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Paperback. An interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital, labor power, human bodies, and babies both within nations and across national borders Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822333159
- ISBN
- 9780822333159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.67
€ 41.99
€ 37.67
Paperback. Tells the story of an idea that humanity's expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, this title follows the trajectory of European knowledge about continent's eastern frontier. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRKP; JFSR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275324
- ISBN
- 9780520275324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473844872
- ISBN
- 9781473844872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
€ 17.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. An ethnography that analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli 'passenger women', (women who accept money for sex), it explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418. Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. 296 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. An ethnography that analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli 'passenger women', (women who accept money for sex), it explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ1. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 17. Weight: 414.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245600
- ISBN
- 9780520245600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.40
€ 40.99
€ 29.40
Paperback. Looking inside the New South, this book shows how the implementation of civil rights law over the years altered racial reality, that in turn altered white perceptions, and thus behaviour and attitudes in a section of the country where segregation had been entrenched. It is useful for those interested in America's conflict over civil liberties. Num Pages: 312 pages, 31 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318934
- ISBN
- 9780822318934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.64
€ 29.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, this title casts new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 566 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JPA; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 35. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 566
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691019413
- ISBN
- 9780691019413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.32€ 64.39
€ 82.32
€ 64.39
Hardback. Levi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas of morality and reason. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231170680
- ISBN
- 9780231170680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.38
€ 29.99
€ 22.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816660803
- ISBN
- 9780816660803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.72
€ 31.72
Paperback. Provocative essays explore the poetry and political economy of life in Canada's rural West. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888645067
- ISBN
- 9780888645067
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.86
€ 32.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. Focusing on the historical construction of the Hualapai Nation in the face of modern American colonialism, this book draws on archival research, interviews and participant observation, and describes how thirteen bands of extended families known as The Pai Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816529049
- ISBN
- 9780816529049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.40
€ 33.99
€ 28.40
Paperback. Provides a poignant glimpse into the world of boys torn from their comfortable childhoods and separated from their families, ultimately to perish in the Nazi death machine Editor(s): Wilson, Paul R. Num Pages: 208 pages, 123 color illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 211 x 16. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Jewish Publication Society United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780827609440
- ISBN
- 9780827609440
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.32
€ 36.99
€ 34.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742552746
- ISBN
- 9780742552746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.91
€ 90.91
hardcover. Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas. This title points to the combination of coercive force and administrative weakness that characterized the apartheid state. Series: New African Histories. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821416150
- ISBN
- 9780821416150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.28
€ 99.28
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813049397
- ISBN
- 9780813049397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.82
€ 84.82
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813553016
- ISBN
- 9780813553016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.30
€ 165.30
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- AK Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849351164
- ISBN
- 9781849351164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.18
€ 23.18
Paperback. The topics of Edward Shapiro's book span the gamut of the American Jewish experience: from the politics of American Jews, the nature of American Jewish identity, relations between Jews and blacks, and Jews and American capitalism. Series: Modern Jewish History. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630753
- ISBN
- 9780815630753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.27
€ 25.99
€ 24.27
Paperback. Traces the trajectory of African American social movements from the time Booker T Washington to the present, providing an integrated discussion of class. This title addresses questions crucial to any understanding of Black politics. Num Pages: 315 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814713181
- ISBN
- 9780814713181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98
Paperback. The first book-length examination of North American Croatian diaspora responses to war and independence, We are Now a Nation highlights the contradictions and paradoxes of contemporary debates about identity, politics, and place. Series: Anthropological Horizons. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442616035
- ISBN
- 9781442616035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.32
€ 36.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816514533
- ISBN
- 9780816514533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.93
€ 40.93