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Paperback. This work looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon - a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. The authors develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: CFG; JHMC; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010109
ISBN
9780674010109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.32
€ 48.25

Paperback. Provides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more. Editor(s): Ochs, Elinor; Kremer-Sadlik, Tamar. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 10 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273986
ISBN
9780520273986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.00

Hardback. Provides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more. Editor(s): Ochs, Elinor; Kremer-Sadlik, Tamar. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 10 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273979
ISBN
9780520273979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.24
€ 54.11

Hardcover. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKVF1; PS; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118953327
ISBN
9781118953327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.35

Paperback. Unsparing and important.. An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSL3; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393320787
ISBN
9780393320787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, illus. BIC Classification: AN; JFSR1; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195984
ISBN
9781845195984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.85

Hardback. Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes-from saving lives to social control-while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFG; JFSK; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362760
ISBN
9780822362760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.31

Paperback. Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes-from saving lives to social control-while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFG; JFSK; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362876
ISBN
9780822362876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.01

Hardback. Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to "belong" in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life.. Editor(s): Hermann, Elfriede; Kempf, Wolfgang; Meijl, Toon Van. Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384151
ISBN
9781782384151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.10

Hardback. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York & Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York & Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 168 pages, 3 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; ASD; AVRJ; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782382560
ISBN
9781782382560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 27 photograps, 17 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFHF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803285644
ISBN
9780803285644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.32

Hardback. Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. That is why the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of social orphansA" or children left without parental care,A" children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care.. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFSP1; JHM; JKSB1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 735.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845457389
ISBN
9781845457389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.92

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198778509
ISBN
9780198778509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.17

Paperback. From the dawn of time, power has been an aphrodisiac. The royal mistress, having conquered a king, often ran his kingdom, wielding her sexuality as a sceptre. This book explores the position of royal mistress at European Courts, and the fascinating women who filled it. Series: P.S. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060585440
ISBN
9780060585440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.32

hardcover. An ethnography examining the history of Korean adoption to West, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15 photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346838
ISBN
9780822346838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.23

Paperback. An ethnography examining the history of Korean adoption to West, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346951
ISBN
9780822346951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.89

Paperback. Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings. Editor(s): Barkan, Elazar; Bush, Ronald. Series: Cultural Sitings. Num Pages: 464 pages, 98 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 629.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804724869
ISBN
9780804724869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.78

Hardcover. Mizing Business with Pleasure discusses how the traditional masculine networking practices that have unofficially become an integral part of governance in post-Mao China have affected the development, progression, and administration of China's HIV epidemic. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804795760
ISBN
9780804795760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226511702
ISBN
9780226511702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.08

paperback. This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Abelson argues that in the interest of concealing the darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and lead incapacitating illness--kleptomania. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Oxford University Press USA United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195071429
ISBN
9780195071429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 104.26

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