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Society & social sciences
Hardback. The book tells the sweeping historical drama of the ascent of globalization, from the Second World War to the present day. The story is told through the richly detailed accounts of eighteen remarkable men and women, describing how these architects reshaped the modern world, for better or worse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784992897
- ISBN
- 9781784992897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.22
€ 157.22
Paperback. With debates on the meaning of 'liberal society' more heated than ever, this is a timely re-issue of a classic text Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JHBA; JHM; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784786472
- ISBN
- 9781784786472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.64
€ 21.99
€ 18.64
Hardback. Editor(s): Plotkin, Sidney. Series: Anthem Companions to Sociology. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783082797
- ISBN
- 9781783082797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.21
€ 139.21
Paperback. Predominance of the National Security Complex in government has undermined American liberty and security. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782794448
- ISBN
- 9781782794448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.14
€ 30.99
€ 26.14
Hardcover. This fascinating introduction to the ancient legends will reintroduce readers to the cyclopes, Minotaur and centaurs of the Ancient Greeks, as well as shedding light on the wider world of mythology. In a concise yet comprehensive format, The Midas Touch is a wonderful evocation of the hugely entertaining stories and characters of mythology. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Michael O'Mara
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782430353
- ISBN
- 9781782430353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.20
€ 18.99
€ 18.20
Hardback. The studies assembled here provide a sophisticated look at one of the global era's defining political dynamics. Editor(s): Spati, Christina. Num Pages: 236 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; JPB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782389422
- ISBN
- 9781782389422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.35
€ 162.35
Hardback. Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth. This ethnography focuses on these "stayers," who enable others to migrate while preserving the values and traditions of rural, sedentary life. Num Pages: 244 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDG; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387794
- ISBN
- 9781782387794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.56
€ 164.56
Hardback. This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic dimension of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. An array of case studies provide an account of how change is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society's capacity for political action. Editor(s): Hariman, Robert; Cintron, Ralph. Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387466
- ISBN
- 9781782387466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.92
€ 162.92
Hardcover. Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility & assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population & how social experience leads to a decision for (or against) having an IVF. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JHBK; JHMC; MJTF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782386346
- ISBN
- 9781782386346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.49
€ 162.49
Hardcover. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China's recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782386322
- ISBN
- 9781782386322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.59
€ 162.59
Hardcover. Developing an international approach, this book reviews references to "race," "racism," and "ethnicity" in the social sciences. It identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race that took hold in the USA after the Civil War. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782386032
- ISBN
- 9781782386032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.80
€ 161.80
Hardcover. Writing from the perspective of long-term engagement with the contexts in which the films are set, anthropologists and historians reflect on these films and assess the contemporary place Africa holds in the North American and European cinematic imagination. Editor(s): Eltringham, Nigel. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; APFA; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782380733
- ISBN
- 9781782380733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.80
€ 161.80
The Swamp Fox. Francis Marion's Campaign in the Carolinas 1780.
Higgins, David R.. Illus: Shumate, Johnny
Paperback. The American Revolution was deadlocked in the north, and in 1778, the focus of the conflict shifted south. This book highlights the unique style of southern frontier warfare during the Revolutionary War, and how its combatants were supplied, organized, and operated. Illustrator(s): Shumate, Johnny. Series: Raid. Num Pages: 80 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 7. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782006145
- ISBN
- 9781782006145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.80
€ 25.99
€ 20.80
Paperback. * The Victory is arguably the most famous warship in the World. * Interest in Nelson and the Victory will be intense next year. * A further book in the successful and attractive Famous Warships series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 120 B&W photos. BIC Classification: HBTM; HBW; JWMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781593639
- ISBN
- 9781781593639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.84
€ 27.99
€ 25.84
Hardback. Companion book volume to the Walking the Western Front series of DVDs. Contains 150 then and now pictures from official wartime collections and the author's private library to illustrate the battlefields as they were at the time and how they appear today. Num Pages: 208 pages, Approx 150 integrated black & white and colour images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 246. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781592021
- ISBN
- 9781781592021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.42
€ 43.99
€ 39.42
Paperback. This book explores the possibility that cinema can challenge our contemporary nihilism and restore belief in new transformative possibilities for life. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 219 x 12. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780992457
- ISBN
- 9781780992457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.45
€ 21.99
€ 19.45
Paperback. With ideology once again alive on the streets of Europe, iCommunism reimagines Herbert Marcuse's 1960s 'artistic critique' of capitalism's repressive performance principle for today's 'consumer society'. Capitalism promised us shiny things but only communism can deliver them in a different, more liberating, universal and sustainable form. Num Pages: 97 pages. BIC Classification: JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 97
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780992297
- ISBN
- 9781780992297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.11
€ 16.99
€ 15.11
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780576220
- ISBN
- 9781780576220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.79
€ 33.99
€ 29.79
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New Internationalist Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780260761
- ISBN
- 9781780260761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.30
€ 18.99
€ 17.30
Paperback. Editor(s): Kruk, Laurie. Num Pages: 311 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Demeter Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772580242
- ISBN
- 9781772580242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.08
€ 36.08