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Society & social sciences
Paperback. Moving subtly through a diverse range of thinkers and topics - aesthetics, affect, animation and film studies, bibliography, cognitive science, this book shows that a more sustained, less apocalyptic attention to ideas might lead to a richer discussion of our intellectual landscapes and the place of the humanities and social sciences in it. Editor(s): Potts, Jason; Stout, Daniel. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356813
- ISBN
- 9780822356813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. A portrait of a world that lifts the veil on the lives of Islamic women. This is the story to discover the truth about women and Islam. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141029405
- ISBN
- 9780141029405
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.91
€ 20.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. This book looks at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." It helps you examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly - without planning. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 1 map, 9 tables. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSJ2; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283923
- ISBN
- 9780520283923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988). Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBF; DSBH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252592
- ISBN
- 9780230252592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. On 16 May 1943, Johnny, alongside 132 specially selected comrades, took off from Scampton airbase in Lincolnshire. For six weeks they had been trained to fulfil one mission that was near impossible: to destroy three dams deep within Germany's Ruhr Valley. In this book, Johnny relives every moment of that fatal night - and the aftermath. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJD; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091957759
- ISBN
- 9780091957759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. Assesses the contemporary practice of anthropology and its emerging shape as a discipline across the globe. This title explores the place of linguistics in contemporary language-centered anthropology, and ponders how studies of material culture imbue objects with "otherness." Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340775
- ISBN
- 9780822340775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.40
€ 32.99
€ 25.40
Paperback. Series: The Essential Guides. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNT; VFJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408261743
- ISBN
- 9781408261743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.46
€ 23.46
Paperback. Antonia McManus analyses the contributions that Ministers for Education made to the Irish education system between the years 1919 and 1999. Covering the social, economic and political realities of the time, and taking in the involvement of the OECD, what emerges is a picture of how Irish education has been shaped over the 20th century. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845888442
- ISBN
- 9781845888442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.81
€ 26.99
€ 23.81
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138223592
- ISBN
- 9781138223592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 13.15
€ 33.99
€ 13.15
Paperback. Anne Bishop confronts the question of oppression head on by drawing on her own experience both as an oppressed person as an oppressor. She tells us the we learn to be oppressors from our own oppression. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552667231
- ISBN
- 9781552667231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.04
€ 33.99
€ 29.04
Hardcover. Num Pages: 302 pages, over 270 color/bw images. BIC Classification: HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 227 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1832. illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBWQ; JWG. Dimension: 286 x 227 x 31. Weight: 1832.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764339509
- ISBN
- 9780764339509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.92€ 65.26
€ 67.92
€ 65.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 500 pages, illustrations port. BIC Classification: BGHA; JKVQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 500
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780940322349
- ISBN
- 9780940322349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.86
€ 31.99
€ 22.86
Paperback. China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified citysca Editor(s): Kloet, Jeroen de; Scheen, Lena. Series: Cities and Cultures. Num Pages: 278 pages, 28 colour 30 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089644459
- ISBN
- 9789089644459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07
Paperback. At one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. This title chronicles Garvey's life, the failed business ventures, his misguided negotiations with the Ku Klux Klan, the two wives and the premature obituaries that contributed to his lonely, tragic death. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099501459
- ISBN
- 9780099501459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Laitman Kabbalah Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772280081
- ISBN
- 9781772280081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.51
€ 13.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. Against the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk In Defence of War asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even while it is tragic and morally flawed. Recovering the early Christian tradition of just war thinking, Nigel Biggar argues in favour of aggressive war in punishment of grave injustice. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM1; HRCM; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198725831
- ISBN
- 9780198725831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.19
€ 43.19
Paperback. Drawing on 40 years of working in challenging schools, and a decade of leading some of the toughest schools in London, this book shows aspiring leaders how to create vibrant centres of learning in our most broken communities. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNF; JNK. Category: (XT) Teacher text. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- John Catt Educational
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909717268
- ISBN
- 9781909717268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.14
€ 24.14
Paperback. Tells stories of a young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China, a barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau, and, the richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. This book describes the clash between the individual and the Communist Party's struggle. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099589976
- ISBN
- 9780099589976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.61
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Hardcover. As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced." Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; JFFS; PDX; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674286146
- ISBN
- 9780674286146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.46
€ 53.99
€ 45.46
Paperback. A History of Warfare stresses that warmaking, for all its destructiveness, has been an inescapable feature of human culture since organised societies emerged. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 b/w plates. BIC Classification: HBT; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Random House
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844137497
- ISBN
- 9781844137497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.49
€ 25.99
€ 19.49