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Paperback. Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of literature, art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 256 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430. On the Cultural Border Between Self and World. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 256 pages, ill. Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of literature, art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight: 430. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125031
ISBN
9780231125031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Paperback. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This title celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 color photographs, 2 color maps; 36 b/w photographs, 13 line illustrations. BIC Classification: AFY; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392. A Natural History. 288 pages, illustrations. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This title celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AFY; JHMC. Dimension: 215 x 153 x 18. Weight: 392.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275898
ISBN
9780520275898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.43

Hardback. Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. This book uncovers these migrants' lifelong human capital and identifies mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, job jumping, and entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780520283725
ISBN
9780520283725
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.65
€ 72.77

Paperback. Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. This book uncovers these migrants' lifelong human capital and identifies mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, job jumping, and entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283732
ISBN
9780520283732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. This is not an autobiography, Bourdieu said of this work but it reveals much of the hitherto implicit experience of his formative years, and gives insights into his relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Michel Foucault and many others, which deepen our understanding of his unique contribution to sociology and anthropology. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 67. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745635279
ISBN
9780745635279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.39

Hardback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138285224
ISBN
9781138285224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.20

Paperback. The dead tell no tales. Or do they? This book shows that the dead can speak to us - about their lives, and ours - through the remarkable insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past peoples based on the study of skeletal remains. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 line illus., 32 halftones. BIC Classification: HD; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691092843
ISBN
9780691092843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.64

Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 137 x 73. .
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118627969
ISBN
9781118627969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.79

Hardback. This book includes a step-by-step guide to selecting the best students, creating a pre- and post-assessment of student learning, a well-designed procedure to pretest and assure that all masters degree students actually acquire a strong knowledge base and score well on state licensure exams. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JHBC; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607096863
ISBN
9781607096863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.69

paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 99 bw integrated, 35 colour in 16pp plates. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JHMC; WFV; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Condition
New
SKU
9789774166815
ISBN
9789774166815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.49

Paperback. Suitable for all those for whom the politics of subjectivity pose real problems of authority, identity, and belief, this book discusses its roles within the fields of legal theory, social science, fiction, philosophy, and ethics. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328391
ISBN
9780822328391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.48

Paperback. In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. This book brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. It explores the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine. Editor(s): Giles, Wenona; Hyndman, Jennifer. Num Pages: 373 pages, 1 line illustration, 12 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First
Number of pages
373
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237919
ISBN
9780520237919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Examines how African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States Num Pages: 248 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFN; JHMC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372. Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. 240 pages, 5 illustrations. Examines how African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFN; JHMC; JPVH1. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352617
ISBN
9780822352617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. This ethnography focuses on the romantic experiences of women from adolescence to maturity in a rural village in North Bali. It delves into the intensity of passion that exists below the harmonious veneer of traditional patterns of courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742518643
ISBN
9780742518643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.46

Hardback. This ethnography focuses on the romantic experiences of women from adolescence to maturity in a rural village in North Bali. It delves into the intensity of passion that exists below the harmonious veneer of traditional patterns of courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742518636
ISBN
9780742518636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.98

Paperback. Editor(s): Shih, Shu-mei; Tsai, Chien-hsin; Bernards, Brian. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 472 pages, 1 colour illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644. A Critical Reader. Series: Global Chinese Culture. 472 pages, 1 colour illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 1 figures. Editor(s): Shih, Shu-mei; Tsai, Chien-hsin; Bernards, Brian. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFC; JHB. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight: 644.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157513
ISBN
9780231157513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 35.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPM; HBTB; JHB; JHMC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824867744
ISBN
9780824867744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.53

Paperback. Jens Rydstrom explores the history of homosexuality and bestiality in Sweden to consider why these sexual practices have been so closely linked in virtually all Western Societies. Based on diaries, medical records and court reports, this work reveals the changing notion of deviant behaviour. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 6 figures, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1DNS; HBJD; JFSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226732572
ISBN
9780226732572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

Hardback. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single must be in search of a partner Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 239 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814772546
ISBN
9780814772546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

Paperback. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single must be in search of a partner Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 239 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814772553
ISBN
9780814772553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Single mothers are seen in different ways around the industrialized world: as mothers, workers or an uneasy combination of the two. This collection explores variations in state policy, labour markets and the status of single mothers. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JHBL; JKS; JPQB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 476. "Includes bibliographical references and index. Commissioning organisation: edited by Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards. ix, 285 p. ill. 24 cm. Associated Names: Duncan, Simon. Associated Names: Edwards, Rosalind. Paperback. Fine clean copy, as new." Keywords: "Business, Finance & Law,Reference & Languages,Soci"
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Dublin, Ireland
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0161630
ISBN
9781857287912
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 6.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A unique window on the future of the family, this book offers a gold mine of insight and reassurance for any woman contemplating having children outside of marriage. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195341409
ISBN
9780195341409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 241 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Poland
Condition
New
Number of pages
184
SKU
V9788323336945
ISBN
9788323336945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Singing for the Dead chronicles how indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest state, have reversed decades of cultural and linguistic erosion by reviving and reinventing ethnic traditions, particularly by speaking and singing the local indigenous language. Num Pages: 328 pages, 23 photographs, 4 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354314
ISBN
9780822354314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

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