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Paperback. In Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823273263
- ISBN
- 9780823273263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.09
€ 34.99
€ 32.09
Hardback. In Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823273256
- ISBN
- 9780823273256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.85
€ 113.85
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887557286
- ISBN
- 9780887557286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.76
€ 51.76
Paperback. Makes the case that campus speech codes - no matter how well grounded in history, law, or philosophy - have tended to be overbroad, arbitrarily enforced, and used selectively to protect only certain groups at the expense of others. This title challenges academics and general readers to reconsider how we deal with this important issue. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JNM; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- 2 Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700616480
- ISBN
- 9780700616480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.66
€ 30.66
Hardcover. Editor(s): Roberts, Timothy C. Num Pages: 167 pages. BIC Classification: JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633217225
- ISBN
- 9781633217225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.59€ 133.57
€ 192.59
€ 133.57
Hardcover. Editor(s): Roberts, Timothy C. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKS; JWXV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 171
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626182134
- ISBN
- 9781626182134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.46€ 137.54
€ 198.46
€ 137.54
Paperback. Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. This work talks about the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Num Pages: 302 pages, 13 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023987
- ISBN
- 9780674023987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.69
€ 38.99
€ 32.69
Paperback. Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, this book explores turning points in the history of American intellectual life. It documents how alternative views were chased from the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137317
- ISBN
- 9780231137317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Hardback. Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, this book explores turning points in the history of American intellectual life. It documents how alternative views were chased from the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st ptg.
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137300
- ISBN
- 9780231137300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.73€ 86.32
€ 111.73
€ 86.32
Paperback. Since culture is the mediator between the individual and society, it is not surprising that it is a crucial part of politics. This book presents a series of differing inflections of the relationship between politics and culture. Editor(s): Bewes, Timothy; Gilbert, Jeremy (Teacher of Cultural and Media Studies, University of East London). Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Lawrence And Wishart Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853159179
- ISBN
- 9780853159179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.57
€ 20.99
€ 19.57
Paperback. Series: The Yrjo Jahnsson Lectures. Num Pages: 392 pages, 25 line illus. 25 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; KCA; KCG; KCM; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158150
- ISBN
- 9780691158150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 40.03
€ 54.99
€ 40.03
Paperback. Meaningful places offer a counterbalance to the forces of globalization that is overtaking our world and are an essential element in the search for solutions to current sustainability challenges. Beatley draws on extensive research to offer a practical examination of the concepts of place and place-building in contemporary life. Num Pages: 328 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Island Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559634533
- ISBN
- 9781559634533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
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€ 36.54
€ 40.99
€ 36.54
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847558
- ISBN
- 9780807847558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.59
€ 77.59
Paperback. This biography tells the story of controversial black activist, Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). President of the Monroe NAACP, Williams organized armed resistance to KKK terrorists, challenging not only white supremacists but also the civil rights establishment. Num Pages: 416 pages, 33 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGH; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849231
- ISBN
- 9780807849231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.09
€ 47.09
Paperback. Offers a nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture. This title includes both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help. Editor(s): Aubry, Timothy Richard; Travis, Trysh. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JM; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226250137
- ISBN
- 9780226250137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.06
€ 34.99
€ 28.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JMD; MBDP; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 239 x 15. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780124201323
- ISBN
- 9780124201323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Paperback. Resituates the idea of addiction within its original late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century context. Through readings of a range of literary, medical, and legal texts, the author shows how Americans of that era conceptualized the dangers of drug addiction in terms of other preoccupations and fears. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558495661
- ISBN
- 9781558495661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.44
€ 41.44
Hardback. Many Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers in the United States take a strong interest in US policies that affect their 'brothers and sisters' abroad. This book reveals how the men and women of these orders became politically active in complex and sometimes controversial causes and how, ultimately, they exert a influence on foreign policy. Series: Religion and Politics Series. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JFSR. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589017757
- ISBN
- 9781589017757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.48
€ 109.48
Paperback. Many Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers in the United States take a strong interest in US policies that affect their 'brothers and sisters' abroad. Based on years of fieldwork and on-the-ground interviews, this title details the transnational bonds that drive the political activities of these Catholic orders. Series: Religion and Politics Series. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JFSR. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589017689
- ISBN
- 9781589017689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.16
€ 39.16