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Paperback. Collects material from mid-1970s through 2010 to trace the evolution of ethnomusicological thinking about women, gender, and music, offering a perspective of how questions emerged and changed in those years, as well as Koskoff's reassessment of the early years and development of the field. Series: New Perspectives on Gender in Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 charts, 4 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252080074
- ISBN
- 9780252080074
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Condition: New
€ 34.36
€ 34.36
Paperback. The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. To understand how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of Assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culture. Translator(s): Van De Mieroop, Marc; Bahrani, Zainab; Mieroop, Marc van de. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 halftone, 3 line drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBJF1; HBLA; HDD; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226067278
- ISBN
- 9780226067278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
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€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
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
€ 232.44
€ 232.44
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
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.92
€ 40.99
€ 31.92
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€ 24.27
€ 25.99
€ 24.27
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€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
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
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
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
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
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
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
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€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
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
€ 21.99€ 18.66
€ 21.99
€ 18.66
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€ 26.09
€ 43.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Chinese artists, activists, and netizens are pioneering a new order of pornographic representation that is in critical dialogue with global entertainment media. Jacobs examines the role of sex-positive feminists and queer communities to investigate pornography's "afterglow" (a state of crisis and decay within digital culture). Num Pages: 216 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFD; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349503612
- ISBN
- 9781349503612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
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
€ 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€ 18.64
€ 19.99
€ 18.64
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€ 20.71
€ 23.99
€ 20.71
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€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
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€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
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€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33