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Hardback. This book, centered largely on the European experience of families scattered geographically, challenges the dominant narratives of modernization by offering a long-term perspective from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Paradoxically, transnational familiesA" are to be found long before the nation state was in place. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Sabean, D. W.; Teuscher, Simon; Trivellato, Francesca. Num Pages: 360 pages, 10 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; JFFN; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857451835
ISBN
9780857451835
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.43

Hardcover. Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren; Teuscher, Simon. Num Pages: 372 pages, 6 ills, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610. Matter and Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present. 372 pages, 6 ills, 1 table. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren; Teuscher, Simon. Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHMC. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857457493
ISBN
9780857457493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.06

Paperback. Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Illustrator(s): Jetvic, Zoran. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Icon Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Fourth Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848312074
ISBN
9781848312074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.69

Hardcover. Bringing scientific rigor to a culturally and politically charged issue, this book transcends the nature/nurture debate. Examines media influences, adolescent brain development, misperception of youth crime and manipulation of science by prevailing attitudes. Series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Num Pages: 175 pages, 192 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; JMC; JNF; LNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461467403
ISBN
9781461467403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; JHB; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403972897
ISBN
9781403972897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.94
€ 62.12

Paperback. Original analysis of and introduction to Claude Levi-Strauss, the most celebrated of twentieth-century anthropologists. Num Pages: 218 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005128
ISBN
9780521016674
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. This book provides a novel and insightful rendering of the cultural understandings that underwrote the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of life on the Plateau. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295983028
ISBN
9780295983028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. Series: Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JKSN; JPA; JPS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349447275
ISBN
9781349447275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.29

Paperback. A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. Editor(s): Faulkner, Alex; Lawless, Christopher. Series: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; MBS; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 247 x 7. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444361520
ISBN
9781444361520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.84

Paperback. We have specific images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds. Focusing on the 17th century to the present, this book examines how intellectuals have sought to establish the value and authority of their ideas through public displays of their private life. Num Pages: 350 pages, 54 halftones, line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX; JH; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226470146
ISBN
9780226470146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; HD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 10. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461351238
ISBN
9781461351238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.06

Paperback. This book was written with a view to sorting our some of the muddles and misreadings -- especially misreadings of Kant -- that have charaterized recent postmodernist and post--structuralist thought. For these issues have a relevance, as Norris argues, far beyond the academic enclaves of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631187189
ISBN
9780631187189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 48.90

Hardback. Series: Studies in Transgression. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSG; JHB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231176422
ISBN
9780231176422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 25.41

Hardcover. Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason were seen by the Greeks not as mythical figures but as real people from a bygone age. The people who shared this ancestry used it for many alliances of trade and war. This is a study of the political uses of perceived kinship. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 193 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; JHBK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674505278
ISBN
9780674505278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.99
€ 71.50

Paperback.

Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Few areas of life will remain untouched by the accompanying changes to cultural, economic and social life. Series: Polity Key Concepts in the Social Sciences Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 302.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745630854
ISBN
9780745630854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.42

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761959649
ISBN
9780761959649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 47.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HRAM9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 184 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801479137
ISBN
9780801479137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.31

Paperback. Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa. Series: Asia-Pacific. 288 pages, 16 b&w photographs. Examines how Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. This title analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through the fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; AN; GTB; JHMP. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343714
ISBN
9780822343714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.10

Paperback. Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present. Editor(s): Tilley, Christopher. Num Pages: 372 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631172857
ISBN
9780631172857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 53.83

Hardback. Combines theoretical interpretation with practical examples to show the significance of the concept of metaphor in the study and writing of material forms. This book presents three archaeological and ethnographic studies of metaphors chosen to demonstrate the richness of the concept for understanding texts, objects and artworks. Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; HD; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631192022
ISBN
9780631192022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.05

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