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Society & culture: general
Paperback. The media are an inescapable part of our everyday life. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of theorists to a number of important media arenas. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 line drawings, 10 b&w photographs, references, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415270151
- ISBN
- 9780415270151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.13
€ 48.13
Paperback. Challenges the dominant legal history of American Indians and their tribes - a history that concedes far too much power to the laws and courts of the 'conqueror'. This book makes an urgent call for the advancement of tribal sovereignty and of tribal court systems that are based on Indian culture and values. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFCX; JFSL9; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208940
- ISBN
- 9780520208940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.10
€ 35.99
€ 26.10
hardcover. Presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. Editor(s): Ben-Amos, Dan. Series: Folktales of the Jews. Num Pages: 820 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Jewish Publication Society United States
- Number of pages
- 820
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780827608719
- ISBN
- 9780827608719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.67€ 72.92
€ 76.67
€ 72.92
paperback. The first fully detailed, complete account in English of the fiction and films of France's best-known and most controversial woman writer. Leslie Hill throws new light on Duras' relation with feminism, sexuality and psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 212 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415050487
- ISBN
- 9780415050487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.72
€ 56.72
Paperback. Editor(s): Lichtblau, Albert; Prontera, Grazia; Embacher, Helga; Steinert, Johannes-Dieter; Aschauer, Wolfgang. Num Pages: 298 pages, 28 b/w ills, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBW; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Helion & Company United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911096719
- ISBN
- 9781911096719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.22
€ 33.99
€ 24.22
Hardback. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJMB; KND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646. Fine in dustwrapper. DW with some light shelf wear, else like new
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0029281
- ISBN
- 9780062655707
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226314488
- ISBN
- 9780226314488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.97
€ 42.99
€ 32.97
Paperback. The author turns a critical lens on prejudice, surveying the study of prejudice since World War II. She suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JFF; JFSL1; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 39. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031913
- ISBN
- 9780674031913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.26
€ 37.99
€ 31.26
paperback. This book explores the casting of China s earliest female Olympians as celebrities within the context of a national crisis, born of internal conflicts and external attack by Japan. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 348 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFSJ1; WSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824828
- ISBN
- 9780774824828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 36.86
€ 37.99
€ 36.86
paperback. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador. Translator(s): Brakel, Arthur. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTS; HBTV; JFSR2; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801852503
- ISBN
- 9780801852503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.93
€ 36.99
€ 30.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 109 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; APFV; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813576626
- ISBN
- 9780813576626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 42.98
€ 47.99
€ 42.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816635740
- ISBN
- 9780816635740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.19
€ 30.99
€ 30.19
Paperback. Asserts that concepts of race, Orient, and nation have been crucial to efforts across the world to create a sense of place, belonging, and solidarity in the midst of the radical discontinuties wrought by global capitalism. This book includes essays that explore aspects of modernity within societies of South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Editor(s): Kaiwar, Vasant; Mazumdar, Sucheta. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330462
- ISBN
- 9780822330462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.27
€ 32.99
€ 31.27
Paperback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 b&w figures. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137935
- ISBN
- 9780231137935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 26.96
€ 37.99
€ 26.96
paperback. Offers a variety of approaches to understanding the role of women as producers, presenters and consumers and gives guidelines, advice and information for women wanting to work in radio. The text examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming and explains the inequalities experienced by women working in the industry. Editor(s): Mitchell, Caroline. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ1; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415220712
- ISBN
- 9780415220712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.11
€ 55.11
Paperback. Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate US and world markets. This title presents the history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 7 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QMT; HBG; HBTB; JFCV; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520265905
- ISBN
- 9780520265905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.71
€ 31.99
€ 22.71
Paperback. In three ethnographic sections, this book demonstrates how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion. Num Pages: 522 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 270 x 36. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 522
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520293113
- ISBN
- 9780520293113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.06
€ 45.99
€ 32.06
hardcover. This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body, constructing a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFC; JFSR1; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804732727
- ISBN
- 9780804732727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.01
€ 135.01
hardcover. This work explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material on developments in the German-speaking countries and in the smaller European nations and aspiring nation-states. Num Pages: 584 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBJD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734196
- ISBN
- 9780804734196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.06
€ 181.06
hardcover. Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; 3J; HBJF; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735261
- ISBN
- 9780804735261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.48
€ 135.48
paperback. This is a personal account of what it is like to be deaf in a hearing world. The book discusses such issues as: mainstreaming and its effect on deaf children and the deaf community; total communication versus oralism; employment opportunities for deaf adults; and public policy toward deaf people. Num Pages: 181 pages, 36 figures, 21 tables, references, index. BIC Classification: BG; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780930323615
- ISBN
- 9780930323615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.96
€ 24.99
€ 19.96
Paperback. A reader on the 2,000-year-old debate about the meaning of the story of Adam and Eve. Editor(s): Kvam, Kristen E.; Schearing, Linda S.; Ziegler, Valarie H. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLC1; HRLP5; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 763.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- 0007-
- Number of pages
- 538
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253212719
- ISBN
- 9780253212719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.27
€ 32.99
€ 31.27
paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 18 black & white tables, 21 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSL; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415627481
- ISBN
- 9780415627481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.30
€ 58.30
Hardcover. These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; GTC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745663616
- ISBN
- 9780745663616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01