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Society & culture: general

paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSJ1; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816674671
ISBN
9780816674671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.13

Paperback. Based on case studies from Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, the overall findings are illustrative of narratives and images common to museums and the media throughout the world. They aim to challenge political rhetoric and populist media imagery and consider what forms of dissent are likely to be sustained.. Editor(s): Goodnow, Katherine; Lohman, Professor Jack; Marfleet, Philip. Num Pages: 206 pages, 38 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1MBF; GM; JFFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 270 x 215 x 9. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455422
ISBN
9781845455422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.44

paperback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSGS; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
9780231164870
ISBN
9780231148498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.87

paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780252066658
ISBN
9780252066658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.44

paperback. Editor(s): Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette; Brown, Judith K. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252066832
ISBN
9780252066832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.33

paperback. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel characterized Unsecular Media as a book that leaves you thinking about the saintly role that religion has acquired in our allegedly irreligious media.Mark Silk's book is the first to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of how American news media cover religion. Series: Public Express Religion America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252067426
ISBN
9780252067426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.22

paperback. Through a variety of texts - novels, memoirs, film, drama, theory, museum exhibits, legal cases - this title demonstrates the dynamics of passing, presenting it not as the assumption of a fraudulent identity but as the recognition that the assumption of any identity, including for the purposes of teaching, is a form of passing. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 photographs. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252067709
ISBN
9780252067709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.23

Paperback. Places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context i Editor(s): Counts, Dorothy Ayers; Brown, Judith K.; Campbell, Jacquelyn C. Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252067976
ISBN
9780252067976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.73

paperback. Featuring a discussion that shows how science fiction's ability to make the familiar strange, this book comments on entrenched attitudes toward gender roles and feminist issues. By having aliens or sexually neutral beings enact female dominance or passivity, it provides a view on these experiences and an antidote to explicit cultural biases. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; FLS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252068102
ISBN
9780252068102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.52

paperback. Explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to place women's employment rights on the national agenda, decisively influencing both the contemporary labor movement and second-wave feminism. This title unravels a complex history of how labor leaders accommodated and resisted working women's demands for change. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252068348
ISBN
9780252068348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.62

paperback. A comparative study of European and American cultural traditions and their influence on conceptions of community. It discusses European and American attitudes toward the welfare state, the human rights tradition in the United States, and the role of regionalism in shaping conceptions of national identity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252069093
ISBN
9780252069093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.34

paperback. A collection of searching conversations - ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes - on the issues that face literary and cultural critics. It bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. It provides insider information for students contemplating an academic career. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252069611
ISBN
9780252069611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.34

paperback. Six annotated pamphlets on the role of women in 15th Century society. They give insight into debates within English culture on gossips, treatises against wife-beating, superiority of women, and cross-dressing. They constitute a significant body of primary literature, allowing the contending voices to be heard. Editor(s): O'Malley, Ms Susan Gushee. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBT; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071287
ISBN
9780252071287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.92

paperback. Eschewing reassuring platitudes and sensational pleas for sympathy, the author charts her struggles with juvenile diabetes, blindness, and a host of other hardships, sharing her feelings of despair and frustration as well as her hard-won triumphs. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 407. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072192
ISBN
9780252072192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.53

paperback. Demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system. This book also shows that although large plantations languished, many former slaves worked tirelessly and became successful small-scale landowners. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJWJ; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252073274
ISBN
9780252073274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.33

paperback. Exploring the past, present, and future of ethnic Mexicans in California Editor(s): Gutierrez, Ramon A.; Zavella, Patricia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 line drawings; 22 maps/graphs; 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLCM; JFSL4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252076077
ISBN
9780252076077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.22

paperback. The National Film Board of Canada is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. This book shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, is involved in the discourses of nation, technology, and social scientific knowledge that shape the Canadian cultural landscape. Num Pages: 256 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APF; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780773532595
ISBN
9780773532595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.73

paperback. No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. This work presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 608 pages, 50 illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 774.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780691029153
ISBN
9780691029153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.99
€ 44.90

hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JM; HBJD; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781472942241
ISBN
9781472942241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.10

Paperback. Examining sport within context of urban regeneration, this book looks at the place of sport within planning agendas for 'cities of culture'. It also examines sport stadiums in city 're-imaging' in relation to matters such as public funding, environmental impact and urban infrastructure. Editor(s): Sam, Michael P.; Hughson, John. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 9. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415828208
ISBN
9780415828208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.31

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