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Hardcover. Whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications - as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents - from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates cosmopolitanism's emergence as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project.. Editor(s): Schiller, Nina Glick; Irving, Andrew. Num Pages: 268 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: JHMC; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384458
- ISBN
- 9781782384458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.59
€ 158.59
Paperback. This book investigates cosmopolitanism's emergence as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference. Editor(s): Schiller, Nina Glick; Irving, Andrew. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785335068
- ISBN
- 9781785335068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.79
€ 44.79
Paperback. The relationship between migration and development is becoming an important field of study, yet the fundamentals - analytical tools, conceptual framework, political stance - are not being called into question or dialogue. This volume provides a valuable alternative perspective to the current literature.. Editor(s): Schiller, Nina Glick; Faist, Thomas. Series: Critical Interventions. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 177 x 13. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451781
- ISBN
- 9780857451781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.30
€ 21.30
Hardback. The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them, or surpassing them. Series Editor(s): Rhodes, Rod. Series: Political and Administrative Ethnography. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSB; KNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526101341
- ISBN
- 9781526101341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.45
€ 152.45
Hardback. Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Num Pages: 195 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319509433
- ISBN
- 9783319509433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.75
€ 111.75
Hardback. Deeply researched and eloquently written, Settlers on the Edge .. makes an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of who belongs in the North. -- Farley Mowat Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; JFFN; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814676
- ISBN
- 9780774814676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.61
€ 119.61
Paperback. Deeply researched and eloquently written, Settlers on the Edge .. makes an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of who belongs in the North. -- Farley Mowat Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1MTN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814683
- ISBN
- 9780774814683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.97
€ 44.99
€ 39.97
Paperback. Details the culinary life of a Vietnamese town Num Pages: 344 pages, 14 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFCV; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223708
- ISBN
- 9780253223708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.96
€ 29.99
€ 26.96
hardcover. Examining politics in a small Afghan town that managed to remain relatively peaceful in the years following the fall of the Taliban, this book calls examines how and when violence erupts and calls into question the international community's approach to developing stability in Afghanistan. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776714
- ISBN
- 9780804776714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.66
€ 125.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HRHP; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 374 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165158
- ISBN
- 9780691165158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Hardcover. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology's grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world. Editor(s): Salazar, Noel B.; Graburn, Nelson H. H. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: JHBS; JHMC; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383673
- ISBN
- 9781782383673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.77
€ 158.77
Paperback. Bridging anthropology, sport studies, and childhood studies, Fields of Play offers a rich understanding of an area that has, to date, garnered relatively little attention by social scientists. Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442600799
- ISBN
- 9781442600799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.30
€ 35.99
€ 32.30
Hardcover. Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; DSC; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341326
- ISBN
- 9780230341326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Paperback. Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC; JFC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349344130
- ISBN
- 9781349344130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Challenging the plain and simple view of Amish identity, this study raises the intriguing question of how such a diverse people successfully share a common identity in the absence of uniformity. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 39, 24 black & white illustrations, 7 figures, 8 maps. BIC Classification: HRCC99; HRCV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801886058
- ISBN
- 9780801886058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.34
€ 65.34
Paperback. Engages with twentieth-century Vietnam through its artists and their works. This book surveys the impact that artists have had on intellectual life in Vietnam. Num Pages: 192 pages, 40 illustrations, 38 in colour. BIC Classification: ACBP; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824833558
- ISBN
- 9780824833558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.52
€ 34.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Haenn, Nora; Wilk, Richard; Harnish, Allison. Num Pages: 592 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 215 x 30. Weight in Grams: 996.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479876761
- ISBN
- 9781479876761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.93
€ 43.99
€ 38.93
Paperback. Addresses two aspects of a provincial town in the Philippines. First, it examines the town's Chinese trade community, which follows commercial ends by means of competitive tactics. Second, it describes changes the town has experienced and how these have been a result of commercial strategies followed by substantial Chinese entrepreneurs. Num Pages: 274 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1FPC; JFSL; JHM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press Philippines
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789715504409
- ISBN
- 9789715504409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.75
€ 51.99
€ 43.75
Paperback. * Completely overhauled version of the combined classic texts The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization. * Revised throughout, updated postscript and bibliography, and line corrections made from the original version. * Contents lists combined and restructured. . Num Pages: 592 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; JFCX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631221616
- ISBN
- 9780631221616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.19
€ 41.99
€ 41.19
Paperback. A text on socio-political violence that highlights the human experience of domination, resistance and terror as they are woven into the fabric of everyday life. It takes the reader from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East to Asia to capture the cultural construction of socio-political violence. Editor(s): Nordstrom, Carolyn; Martin, JoAnn. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM; JPA; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520073166
- ISBN
- 9780520073166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.85
€ 37.99
€ 27.85
Hardback. An overview of the traditional elements in the culture and customs of modern Japan. It examines religious rituals, classic and modern literature, performing arts, fine arts and handicrafts, housing, clothing, women's roles and family life, holidays and festivals, and social customs. Series: Cultures and Customs of the World. Num Pages: 224 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFC; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 473.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780313301971
- ISBN
- 9780313301971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.94€ 57.47
€ 62.94
€ 57.47
Paperback. Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face. Translator(s): Stone, Michael; Winkler, Gabrielle. Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series. Num Pages: 143 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JHMP; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 143
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292738690
- ISBN
- 9780292738690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.58
€ 21.99
€ 21.58
Hardcover. In this ground-breaking new book on the Nortena and Surena (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Series: New Directions in Ethnography. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631234890
- ISBN
- 9780631234890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.59
€ 118.59
Paperback. In this ground-breaking new book on the Nortena and Surena (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Series: New Directions in Ethnography. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631234906
- ISBN
- 9780631234906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.41
€ 46.41