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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the 'risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict. Translator(s): Ritter, Mark. Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 268
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803983465
- ISBN
- 9780803983465
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Condition: New
€ 60.65
€ 60.65
paperback. Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries - old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of problems, from obesity, the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFCV; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099584476
- ISBN
- 9780099584476
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. Provides a primer on the current state of the same-sex marriage debate, and a new way of framing the issue that provides valuable new insights into the political, social, and personal stakes involved Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JHBK; LNMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 307
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814709306
- ISBN
- 9780814709306
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Mouritsen, Jonas Drotner. Translator(s): Johansen, Mariela. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 84 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV; PN; TDCT; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 190. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231168915
- ISBN
- 9780231168915
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.28
€ 40.99
€ 29.28
Paperback. Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. This book delivers an unprecedented review of the state of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association. Editor(s): Freedman, Paul; Chaplin, Joyce E.; Albala, Ken. Num Pages: 424 pages, 3 charts, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCV; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283589
- ISBN
- 9780520283589
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.41
€ 54.99
€ 39.41
Hardcover. The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in a country which will play a critical geopolitical role in the wars of the Middle East. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JMG; BGH; HBJF1; JFSR2; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 25. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784538262
- ISBN
- 9781784538262
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.38
€ 52.99
€ 37.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21, 18 black & white halftones, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JD; HBJK; JFSL9; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501705731
- ISBN
- 9781501705731
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. Offers an insight into the daily life of seven average teenagers over the course of a school year. This book discusses questions such as: What does their world look and feel like - and how will they shape our country in the future? Has Anthony, narrowly reprieved from exclusion, changed sufficiently to win a university place? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220. .
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843544456
- ISBN
- 9781843544456
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Hardback. Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435989
- ISBN
- 9781137435989
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Condition: New
€ 113.02
€ 113.02
Paperback. Describing herself as "upper middle class", Jilly Cooper claims that snobbery is alive and kicking! Meet her characters - Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Harry Stow-Crat and Jen Teale, and observe thair everyday pretensions - their courtships, furnishings, clothes, food and careers. Num Pages: 368 pages, b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: JFSC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 24. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552146623
- ISBN
- 9780552146623
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Containing state-of-the-art contributions on the various domains of European media policies, this Handbook deals with theoretical approaches to European media policy: its historical development; specific policies for film, television, radio and the Internet; and international aspects of the fragmented policy domain. Editor(s): Donders, Karen; Pauwels, Caroline; Loisen, Jan. Num Pages: 586 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JPA; JPQB; LNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349441020
- ISBN
- 9781349441020
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Condition: New
€ 191.35
€ 191.35
Hardback. Through a variety of case studies, Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century examines the emergence of youth and young people as a central historical force in the global history of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Jobs, Richard Ivan; Pomfret, David Martin. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, up to 20 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBTB; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469892
- ISBN
- 9781137469892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.23
€ 124.23
Paperback. A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330522717
- ISBN
- 9780330522717
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.91
€ 13.99
€ 10.91
Paperback. A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of 'true' love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. It studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of cliches and images. Num Pages: 332 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205710
- ISBN
- 9780520205710
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.19
€ 38.99
€ 28.19
Paperback. An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300199000
- ISBN
- 9780300199000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.63
€ 16.99
€ 13.63
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church: The findings of the inves...
The Investigative Staff Of The Boston Globe
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; BTC; HRAM2; HRCC7; JFFE1; JFFE2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781257432
- ISBN
- 9781781257432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.14
€ 11.99
€ 10.14
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138698826
- ISBN
- 9781138698826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Paperback. Investigates role that Las Casas played in the evolution of Spanish imperialism and 16th century arguments about human rights, and claims that scholars have overestimated the extent to which he helped indigenous people. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339397
- ISBN
- 9780822339397
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Hardback. Drawing on a selection of recently available documents from the International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world,, this compelling volume provides new insights into human decision-making in genocidal settings, the factors that drive it, and its far-reaching consequences. Series: Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context. Num Pages: 306 pages, 64 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; HBG; HBTZ1; HBW; HBWQ; JFSR1; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442251731
- ISBN
- 9781442251731
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Condition: New
€ 61.49
€ 61.49
Paperback. What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Series: What is History Series. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644936
- ISBN
- 9780745644936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.42
€ 21.42
Paperback. Series: Societas. Num Pages: 190 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Societas
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845401337
- ISBN
- 9781845401337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.52
€ 14.52
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781446266335
- ISBN
- 9781446266335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 39.53
€ 41.99
€ 39.53
Paperback. For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, mathematical and musical. This title helps readers to see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent it survives. Num Pages: 282 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFCX; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Copernicus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1993. 2nd printing 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387944746
- ISBN
- 9780387944746
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.46
€ 40.99
€ 36.46
Paperback. The interlocking themes of Establishment and Meritocracy are a crucial part of the intellectual compost that made Hennessy's generation of postwar Britons. The Establishment and the concept of a growing and eventually self-propelling meritocracy were always at odds, and the policies that brought it about dramatically altered British society. Series: Haus Curiosities. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 117 x 8. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908323774
- ISBN
- 9781908323774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.49
€ 10.99
€ 9.49