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Paperback. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication", which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. This title tells the story of Violette. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464. A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris. 352 pages, illustrations. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication", which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. This title tells the story of Violette. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; JHB; JKV. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 22. Weight: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272729
- ISBN
- 9780520272729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
Hardback. First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JHBS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719086847
- ISBN
- 9780719086847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.46
€ 144.46
Paperback. Presents a study of Violent Non-State Actors (VNSA), groups who carry out atrocities such as the 2008 attacks on Mumbai. This book maps the relationship between VNSAs and the state, following the political, economic, and social processes that contribute to the emergence of these groups. Editor(s): Mulaj, Klejda. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849040174
- ISBN
- 9781849040174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.67
€ 40.99
€ 36.67
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847422118
- ISBN
- 9781847422118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 35.38
€ 35.99
€ 35.38
Hardback. Editor(s): Fox, Chad P.; Hawkins, Frederick M. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSW1; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 6. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 94
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781622574643
- ISBN
- 9781622574643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.84€ 70.74
€ 99.84
€ 70.74
Paperback. Editor(s): Peluso, Nancy Lee; Watts, Michael. Num Pages: 464 pages, 12. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487118
- ISBN
- 9780801487118
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.66
€ 40.99
€ 36.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPV; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308. The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism. 224 pages, 3 graphs, 6 halftones, 2 line drawings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPV; KCS. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 16. Weight: 310.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487781
- ISBN
- 9780801487781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346388
- ISBN
- 9780822346388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.33
€ 36.99
€ 34.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826353955
- ISBN
- 9780826353955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.86
€ 35.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252066085
- ISBN
- 9780252066085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.25
€ 24.99
€ 23.25
Hardback. Examines Pentecostal conversion as a force of change, revealing new insights into its dominant role in global Christianity today. Series: Religion in Transforming Africa. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; HRCC96; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011527
- ISBN
- 9781847011527
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.59
€ 98.59
Hardcover. Editor(s): Strickland, Lawrence F. Num Pages: 228 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 259 x 15. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624174278
- ISBN
- 9781624174278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 323.02€ 220.21
€ 323.02
€ 220.21
Hardback. Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFFE; JHMC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785332364
- ISBN
- 9781785332364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.56
€ 162.56
paperback. An examination of the effects of violence on an urban center and how it shapes both the physical and cultural landscape of a city Series: Jewish Life, History, and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 85 b&w photos, 10 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBH; GTB; JFFE; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780292728820
- ISBN
- 9780292728820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.30
€ 26.99
€ 25.30
Hardcover. We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can t escape representations of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high school or movie theatre, another action movie filled with images of violence. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670638
- ISBN
- 9780745670638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.62
€ 72.62
Paperback. Argues that violent confrontation goes against human physiological hardwiring. This book challenges standard views about the root causes of violence and offers solutions for confronting it in the future. It guides readers into the disturbing world of human discord - from domestic abuse and schoolyard bullying to muggings, and armed conflicts. Num Pages: 584 pages, 53 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 584
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143224
- ISBN
- 9780691143224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.83
€ 46.99
€ 33.83
Hardback. Violence, Inequality, and Human Freedom is a sociological introduction to the study of violence that looks at violence on three different levels-structural, institutional, and interpersonal. The third edition is updated throughout, including a new chapter on educational violence and revised sections on economic and international violence. Num Pages: 540 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: JFFE; JKV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1003.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 540
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442209480
- ISBN
- 9781442209480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 236.75
€ 236.75
Hardback. Violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of the nature of state-making itself. Editor(s): Pansters, Wil G. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804781589
- ISBN
- 9780804781589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.00
€ 104.00
paperback. Editor(s): Panitch, Leo; Leys, Colin. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Merlin United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850366082
- ISBN
- 9780850366082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.63
€ 20.99
€ 19.63
Hardback. The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; JFFE; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769358
- ISBN
- 9780804769358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.12
€ 109.12