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Paperback. The mythic figure of Malcolm X conjures up a variety of images - black nationalist, extremist, civil rights leader, hero. But how often is Malcolm X understood as a religious leader, a man profoundly affected by his relationship with Allah? This title offers the book length religious treatment of Malcolm X. Num Pages: 382 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: BG; HRH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814718919
- ISBN
- 9780814718919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 348 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; JFCX; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reprinted edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226520865
- ISBN
- 9780226520865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.48
€ 40.99
€ 31.48
Hardcover. This innovative book provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and 'magic' in African literature. Emphasizing the ambivalent nature of the sacred, it advances work on the religious dimension of canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DNF; DSB; GTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577558
- ISBN
- 9780230577558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. Over the years, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. The author introduces us to a cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance. Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; JFSG; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226136714
- ISBN
- 9780226136714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.05
€ 32.99
€ 26.05
paperback. War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. The author introduces you to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance. Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JFSL3; JKSW1; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226275406
- ISBN
- 9780226275406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.54
€ 19.99
€ 17.54
Paperback. Translator(s): OhAiseadha, Coilin. Num Pages: 216 pages, 39 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCS; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- Rei Tra
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816676279
- ISBN
- 9780816676279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.67
€ 20.99
€ 20.67
Hardcover. Balawyder explores how cultural, academic, commercial, and scientific exchanges with Canada played an important role in the "confidence building" that led to independence throughout Eastern Europe. This volume also contains interviews with eleven Canadian diplomats who served in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 200 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBC; 3JJP; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335676
- ISBN
- 9780880335676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.39
€ 45.99
€ 33.39
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781681640
- ISBN
- 9781781681640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.22
€ 26.99
€ 24.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 672 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AS; JFSL3; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 33. Weight in Grams: 906.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- A Cappella Books United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556523519
- ISBN
- 9781556523519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.27
€ 41.27
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLC; HR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403969699
- ISBN
- 9781403969699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 47.83
€ 52.51
€ 47.83
paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Black Rose Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551642703
- ISBN
- 9781551642703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.75
€ 21.75
Paperback. This text puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with Franz Rosenzwig in the service of re-imagining ethical and political life. Santner makes an argument for understanding revelation in theraputic terms and offers a look at how this understanding suggests ways of re-conceiving political community. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM; JHBA; JMAF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226734880
- ISBN
- 9780226734880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.88
€ 30.99
€ 24.88
Paperback. Surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second. This book examines the social psychology of military organizations, offers case studies of individual commanders and identifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster. Num Pages: 448 pages, diagrams. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JMJ; JWK; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 33. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780712658898
- ISBN
- 9780712658898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.10
€ 21.99
€ 15.10
Hardcover. Beginning with the author's celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, this title demonstrates how psychological changes in habitus and emotion management were linked to wider transformations in power relations. Editor(s): Mennell, Stephen; Dunning, Eric; Goudsblom, Johan; Kilminster, Richard. Series: Collected Works of Norbert Elias. Num Pages: 684 pages, 14 colour plates. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1196.
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Number of pages
- 684
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906359041
- ISBN
- 9781906359041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.88
€ 62.88
Paperback. The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title a Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociologya . Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745632193
- ISBN
- 9780745632193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.43
€ 27.43
Paperback. Presents an argument about the future of politics and addresses the fundamental aspects of democracy. Arguing that liberal 'third way thinking' ignores fundamental, conflicting aspects of human nature, this book states that, far from expanding democracy, globalization is undermining the combative and radical heart of democratic life. Series: Thinking in Action. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415305211
- ISBN
- 9780415305211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Paperback. Challenging the myth of the "post-belief society". Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Verso
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781681749
- ISBN
- 9781781681749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.54
€ 24.54
Paperback. Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city. Num Pages: 296 pages, 51 b&w photographs, 16 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AMC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292747142
- ISBN
- 9780292747142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.72
€ 30.99
€ 28.72
Paperback. Uncovers the voices of working-class women, active in the Communist Party, USA, in order to examine how these individuals confronted the tensions between their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and consumers. This work details the strategies used by women to argue for their rights as workers in the paid labor force and as caregivers in the home. Num Pages: 200 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073915
- ISBN
- 9780252073915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSN; JKVP; JKVQ; LNFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231177337
- ISBN
- 9780231177337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.27
€ 36.99
€ 27.27