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Society & social sciences
Hardback. Num Pages: 137 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137517807
- ISBN
- 9781137517807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.98
€ 104.98
Paperback. The pillbox is the iconic defence structure of the Second World War. Covering renaissance caponiers, Martello Towers, Boer War blockhouses and the pillboxes of the First World War, this work describes the development of defence structures in the Second World War and analyses the different pillbox types: hexagonal, square, rectangular, and others. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJF; 3JJH; HBW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752443294
- ISBN
- 9780752443294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.67
€ 33.99
€ 28.67
Paperback. A practical, how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 232 x 24. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781483384573
- ISBN
- 9781483384573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 166.69
€ 166.69
Paperback. Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFS; JHB; KCL; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662596
- ISBN
- 9780745662596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.74
€ 23.74
Paperback. Brings together some of the author's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays. This title offers an account of his first trip to India, which includes unforgettable vignettes of encounters with strangers and reflections on poverty and begging. It reveals a personal side of one of the influential philosophers of our time. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148816
- ISBN
- 9780691148816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.20
€ 29.99
€ 22.20
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752488134
- ISBN
- 9780752488134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.44
€ 21.99
€ 20.44
Hardback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606258
- ISBN
- 9780230606258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology; whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. This book examines the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 171 pages, 6 music ex, 4 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1FM; AVA; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520294714
- ISBN
- 9780520294714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Reich, Rob; Cordelli, Chiara; Bernholz, Lucy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JKSN1; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226335643
- ISBN
- 9780226335643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.93
€ 34.99
€ 27.93
Paperback. Considers what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war. This book also considers how information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself. Editor(s): Biehl, Joao; Good, Byron J.; Kleinman, Arthur. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 477 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: GPS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 918. Ethnographic Investigations. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. 477 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Biehl, Joao; Good, Byron J.; Kleinman, Arthur. Considers what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war. This book also considers how information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: GPS; JHMP. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 17. Weight: 664.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 477
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247932
- ISBN
- 9780520247932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.98
€ 40.99
€ 28.98
Paperback. This is an examination of the debates surrounding the expansion of the five main European institutions since the end of the Cold War. All of these institutions were founded during the Cold War and now they face demands to enlarge their membership to admit states from Eastern Europe. Series: Political Analyses. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1D; JPHC; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press England
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227716
- ISBN
- 9780719049712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Here, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermasa s long--awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative Action. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- Volume 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745603865
- ISBN
- 9780745603865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.37
€ 27.37
Hardcover. Based on extensive fieldwork in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Forging Rights in a New Democracy explores high school-aged students' understanding of rights and justice, and how they interpret and appropriate discourses of citizenship and civic values in the school setting as well as on the streets in the context of peaceful mass protests. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; JPHV; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244267
- ISBN
- 9780812244267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.04
€ 87.04
Hardcover. This is an investigation into what remains of the old city of Tokyo. The author explored the streets on foot using old maps, and found that, despite an almost completely new cityscape, present day inhabitants divide Tokyo's space in much the same way that their ancestors did 200 years earlier. Translator(s): Nishimura, Kimiko. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 black-and-white photographs; 70 black-and-white line drawings, maps, and wood. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AMVD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520071353
- ISBN
- 9780520071353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.25€ 48.78
€ 62.25
€ 48.78
Paperback. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Num Pages: 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1002. The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight: 1006.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520075375
- ISBN
- 9780520075375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 32.16
€ 43.99
€ 32.16
Paperback. Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013. Editor(s): Safran, Gabriella; Kilcher, Andreas. Num Pages: 426 pages, 36 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DS; HRAX; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253019622
- ISBN
- 9780253019622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. BEGINNING with the D-Day landings, this is a brutally frank appraisal of the planned use and actual results of the deployment of armour by both German and Allied commanders in the major tank battles of the Normandy campaign, including operations Epsom, Goodwood, Cobra and Totalize. Num Pages: 448 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF; JWMV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750979450
- ISBN
- 9780750979450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.86
€ 26.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. Covered are the radio and wire controlled vehicles as used by the Wehrmacht in 1940-1943. Num Pages: 48 pages, over 100 b/w photos, line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWD; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 213 x 4. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764301780
- ISBN
- 9780764301780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. At a time when anti-immigrant feeling is rising among the American public and when immigration is often cast in economic or deviant terms, this book humanizes the controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrants' desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews, it focuses on the role of religion and faith in surviving the journey. Num Pages: 238 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBLX; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066144
- ISBN
- 9780674066144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.73
€ 35.99
€ 30.73
Paperback. In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices. Editor(s): Tally, Robert T., Jr. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298884
- ISBN
- 9781349298884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.23
€ 84.23