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Society & culture: general
Paperback. A guide to the British Way of Life. It includes insights on important topics including the weather, how to be rude and how to panic quietly. It contains author's three major works - How to be an Alien, How to be Inimitable and How to be Decadent. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241975008
- ISBN
- 9780241975008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
€ 14.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. Looks at the ways that marriages are celebrated in multicultural Britain and how the practices of the past are observed, and sometimes altered, for contemporary times. Series: Shire Discovering. Num Pages: 80 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF; WJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 115 x 9. Weight in Grams: 134. New.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747808190
- ISBN
- 9780747808190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.89
€ 8.89
Paperback. An account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It presents his descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment that are written with honesty, fury and great humanity. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEN; 1DBKEY; HBTB; JFS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 183 x 14. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141395456
- ISBN
- 9780141395456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. Written when George Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this is a memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGL; DNF; HBTB; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184388
- ISBN
- 9780141184388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. In 1936 George Orwell was commissioned to visit areas of mass unemployment in the North of England, this book offers a description of the poverty he witnessed there. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185293
- ISBN
- 9780141185293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. This book gives an account of the streets and those who have no choice but to live on them. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DDF; 3JJG; BM; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 117 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141042701
- ISBN
- 9780141042701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.44
€ 11.99
€ 9.44
Paperback. Drawing on their experience as government insiders, the authors of this book show how economic policy is shaped at the highest levels of government. They reveal the interconnections between economic, social and international policy, covering such issues as the advocacy system. Num Pages: 252 pages, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS; JPA; JPQB; JPS; KCB; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226755991
- ISBN
- 9780226755991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.94
€ 35.99
€ 28.94
Paperback. Challenges the general belief that human impact on nature was generally benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse by their abuse of the environment. Editor(s): Lowenthal, David. Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295983165
- ISBN
- 9780295983165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.39
€ 36.99
€ 34.39
Hardcover. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; BGXA; JFSR1; VXWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Other Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590517765
- ISBN
- 9781590517765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.44
€ 29.99
€ 27.44
Hardback. Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere's history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBAH; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674737594
- ISBN
- 9780674737594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.33
€ 47.99
€ 40.33
Paperback. Drawing from art, literature, music and film, Revill provides an in-depth look at railways throughout the world, examining the technological systems and nation building in railway history, as well as themes such as mobility and identity, design and marketing, and ecology, heritage and sustainability. Series: Objekt. Num Pages: 288 pages, 57 colour illustrations, 114 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 208 x 18. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861898746
- ISBN
- 9781861898746
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.83
€ 41.83
Hardback. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFFP; JFSL; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231174282
- ISBN
- 9780231174282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.40
€ 40.99
€ 29.40
Hardback. Outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. The author believes that the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. He also criticizes secularists who fail to recognize the role of religion. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139304
- ISBN
- 9780231139304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.32€ 64.43
€ 82.32
€ 64.43
Paperback. Outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. The author believes that the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. He also criticizes secularists who fail to recognize the role of religion. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMC; JFFS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139311
- ISBN
- 9780231139311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.42
€ 29.99
€ 22.42
Hardcover. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403934536
- ISBN
- 9781403934536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.54
€ 133.54
Paperback. Examines the excessive moralism in national life, which baffles Europeans. This book features nine essays that touch on American idealism and materialism and American endeavor, sacred and profane. Num Pages: 201 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803292512
- ISBN
- 9780803292512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.33
€ 16.99
€ 16.33
Paperback. This thought-provoking book offers moral and legal perspectives on the 2 legacies of the Civil War - the adoption of the Confederate battle flag by Southern states and the question of African American reparations. Series: Studies in Social, Political and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 255.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847686766
- ISBN
- 9780847686766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.82
€ 59.82
Paperback. Conceptions of nationalism as a historical and contemporary phenomenon remain fragmentary in the late-1990s. This text analyzes the contraditions inherent in the general understanding of nationalism in order to fashion a new intellectual synthesis. Num Pages: 447 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co (Publishers)Ltd
- Number of pages
- 447
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850654100
- ISBN
- 9781850654100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.37
€ 25.99
€ 24.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFD; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Progressive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781615779000
- ISBN
- 9781615779000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.44
€ 31.99
€ 21.44
Paperback. A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. It traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282353
- ISBN
- 9780520282353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.47
€ 40.99
€ 29.47