Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Intends to ponder the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. This title focuses on the psycho-social dynamics of chemical contamination. It deals with nuclear events, both accidents, but also the closed cities and closed society needed to produce a nuclear context. Editor(s): Edelstein, Michael, PhD; Tysiachniouk, Maria; Smirnova, Lyudmila V. Series: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. Num Pages: 522 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; JFF; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 884.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 522
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780762313716
- ISBN
- 9780762313716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.17
€ 187.17
Hardback. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic, liberal Judaism and tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over what an authentically Jewish position ought to be on issues ranging from desegregation to Zionism, and from Vietnam to gender relations, sexuality, and family life. Series: Religion & American Culture S. Num Pages: 392 pages, 38 illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123747
- ISBN
- 9780231123747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.88€ 83.64
€ 107.88
€ 83.64
Paperback. The late 20th century has been named the Information Age, but the authors of this text challenge this idea in a sweeping history of information technology from the ancient Sumerians to the world of Alan Turing. They show how revolutions in information storage transformed ways of thinking. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDR; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801864124
- ISBN
- 9780801864124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.24
€ 39.24
Hardback. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, this title details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 photographs, 1 table, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822356660
- ISBN
- 9780822356660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.61
€ 176.61
Paperback. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, this title details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 photographs, 1 table, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356783
- ISBN
- 9780822356783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.78
€ 41.99
€ 37.78
Paperback. Explores related historical and contemporary themes and subjects involving Native Americans and the environment. This volume examines topics as divergent as Pleistocene extinctions and the problem of storing nuclear waste on modern reservations. Editor(s): Harkin, Michael E. Num Pages: 500 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHMC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- Paper edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803273610
- ISBN
- 9780803273610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.81
€ 32.99
€ 29.81
Paperback. The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing up the Pekitanoui River. The state and Missouri River are namesakes of these historic Indians, but little of the tribe's history is known today. Michael Dickey tells the story of these indigenous Americans in The People of the River's Mouth . Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, maps. BIC Classification: JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826219145
- ISBN
- 9780826219145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.84
€ 21.99
€ 19.84
paperback. Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yokai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This book offers a history of the strange and mysterious in Japan and seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 b/w drawings, 1 b/w photo. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520253629
- ISBN
- 9780520253629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.79
€ 40.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. Intertextual encounters occur whenever an author or the author's text recognizes, references, alludes to, or otherwise elicits an audience member's familiarity with other texts. This work ranges from the 1830s to the 1990s and from the canonical American novel to Bugs Bunny and Jerry Seinfield. Num Pages: 221 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; DSB; GTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879728489
- ISBN
- 9780879728489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.42
€ 18.99
€ 18.42
Hardback. * Accessible, up-to-date textbook overview of a major discipline in sociology. * Addresses the apparent irrelevance of formal political institutions and practices to people s everyday social life. * Provides tools to assess and rethink the relations between politics and society. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745637556
- ISBN
- 9780745637556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610069
- ISBN
- 9780815610069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.36
€ 31.99
€ 31.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, figures. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816530298
- ISBN
- 9780816530298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.93
€ 40.93
Paperback. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, this book explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. It also shows how selective consumption linked native societies and colonists and created transformative relationships for each. Num Pages: 480 pages, 43 b/w photographs, 52 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1QDA; 3B; HDDA; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1007.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287570
- ISBN
- 9780520287570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.40
€ 40.99
€ 29.40
Paperback. The best of Davidson's forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566893398
- ISBN
- 9781566893398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.98
€ 18.99
€ 17.98
Paperback. This work considers how writers of the 1950s and 1960s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity figured in their effort. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226137407
- ISBN
- 9780226137407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.17
€ 52.17
Paperback. This collection of traditional stories and tales, many of which are published for the first time, will delight lovers of Devonshire folklore. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWD; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752455051
- ISBN
- 9780752455051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.35
€ 17.99
€ 16.35
Paperback. Here are the five earliest ballads of 'Robyn Hode', retold in vivid modern prose. They still constitute the best version of the famous English outlaw - fast and violent, earthy and satirical, dangerous, sinister, mysterious and revolutionary. This is a new telling of Robin Hood for our time, full of valor, passion and bloodshed. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 113 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752489674
- ISBN
- 9780752489674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.44
€ 11.44
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 1KBCL; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL9; RNF; RNKH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803249813
- ISBN
- 9780803249813
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 47.72
€ 50.99
€ 47.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816650002
- ISBN
- 9780816650002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.74
€ 32.99
€ 31.74
Hardback. Series: Religion and American Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 22 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRK; HRLP1; JF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231145022
- ISBN
- 9780231145022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.40€ 86.13
€ 111.40
€ 86.13