Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This book presents data on Ugandan khat within the context of international debates on the drug, and the proposed ban in 2009. By telling of the story of khat, the book will serve as a vehicle for the analysis of social change, development priorities and shifting ethnic identities in Uganda over the last 80 years. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBLW; JFFH1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623101
- ISBN
- 9780230623101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This book examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. Num Pages: 225 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623156
- ISBN
- 9780230623156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Focusing on womanist and mestiza feminist thought, literary writings, and cultural representations, Unassimilable Feminisms offers a comparative theoretical model of identity formation. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623163
- ISBN
- 9780230623163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623453
- ISBN
- 9780230623453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. A reassessment of long-held paradigms about modern southern culture and politics and the relation of the South to political and cultural life of the United States. Editor(s): Smethurst, James; Rubin, Rachel; Green, Chris. Num Pages: 282 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623477
- ISBN
- 9780230623477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. Twitchell embarks on an insightful, fearless, and funny exploration of two of the central themes of modern American culture -- materialism and consumerism -- and counters the notion of the "used and abused consumer" with an unflinching look at commercial culture, starting from the observation that "we are powerfully attracted to the world of goods (after all, we don't call them 'bads')." Num Pages: 310 pages, 36 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFT; KNTY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231115193
- ISBN
- 9780231115193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.32
€ 47.32
hardcover. Cockaigne: portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to quell anxieties over an ever-more-exclusive heavenly afterlife. Translator(s): Webb, Diane. Num Pages: 544 pages, 60 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- COLUMBIA UNIV PR
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231117029
- ISBN
- 9780231117029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 40.99
€ 46.99
€ 40.99
Hardback. All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? This book illuminates the myriad ways in which immigration, racial, and ethnic histories have shaped the contours of contemporary American society. Editor(s): Bayor, Ronald H. Num Pages: 1104 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 179 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119948
- ISBN
- 9780231119948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.84
€ 153.84
Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 recorded music items. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFFH; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 5 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231135801
- ISBN
- 9780231135801
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.75
€ 190.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKB; HRH; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231141574
- ISBN
- 9780231141574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.32
€ 47.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146340
- ISBN
- 9780231146340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.93
€ 98.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 195 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 111 x 17. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147613
- ISBN
- 9780231147613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.11
€ 21.99
€ 20.11
Paperback. Previously unpublished lectures and interviews by the pre-eminent media seer of the modern age--informal, accessible, provocative. Editor(s): McLuhan, Stephanie; Staines, David. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262633178
- ISBN
- 9780262633178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.88
€ 24.99
€ 21.88
Paperback. Examines the ways in which Indians and their cultures have been represented by museums and presents new directions. Num Pages: 119 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; ACBK; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 119
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295984599
- ISBN
- 9780295984599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.50
€ 32.50
Paperback. This full-length study of the Premi, the first in a language other than Chinese, makes a valuable contribution to our ethnographic knowledge of Southwest China, as well as to our understanding of contemporary Chinese religious and cultural politics. Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPCT; HRKN; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295990699
- ISBN
- 9780295990699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.17
€ 45.17
Paperback. This fascinating biography describes the real experiences of women and their relationships as they struggled to win the right to vote Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1; JPF; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295990866
- ISBN
- 9780295990866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.34
€ 39.34
Hardcover. Captures the immigrants' struggle for identity in the face of competing stories and documents Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; 1HFGE; 1HFGS; 1KBBW; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991436
- ISBN
- 9780295991436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.41
€ 73.41
Hardcover. Deconstructs stereotypes and cultural assumptions made by non- South Asians and South Asians alike Num Pages: 26 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992440
- ISBN
- 9780295992440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.10
€ 141.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295999791
- ISBN
- 9780295999791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.26
€ 25.99
€ 22.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 370 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 811.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306417337
- ISBN
- 9780306417337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.91
€ 130.91
paperback. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306428777
- ISBN
- 9780306428777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306434594
- ISBN
- 9780306434594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardback. Editor(s): Carp, Frances M. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 149 x 31. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306439605
- ISBN
- 9780306439605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. Num Pages: 315 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFC; MBN; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306441301
- ISBN
- 9780306441301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86