Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Anne Jackel evaluates how Europe's film industries operate, their working practices and the region's place within the global business of cinema. Exploring trends in production, distribution and exhibition, the book considers a range of national and pan-regional developments. Series: International Screen Industries. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; APF; JFD; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851709482
- ISBN
- 9780851709482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.17
€ 45.99
€ 38.17
Hardcover. The foundations for the modern textile industry were laid by the technical developments of the 18th century. These volumes contain a selection of more than 100 articles that identify the key historical developments and which reveal the complex issues within the textile industry today. Editor(s): Chapman, S.D. Series: Tauris Industrial Histories. Num Pages: 1800 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 168. Weight in Grams: 2481.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 1800
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860640575
- ISBN
- 9781860640575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 971.07
€ 971.07
Paperback. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. This title presents an investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK2; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226139395
- ISBN
- 9780226139395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.89
€ 31.99
€ 24.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 281 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRCV; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587433559
- ISBN
- 9781587433559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.78
€ 24.99
€ 18.78
Hardcover. Nielsen offers a dialogue with Foucault, Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon and the Augustinian-Franciscan tradition, investigating the relation between social construction and freedom and proposing an historically friendly, ethically sensitive, and religico-philosophical model for human being and existence in a shared pluralistic world. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAM1; HRLB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034106
- ISBN
- 9781137034106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.73€ 59.86
€ 94.73
€ 59.86
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786990365
- ISBN
- 9781786990365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Paperback. Egypt, 1925: the Muslim world is in turmoil over Mustapha Kamal Ataturk's proposal to abolish the caliphate in Turkey. Into this debate enters Ali Abdel Razek, a religious cleric trained at Al-Azhar University, arguing in favour of secularism in his essay Islam and the Foundations of Political Power. This title offers a translation of this essay. Editor(s): Filali-Ansary, Abdou. Translator(s): Loutfi, Maryam. Series: In Translation: Modern Muslim Thinkers. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JPFR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748689835
- ISBN
- 9780748689835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardcover. Provides overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This title highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. It is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks. Editor(s): Brauner, David; Staehler, Axel. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 252 x 34. Weight in Grams: 994.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646159
- ISBN
- 9780748646159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 207.25€ 196.08
€ 207.25
€ 196.08
Hardback. Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology, women's studies, and literature. Editor(s): Rubchak, Marian J. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451187
- ISBN
- 9780857451187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.76
€ 136.76
Paperback. This is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in Kansas. Bypassing the tales of radicals on either coast, the author argues that the revolution was forged in both towns and cities, as "ordinary" people struggled over the boundaries of sexual behaviour in postwar America. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones, 6 cartoons. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JJP; HBJK; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009745
- ISBN
- 9780674009745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.99
€ 41.99
€ 34.99
Paperback. Focuses on the 'woman question' in the Middle East, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. This book is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women. Editor(s): Abu-Lughod, Lila. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Second printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691057927
- ISBN
- 9780691057927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.70
€ 54.99
€ 39.70
Paperback. Here the author argues that the West must not ignore Syria's robust tradition of secularism, and cautions that US attempts to undermine the current regime may, paradoxically, embolden the Islamists and help the regime to maintain its authoritarian grip on power. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBS; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR2; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 161 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Hurst & Co.
- Number of pages
- 198
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850658016
- ISBN
- 9781850658016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. Conceptions of nationalism as a historical and contemporary phenomenon remain fragmentary in the late-1990s. This text analyzes the contraditions inherent in the general understanding of nationalism in order to fashion a new intellectual synthesis. Num Pages: 447 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co (Publishers)Ltd
- Number of pages
- 447
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850654100
- ISBN
- 9781850654100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.22
€ 25.99
€ 24.22
Paperback. A pioneering book providing a historically nuanced take on US cultural dominance Editor(s): Stokes, Melvyn; Maltby, Richard. Num Pages: 190 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 190
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844570515
- ISBN
- 9781844570515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.17
€ 45.99
€ 38.17
Paperback. Examines the conceptual foundations of Du Bois' interpretation of black politics. This title characterizes the limitations of Du Bois' thought and questions the authority it still exerts in ongoing debates about black leadership, black identity, and the black underclass. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JFF; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060241
- ISBN
- 9780674060241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.82
€ 35.99
€ 30.82
Hardback. Disputes the widespread stereotypes about Muslim women prevalent in the West, providing an account of young women in contemporary Iran. This book presents the experiences of these young women who wield a key if indirect political influence on the seemingly male dominated politics of this society, as they achieve a fresh visibility. Series: International Library of Iranian Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, fifteen b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845118785
- ISBN
- 9781845118785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.11€ 126.76
€ 142.11
€ 126.76
Hardback. In this systematic account of aesthetics in relation to the natural environment, Emily Brady provides critical understanding of what aesthetic appreciation of nature involves and develops her own distinctive aesthetic theory. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPN; JFC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748614370
- ISBN
- 9780748614370
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.03€ 141.81
€ 148.03
€ 141.81
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJF; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 25. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784536923
- ISBN
- 9781784536923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.10
€ 42.99
€ 36.10
Hardback. Addresses the issue of truth in law, within the context of Muslim societies. The truth, in legal terms, is the version of 'what happened', which carries most authority. This book looks at how this narrative is constructed in Muslim societies, and which truths are privileged over others in constructing it. Editor(s): Dupret, Baudouin; Drieskens, Barbara; Moors, Annelies. Series: Library of Islamic Law. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; LAFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 141 x 33. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845111878
- ISBN
- 9781845111878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.96€ 137.06
€ 153.96
€ 137.06
Paperback. Middle Easterners struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. The author presents an analysis of Islam's place in Middle East and integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFSR2; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- First Edition,Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246911
- ISBN
- 9780520246911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.94
€ 33.99
€ 29.94