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Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement
Horvat, Erin McNamara; O'Connor, Carla
hardcover. Elucidates the limitations of the explanation that Blacks underperform in school because they fear acting white. This work presents research that theorizes race as a social phenomenon, unmasks the heterogeneity of the Black experience, and contends with the specifics of social context in the culture and organization of schools and communities. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JNSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742542723
- ISBN
- 9780742542723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.83
€ 172.83
Paperback. Humour in contemporary culture is generally celebrated as a public good, yet at times is felt to produce misunderstanding and even hatred. Now available in paperback, this collection explores the ethics and aesthetics of humour, in everyday life and in media comedy. An updated introduction looks at the implications of the Brand/Ross controversy. Editor(s): Lockyer, Sharon; Pickering, Michael. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594500
- ISBN
- 9780230594500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.72
€ 137.72
Hardback. Editor(s): Lockyer, Sharon; Pickering, Michael. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSL; WH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403939425
- ISBN
- 9781403939425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739110904
- ISBN
- 9780739110904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.29
€ 67.29
Hardback. Cyprus is a postcolonial island known for natural gas reserves and ethnic divisions. This volume presents a fresh perspective on the Cyprus problem by examining the societal transformations taking place within the island: socioeconomic development, population transitions and migration, and rapidly changing social and political institutions. Num Pages: 307 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVC; HBTR; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338548
- ISBN
- 9780230338548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
paperback. Num Pages: 307 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341535
- ISBN
- 9781349341535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Marxism stands accused of economic determinism, reductionism and a silence on human experience. This book claims that these problems can be traced back to Marx's failure to write his planned book on wage-labour. It argues the centrality of Marx's "political economy of the working class". Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPFC; KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333520505
- ISBN
- 9780333520505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Paperback. Presents an account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft. Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; HRQX5; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226764580
- ISBN
- 9780226764580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Hardback. This new book is the story of the legendary 56th Fighter Group in a chronological narrative of their combat missions. Num Pages: 192 pages, over 250 color and b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1176.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887406607
- ISBN
- 9780887406607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.61
€ 48.99
€ 32.61
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVUA; HBJD; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908699589
- ISBN
- 9781908699589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.82
€ 26.99
€ 23.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837624885
- ISBN
- 9783837624885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.52€ 42.56
€ 53.52
€ 42.56
Paperback. 'Beware of Small States' wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. He could have meant Lebanon: a sectarian state no bigger than Wales that has become battleground for one of the defining conflicts of twentieth-century history. This title gives a history of the country and its conflicts, culminating with the war in Gaza and its fallout in Lebanon. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571237425
- ISBN
- 9780571237425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.60
€ 19.99
€ 14.60
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 454 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 867.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Number of pages
- 454
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810020703
- ISBN
- 9783810020703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.21
€ 75.21
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Mackensen, Rainer. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810032850
- ISBN
- 9783810032850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.94
€ 78.94
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Mackensen, Rainer. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810020505
- ISBN
- 9783810020505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.68
€ 73.68
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 346 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810020673
- ISBN
- 9783810020673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.92
€ 73.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 324 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; JPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 135 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Spokesman Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 324
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851248127
- ISBN
- 9780851248127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.69
€ 20.99
€ 19.69
Hardback. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: JMC; JNC; JNLB; VFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781475808414
- ISBN
- 9781475808414
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.57
€ 73.57
Paperback. A collection of extracts from the diaries and letters of young women who went on to become successful authors, including Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Bronte, Eileen Fairweather and Joan Aiken. In the LIVEWIRE series. Editor(s): Cole, Charlotte. Series: Livewire S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 5AN; BJ; JFSJ1; YQE. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 114. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Livewire Books for Teenagers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004798
- ISBN
- 9780704349551
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A collection of extracts from the diaries and letters of young women who went on to become successful authors, including Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Bronte, Eileen Fairweather and Joan Aiken. In the LIVEWIRE series. Editor(s): Cole, Charlotte. Series: Livewire S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 5AN; BJ; JFSJ1; YQE. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 114. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Livewire Books for Teenagers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004768
- ISBN
- 9780704349551
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95