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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. This book focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million), and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations facsim., maps, plan, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DV; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099740216
- ISBN
- 9780099740216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. Featuring a sensitive and loving portrait of mankind as a community, as a family but most importantly as individuals, this book tries to answer the universal and ancient question of who we are and what we aspire to. It also reveals the dark side of the human condition, but it also sheds light on the best of it. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; RNK; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 286 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1098.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500292143
- ISBN
- 9780500292143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 5.70
€ 26.99
€ 5.70
Hardback. Looks at Japanese culinary history, delving into the writings of medieval and early modern Japanese chefs. This book traces the development of Japanese cuisine from 1400 to 1868. It shows how medieval 'fantasy food' rituals - where food was revered as symbol rather than consumed - were continued by early modern writers. Num Pages: 258 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 3 line drawings, 8 color images, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516. 258 pages, Illustrations. Looks at Japanese culinary history, delving into the writings of medieval and early modern Japanese chefs. This book traces the development of Japanese cuisine from 1400 to 1868. It shows how medieval 'fantasy food' rituals - where food was revered as symbol rather than consumed - were continued by early modern writers. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JHBT. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 24. Weight: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262270
- ISBN
- 9780520262270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.52€ 64.14
€ 84.52
€ 64.14
Paperback. In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in Native North America. This book presents an ethnographic account of the history and consequences of Seminole gaming. It describes casino operations, chronicles the everyday life and history of the Seminole Tribe, and shares the insights of individual Seminoles. Num Pages: 304 pages, 36 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; JFSL9; JHMC; KNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822342274
- ISBN
- 9780822342274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Editor(s): Handy, Amber; O Conchubhair, Brian. Num Pages: 290 pages, 2 colour artworks. BIC Classification: 2AF; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Arlen House
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781851320752
- ISBN
- 9781851320752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.54
€ 26.99
€ 24.54
Paperback. In this ethnography of the Cancha mega-market in Cochabama, Bolivia, Daniel M. Goldstein examines what it means for the market's poorest vendors to maintain personal safety and economic stability by navigating systems of informality and illegality and how this dynamic is representative of the neoliberal modern city. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360452
- ISBN
- 9780822360452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.13
€ 41.99
€ 37.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253024565
- ISBN
- 9780253024565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.87
€ 32.99
€ 29.87
Hardcover. This text expounds the idea that life did not originate on earth, but was added to it from the comets. It argues that in recent years, evidence to support this theory has accumulated. This work should be of value to readers interested in general science, the origin of man and the meaning of life. Series: Controversy Series. Num Pages: 225 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JHM; PD; PGS; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Clinical Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854570413
- ISBN
- 9781854570413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.86
€ 23.99
€ 16.86
Hardcover. Steiner's (1909-52) classic study Taboo and three other essays, on superstition, enslavement and the early Hebrew lineage system, and Chagga law and truth comprise the first of two volumes collecting the work of the Prague-born social and cultural anthropologist who ended his brief career at Oxford. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: Bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BG; JFC; JFSR1; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571817112
- ISBN
- 9781571817112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.10
€ 137.10
Paperback. Presents a sociological analysis of lesbians' use of medical fertility treatments. This book describes how reproduction is an intensely medicalized process for lesbians, transforming them into patients more often due to their sexual identities than because of their physical conditions. It explores questions about the legal rights of co-parents. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 illustrations, 5 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340782
- ISBN
- 9780822340782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHB; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199328178
- ISBN
- 9780199328178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.65
€ 58.65
Paperback. A shocking expose of the causes of Asia's massive gender imbalance and its consequences across the globe Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; JFSJ; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610391511
- ISBN
- 9781610391511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.08
€ 18.99
€ 14.08
Paperback. Introduces lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago in Chile. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, this book explores how the moral and political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and mental health policies and reparations for human rights violations are refracted through relational modes and their boundaries. Num Pages: 298 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; JHM; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272101
- ISBN
- 9780520272101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.42
€ 40.99
€ 29.42
Paperback. Presents an argument that bodies are knowable only through culture and history; they are not in any simple way natural, nor free of relations of power. This book traces the construction of particular deviant bodies, including the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body. Editor(s): Terry, Jennifer; Urla, Jacqueline L. Series: Race, Gender, & Science. Num Pages: 424 pages, 27 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JHM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780253209757
- ISBN
- 9780253209757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.47
€ 33.99
€ 30.47
Paperback. A portrait of love and the passion it inspires. The author's journey through the landscape of love is an account of this most powerful of human forces and its effect on one woman's life. Series: Tauris Parke Paperback S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ; JHBK; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Tauris Parke Paperbacks London
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0019058
- ISBN
- 9781860645891
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Introducing the central theoretical issues, as well as key personalities, this book traces the origins, growth and diffusion of the subject. Essential to all those attempting to understand the state of Cultural Studies today. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Routledge London
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0018877
- ISBN
- 9780415038379
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Strickland argues that Indians can better sustain their worldview through law and culture, by remaining true to their heritage, tradition, and spirituality. Series: The Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History & Culture. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 291. Paperback, in very good condition.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF0011862
- ISBN
- 9780826318220
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Veritas Publications
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- KNW0010354
- ISBN
- 9781847301680
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.79
€ 12.79
Paperback. Colin Graham examines the course by which the history of modernity and colonialism has constructed an idea of 'Ireland', produced more often as a citation than an actuality. He intervenes with authority and originality in controversial area, where cultural theory and analysis run alongside the daily challenge of political events. Series: Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004761
- ISBN
- 9780748609765
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with expensive clothes, toys and vacations, but don't know how to provide them the ordinary truths that give life meaning. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 299. Very good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc Chicago, IL
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0250209
- ISBN
- 9781566635981
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99