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Hardcover. It is said that men are 'in crisis,' blighted by the adverse effects of corrosive masculine norms ranging from emotional disconnection to aggression. This book follows one group of men seeking to overcome their masculine inheritance and ultimately reach a sense of wellbeing by taking up meditation. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JKSM; JMG; JMP; VXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137345271
ISBN
9781137345271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.58

Paperback. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349369454
ISBN
9781349369454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardcover. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600089
ISBN
9780230600089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Mundhenke, Florian; Ramos Arenas, Fernando; Wilke, Thomas. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer vs United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783658057527
ISBN
9783658057527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.70

Hardback. .
Publisher
Aperture United States
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597113533
ISBN
9781597113533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.50

Paperback. Documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. This book juxtaposes Hollywood's narratives of masculinity against the personae of leading men like Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, William Holden, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Rock Hudson. Series: Arts & Politics of the Everyday. Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253211279
ISBN
9780253211279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Schafer, Alfred; Wimmer, Michael. Series: Grenzuberschreitungen. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810026385
ISBN
9783810026385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926613680
ISBN
9781926613680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.88

Hardback. Describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a reservoir of soldiers for the Sri Lankan nation in the brutal war against Tamil separatists. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JH; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 239 x 27. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition
unknown
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236880
ISBN
9780812236880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardback. The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups - the Grassfields societies, the Mbororo, and the Hausa - provides a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of ethnicity and interethnic relations. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 22 illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFJA; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387282
ISBN
9781782387282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.95

Hardback. More than 1,200 citations, ranging from making masks in kindergarten to academic books on the anthropological theory of masks. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AFK; GBCR; JFCK; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810833609
ISBN
9780810833609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.42

Hardback. Editor(s): Pieper, Jim. Num Pages: 160 pages, 407 color photos. BIC Classification: JFCK; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 289 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1094.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764309687
ISBN
9780764309687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 46.85

Paperback. Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, this book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography. Num Pages: 312 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AKTA; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Very Faint Foxing to Top Fore-edge
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520045330
ISBN
9780520045330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 211 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Monash Asia Institute
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876924768
ISBN
9781876924768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.67

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
illustrated edition
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718829483
ISBN
9780718829483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.22

Paperback. Gilles Deleuze examines the work of the late-nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher--Masoch. Translator(s): McNeil, Jean. Num Pages: 294 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299557
ISBN
9780942299557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.99

Hardback. Series: Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees./International Archives of the History of Ideas. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9789024716982
ISBN
9789024716982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.13

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222619
ISBN
9780253222619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. This ground breaking study argues that literature and criminology share a common concern to understand modernity. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349282456
ISBN
9781349282456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Ritual, art and secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Editor(s): De Jong, Ferdinand; Peel, J. D. Y.; Heald, Suzette; James, Deborah. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, 39 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748633197
ISBN
9780748633197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.02
€ 103.50

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