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Hardback. The essays in this volume, by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, represent a generous sampling of contemporary studies in areas such as social history, the history of linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, art history, and intellectual and cultural history. Editor(s): Micale, Mark S.; Dietle, Robert L. Series: Cultural Sitings. Num Pages: 528 pages, 27 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731164
- ISBN
- 9780804731164
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Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26
Hardback. This is a study of social mobility under Hungary's communist regime. The regime that took power after World War II had the proclaimed goal of eliminating the abusive inequalities of the old regime and creating an egalitarian society. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, facsims.,forms. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBLW3; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731072
- ISBN
- 9780804731072
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Condition: New
€ 77.87
€ 77.87
Hardback. The subject of religious liberty in the 19th century has been defined by a liberal narrative that has prevailed since Mill and Macaulay to Trevelyan and Commager. This book presents new theories of understanding the liberal narrative surrounding the subject of religious liberty. Editor(s): Helmstadter, Richard J. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; 3JJ; HRC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730877
- ISBN
- 9780804730877
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Condition: New
€ 96.82
€ 96.82
Hardback. Arguing against the perception that the capitalist marketplace permits no alternatives, the author shows that a kind of economic "common sense" conditions how people organize their everyday lives and understand their powers as social agents within markets that are far from monolithic and uniform. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFC; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730853
- ISBN
- 9780804730853
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Condition: New
€ 121.55
€ 121.55
Hardback. Psychoanalysis may be said to have been born in the 20th century, Freud said late in his career, but it did not drop from the skies ready-made. This is a re-assessment of Freud and the historical development of pyschoanalysis. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 344 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730846
- ISBN
- 9780804730846
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Condition: New
€ 205.82
€ 205.82
Hardback. As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. This book looks at street vending as a political process in the largest city in the world. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730600
- ISBN
- 9780804730600
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Condition: New
€ 149.36
€ 149.36
Hardback. Based on an in-depth examination of the Brazillian case, this book argues that we need to rethink important theoretical issues and empirical realities of party systems in the third wave of democratization. Num Pages: 412 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 33. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730570
- ISBN
- 9780804730570
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Condition: New
€ 184.40
€ 184.40
Hardback. In this stimulating and often startling book, Derrida examines the various "resistances" to analysis-conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as psychoanalysis's resistance to itself. The book comprises three essays devoted to Freud, Lacan, and Foucault. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy; Brault, Pascale-Anne; Naas, Michael. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730181
- ISBN
- 9780804730181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.57
€ 115.57
Hardback. This book examines a wide range of intellectual, ethical, and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Peguy, on Bernard-Lazare, who was prominent during the Dreyfus Affair. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: BG; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730051
- ISBN
- 9780804730051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.70
€ 77.70
Hardback. A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 half-tones. BIC Classification: ASD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729895
- ISBN
- 9780804729895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.32
€ 161.32
Hardback. In readings ranging from early-16th- through late-17th-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in society and by their articulation of the desire to write. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729826
- ISBN
- 9780804729826
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Condition: New
€ 138.49
€ 138.49
Hardback. This collection of 15 essays deals with the representations, theories, and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the 19th and 20th centuries Editor(s): Fisher, Dominique D.; Schehr, Lawrence R. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729741
- ISBN
- 9780804729741
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Condition: New
€ 161.40
€ 161.40
Hardback. Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729475
- ISBN
- 9780804729475
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Condition: New
€ 162.03
€ 162.03
Hardback. The author reads four 18th-century satiric novels-Joseph Andrews, A Sentimental Journey, Humphrey Clinker, and Cecilia -"from below," exploring how the gentle authors' experiences of the poor shape the novels both thematically and formally. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729086
- ISBN
- 9780804729086
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Condition: New
€ 138.49
€ 138.49
hardcover. This book traces the formation of historical consciousness among the Duna people of Papua New Guinea and explores how this is constituted differently for men and women. Num Pages: 260 pages, 18 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728997
- ISBN
- 9780804728997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.44
€ 89.44
Hardback. This text aims to challenge much that has been written about the decline of sociology as a vital area of inquiry into the human condition. Against this Greek chorus of woe, it offers models for researchers struggling to develop, construct, and integrate coherent sociological theory and knowledge. Editor(s): Szmatka, Jacek; Skvoretz, John; Berger, Joseph. Num Pages: 484 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728447
- ISBN
- 9780804728447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.38
€ 113.38
Hardback. In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife's paid employment less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728355
- ISBN
- 9780804728355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.89
€ 127.89
Hardback. Rejecting traditional distinctions between philosophy, history, and literature, this book traces a broad connection between political identity and narrative in the field of political theory. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728188
- ISBN
- 9780804728188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.15
€ 150.15
Hardback. The author argues against much recent work on Baudelaire that assumes his modernism by emphasizing his relationship to current critical preoccupations such as issues of race and gender or by "correcting" his politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC; HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728096
- ISBN
- 9780804728096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.92
€ 82.92
Hardback. Risks are an integral part of complex, high-stakes decisions, and decisionmakers are faced with the unavoidable tasks of assessing risks and forming risk preferences. This book examines the elements that influence risk judgements through five case studies of foreign military interventions. Num Pages: 540 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPS; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 966.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 540
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727471
- ISBN
- 9780804727471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 207.62
€ 207.62