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Paperback. The essays in this work illustrate the various ways in which women in the Middle East fall short of being vested with the rights and privileges that would define them as fully enfranchised citizens. They offer an examination of national legislation on personal status, penal law and labour. Editor(s): Joseph, Suad. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 400 pages, 6 tables, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFSJ1; JPHC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815628651
- ISBN
- 9780815628651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.88
€ 34.88
Paperback. The hijab is the controversial item of women's clothing. It has become the primary global symbol of female Muslim identity for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. This title provides an account of the controversial 2003 French law to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools. Series: Gender and Globalization. Num Pages: 416 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631996
- ISBN
- 9780815631996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.79
€ 29.79
Hardcover. There is an increasing number of middle- and upper-class urban Pakistani women turning toward Islam via Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women aiming to transform the women who absorb its message into 'pious' subjects. This title explores how Al-Huda is fostering a new generation of educated, urban, middle-class women to become veiled conservatives. Series: Gender and Globalization. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 illustrations, 1 table, glossary, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 173 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632092
- ISBN
- 9780815632092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.97
€ 39.97
Hardcover. Brings together a selection of articles collectively surveying the current state of Rastafari as a worldwide phenomenon. The essays are divided into sections on globalization, ideology and practice, theology, gender, politics and music. Editor(s): Barnett, Michael. Num Pages: 312 pages, one Illustration. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632832
- ISBN
- 9780815632832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.33
€ 46.33
Hardcover. Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarised and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature. Drawing on extensive research the author explores to what effect such idealised depictions have been projected onto the international arena. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1HBA; JFFD; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633266
- ISBN
- 9780815633266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.33
€ 46.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSL4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816524686
- ISBN
- 9780816524686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.54
€ 41.54
Paperback. A brief, accessible introduction to the role of myth historically and in popular culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817354374
- ISBN
- 9780817354374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.39
€ 27.39
Paperback. Songs and games, recorded by folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes, capture the shape and color of the crowded, impoverished, life-demanding, and life-loving days of the black family of sixty years ago, revealing the strength and vitality of African and slave traditions in black American life. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AVGH; JFHF; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820309606
- ISBN
- 9780820309606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.52
€ 27.99
€ 26.52
Paperback. In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. This book offers an alternative to an "us or them" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JM; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820319827
- ISBN
- 9780820319827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.55
€ 38.99
€ 35.55
Hardcover. Judy Chicago's art installation "The Dinner Party" was a sensation when it debuted in 1979 and is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Gerhard examines its popularity to understand how ideas about feminism migrated from activist and intellectual circles into the American mainstream. Series: Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820336756
- ISBN
- 9780820336756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
Paperback. Virtually unknown for most of the twentieth century, Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) is one of the most interesting rediscoveries of recent African American literary history. This is the first study devoted to Hopkins s life and her influential career as an editor, political writer, social critic, playwright, biographer, and fiction writer." Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820343457
- ISBN
- 9780820343457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.36
€ 38.99
€ 35.36
Paperback. The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America , Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields. Series: New Southern Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820345260
- ISBN
- 9780820345260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.70
€ 39.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Byrd, Rudolph P. Series: Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820346175
- ISBN
- 9780820346175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.91
€ 33.99
€ 30.91
Hardcover. From its humble "straw mat" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, "p'ansori" has survived centuries of change and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. Chan Park celebrates "p'ansori" as a living tradition, adapting to an ever-shifting context. Series: Hawaii Studies on Korea. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 2GK; AVGE; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824825119
- ISBN
- 9780824825119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.07
€ 76.07
Paperback. Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. This book explores the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam. Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFN; JHM; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824833152
- ISBN
- 9780824833152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.76
€ 33.76
Paperback. Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory. Num Pages: 286 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824839918
- ISBN
- 9780824839918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.21
€ 33.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New South Wales Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868409979
- ISBN
- 9780868409979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.77
€ 38.77
Paperback. These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity. Editor(s): Ashley, Kathleen M.; Gilmore, Leigh; Peters, Gerald (all Professors of English, University of Southern Maine, USA). Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870239007
- ISBN
- 9780870239007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Foley, John Miles (University of Missouri, Columbia University University of Missouri, Columbia University of Missouri, Columbia University of Missouri, Columbia University of Missouri, Columbia University of Missouri, Columbia University of Missouri, Columbia). Series: Options for Teaching (Paperback). Num Pages: 548 pages. BIC Classification: JFHF; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The Modern Language Association of America
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873523714
- ISBN
- 9780873523714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.96
€ 44.99
€ 44.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BM; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550653236
- ISBN
- 9781550653236
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.44
€ 21.99
€ 19.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Kane, Alice. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551110479
- ISBN
- 9781551110479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 44.35
€ 49.99
€ 44.35
Paperback. Kay Stones book is a bright light guiding us down the contemporary Canadian and American river of stories. Christina Cacchilega, University of Hawaii-Manoa Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111674
- ISBN
- 9781551111674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.56€ 51.38
€ 51.56
€ 51.38
Paperback. Moral Matters is a concise and accessible look at such ethical issues as euthanasia, animal rights, abortion, and pornography. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 2 ed
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551112121
- ISBN
- 9781551112121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.16€ 45.17
€ 57.16
€ 45.17
Paperback. An affordable edition of Mills classic text. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551113548
- ISBN
- 9781551113548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.82
€ 16.99
€ 16.82