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Paperback. Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, the author asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 29 halftones. 17 tables. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJP; JFSG; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated edition with a New Preface
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162553
ISBN
9780691162553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.74

Paperback. Editor(s): Linden, Wim J. van der; Hambleton, Ronald K. Num Pages: 512 pages, 51 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JMBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 733.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441928498
ISBN
9781441928498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.88

Hardback. This edited volume brings together a series of contributions exploring the socio-cultural and psychological representation of peace and conflict. It ventures into areas of the humanities and social sciences not typically foregrounded in Peace Studies, such psychology, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, history, and geography. Editor(s): Gibson, Stephen; Mollan, Simon. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2012 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230298668
ISBN
9780230298668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.58

Paperback. Deals with problems of men aged 35-40 who have invested half a work-life in one career and may now be at turning-point. Series: Cambridge Studies in Sociology. Num Pages: 400 pages, 40tabs. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cambridge University Press Cambridge
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1970
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0205733
ISBN
9780521096065
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. This magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula. Thematically organized and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today. Translator(s): O'Healy, Aine. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 400 pages, 75 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHBT; WBA; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 638. A Cultural History. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. 400 pages, 75 illus. This magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula. Thematically organized and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHBT; WBA; WBN. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight: 632. Translator(s): O'Healy, Aine.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231122320
ISBN
9780231122320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. An eloquent ethnographic account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians who have grown up in the period since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution Num Pages: 304 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337218
ISBN
9780822337218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.70

Hardback. Translator(s): Trejo-Mathys, Jonathan. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 512 pages, 13 illus.; 3 Tables. BIC Classification: HPCF7; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 838.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148344
ISBN
9780231148344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.05
€ 88.87

Paperback. .
Publisher
Sinauer Associates, Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
UPDATED
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878931217
ISBN
9780878931217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 97.69

Paperback. Focuses on large and problematic groups from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states. Series: Studies of World Migrations. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; HBJD1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072949
ISBN
9780252072949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make to society are at a new high. This book, now in paperback and with a major new foreword exploring the impact of the UK government's 'Big Society' agenda on volunteering, brings together in one volume what is known about the volunteering phenomenon. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 black & white tables, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFF; JFSV; JHBL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2010th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230367722
ISBN
9780230367722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.88

Hardback. After the USSR collapsed, Kyrgyzstan followed a path of economic liberalization, but after a few years, they produced little, and the country's principal industry of sheep breeding was decimated. This led to dependence on international aid, and ensuing comical encounters between the local population and well-meaning foreigners who help them. Translator(s): Schoch, Cynthia. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCK; GTF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782387831
ISBN
9781782387831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.72

Paperback. .
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781483319438
ISBN
9781483319438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 98.23

Hardback. Editor(s): Segal, Marcia Texler; Chow, Professor Esther Ngan-ling; Demos, Vasilikie P. Series Editor(s): Demos, Vasilikie P.; Segal, Marcia Texler. Series: Advances in Gender Research. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 598.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780528748
ISBN
9781780528748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.03

Hardback. Editor(s): Hareven, Tamara K.; Vinovskis, Maris A. Series: Quantitative studies in History Series. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JHBD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691634630
ISBN
9780691634630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.60

Hardcover. This text aims to show that there is more to economics than dry models and esoteric equations. The study concludes with a discussion of the viability of Keynesianism in the late 1990s, in the context of recurrent crisis in the global economy and the rise of new social movements. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; KCA; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 455.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2000th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333751374
ISBN
9780333751374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 167 pages, 27 ILLUSTRATIONS, 4 MAPS. BIC Classification: JH. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 8. Weight in Grams: 243. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd ,Canada
Number of pages
167
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
1st
SKU
KEX0237098
ISBN
9780921149361
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Offers a collection of pieces on adoption, by writers from three sides of the issue: adopted children, birth mothers, and adoptive parents. The pieces in this work talk about identity, family, love and belonging. Editor(s): Holloway, Sara. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JHBK; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862078574
ISBN
9781862078574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.23

Paperback. The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 231 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFE; JHM; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330. Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 231 pages, 1 map. The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFE; JHM; JWXK. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight: 330.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
231
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520247970
ISBN
9780520247970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the author lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. In this book, the poems are haunting, and the evocation of emotional life vivid. Num Pages: 384 pages, 19 b/w images, 1 map. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 321 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition, Reissue, 30th Anniversary Edition,
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520292499
ISBN
9780520292499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.45

Paperback. A collection of essays rethinking the current uses of material culture study in anthropology, including engagements with art, science, and technology. Editor(s): Miller, Daniel. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 b&w photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335429
ISBN
9780822335429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

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