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Society & culture: general
Hardback. What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination> This work provides an answer, covering Biblical times up to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images of Israel, to grasp their meaning and function, and to trace their origins and history. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741125
- ISBN
- 9780804741125
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Condition: New
€ 146.94
€ 146.94
Hardback. The essays in this volume focus on key theoretical questions for the study of women's labour and, more broadly, economic gender inequality. How do we assess the value of work available to married women in different countries and cultural contexts? Editor(s): Brinton, Mary C. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1FPJ; 1FPKS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 688.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741491
- ISBN
- 9780804741491
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Condition: New
€ 169.57
€ 169.57
hardcover. What accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor unions declined in their influence? This book examines these questions from a fresh perspective: that provided by the history of women in Silicon Valley in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; JFSJ1; JFSL; KNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741545
- ISBN
- 9780804741545
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Condition: New
€ 136.43
€ 136.43
Hardback. A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. Num Pages: 378 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBT; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741644
- ISBN
- 9780804741644
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Condition: New
€ 201.73
€ 201.73
Hardback. This is the history of the black British women's movement of the 1980s (comprising women of African-Caribbean and South Asian origin), and its place in postwar British politics, racism, and feminism. Series: Cultural Sitings. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFC; JFFK; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743204
- ISBN
- 9780804743204
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Condition: New
€ 135.89
€ 135.89
hardcover. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804743495
- ISBN
- 9780804743495
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Condition: New
€ 160.42
€ 160.42
Hardback. Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. The essays gathered here offer a rich, wide-ranging critique of Benjamin's position. Editor(s): Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich; Marrinan, Michael. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744355
- ISBN
- 9780804744355
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Condition: New
€ 158.31
€ 158.31
Hardback. This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also at home in modernity. Editor(s): Meyer, Birgit; Pels, Peter. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HRQX2; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744638
- ISBN
- 9780804744638
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Condition: New
€ 148.02
€ 148.02
Hardback. This work covers cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial centre during the 18th century. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744850
- ISBN
- 9780804744850
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Condition: New
€ 76.96
€ 76.96
Hardback. This work uses cross-national and longitudinal empirical research to explain the rise, nature, and impact of science as an authoritative worldwide institution. The authors analyze the ever-increasing investment in science, the diffusion of scientific discourse, and the hegemony of scientific organizations. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFFS; JH; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744911
- ISBN
- 9780804744911
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Condition: New
€ 169.35
€ 169.35
Hardback. This interdisciplinary collection responds to intellectual debates concerning the value and limits of privacy. Ever since the beginning of modernity, the line of demarcation between private and public spaces, and the distinction between them, have continually been challenged and redrawn. Editor(s): Rossler, Beate. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JFD; JHBA; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745635
- ISBN
- 9780804745635
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Condition: New
€ 135.73
€ 135.73
Hardback. This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays seeks to explore the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to consider the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances it did. Series: Cultural Sitings. Num Pages: 480 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; JFC; JMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 748.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745772
- ISBN
- 9780804745772
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Condition: New
€ 169.96
€ 169.96
Hardback. Since the 1980s, Mexico has alternately served as a model of structural economic reform and as a cautionary example of the limitations associated with market-led development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment of the principal economic and social policies adopted by Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s. Editor(s): Middlebrook, Kevin; Zepeda, Eduardo. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFS; JPA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 40. Weight in Grams: 953.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745895
- ISBN
- 9780804745895
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Condition: New
€ 182.06
€ 182.06
Hardback. Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in leadership positions in law, politics, and business--and what can be done to improve the situation? These are the questions this provocative book meets head-on. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JP; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746342
- ISBN
- 9780804746342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.24
€ 114.24
Hardback. Considers how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746632
- ISBN
- 9780804746632
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Condition: New
€ 92.90
€ 92.90
Hardback. The author chronicles LA's emergence as the nation's leading trade centre and gateway to the Pacific Rim in the 20th century, exploring recent epic battles over port development, expanding LAX, creating a new international airport in Orange County, building the Alameda Corridor rail link and more. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 tables, 5 figures, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFFS; KCM; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746809
- ISBN
- 9780804746809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.44
€ 147.44
Hardback. Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? "Just Being Difficult?" provides learned and thoughtful analyses of the entire question of how critical writing relates to its intended publics and to audiences beyond them. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747097
- ISBN
- 9780804747097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.01
€ 125.01
Hardback. This work engages on a theoretical level with issues in semiotics generally, taking Peirce's writings as a case study through which to investigate the adequacy of a theory of signs to account for the way "talk" works. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: CFG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747394
- ISBN
- 9780804747394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.77
€ 179.77
Hardback. This book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSJ1; JHM; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747554
- ISBN
- 9780804747554
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Condition: New
€ 124.94
€ 124.94
Hardback. "The Ends of Mourning" explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the crisis of contemporary culture with respect to the problem of mourning. The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust and Freud's successor Lacan. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBZ; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747769
- ISBN
- 9780804747769
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Condition: New
€ 135.99
€ 135.99
Hardback. These hard-to-find writings afford an inside look at the emergence of Girard's scapegoat theory from his pioneering analysis of rivalry and desire. Girard unbinds the Oedipal triangle from its Freudian moorings, replacing desire for the mother with desire for anyone--or anything--a rival desires. Editor(s): Anspach, Mark R. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747790
- ISBN
- 9780804747790
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Condition: New
€ 135.20
€ 135.20
Hardback. Cultural understanding is indispensable in today's work environment, but few people have the necessary knowledge or training in this area. Working Across Cultures illustrates how to thrive in unfamiliar cultures by understanding and tapping into the stress management mechanism of the people who live there. Num Pages: 416 pages, 16 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; KJK; KJP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 32. Weight in Grams: 721.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748070
- ISBN
- 9780804748070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.11
€ 38.99
€ 34.11
Hardback. This work examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization and public health issues in 19th century Buenos Aires. "Modernity in the Flesh" shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal democracy between 1880 and 1910. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JH; 3JJC; GTB; HBTB; JFC; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748711
- ISBN
- 9780804748711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.65
€ 92.65
hardcover. This work argues that the "clash of civilizations" that is thought to be a feature of the post-Cold War environment is not necessarily caused by the dogma of world religions or cultural incompatibilities but by the hegemonic universalisms that have characterized world history since 1492. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804749800
- ISBN
- 9780804749800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.88
€ 146.88