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Paperback. Jewish communities of the Maghrib from ancient to modern times Editor(s): Gottreich, Emily Benichou; Schroeter, Daniel J. Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 386 pages, 9 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222251
ISBN
9780253222251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFFK; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518. Thinking from Women's Lives. 336 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HP; JFFK; PD. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19. Weight: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801497469
ISBN
9780801497469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

Paperback. The author chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being embraced and imitated globally today. For young black men, he argues, they represent a new version of the American dream, one embodying the hopes and desires of those excluded from the original version. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGR; JFSL3; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
2 Edition
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803216754
ISBN
9780803216754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.69

Paperback. Describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, this title also offers general comments about the importance of Native cultures and values and the status of Indian people in American society. It is interspersed with personal reminiscences and anecdotes, including chapters on child rearing, social and political organization. Num Pages: 269 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803293335
ISBN
9780803293335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.37

Paperback. Through a commanding view extending over five thousand years, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory, in ten brilliant essays. Translator(s): Livingstone, Rodney. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804745239
ISBN
9780804745239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. The Migration Apparatus examines the daily practices of European Union migration policy officials as they attempt to harmonize legal channels for labor migrants while simultaneously cracking down on illegal migration. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 347.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761079
ISBN
9780804761079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Roger Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing or of publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, or narrative ends. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812220469
ISBN
9780812220469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814731208
ISBN
9780814731208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Editor(s): Kvideland, Reimund; Sehmsdorf, Henning K. Series: Nordic S. Num Pages: 451 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
451
Condition
New
Edition
First edition
SKU
V9780816619672
ISBN
9780816619672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.14

Paperback. Translator(s): Abbeele, Georges van den. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816625550
ISBN
9780816625550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816629336
ISBN
9780816629336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, 1 halftone, 1 line art illustration. BIC Classification: JFFK; KCP; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816648054
ISBN
9780816648054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Braun, Bruce; Whatmore, Sarah J. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816670895
ISBN
9780816670895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816687305
ISBN
9780816687305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694037
ISBN
9780816694037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "travelling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822318217
ISBN
9780822318217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. Offers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices that can weave the pleasures and disorientations of reading into the fabric of queer analyses. Editor(s): Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 886.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320401
ISBN
9780822320401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.92

Paperback. 208 pages, 3 maps. Combining narrative ethnography, research, philosophy, and poetry, this title construes the meaning of home existentially, as a metaphor for the balance people try to strike between the world they call their own and the world they see as 'other'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Dimension: 235 x 141 x 14. Weight: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325383
ISBN
9780822325383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy. 328 pages, 57 b&w photographs, 3 figures. Focuses on the struggles of white mothers parenting African-descent children in Britain, analyzing the complex, racialized status of these women and their commitments to antiracism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSL; JHBK. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 17. Weight: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348764
ISBN
9780822348764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.48

Paperback. Rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. This title offers an analysis and that moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 40 photographs. BIC Classification: APF; JFFK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356202
ISBN
9780822356202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.35

Paperback. Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions. Editor(s): Keating, AnaLouise. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360094
ISBN
9780822360094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.64

Paperback. A tribute to the enduring power of the printed word. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Quercus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782069423
ISBN
9781782069423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardcover. This work allows the user to make a record of a baby's first year landmarks, such as first smile, first crawl and first steps with checklists of physical and behavioural development. Illustrator(s): Greenaway, Kate. Editor(s): Rigge, Simon. Num Pages: 40 pages, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; VFXB; WZS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 174 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Sheldrake Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873329306
ISBN
9781873329306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Expelled from the Communist Party in 1957, later re-admitted and expelled again, the author has lived in exile since 1988. He has continued indefatigably to read, think, and write about his beloved China: the saga of its modern history, the moral wasteland of its present condition, and its place in the global order. Editor(s): Liu, Binyan; Link, Perry. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 459.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253218612
ISBN
9780253218612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.10

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