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Society & culture: general
Paperback. States that despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora eludes scholars, politicians, and community leaders. This book investigates the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742502697
- ISBN
- 9780742502697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.33
€ 65.33
Hardback. This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503199
- ISBN
- 9780742503199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.58
€ 143.58
Paperback. This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503205
- ISBN
- 9780742503205
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Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardback. This text weaves together some of the author's influential writings of the 1990s to offer an engagement with poststructuralism that aims to defy the boundaries between theory and embodied practice. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503212
- ISBN
- 9780742503212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.76
€ 141.76
Paperback. This text weaves together some of the author's influential writings of the 1990s to offer an engagement with poststructuralism that aims to defy the boundaries between theory and embodied practice. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503229
- ISBN
- 9780742503229
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Condition: New
€ 62.58
€ 62.58
Paperback. This text analyzes scholarship and controversies on the glass ceiling and labour market discrimination in conjunction with the specific labour histories of Asian American ethnic groups. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503359
- ISBN
- 9780742503359
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Condition: New
€ 59.82
€ 59.82
Hardback. Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourse of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to spoken stories of mothers and daughters. In this text, she brings Asian American women's experience to the forefront of gender and ethnicity. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503366
- ISBN
- 9780742503366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.58
€ 143.58
Paperback. This is a collection of essays examining the Goddess Movement in its many facets. It explores the ways women in the US and Britain have abandoned Western patriarchal religions and have embraced a spirituality based in a celebration of the Goddess and the female body as sacred text. Editor(s): Griffin, Wendy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB1; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503489
- ISBN
- 9780742503489
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Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadia...
. Ed(S): Hall, Patricia Wong; Hwang, Victor M...
paperback. Discusses the impacts of racial crime, exploring the relationship between the physical or verbal acts to issues of ethnic identity, civil rights of immigrants, Internet racism, sexual violence, language and violence, economic scapegoating, and police brutality. This work offers suggestions for combating hate crime. Editor(s): Hall, Patricia Wong; Hwang, Victor M. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 1KBC; GTB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780742504592
- ISBN
- 9780742504592
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Condition: New
€ 65.36
€ 65.36
Hardback. A challenge to conventional theories of globalization, from thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics and social science. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution aims at local control and the material conditions for human dignity. Editor(s): Saenz, Mario. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KL; HPS; JFFS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742507760
- ISBN
- 9780742507760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.27
€ 164.27
The Public Intellectual. Between Philosophy and Politics.
. Ed(S): Melzer, Arthur M.; Zinman, Richard M...
Paperback. The editors bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas and events, reason and history. Editor(s): Melzer, Arthur M.; Zinman, Richard M.; Weinberger, Jerry. Num Pages: 280 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508156
- ISBN
- 9780742508156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.86
€ 70.86
Hardback. This is study and analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan, which was instrumental to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 384 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JF; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508644
- ISBN
- 9780742508644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.94
€ 199.94
Paperback. This volume presents research, analysis and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involement of Mayan communities in national development; the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions; and other issues. Editor(s): Chase-Dunn, Christopher; Amaro, Nelson; Jonas, Susanne. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; GTF; JFFS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508675
- ISBN
- 9780742508675
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Condition: New
€ 70.73
€ 70.73
Paperback. How do women talk about peace and violence? What moves "ordinary" women into extraordinary activism? This book profiles ten influential women activists, relating their experiences and rhetorically analyzing their public communication in and about their efforts for peace. Editor(s): Kelley, Colleen E.; Eblen, Anna L. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: GTC; GTJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508750
- ISBN
- 9780742508750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.72
€ 61.72
hardcover. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create different experiences of time and space. Editor(s): Cresswell, Tim; Dixon, Deborah. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JHBA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780742508842
- ISBN
- 9780742508842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.19
€ 200.19
Paperback. This is a collection essays written by F.H. Cardoso during his tenure as President of Brazil. They document the transformation of Cardoso's economic and political approach and span Cardoso's early theoretical work through his pragmatic agenda for Brazil in a rapidly changing world economy. Editor(s): Font, Mauricio A. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFFS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508934
- ISBN
- 9780742508934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.55
€ 90.55
Hardback. This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Using vivid examples from around the world, it reveals how 'globalization' is reshaping social institutions and lives. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508941
- ISBN
- 9780742508941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.31
€ 210.31
Hardback. In Going Live, veteran journalist Philip Seib warns of the dangers of trivialized news and sloppy ethics in this "new news" age. Whether you love or hate the news media, this is an indispensable look at where journalism is heading-and how we can sort out what's important and accurate in the news we get in an ever-faster moving stream. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742509009
- ISBN
- 9780742509009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 31.19
€ 38.99
€ 31.19
Hardback. This volume reflects Jacques Derrida's views on the role of education and international organizations in an era of globalization. Derrida develops a notion of the global citizen that is uniquely post-Kantian, and he looks especially at the changing role of UNESCO and similar organizations. Series: Culture and Politics Series. Num Pages: 128 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; JFFS; JPSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742509023
- ISBN
- 9780742509023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.41
€ 133.41
Hardback. This is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. The contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities and offer a range of conflicting perspectives. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFCX; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742509337
- ISBN
- 9780742509337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.25
€ 188.25