. J. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431409488
- ISBN
- 9781431409488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.64
€ 20.99
€ 19.64
Hardback. Television is a key therapeutic resource in prisons today. Now placed in the cell, television helps with the delivery of care and control in the complex prison environment. In this book, Victoria Knight explores the ways in which television is used by prisons and staff to manage their everyday lives and emotions. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFDT; JHB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443908
- ISBN
- 9781137443908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. In What Do Women Want?, critically acclaimed journalist Daniel Bergner disseminates the latest scientific research and paints an unprecedented portrait of female lust Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JFSJ1; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 119 x 17. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782112570
- ISBN
- 9781782112570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.54
€ 14.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 3JJ; BGH; HBWS2; JFFD; KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Blacksmith Books Hong Kong
- Number of pages
- 140
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789881376435
- ISBN
- 9789881376435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. This book examines the commemoration of 9/11 in American memorial culture. It argues that the emergence of counter-memories of September 11 has been compromised by the dominance of certain narrative paradigms - or, frames of memory - that have mediated the representation of the attacks across cultural, critical, political, and juridical discourses. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494392
- ISBN
- 9781349494392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardback. Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's "black middle class". Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFSC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011435
- ISBN
- 9781847011435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.27
€ 115.27
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442630802
- ISBN
- 9781442630802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.25
€ 35.99
€ 33.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 908 pages, 244 black & white illustrations, 222 black & white halftones, 22 black & white line drawi. BIC Classification: JFSL; JPVH; JPWS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 247 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1558.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138823846
- ISBN
- 9781138823846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.93
€ 81.93
Hardback. Uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the highly imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society. This book depicts a world becoming an inescapable series of less and less perfect games. It seeks to offer guidance for thinking within this character. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 figures. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025196
- ISBN
- 9780674025196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.49
€ 47.99
€ 40.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF; HREZ; JFCA; VXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- New World Library
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608683888
- ISBN
- 9781608683888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.48
€ 20.99
€ 15.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231174244
- ISBN
- 9780231174244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.01€ 63.74
€ 82.01
€ 63.74
Paperback. Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. This book explores those findings. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JF; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140167726
- ISBN
- 9780140167726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Tells the story of the author who at just five years old learned that there was no one she could trust. This book tells how even her own mother betrayed her and in the most unimaginable way. It also reveals how for years, she and her younger sister suffered at the hands of one of Britain's largest ever-known paedophile rings. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFE1; JFFE2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 17. Weight in Grams: 170. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KAK0001262
- ISBN
- 9780099522256
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. New edition of this classic study of the US, with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844676828
- ISBN
- 9781844676828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.09
€ 18.99
€ 18.09