Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. An account of the "war" against women, the insidiously manipulated political and cultural backlash against the hard-won equality and independence which women achieved in the 1970s and 1980s. Using examples from all areas of public life, Faludi presents a picture of the erosion of women's status. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 38. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099222712
- ISBN
- 9780099222712
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 100 pages, 7ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- African American Images
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780913543108
- ISBN
- 9780913543108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.83
€ 15.99
€ 14.83
Paperback. A tour of the most common cultural differences Americans/No. Europeans encounter when doing business in ten of the world's key markets Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941176146
- ISBN
- 9781941176146
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.90
€ 26.99
€ 18.90
Paperback. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK; JFMP; JFMX; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479827466
- ISBN
- 9781479827466
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. A concise, comprehensive guide to reproductive politics in America Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK; JFMA; JFMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199811410
- ISBN
- 9780199811410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.19
€ 17.99
€ 17.19
Paperback. Over the centuries, European debate about nature and status of images of God and sacred figures has often upset the established order and shaken societies to their core. This book focuses on these historical arguments, from the period of Late Antiquity up to the classic defenses of images by St John of Damascus and Theodore of Studion. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AGR; HRC; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814712146
- ISBN
- 9780814712146
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. "A remarkable achievement. Bartal presents the broad contours of nineteenth-century East European Jewish history even as he reworks them into a nontraditional narrative."-David Engel, New York University Translator(s): Naor, Chaya. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1DV; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219074
- ISBN
- 9780812219074
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. Questions about how humans come to know themselves and their worlds have always been at the heart of anthropology, and are necessarily part of a broader intellectual history. This book brings together anthropologists to discuss how they come to know what they know about the societies they study. Editor(s): Harris, Mark. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 354 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453640
- ISBN
- 9781845453640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.29
€ 167.29
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415827935
- ISBN
- 9780415827935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.18
€ 71.18
Hardcover. A significant collection of essays by the late Nicholas Mansergh, one of the leading historians of twentieth century Ireland, edited by his wife, Diana Series: Irish history. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 0. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859181058
- ISBN
- 9781859181058
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Condition: New
€ 69.00€ 52.59
€ 69.00
€ 52.59
Paperback. Explores how contemporary cinema treats state-sponsored atrocity, evoking multiple landscapes of state terror. Investigating the ethical potential of cinematic atrocity images, this book argues that while films help to create and confirm normative perceptions about atrocities, they can also disrupt those perceptions and build alternatives. Num Pages: 192 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; APFA; JFCA; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474400428
- ISBN
- 9781474400428
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. This important book offers a comprehensive guide to the international policies developed to stop rape , together with case study examples on how they work. The book describes how law and criminal justice system, health services, specialised services for victim-survivors, educational and cultural interventions can best be coordinated. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447322092
- ISBN
- 9781447322092
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.27
€ 38.99
€ 37.27
Paperback. Editor(s): Isaac, Joel; Kloppenberg, James T.; Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer; O'Brien, Michael. Num Pages: 408 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCD; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190459475
- ISBN
- 9780190459475
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Condition: New
€ 69.52
€ 69.52
Paperback. In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. This collection of essays discusses this mystery and others like it: Why did photography and the detective story originate at exactly the same time? Num Pages: 184 pages, 21 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214386
- ISBN
- 9780253214386
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.79
€ 20.99
€ 20.79
Paperback. Contributors: Mary Thomas Crane, Nancy Easterlin, David Herman, Patrick Colm Hogan, Bruce McConachie, Alan Palmer, Alan Richardson, Ellen Spolsky, G. Gabrielle Starr, Blakey Vermeule, Lisa Zunshine Editor(s): Zunshine, Lisa. Num Pages: 402 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894886
- ISBN
- 9780801894886
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.21
€ 44.99
€ 37.21
Paperback. Editor(s): Kenney, Jeffrey T.; Moosa, Ebrahim. Series: Religions in the Modern World. Num Pages: 480 pages, 11 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 244 x 22. Weight in Grams: 946.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415780865
- ISBN
- 9780415780865
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Condition: New
€ 81.95
€ 81.95
Paperback. Series: The Geopolitics of Information. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JFD; JPF; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 269 x 19. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081651
- ISBN
- 9780252081651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. The language of money has informed medical, psychological and political theories of sexual desire for at least 300 years. Desire, figured as libidinal energy, represented potential work-power and spending-power and hence a form of personal 'capital', an economic resource for both the individual and the collectivity. This book explores how this view Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907103575
- ISBN
- 9781907103575
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.71
€ 26.99
€ 23.71
Paperback. Miller shows how our brains are the products of sexual selection, rather than natural selection and how this alters and illuminates our understanding of intelligence, art, language, mortality, sex and the differences between men and women. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMU; VFVC; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099288244
- ISBN
- 9780099288244
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardback. Editor(s): Freeman, M. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137551757
- ISBN
- 9781137551757
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Condition: New
€ 113.20
€ 113.20
Hardback. From cookbooks and family recipes to novels, poems, songs and cartoons, this book tells the story of puddings and how they developed from early savoury, sausage - like mixtures to today's sweet and sticky confections. It traces the development of puddings and explains how advances in kitchen equipment have changed them over time. Series: Edible. Num Pages: 128 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; WBVQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780230429
- ISBN
- 9781780230429
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.53
€ 17.99
€ 16.53
Paperback. Increasing numbers of migrants continue to participate in the political, social, and economic lives of their countries of origin even as they put down roots in the USA. This work offers an account of how ordinary people keep their feet in two worlds and create communities that span borders. Num Pages: 294 pages, 3 maps. 14 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520228139
- ISBN
- 9780520228139
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.47
€ 36.99
€ 26.47
Paperback. Presents the author's reinterpretation of tales from Malory's "Morte d'Arthur". Editor(s): Horton, Chase. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; FQ; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186306
- ISBN
- 9780141186306
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288. Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives. 175 pages, 2, 2 line drawing. Editor(s): Skinner, Patricia. Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSR1. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 12. Weight: 332.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 186
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843837336
- ISBN
- 9781843837336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.62
€ 26.99
€ 23.62