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paperback. Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? This title uses different measures of political equality to reveal which groups get what they want from government and what factors lead to their successes. Series: American Politics & Political Economy S. Num Pages: 240 pages, 48 line drawings, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226308685
- ISBN
- 9780226308685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors, Minority Reports offers a theoretical defense of the use of identity categories in American studies by examining how early American literature not only responds to the social stratification of the nineteenth century but also challenges modern historical conceptions of this era. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349384242
- ISBN
- 9781349384242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.70
€ 65.70
Hardcover. Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors, Minority Reports offers a theoretical defense of the use of identity categories in American studies by examining how early American literature not only responds to the social stratification of the nineteenth century but also challenges modern historical conceptions of this era. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622630
- ISBN
- 9780230622630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Hardback. Editor(s): Ibhawoh, Bonny. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319506296
- ISBN
- 9783319506296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.93
€ 138.93
Hardback. This book deals with the linguistic rights of minorities in Europe. Editor(s): Trifunovska, Snezana; Varennes, Fernand de. Num Pages: 606 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JPVH; LAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 160 x 35. Weight in Grams: 109.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- T.M.C. Asser Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 606
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789067041270
- ISBN
- 9789067041270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.59
€ 132.59
Hardback. * Offer a concise introduction to this controversial and growing area of study and debate. * Explores the ways in which minorities are constructed through religion, race, language and ethnicity. * Draws on a range of contemporary examples from across the world. Series: Key Concepts. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745623955
- ISBN
- 9780745623955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Talks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 384 pages, 42 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324447
- ISBN
- 9780822324447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.98
€ 32.99
€ 29.98
Hardback. Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, class, gender and legal status for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; JFSJ1; JFSL1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447327134
- ISBN
- 9781447327134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.39
€ 179.39
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Augustin-Dittmann, Sandra; Gotzmann, Helga. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer vs United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783658031091
- ISBN
- 9783658031091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.83
€ 48.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612347677
- ISBN
- 9781612347677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.80
€ 18.99
€ 18.80
Hardback. Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period. Translator(s): Talbot, Alice-Mary; Johnson, Dr. Scott Fitzgerald. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HRCC2; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674059030
- ISBN
- 9780674059030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.17
€ 40.99
€ 34.17
Paperback. An issue facing transitional democracies around the world has been what to do with the security apparatuses left over from the old regime. This text explores this using true stories of torture victims in Brazil and Uruguay who, faced with the paralysis of the new regime, settled their own accounts. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1KLSU; BG; JHM; JPH; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226893945
- ISBN
- 9780226893945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.14
€ 31.99
€ 25.14
Paperback. The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220926
- ISBN
- 9780812220926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: JMP; PSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Career Assurance Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934759493
- ISBN
- 9781934759493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.69
€ 20.69
hardcover. Centered around an ethnographic case study of a dragon king temple, this book examines the social and political dynamics underlying the revival of popular religion in contemporary rural China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table, 13 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751605
- ISBN
- 9780804751605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Paperback. Centered around an ethnographic case study of a dragon king temple, this book examines the social and political dynamics underlying the revival of popular religion in contemporary rural China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table, 13 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HR; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761000
- ISBN
- 9780804761000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.10
€ 33.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. Designed in response to the official 1953 program planned to equip the Armee de l'Air with a light supersonic interceptor, the Mirage III is universally acknowledged as one of the most remarkable successes of the French post-war aircraft industry. Series: Les Materials de l'Armee de l'Air. Num Pages: 68 pages, full colour throughout. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JWMV3; WD; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 241 x 5. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Histoire & Collections France
- Number of pages
- 68
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782352500919
- ISBN
- 9782352500919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.14
€ 25.99
€ 22.14
Paperback. A weird journey into modern paranoia, disinformation and UFOs for all the fans of Jon Ronson's Them. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFHC; VXQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 314. A Journey into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs. 320 pages, Illustrations, ports. Reveals the long history of UFOria and its parallels in little known tales from the murky worlds of espionage, psychological warfare and advanced military technology. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFHC; VXQB. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight: 310.
- Publisher
- Constable
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845298579
- ISBN
- 9781845298579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. Articles, photographs, slides, manuscripts, diaries, and letters; an unparalleled collection of cultural and ethnographic value. Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. Num Pages: 80 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 191 x 10. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551953151
- ISBN
- 9781551953151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.31
€ 41.99
€ 30.31
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433102318
- ISBN
- 9781433102318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.71€ 33.23
€ 89.71
€ 33.23