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Paperback. From the dawn of time, power has been an aphrodisiac. The royal mistress, having conquered a king, often ran his kingdom, wielding her sexuality as a sceptre. This book explores the position of royal mistress at European Courts, and the fascinating women who filled it. Series: P.S. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060585440
- ISBN
- 9780060585440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.48
€ 14.99
€ 11.48
Hardback. Uncovering the cultural origins and psychological aspects of body identity disorders, this perceptive study draws on the author's wealth of professional experience and re-examines debilitating illnesses that negatively impact self-image, including anorexia. Num Pages: 170 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JMS; MBNH9; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 125
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461456797
- ISBN
- 9781461456797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Oxford Ha...
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Ed.)
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198778509
- ISBN
- 9780198778509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.70
€ 52.70
Hardcover. Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcolonial methods and offers a new look on a 'forgotten' continent now the focus of ecological concern. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 202 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MTS; JFFS; JHB; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116870
- ISBN
- 9780230116870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. "This volume is the first full-length study on pioneering sexologist and sexual rights activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, that examines his impact on the politics and culture of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Germany and the value of his rationalist humanist approach for contemporary debates on sexual rights"-- Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288717
- ISBN
- 9781349288717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMF; JMQ; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438218
- ISBN
- 9781137438218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.14
€ 100.14
Paperback. This book explores the complexity of women's social status in the Middle East and North African region and fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an up-to-date and comprehensive portrait of women's status from a theoretical and socio-demographic perspective. Num Pages: 228 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274106
- ISBN
- 9781137274106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. This book explores the complexity of women's social status in the Middle East and North African region and fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an up-to-date and comprehensive portrait of women's status from a theoretical and socio-demographic perspective. Num Pages: 228 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JPA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287819
- ISBN
- 9781349287819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes-from saving lives to social control-while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFG; JFSK; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362876
- ISBN
- 9780822362876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes-from saving lives to social control-while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFG; JFSK; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362760
- ISBN
- 9780822362760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Paperback. "The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa" discusses political crisis in Africa, covering such topics as democratic transition, good governance, civil society, and the African renaissance. This book proposes humanistic interventions centered on the recovery of interpersonal relations. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAB; JFC; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533411
- ISBN
- 9781349533411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Unsparing and important.. An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSL3; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393320787
- ISBN
- 9780393320787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.45
€ 19.99
€ 18.45
paperback. This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JP; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349286812
- ISBN
- 9781349286812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Taphonomy of Human Remains: Forensic Analysis of the Dead and the Depo...
Eline M. J. Schotsmans (Ed.)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKVF1; PS; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118953327
- ISBN
- 9781118953327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.51
€ 124.51
Hardback. Provides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more. Editor(s): Ochs, Elinor; Kremer-Sadlik, Tamar. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 10 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273979
- ISBN
- 9780520273979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.49€ 55.00
€ 69.49
€ 55.00
Paperback. Provides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more. Editor(s): Ochs, Elinor; Kremer-Sadlik, Tamar. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 10 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273986
- ISBN
- 9780520273986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Paperback. Explains the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, which enables a scholar to choose the most relevant level of interaction for a particular question. This book explains and illustrates how to use the IAD in the context of both field and experimental studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 20 line illus. 15 tables. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691122380
- ISBN
- 9780691122380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.07
€ 46.99
€ 41.07
Paperback. Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal--typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745603315
- ISBN
- 9780745603315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.45
€ 26.45
Paperback. Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral significance of animal suffering? Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329120
- ISBN
- 9781349329120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.81
€ 128.81
Hardcover. This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In assembling an international collection of quality VFR-related research the editors present the profiles, characteristics, opportunities and behaviours of VFR travel for the benefit of researchers, industry practitioners and educators. Editor(s): Backer, Elisa; King, Brian. Series: Aspects of Tourism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845415181
- ISBN
- 9781845415181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.58
€ 168.58
Hardcover. A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Editor(s): Anstett, Elisabeth; Dreyfus, Jean-Marc. Series Editor(s): Anstett, Elisabeth. Series: Human Remains and Violence. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HDW; JFFE; JKVF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719097560
- ISBN
- 9780719097560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.13
€ 168.13
The traditional image of the family as a life--long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private life are changing rapidly, and people are embarking on new lifestyles based on cohabitation, separation and same--sex partnerships. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622132
- ISBN
- 9780745622132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.52
€ 76.52
paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719038273
- ISBN
- 9780719038273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.02
€ 33.99
€ 33.02
Hardcover. Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577817
- ISBN
- 9780230577817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78