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Paperback. "Across the Lines" is a study of how language mediates experience across cultures with regard to travel. The study is partly based on the books of various travel writers with no grasp of a foreign tongue and their perceptions using interpreters and guides. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFP; JFC; WT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
172
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859181836
ISBN
9781859181836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.00
€ 24.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBLC; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
5th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801484858
ISBN
9780801484858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? For Rene Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken community's hunt for a culprit to punish, and in this work he aims to present the age-old myth in a new light. Editor(s): Anspach, Mark R. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804747806
ISBN
9780804747806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Truth, tragedy and magic, the story of America's original inhabitants Editor(s): Lewis, Jon E. Series: Mammoth Books. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 195 x 131 x 40. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Robinson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841195933
ISBN
9781841195933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Translator(s): Schleussner, Laura. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520. A Challenge for Cinema and Theory. Series: Film and Culture Series. 368 pages, 14 black & white halftones. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 19. Weight: 520. Translator(s): Schleussner, Laura.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231151498
ISBN
9780231151498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 282 x 24. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119091899
ISBN
9781119091899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.03

Hardcover. The potential of fMRI is extraordinary. It allows us to observe brain activity in real time, build an understanding of thoughts and motivations, and discern unconscious biases. In a limited but real way we can now 'read minds'. Barbara Sahakian and Julia Gottwald explain the science, and consider the ethical implications of using these techniques. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 figures including a 4 page colour plate section. BIC Classification: JFMG; PDZ; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198752882
ISBN
9780198752882
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFSR2; JPFR; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Updated edition with a New afterword by the autho
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691163642
ISBN
9780691163642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. A finely tuned investigation of why the Tamils of Sri Lanka and of India took such divergent paths in their respective political evolution. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKS; HBJF; JFSL1; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849044783
ISBN
9781849044783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.89

paperback. We hear much talk about the advent of a postracial age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race from its legislative documents. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 191 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745689722
ISBN
9780745689722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.57

Paperback. The Voice of Witness book series takes a humanizing, literary approach to oral history to illuminate the stories of people impacted by injustice across the world. Series: Voice of Witness. Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786632289
ISBN
9781786632289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.49

Paperback. Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288. Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives. 175 pages, 2, 2 line drawing. Editor(s): Skinner, Patricia. Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSR1. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 12. Weight: 332.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
186
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843837336
ISBN
9781843837336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.62

Paperback. Presents the author's reinterpretation of tales from Malory's "Morte d'Arthur". Editor(s): Horton, Chase. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; FQ; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186306
ISBN
9780141186306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Increasing numbers of migrants continue to participate in the political, social, and economic lives of their countries of origin even as they put down roots in the USA. This work offers an account of how ordinary people keep their feet in two worlds and create communities that span borders. Num Pages: 294 pages, 3 maps. 14 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520228139
ISBN
9780520228139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.47

Hardback. From cookbooks and family recipes to novels, poems, songs and cartoons, this book tells the story of puddings and how they developed from early savoury, sausage - like mixtures to today's sweet and sticky confections. It traces the development of puddings and explains how advances in kitchen equipment have changed them over time. Series: Edible. Num Pages: 128 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; WBVQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780230429
ISBN
9781780230429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.53

Hardback. Editor(s): Freeman, M. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137551757
ISBN
9781137551757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.20

Paperback. Miller shows how our brains are the products of sexual selection, rather than natural selection and how this alters and illuminates our understanding of intelligence, art, language, mortality, sex and the differences between men and women. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMU; VFVC; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099288244
ISBN
9780099288244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. The language of money has informed medical, psychological and political theories of sexual desire for at least 300 years. Desire, figured as libidinal energy, represented potential work-power and spending-power and hence a form of personal 'capital', an economic resource for both the individual and the collectivity. This book explores how this view Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907103575
ISBN
9781907103575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.79

Paperback. Series: The Geopolitics of Information. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JFD; JPF; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 269 x 19. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081651
ISBN
9780252081651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Editor(s): Kenney, Jeffrey T.; Moosa, Ebrahim. Series: Religions in the Modern World. Num Pages: 480 pages, 11 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 244 x 22. Weight in Grams: 946.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415780865
ISBN
9780415780865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 81.95

Paperback. Contributors: Mary Thomas Crane, Nancy Easterlin, David Herman, Patrick Colm Hogan, Bruce McConachie, Alan Palmer, Alan Richardson, Ellen Spolsky, G. Gabrielle Starr, Blakey Vermeule, Lisa Zunshine Editor(s): Zunshine, Lisa. Num Pages: 402 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894886
ISBN
9780801894886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.21

Paperback. In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. This collection of essays discusses this mystery and others like it: Why did photography and the detective story originate at exactly the same time? Num Pages: 184 pages, 21 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253214386
ISBN
9780253214386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.79

Paperback. Editor(s): Isaac, Joel; Kloppenberg, James T.; Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer; O'Brien, Michael. Num Pages: 408 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCD; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190459475
ISBN
9780190459475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.52

Paperback. This important book offers a comprehensive guide to the international policies developed to stop rape , together with case study examples on how they work. The book describes how law and criminal justice system, health services, specialised services for victim-survivors, educational and cultural interventions can best be coordinated. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447322092
ISBN
9781447322092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 37.27

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