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Paperback. This work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 halftones, 2 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; AVGW; JFC; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226817026
- ISBN
- 9780226817026
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Condition: New
€ 53.07€ 45.53
€ 53.07
€ 45.53
Paperback. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 halftones, 2 maps, 5 tables, 18 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGH; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226817002
- ISBN
- 9780226817002
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.09
€ 52.99
€ 41.09
Paperback. People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. This title explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our profound personal and social experiences. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 halftones, 2 tables, 1 compact disc. BIC Classification: AV; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Pap/Com
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226816982
- ISBN
- 9780226816982
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.76
€ 33.99
€ 26.76
Hardcover. How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change? In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens' voices, participation, and power in processes of social change. Series: Global Media and Communication. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: GT; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670379
- ISBN
- 9780745670379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Paperback. How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change? In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens' voices, participation, and power in processes of social change. Series: Global Media and Communication. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: GT; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670386
- ISBN
- 9780745670386
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.61
€ 23.99
€ 23.61
Hardcover. The border region between Mexico and the United States has become a sort of Mexamerica - a world fuelled by corporate colonialism, the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA) and contraband. This text reveals how the borderlands have come to be this way. Num Pages: 368 pages, 33 b&w photographs, maps, index, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652313
- ISBN
- 9780875652313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.67
€ 31.99
€ 29.67
Paperback. Offers a model of strategic lobbying that shows why some group lobbyists feel compelled to fight stronger, wealthier groups even when they know they will lose. This title offers answers about what kinds of policies are more likely to lead to intense competition and what kinds of interest groups have an advantage in protracted conflicts. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 44 figures, 34 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPWD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589017795
- ISBN
- 9781589017795
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Condition: New
€ 70.65
€ 70.65
Paperback. In this short work, Dr. Szasz takes aim at conventional psychiatry, and at the attendent system of courts, hospitals, and psychiatrists who confine patients against their will. The focal point is a Supreme Court case involving a man forcibly committed to a Florida asylum for 14 years. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFG; MBPK; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815605102
- ISBN
- 9780815605102
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.11
€ 20.99
€ 20.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, index. BIC Classification: JMAF; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815602293
- ISBN
- 9780815602293
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.19
€ 17.99
€ 17.19
Paperback. The author of this book argues that human sexuality - however it may be expressed - reveals who we are and who we want to be. He claims that there are no sexual disorders that need to be cured by sex therapies - there is only the never-ending task of having to develop and shape our lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, index. BIC Classification: JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815602507
- ISBN
- 9780815602507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.25
€ 20.99
€ 19.25
Hardcover. First in-depth examination and critique of contemporary anti-suicide policies that are based on the notion that voluntary death is a mental health problem, and systematically lays out the dehumanizing consequences of psychiatrizing suicide prevention. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFME; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609902
- ISBN
- 9780815609902
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.60
€ 20.99
€ 19.60
Paperback. This work shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the US government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. It demonstrates, however, the deleterious effects of prescription laws, which place people under lifelong medical supervision. Num Pages: 229 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; JFM; JPQB; JPVH; LNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 13. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815603337
- ISBN
- 9780815603337
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.60
€ 20.99
€ 19.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, index. BIC Classification: BG; JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815602477
- ISBN
- 9780815602477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.07
€ 27.07
Paperback. Thomas Szasz argues that the modern penchant for transforming human problems into "diseases" and judicial sanctions into "treatments", replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of government he calls "pharmacracy", eroding personal freedom and dignity. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1 Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607632
- ISBN
- 9780815607632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.89
€ 20.99
€ 19.89
Paperback. Millions of Americans, diagnosed mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors for non-criminal conduct, go unpunished for crimes they commit, and are supported by the state - not because they are sick but because they are unproductive and unwanted. This study re-examines such interventions Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFG; MBDC; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815605119
- ISBN
- 9780815605119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.93
€ 20.99
€ 18.93
Paperback. In this polemical response to the controversy about drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labelling and prohibiting certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating "addicts" in order to cure them. Num Pages: 320 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607687
- ISBN
- 9780815607687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.75
€ 20.99
€ 19.75
Hardcover. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, while even our closest primate relatives remain confined to the borders of their dwindling forest habitats. This book gives an account of what makes human minds different from those of other animals, and how this difference arose. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JMM; PDZ; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465030149
- ISBN
- 9780465030149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.68
€ 31.99
€ 22.68
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814741160
- ISBN
- 9780814741160
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. In this study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, the author shows that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. It shows that liberal marketplace principles have come into contradiction with themselves. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPQB; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226777221
- ISBN
- 9780226777221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 41 b&w, 5 colour. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JM; JFSP1; JHB; JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837636086
- ISBN
- 9783837636086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.85€ 41.64
€ 52.85
€ 41.64