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Paperback. Starting with a visit to the British Museum, the authors prompt us to consider the significance of Classics as a means of discovery and enquiry, its value in terms of literature, philosophy, and culture, and its importance as a source of imagery. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, black and white halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AHA; AM; DSBB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780192853851
ISBN
9780192853851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.99

Hardback. In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and cultural pragmatics are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509518128
ISBN
9781509518128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119143598
ISBN
9781119143598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.20

Hardcover. The Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy is a comprehensive and empirically-based review of the latest theory and practice in the psychotherapeutic treatment of sexual problems across client populations. Series: Wiley Clinical Psychology Handbooks. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: JMU; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118510377
ISBN
9781118510377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.01

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353904
ISBN
9780822353904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece. 344 pages, 5 photographs, 1 map. As part of the agreement for Greece to join the European Union, the country had to undertake a massive psychiatric reform, moving patients out of custodial hospitals and returning them to the community to be treated as outpatients. This title shows how this played out at the edge of the nation, in the border region of Thrace. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHMP; JKS; MBNH. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 12. Weight: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351061
ISBN
9780822351061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. Interpretations of Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how Cold War homophobia focused on the femme as the lesbian who posed the greatest threat to the nation. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349471
ISBN
9780822349471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. An encyclopedic account of the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age/Cold War period and the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. Translator(s): Pinkus, Karen. Num Pages: 376 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: AV; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341567
ISBN
9780822341567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. A classic study of Zapotec women weavers and their reactions to global capitalism Num Pages: 408 pages, 22 photos, 37 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336419
ISBN
9780822336419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. A cultural history and sociological critique of 20th century panic, from the Cold War to contemporary psychiatry Num Pages: 376 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336235
ISBN
9780822336235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. In 2002, as Sierra Leone prepared to announce the end of its brutal civil war, the distinguished anthropologist, poet, and novelist Michael Jackson returned to the country where he had intermittently lived and worked as an ethnographer since 1969. Here, he offers his reminiscences revisiting the site of his fieldwork from the 1970s. Num Pages: 232 pages, 23 b&w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333135
ISBN
9780822333135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. Intends to assess the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. This title investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. It includes twenty essays that exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism. Editor(s): Burton, Antoinette. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JPFN; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822331421
ISBN
9780822331421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

Paperback. Provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. This title examines the broad historical and cultural links that connect Brazil and the United States before considering multicultural imagery in Brazilian film as it has changed from the silent era to the present. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 432 pages, 136 photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 31. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320487
ISBN
9780822320487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Unlike studies of 19th-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, this book shows the sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America. It also revises the terms of debate on 19th-century literature, history, and gender studies. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320425
ISBN
9780822320425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.02

Paperback. Suitable for a range of readers, including students and scholars in the fields of American literature, film, and gay studies, this book challenges widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSK1; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319641
ISBN
9780822319641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. Traces the diverse social currents that developed alongside and interacted with political and economic forces to bring about change in Eastern Europe. This book shows how the processes leading to the collapse of communism began more than a decade earlier and how they were necessarily manifested in spheres as diverse as religion and rock music. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1012.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315483
ISBN
9780822315483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816632961
ISBN
9780816632961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. Explores the effects of the barbarization of warfare on our cultures and societies Editor(s): Kassimeris, George. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHBA; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814747971
ISBN
9780814747971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

Paperback. Presents an understanding of the basis of creativity. Describing patterns of development seen in creative individuals, this title shows how creativity grows out of distinctive interests that often form years before one makes his/her main contributions. Num Pages: 600 pages, 1 table, 1 figure, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761246
ISBN
9780804761246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.95

Hardback. The Discourse of Legitimacy is a wide-ranging, synoptic study of England's conflicted political cultures in the period between the Protestant Reformation and the civil war. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1310.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
832
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804755047
ISBN
9780804755047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.74

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