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Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCR; HRCV4; HRCX6; JFSJ1; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231166768
ISBN
9780231166768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

hardcover. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBTW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780231153041
ISBN
9780231153041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.99
€ 52.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JNMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The New Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620970065
ISBN
9781620970065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.12

Hardback. Gathering all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must see it from another's point of view. For Levi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France's most public figures at his most personal. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JHBT; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 189 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072923
ISBN
9780674072923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.96

Paperback. Editor(s): Foreman, Joel. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252065743
ISBN
9780252065743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. Offers a vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can be read as rich with homo-erotic suggestiveness. Drawing from work in queer and feminist theory, this book argues that the most fruitful approach to James is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321477
ISBN
9780822321477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.35

Hardback. A compilation of stunning images and compelling stories by talented photographers from all over the world Editor(s): Nair, Chandran. Num Pages: 240 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: AJ; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 309 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1654.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786070784
ISBN
9781786070784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.01

Paperback. This text explores the ways Jews have defined other groups and themselves. Topics include: the construction of gender; the gentile as Other; the Palestinian as Other; blacks as Other in American Jewish literature; the Jewish body image as symbol of Otherness; and women as Other in Israeli cinema. Editor(s): Silberstein, Laurence J.; Cohn, Robert L. Series: New Perspectives on Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814779903
ISBN
9780814779903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, and inequitable in their distribution. This book argues that the solution is to offer choice to users and to encourage competition among providers. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPQB; JPRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129365
ISBN
9780691129365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.69
€ 53.22

Paperback. Chronicling the rise of the Iraqi public sphere from 1921 to 1958, The Other Iraq reveals Iraqi intellectuals' democratic and pluralistic ideals, deconstructing the notion that Iraq has always been a totalitarian, artificial state, torn by sectarian violence. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 table, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804773669
ISBN
9780804773669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Maps the dissemination of and possible interrelationships among these corporeal signifiers in Germanophone cultures between the Enlightenment and the Shoah. This book appeals to readers interested in psychoanalysis, in Jewish studies, in cultural studies, and in the whole question of "the body," which has been discussed in present years. Num Pages: 530 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 33. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
530
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823233618
ISBN
9780823233618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 530 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823233625
ISBN
9780823233625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761810148
ISBN
9780761810148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.43

paperback. Num Pages: 235 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JP; KCL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Black Rose Books Canada
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551640280
ISBN
9781551640280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.43

Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752471211
ISBN
9780752471211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

Paperback. These essays discuss members of the "other" New York Jewish Intellectuals, men and women who lived in New York during the 1930s and 40s, and who wrote and worked in a different intellectual circle from the one inhabited by those known as the New York Jewish Intellectuals. Num Pages: 394 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
394
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814746608
ISBN
9780814746608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. For many living in U.S. cities, social services come not from the government but from local churches. Based on the first census of congregations ever conducted in any American city, this book provides an authoritative account of the functioning of congregations, their involvement in social services, and their support of other organizations. Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239492
ISBN
9780812239492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.83

Hardcover. The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike. Adam Laats shows that this belief is wrong. Calling to center stage conservatives who shaped America's classrooms, he shows that in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has been a beleaguered dream. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; JNB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674416710
ISBN
9780674416710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 45.18

Paperback. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304. Essays on Writers and Writing. 218 pages. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275263
ISBN
9780520275263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. This work takes the reader behind the headlines of the confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, examining its human dimension and setting it in a balanced historical context. Daniel Gavron talks to Israelis and Palestinians of all backgrounds and shades of opinion. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTB; JFSL; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742517523
ISBN
9780742517523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.14

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