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Hardcover. Offal explores our complicated relationship with nose-to-tail eating and the extreme reactions it inspires. From tongue in Sichuan and gizzard stew in Rio de Janeiro to spicy cartilage in Calcutta, Offal sheds new light on the sometimes stomach-churning foods we consume. Series: Edible. Num Pages: 128 pages, 40 colour, 20 black and white. BIC Classification: JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780230979
- ISBN
- 9781780230979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.32
€ 26.32
Hardback. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, this book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147093
- ISBN
- 9780691147093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.38€ 51.21
€ 64.38
€ 51.21
Paperback. Many of us may have participated in grassroots groups, changing the world in small and big ways, from building playgrounds and feeding the homeless, to protesting wars and ending legal segregation. Series: Polity Political Sociology Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 174 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650043
- ISBN
- 9780745650043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.61
€ 32.61
Hardcover. Arising out of the Cleveland Artists Foundation's Dialogue Series, a 22-hour-long collection of forums held in cultural institutions and broadcast on National Public Radio, "Creative Essence" examines regional culture through an exploration of the distinguished contributions Cleveland has made to the visual arts and architecture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 212 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; AC; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1107.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Kent State Univ Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873388191
- ISBN
- 9780873388191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.34
€ 36.34
Hardcover. Num Pages: 650 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 650
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674258655
- ISBN
- 9780674258655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.45€ 48.60
€ 51.45
€ 48.60
Paperback. Investigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible feature influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. This book explains why skin color has become a biological trait with great social meaning - a product of evolution perceived differently by different cultures. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 color illustrations, 49 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283862
- ISBN
- 9780520283862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.01
€ 33.99
€ 25.01
Paperback. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This title celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 color photographs, 2 color maps; 36 b/w photographs, 13 line illustrations. BIC Classification: AFY; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392. A Natural History. 288 pages, illustrations. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This title celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AFY; JHMC. Dimension: 215 x 153 x 18. Weight: 392.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275898
- ISBN
- 9780520275898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.54
€ 27.99
€ 21.54
Hardcover. Whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications - as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents - from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates cosmopolitanism's emergence as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project.. Editor(s): Schiller, Nina Glick; Irving, Andrew. Num Pages: 268 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384458
- ISBN
- 9781782384458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.89
€ 161.89
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774166952
- ISBN
- 9789774166952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.81
€ 70.81
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199973880
- ISBN
- 9780199973880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.92
€ 58.92
Hardback. The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them, or surpassing them. Series Editor(s): Rhodes, Rod. Series: Political and Administrative Ethnography. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSB; KNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526101341
- ISBN
- 9781526101341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.61
€ 155.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 28. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501705700
- ISBN
- 9781501705700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.77
€ 33.99
€ 30.77
Paperback. This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation and new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation. * This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation. * Presents new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation. * Draws on new, original research. Editor(s): Laurie, Nina; Bondi, Professor Liz. Series: Antipode Book Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405138000
- ISBN
- 9781405138000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.60
€ 28.60
Paperback. This text highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. It focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion based on race, class and sexuality. Num Pages: 258 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 227 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415516587
- ISBN
- 9780415516587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.22
€ 64.22
Paperback. Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRKP; JFHF; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 241.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571318025
- ISBN
- 9780571318025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.96
€ 17.99
€ 12.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 81 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 136 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 81
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594542312
- ISBN
- 9781594542312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.88€ 49.28
€ 67.88
€ 49.28
Paperback. Deals with the apparent abdication of those systematic political thought on the part of positive, up-beat feminists. This title suggests alternative ways of thinking about transformations in work, sexuality and culture that, while seemingly far-fetched in the ideological climate, may provide more serious material for future feminism. Series: Zero Books. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- O Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846942419
- ISBN
- 9781846942419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580464475
- ISBN
- 9781580464475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.43
€ 132.43
Paperback. This comprehensive text arms SLPs and other service providers with research-based strategies, supports, and technologies that improve outcomes for adults with chronic or acute aphasia. Editor(s): Simmons-MacKie, Nina; King, Julia; Beukelman, David. Num Pages: 346 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: MMZL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Publisher
- Brookes Publishing Co United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781598572681
- ISBN
- 9781598572681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.60
€ 68.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JFCD; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226397191
- ISBN
- 9780226397191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.17
€ 121.17