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Paperback. GALWAY "Bestselling author Malachy McCourt recounts the story of Ireland's timeless symbol of loyalty, friendship, and love, a ring design of two clasped hands that is worn by millions worldwide. Following th" Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBG; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTG; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Running Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780762420148
- ISBN
- 9780762420148
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Condition: New
€ 17.80
€ 17.80
Paperback. Focuses on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946. This book suggests that efforts to suppress female circumcision were tied to the continuation of slavery and the rise of commercial cotton growing in Sudan, as well as to concerns about infant mortality and maternal health. Num Pages: 440 pages, 9 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HBJH; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123059
- ISBN
- 9780691123059
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.76
€ 46.99
€ 33.76
Hardcover. Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the public sphere perform their activities in a civilized manner. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030412
- ISBN
- 9781137030412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. This book considers the material conditions in which the production and consumption of art takes place, looking at how art is presented to the community and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants. Num Pages: 192 pages, 70 illustrations. BIC Classification: A; GM; JFC; WTHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415070126
- ISBN
- 9780415070126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.46
€ 48.46
Hardback. By comparing the role and influence of early Christian missionaries with those of Christian NGOs today, this book critically assesses the idea of a Christian 'civilizing mission' within the context of China. It provides a local, non-Han perspective based on a rich array of historical, ethnographical, and empirical sources. Series: Culture and Religion in International Relations. Num Pages: 278 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRCX7; JPSN; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608979
- ISBN
- 9780230608979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. By comparing the role and influence of early Christian missionaries with those of Christian NGOs today, this bookcritically assesses the idea of a Christian 'civilizing mission' within the context of China. It provides a local, non-Han perspective based on a rich array of historical, ethnographical, and empirical sources." Series: Culture and Religion in International Relations. Num Pages: 278 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPS; JPSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349375745
- ISBN
- 9781349375745
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. Series: Emotions in History. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JMQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198745532
- ISBN
- 9780198745532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.41
€ 199.41
Paperback. This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the hurt and marginalization that stem from civilized oppression. Editor(s): Calcagno, Antonio. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPS; JFFK; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349506002
- ISBN
- 9781349506002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76
Paperback. An analysis of serious but subtle forms of oppression involving neither physical violence nor the use of law. It uncovers a set of underlying moral principles that account for the immorality of civilized oppression, and points to some of the implications for social and institutional life. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692750
- ISBN
- 9780847692750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.71
€ 62.71
Hardback. In each case, Mason demonstrates that understanding contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential for understanding the debates about gender, race, and cultural power enacted in these texts. Series: Animals, History, Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801880711
- ISBN
- 9780801880711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.78
€ 76.78
Paperback. This work seeks to incorporate the "postmodern" debate on the self with a philosophical exploration of identity and cultural formation, and the dynamics of social power underlying them. It analyzes the historical, social, political, religious and psychoanalytical dimensions of civilized life. Series: Postmodern Social Futures. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JHM; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691777
- ISBN
- 9780847691777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.42
€ 73.42
Paperback. Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. This title asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity - that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912). Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822324188
- ISBN
- 9780822324188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.87
€ 36.99
€ 28.87
Paperback. Brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 76. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KKD0006133
- ISBN
- 9780141018997
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
hardcover. Considering the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, the author focuses on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilized' sexual morality, he asks, does repression compromise our chances of happiness? Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 170 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141395890
- ISBN
- 9780141395890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.00
€ 17.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. Freud's seminal volume of 20th-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new Introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393304510
- ISBN
- 9780393304510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.72
€ 16.99
€ 15.72
Paperback. Translation of: Das unbehagen in der kultur. Editor(s): Dufresne, Todd. Num Pages: 205 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811403
- ISBN
- 9781554811403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.76
€ 23.99
€ 18.76
paperback. Considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. This work focuses on what the author perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. Translator(s): McLintock, David. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182360
- ISBN
- 9780141182360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Civilization and Democracy: The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Wri...
Cattaneo, Carlo. Ed(S): Lacaita, Carlo G.; Sa...
hardcover. The selection of original pieces presented in this translation is preceded by an introduction by the editors, Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, which guides the reader through Cattaneo's thinking and puts it in a comparative context. Ultimately, however, it is the editors' goal to let this profound Italian thinker speak for himself. Editor(s): Lacaita, Carlo G.; Sabetti, Filippo. Translator(s): Gibbons, David. Series: Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBTB; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092052
- ISBN
- 9780802092052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.41
€ 79.41
paperback. Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activists continually devised new ways of asserting their quest for freedom. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; JPVH1; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780195029192
- ISBN
- 9780195029192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.15
€ 34.15
Hardback. A gracefully written reflection on nomads and their vulnerability to the whims of politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849043984
- ISBN
- 9781849043984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.40
€ 26.99
€ 25.40