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Society & culture: general
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Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one s ethical gaze. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662756
- ISBN
- 9780745662756
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.77
€ 23.99
€ 23.77
Paperback. Millions of immigrants entered America's "golden door" in the years after 1880. This book offers a guide to the USA, including everything from the pay-rates of various trades to statistics about what Americans ate, drank, and manufactured. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 190 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Old House
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908402646
- ISBN
- 9781908402646
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Condition: New
€ 8.55
€ 8.55
paperback. An introduction to the art of archaic and classical Greece. Looking at the social and cultural contexts in which the rich diversity of Greek arts were produced, Robin Osborne shows how artistic developments were both a product of, and contributed to, the intensely competitive life of the Greek city. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 272 pages, numerous colour plates and black and white halftones, 3 plans, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ACG; AFC; AFK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192842022
- ISBN
- 9780192842022
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.14
€ 31.99
€ 23.14
Paperback. It helps policy makers understand how best to develop and implement effective public health strategies around the United States. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG; MBN; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415994
- ISBN
- 9781421415994
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Condition: New
€ 46.14
€ 46.14
Paperback. This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world. It combines selected readings and editorial material to provide a coherent text with global coverage, reflecting new theoretical and empirical developments. Editor(s): Roberts, J. Timmons; Hite, Amy Bellone; Chorev, Nitsan. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 934.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118735107
- ISBN
- 9781118735107
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.22
€ 42.99
€ 42.22
Paperback. This volume offers a contemporary understanding of the relational matters of children's peer cultures to better understand and address the complex nature of children and young people's everyday lives in today's society. Editor(s): Danby, Susan; Theobald, Maryanne. Series: Sociological Studies of Children & Youth. Num Pages: 565 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784413286
- ISBN
- 9781784413286
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Condition: New
€ 63.16
€ 63.16
Paperback. Popular guide to folk beliefs, old wives' tales and other spooky stuff from the Irish countryside from one of Ireland's leading folkorists. Num Pages: 144 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 125 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780717133710
- ISBN
- 9780717133710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.33
€ 9.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 115 colour illustrations, 100 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: J; JFD; JM; UMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Apress
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781484225790
- ISBN
- 9781484225790
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 38.02
€ 47.99
€ 38.02
Paperback. A trans-national study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris. Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1HBM; JFCA; JFFS; JHMP; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328964
- ISBN
- 9780822328964
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV4; HRCV9; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 8.7.2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307457790
- ISBN
- 9780307457790
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Condition: New
€ 16.07
€ 16.07
Paperback. This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy. * Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy. Editor(s): Amin, Ash; Thrift, Nigel J. Num Pages: 448 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 245 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631234296
- ISBN
- 9780631234296
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Condition: New
€ 57.09
€ 57.09
Paperback. A classic account of how landscape has been central to questions of 'Englishness' - of national identity, history and modernity, as well as concepts of citizenship and the body. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFC; RGC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 270 x 44. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780235813
- ISBN
- 9781780235813
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. An exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. It outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. It interrogates different dimensions of the crisis of identity providing both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity. Editor(s): Hall, Stuart; Du Gay, Paul. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803978836
- ISBN
- 9780803978836
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Condition: New
€ 60.65
€ 60.65
Paperback. Series: Career Savvy. Num Pages: 210 pages, Col.ill. BIC Classification: JF; VSC; WJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Impact Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570232008
- ISBN
- 9781570232008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.51
€ 18.99
€ 16.51
Paperback. Examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBWS2; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520277717
- ISBN
- 9780520277717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Explores the history of this lifestyle, looking at how Gypsies have maintained their distinctive culture and how they have adapted to the twenty-first century, and focusses on a range of traditional Gypsy occupations including harvesting, horse-dealing, fortune-telling and rat-catching. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 56
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747812364
- ISBN
- 9780747812364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.84
€ 8.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFP. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. .
- Publisher
- Free Spirit Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575424835
- ISBN
- 9781575424835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.10
€ 12.10
Paperback. Examining the ideal of wilderness preservation in the USA, the author shows how the early (antebellum era) conceptions of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. The policies of Indian removal at Yosemite and other parks are explored. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12 halftones, 1 line figure, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 287.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195142433
- ISBN
- 9780195142433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.49
€ 52.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 72. BIC Classification: 1FCS; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801436314
- ISBN
- 9780801436314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Paperback. Landscapes of the Jihad explores the features that Al-Qaeda and other strands of militant Islam share in common with global movements. Series: Crises in World Politics. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM9; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849047203
- ISBN
- 9781849047203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.89
€ 20.89
Hardback. This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadoros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBS; KNSG; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336316
- ISBN
- 9781137336316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.40
€ 75.40
Paperback. Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unraveling of the U.S. and European economies by analzying mass media, literature, television, film, and video Num Pages: 352 pages, 58 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JFC; JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351115
- ISBN
- 9780822351115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JPFB; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 46. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006862451
- ISBN
- 9780006862451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.29
€ 26.99
€ 20.29
Paperback. Michael Dyson was granted an exclusive interview with the president for this book, and Barack Obama's own voice shines through. This intimate access provides a unique depth to this engrossing analysis of the nation's first black president, and how race shapes and will shape our understanding of his achievements and failures alike. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 266 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780544811805
- ISBN
- 9780544811805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.30
€ 18.99
€ 16.30