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Society & culture: general
Paperback. In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in Native North America. This book presents an ethnographic account of the history and consequences of Seminole gaming. It describes casino operations, chronicles the everyday life and history of the Seminole Tribe, and shares the insights of individual Seminoles. Num Pages: 304 pages, 36 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; JFSL9; JHMC; KNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822342274
- ISBN
- 9780822342274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. In this bold work of 1787, an ex-slave refutes pro-slavery arguments and calls for the immediate emancipation of all slaves. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition. Num Pages: 162 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTS; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781108060196
- ISBN
- 9781108060196
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Condition: New
€ 34.15
€ 34.15
Paperback. Fitzroy Maclean's classic work has been updated with a new chapter by Magnus Linklater, examining how Scottish identity is faring in the wake of the first Scottish Parliament for nearly 300 years. Series: Illustrated National Histories. Num Pages: 248 pages, 238 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 732.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500282335
- ISBN
- 9780500282335
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 5.70
€ 16.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. Discusses the literary and artistic effects of globalisation Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 252 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AB; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223456
- ISBN
- 9780253223456
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indegenous Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816677917
- ISBN
- 9780816677917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.60
€ 30.99
€ 27.60
Paperback. Translator(s): Burk, Drew S. Series: Univocal. Num Pages: 54 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Univocal Publishing LLC
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937561000
- ISBN
- 9781937561000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.63
€ 17.99
€ 17.63
Hardback. TEXT IN ARABIC. Covers topics ranging from plant-fibre skirts of the Neolithic, Ancient Egyptian linen shifts and togas of Classical Age, to 19th-century Tyrolean dirndls, contemporary African ceremonial attire and Middle Eastern burqas of our own age, historical period and style of dress. This book is a glorious celebration of ethnographic clothing. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AKTH; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 236 x 53. Weight in Grams: 3150.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500516065
- ISBN
- 9780500516065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.99€ 55.00
€ 69.99
€ 55.00
Paperback. Contains an essay on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. Along with this historical essay, this work includes an introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred as Gay Musicology has grown. Editor(s): Brett, Phillip; Wood, Elizabeth; Thomas, Gary C. Num Pages: 418 pages, 9 black & white tables, 18 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AV; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415978842
- ISBN
- 9780415978842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.79
€ 80.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Lantern Books,US United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590564233
- ISBN
- 9781590564233
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.67
€ 24.99
€ 21.67
Paperback. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC1; HRCR; HRCV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 686. The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. 300 pages, 24ill. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC1; HRCR; HRCV; JFSJ1. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520063297
- ISBN
- 9780520063297
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.64
€ 38.99
€ 28.64
Hardcover. Written in an accessible tone but grounded in years of research, this book charts the nautical influence on fashion over five chapters, each of which considers a particular maritime profession: The Officer, The Sailor, The Fisherman, The Sportsman and The Pirate. Num Pages: 224 pages, 210 illustrations, 141 in colour. BIC Classification: AKTH; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500517802
- ISBN
- 9780500517802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.00
€ 27.99
€ 25.00
Paperback. Featuring a sensitive and loving portrait of mankind as a community, as a family but most importantly as individuals, this book tries to answer the universal and ancient question of who we are and what we aspire to. It also reveals the dark side of the human condition, but it also sheds light on the best of it. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; RNK; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 286 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1098.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500292143
- ISBN
- 9780500292143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 5.70
€ 26.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. This book focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million), and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations facsim., maps, plan, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DV; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099740216
- ISBN
- 9780099740216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252061561
- ISBN
- 9780252061561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. Gathers Garvey's speeches and essays about Black pride. Editor(s): Hill, Robert A.; Bair, Barbara. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520062658
- ISBN
- 9780520062658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. Community, Class and Schooling. 136 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBCO; JFSP2; JN. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 8. Weight: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552664704
- ISBN
- 9781552664704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.71
€ 23.99
€ 20.71
Paperback. Chicken provides insight into the astonishing world of the chicken and contains many intriguing facts, including why the largest predator ever to walk the earth is considered the ancestor of the modern chicken and how mother hens communicate with their chicks while they're still in the egg. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 216 pages, 72 colour illustrations, 103 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; WNCB; WNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861898586
- ISBN
- 9781861898586
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.64
€ 19.99
€ 18.64
Paperback. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? This book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780718193669
- ISBN
- 9780718193669
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.67
€ 14.99
€ 11.67
Paperback. Collects together key papers by international leaders in the field from a range of sources that explain the concepts, actors and processes that constitute global social policy. This book covers emergence of global social policy as an expanding field of practice, and the impact of globalisation on key welfare discourses and governance mechanisms. Editor(s): Yeates, Nicola; Holden, Chris. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 172 x 29. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847423771
- ISBN
- 9781847423771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 26.02
€ 43.99
€ 26.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JNF; JNM; LNHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Beacon Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807078129
- ISBN
- 9780807078129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.66
€ 21.99
€ 18.66