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Paperback. The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. This book examines the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. It allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions. Series: Earthscan Risk in Society. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JMAL; JPA; JPVK; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 139 x 38. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853835285
- ISBN
- 9781853835285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.50
€ 51.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Trinacria Editions LLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780615796949
- ISBN
- 9780615796949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.01
€ 43.99
€ 38.01
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 260 pages, 8ill. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226670102
- ISBN
- 9780226670102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.94
€ 35.99
€ 28.94
Paperback. A brief overview of French colonial society before the British conquest of 1759-60. The primary focus is on what is now called Quebec, but there are also chapters on Louisiana and the West, as well as on the Atlantic colonies of Acadia and Ile Royal. Series: Themes in Canadian History. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JHM; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 500. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000335
- ISBN
- 9780802078162
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. A dictionary that explores the symbols which abound in literature, religion, national identity and are found at the heart of our dreams and sub-conscious. It includes entries that give its interpretations - sexual and spiritual, official and subversive, cultural and religious - to bring meaning and insight to the symbol. Num Pages: 1184 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: GBC; JHM; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 50. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 1184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140512540
- ISBN
- 9780140512540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.29
€ 25.99
€ 18.29
Paperback. Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FC; DS; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253017604
- ISBN
- 9780253017604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.33
€ 36.99
€ 34.33
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 928
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803228436
- ISBN
- 9780803228436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.57
€ 192.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFK; JHBL; KCA; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911344018
- ISBN
- 9781911344018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.56
€ 19.99
€ 14.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 540 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633882935
- ISBN
- 9781633882935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.75
€ 27.75
Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 312 pages, 34. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475573
- ISBN
- 9780801475573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.12
€ 34.99
€ 32.12
Hardback. In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients' daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography. Series: Wyse Series in Social Anthropology. Num Pages: 274 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKH; JHMC; MBP; MX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785333941
- ISBN
- 9781785333941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.74
€ 163.74
Paperback. A text on socio-political violence that highlights the human experience of domination, resistance and terror as they are woven into the fabric of everyday life. It takes the reader from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East to Asia to capture the cultural construction of socio-political violence. Editor(s): Nordstrom, Carolyn; Martin, JoAnn. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM; JPA; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520073166
- ISBN
- 9780520073166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.54
€ 38.99
€ 28.54
Paperback. Takes us on a journey into an iconic Western landscape - northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. This title chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262089
- ISBN
- 9780520262089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
Paperback. Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession and colonial interests. It is the operation of these forces, in combination with the talent of Pasteur, that Latour sets out as a prime example of science in action. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan; Law, John. Num Pages: 292 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JHM; MBN; P. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1st Paberback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674657618
- ISBN
- 9780674657618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 42.43
€ 51.99
€ 42.43
Paperback. Siegfried Kracauer was one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. This book brings together Kracauer's essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933 as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung, as well as an essay that appeared in the Magazine of Art after the eminent emigre's exile to America. Num Pages: 160 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: AJ; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 163 x 6. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Diaphanes AG
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783037346914
- ISBN
- 9783037346914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.47
€ 19.99
€ 17.47
Hardcover. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 262 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Har/Com
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810881471
- ISBN
- 9780810881471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.74
€ 172.74
Paperback. By examining oral history collected during two years of fieldwork, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant investigates why the 2003 opening of the ceasefire line dividing Cyprus has not led the country any closer to reunification, and how in many ways it has driven the two communities of the island farther apart. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVC; JFC; JHMP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222319
- ISBN
- 9780812222319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.81
€ 32.99
€ 29.81
Paperback. Addresses some of the most pressing social and political issues: the consequences of the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; the resurgence of nationalism and right-wing violence in Europe; and, the prospects for a transformation of international relations and the building of a more peaceful world order. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JH; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745614540
- ISBN
- 9780745614540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.31
€ 24.31
Paperback. Considers the 'dark side' of motivation, including the roles of addiction, obsession, sex and death. This book revisits the suppressed roots of motivation in offering an alternative understanding of desire. It brings arguments to bear on topics as diverse as pizzas, football management and blowjobs. Editor(s): Brewis, Joanna; Linstead, Stephen; Boje, David M.; O'Shea, Tony. Num Pages: 281 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Copenhagen Business School Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763001618
- ISBN
- 9788763001618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.15
€ 32.99
€ 24.15
Paperback. Looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the nineteenth century to live and work in Paris. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351832
- ISBN
- 9780822351832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.32
€ 36.99
€ 34.32
hardcover. Looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the nineteenth century to live and work in Paris. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351696
- ISBN
- 9780822351696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.39
€ 111.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: JHBK; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199377107
- ISBN
- 9780199377107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.09
€ 38.09
Hardback. The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought. The author argues that the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules - without, however, wiping out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements. Translator(s): Randall, Steven. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149141
- ISBN
- 9780691149141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.17
€ 42.99
€ 31.17
Paperback. Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. This book draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country's history of violence and state control. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JFFE; JHMC; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520288522
- ISBN
- 9780520288522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.00
€ 33.99
€ 25.00