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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Offers a multifaceted perspective on how global changes in the organization of power have transformed the ability of individuals and communities to create their own meanings. Editor(s): Rethmann, Petra; Szeman, Imre; Coleman, William D. Series: Globalization and Autonomy Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4217. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774817592
ISBN
9780774817592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Hardback. This book examines the under-representation of Quebec women in Quebec's National Assembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate from 1791 to the present. Translator(s): Roth, Kathe. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; JFSJ1; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774817684
ISBN
9780774817684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Paperback. This book examines the under-representation of Quebec women in Quebec's National Assembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate from 1791 to the present. Translator(s): Roth, Kathe. Num Pages: 272 pages, tables and charts. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774817691
ISBN
9780774817691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardback. A nuanced account of Ottawa's failed attempt to replace Mi'kmaw political culture with Euro-Canadian political values and structures. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL9; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774817899
ISBN
9780774817899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Hardback. This book looks at how indigenous peoples in various contexts have thought about, and responded to, the pressures that globalization has on their cultural, political, and geographical autonomy. Editor(s): Blaser, Mario; Costa, Ravi de; McGregor, Deborah; Coleman, William D. Series: Globalization and Autonomy Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSL9; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774817929
ISBN
9780774817929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Hardback. Case studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia explore the challenges and benefits of building transnational ties among feminists and women's groups. Editor(s): Dufour, Pascale; Masson, Dominique; Caouette, Dominique. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774817950
ISBN
9780774817950
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Hardback. Challenges received notions about women's political involvement and engagement with the state in Meiji Japan by exploring the activism of members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Series: Asian Religions and Society Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLW; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774818162
ISBN
9780774818162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Paperback. Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine by bringing to light the healing work of Aboriginal and settler women in southern Alberta. Series: Women and Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774818292
ISBN
9780774818292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. This collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region - they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods. Editor(s): Michaud, Jean; Forsyth, Tim. Num Pages: 256 pages, , black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FML; 1FMV; 1FPC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774818384
ISBN
9780774818384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardback. Through the study of hundreds of criminal cases, Westward Bound explores how encounters between the courts and ordinary people on the Canadian Prairies contributed to the construction of race, class, and gender hierarchies in a settler society. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774818582
ISBN
9780774818582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Paperback. Citizens Adrift is a rich study of the generational decline in political involvement that offers recommendations as to how to stem the erosion of democratic life. Num Pages: 360 pages, , black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: JFSP; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774818766
ISBN
9780774818766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. The first book on the public relations efforts of the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBWQ; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774819008
ISBN
9780774819008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardback. Drawing on case studies from the Pacific Rim, this book traces the selective adaptation of international trade law to local conditions. Editor(s): Potter, Pitman B.; Biukovic, Ljiljana. Series: Asia-Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 graphs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; LBBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774819039
ISBN
9780774819039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

paperback. This updated reprint of a classic text offers a revealing glimpse into the past and an insightful perspective on the present state of planning and development in Canada. Editor(s): Caldwell, Wayne J. Num Pages: 428 pages, , black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFSF; JPQB; RP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774819244
ISBN
9780774819244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.18

Hardback. By drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students' strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774819312
ISBN
9780774819312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.93

Hardback. Drawing on the rarely heard voices of Canada's lesbian mothers, Transforming Law's Family explores the legal dimensions of planned lesbian parenthood and proposes avenues for legal change. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774819633
ISBN
9780774819633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Hardback. Focusing on sites of friction in property regimes, this book reveals that a politics of place can help local actors build bases of autonomy to withstand, and even reshape, the forces of globalization. Editor(s): Coleman, William D. Series: Globalization and Autonomy Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774820172
ISBN
9780774820172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Paperback. Focusing on sites of friction in property regimes, this book reveals that a politics of place can help local actors build bases of autonomy to withstand, and even reshape, the forces of globalization. Editor(s): Coleman, William D. Series: Globalization and Autonomy Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774820189
ISBN
9780774820189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. This book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past. Num Pages: 288 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774820257
ISBN
9780774820257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Paperback. This book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past. Num Pages: 525 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL9; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
525
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774820264
ISBN
9780774820264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

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