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Paperback. Argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. This title presents cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines the next Great Plague. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 392 pages, 9 illustrations, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341536
- ISBN
- 9780822341536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.90
€ 41.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 166 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814784464
- ISBN
- 9780814784464
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Hardcover. Explain the rise, decline, or stagnant levels of women's political participation, considering how representation is contagious across political institutions Num Pages: 208 pages, 31 figures, 28 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814784174
- ISBN
- 9780814784174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardback. Utilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself Editor(s): Magnusson, Bruce; Zalloua, Zahi. Series: Global Re-Visions. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991740
- ISBN
- 9780295991740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.72
€ 140.72
Paperback. Utilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itself Editor(s): Magnusson, Bruce. Series: Global Re-Visions. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991733
- ISBN
- 9780295991733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. The making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails scarching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. This book proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 180 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226517353
- ISBN
- 9780226517353
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- PCCS Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781898059325
- ISBN
- 9781898059325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.76
€ 32.99
€ 31.76
Hardcover. What does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities communicated in media discourses? This book looks at the media representation of consumer culture in Africa, China, Brazil and India through case studies ranging from celebrity selfies, to travel websites, news reports and documentary film. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFS; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390127
- ISBN
- 9781137390127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Series: Global issues series. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPP; JPQB; KCA; KCF; KCN; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349420322
- ISBN
- 9781349420322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 151
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349415717
- ISBN
- 9781349415717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.13
€ 126.13
Hardback. Globalization, it is argued, can yield frustration and disappointment as well as welfare gains for consumers; it may, but does not necessarily, displace local products and via the rapid recent expansion of the mass media, it offers policymakers new opportunities to deal with acute social problems. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 151
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333772669
- ISBN
- 9780333772669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
Hardcover. How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why they differ and why they change. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCD; JFFT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022493
- ISBN
- 9781137022493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why they differ and why they change. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFSR; JHBL; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437894
- ISBN
- 9781349437894
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. Examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in Sao Paulo redefined their class during Brazil's economic crisis of 1981-1994. Illuminating the intricate relation between identity and local and global consumption, this work is suitable for students and scholars in anthropology and Latin American studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 b&w photos, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFCA; JFFT; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328940
- ISBN
- 9780822328940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.67
€ 36.99
€ 27.67
Hardcover. Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFT; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780745669700
- ISBN
- 9780745669700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFT; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745669717
- ISBN
- 9780745669717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.47
€ 23.47
Hardback. Series: Economic Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFT; KJSM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674166356
- ISBN
- 9780674166356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.36€ 52.81
€ 56.36
€ 52.81
Hardback. Harold Wilhite makes an important new contribution to the interpretation of changing consumption in India, using an ethnographic approach to interrogate the rapid growth in the consumption of household durables, beauty and cleanliness products, exploring how the engagement of local practices with the globalizing economy result in change. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542549
- ISBN
- 9780230542549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption facilitates efforts to rule through consent. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522244
- ISBN
- 9780230522244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption facilitates efforts to rule through consent. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSR; JPA; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349356959
- ISBN
- 9781349356959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95