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Paperback. Describes the network of water temples that managed the flow of irrigation water in the name of the Goddess of the Crater Lake. Using the techniques of ecological simulation modeling, this book argues that the system of temple rituals is not only a reflection of utilitarian constraints but also a basic ingredient in organization of production. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; JHMC; RNF; TQSW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130668
- ISBN
- 9780691130668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; JFSK2; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479803613
- ISBN
- 9781479803613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31
Paperback. A study of the world of modeling. Exploring an arena of cultural production, it shows how the right 'look' is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. It examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFCK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466. The Making of a Fashion Model. 328 pages, illustrations. A study of the world of modeling. Exploring an arena of cultural production, it shows how the right 'look' is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. It examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFCK; JHMP. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight: 444.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270763
- ISBN
- 9780520270763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.77
€ 25.99
€ 19.77
Paperback. The first ever book on educational work to prevent violence against women and girls, offering insight into the underpinning theoretical debates and key lessons for practice. Editor(s): Ellis, Jane; Thiara, Ravi K. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447307310
- ISBN
- 9781447307310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.47
€ 38.99
€ 37.47
Hardback. This ethnographic account of Brazil s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illustrations, incl. 10 in color. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347859
- ISBN
- 9780822347859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.24
€ 116.24
Paperback. An ethnography that examines the culture of beauty and plastic surgery in Brazil Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illustrations, including 10 in colour. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472. Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. 312 pages, 25 illustrations, including 10 in colour. An ethnography that examines the culture of beauty and plastic surgery in Brazil. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight: 480.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348016
- ISBN
- 9780822348016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.75
€ 31.99
€ 28.75
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813526515
- ISBN
- 9780813526515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.62
€ 42.99
€ 37.62
Hardcover. This study on the current gentrification and historic preservation of the Old City of Damascus illustrates how local discourses on civilization, social hierarchies, and politics of heritage are renegotiated. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633495
- ISBN
- 9780815633495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.98
€ 52.98
Hardback. In what seems to be a doctoral dissertation for the University of Maryland, Paige examines four senior secondary schools in the Kabarole District of Uganda during a time of war and intractable social conflict. Three are traditional mission-founded boarding schools, and the fourth is a pioneer among Num Pages: 244 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571812131
- ISBN
- 9781571812131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.89
€ 160.89
Paperback. To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 243 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568215433
- ISBN
- 9781568215433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.54
€ 69.54
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781506353128
- ISBN
- 9781506353128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.96
€ 75.96
Paperback. Drawing on ideas from Charles Sander Pierce, George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin, this work focuses on the centrality of the social act in describing and understanding the beingness of the human individual, situating such acts in dialogic and rhetorical processes. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847693856
- ISBN
- 9780847693856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.75
€ 74.75
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
€ 43.99
€ 38.78
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723909
- ISBN
- 9780804723909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.81€ 150.76
€ 170.81
€ 150.76
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 488 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 3H; 3J; HBJK; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1057.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691637396
- ISBN
- 9780691637396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 255.92
€ 255.92
hardcover. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804792554
- ISBN
- 9780804792554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.81
€ 127.81
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459879
- ISBN
- 9780857459879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.89
€ 160.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBF; MJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814730751
- ISBN
- 9780814730751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Hardback. Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditional Tibetan medical practices? Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454579
- ISBN
- 9781845454579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.53
€ 160.53
Paperback. Editor(s): Meehan, Katie. Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820348827
- ISBN
- 9780820348827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.45
€ 29.99
€ 26.45