Cultural studies
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Cultural studies
Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History
Nashat, Guity; Tucker, Judith E.
paperback. Tracing the evolution of the role of women beginning with ancient Middle Eastern societies through the seventeenth century, this book examines the interplay between local practices and early Islamic beliefs and institutions. It also examines the development of the foundations of Islamic law and practice with regard to women. Series: Restoring Women to History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; HBJF1; HBJH; JFC; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253212641
- ISBN
- 9780253212641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.31
€ 24.31
Paperback. Takes the reader through a tour of the lives, times, and writings of such key bachelors of Science as Bacon, Descartes, Newton, and Gassendi. This book situates these empiricist philosophers and their canonical reputations within the larger framework of the de facto 'masculinization of science' and 'scientizing of masculinity' in the 17th century. Series: Themes in the History of Philosophy S. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; HPC; JFCX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566394369
- ISBN
- 9781566394369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.02
€ 50.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Sykes, Naomi. Series: Food and Drink in Archaeology. Num Pages: 176 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HD; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 174 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Prospect Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909248359
- ISBN
- 9781909248359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.69
€ 40.99
€ 33.69
Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; CFP; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816628636
- ISBN
- 9780816628636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.11
€ 37.11
Hardback. An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender. Editor(s): Yoshikawa, Naoe Kukita. Series: Gender in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 240 x 26. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844013
- ISBN
- 9781843844013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.06
€ 144.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 325 color photos. BIC Classification: JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 290 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764325083
- ISBN
- 9780764325083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.05
€ 48.99
€ 32.05
Identifying and dating eyewear on the market today is now simple and fun. Examples of eyewear from the sevententh century to the present are shown in over 600 color photos and explained in an engaging text. Bifocals, monocles, pince-nez, fanciful and safety styles of eyeglasses and sunglasses appear, along with some price estimates. Num Pages: 192 pages, 600 color photos. BIC Classification: AKTA; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1254.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764310416
- ISBN
- 9780764310416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 31.52
€ 48.99
€ 31.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 497 color photos. BIC Classification: AKTA; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 9. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764304842
- ISBN
- 9780764304842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.71
€ 25.99
€ 17.71
Paperback. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Num Pages: 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1002. The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight: 1006.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520075375
- ISBN
- 9780520075375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.22
€ 43.99
€ 38.22
Paperback. Investigates how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Featuring stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, this title reveals how concerns about strange objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 496 pages, 47 b&w photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 238 x 38. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 62041st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323662
- ISBN
- 9780822323662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. Using insights from ethnographic research conducted in London and New York, this book explores the varying ways young men use graffiti to construct masculinity, claim power and establish independence from the institutions which define, and often limit, them as young people. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1KBBEY; AFJG; JFC; JFSG; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333781913
- ISBN
- 9780333781913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.60€ 57.87
€ 58.60
€ 57.87
Paperback. This collection of essays drawn from a range of disciplines explores American paranoia and the continuum of fear that has centred on enemies real and imagined in American culture. Contributors examine areas such as theoretical constructions of fear, racial discrimination and religious intolerance. Editor(s): Schultz, Nancy Lusignan (Professor of English, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, USA). Num Pages: 456 pages, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFC; JHM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557531155
- ISBN
- 9781557531155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.27
€ 21.27
Paperback. In this work, Nancy Stepan explores the ways in which the Tropics, in particular tropical nature, places, animals and people, were imagined and presented in European culture from the 19th century on. Series: Picturing History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 89 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; AB; HBTB; JFC; RGBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891464
- ISBN
- 9781861891464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.35
€ 35.35
Paperback. The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. Series: DMS - Digital Media and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670348
- ISBN
- 9780745670348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.55
€ 21.55
Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, 357 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KJH; AFTB; AJC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 225 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1168.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764325960
- ISBN
- 9780764325960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 31.52
€ 48.99
€ 31.52
Paperback. Takes readers through the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to show how anthropology, as conceptualized by W J McGee, the first president of the American Anthropological Association, showcased itself through programs, static displays, and exhibits for millions of people 'to show each half of the world how the other half lives'. Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 552 pages, 48 photographs, 2 maps, 10 tables, 12 appendixes, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803227965
- ISBN
- 9780803227965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.64
€ 40.64
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 378 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; BGT; JFCX; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691653792
- ISBN
- 9780691653792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 227.43
€ 227.43
Paperback. A visual history of America's gun women, this illustrated volume, with over 125 images, looks at how armed women have positioned themselves within or against the mainstream culture of their time, while also revealing how mainstream America's perception of gun women has changed over time. Num Pages: 256 pages, 70 b&w and 80 4-colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1; WSXS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 16. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592131556
- ISBN
- 9781592131556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.97
€ 37.97
Paperback. Includes case studies that examine the intricacies of relations between the generations in a broad range of immigrant groups - from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa - and gives a sense of what everyday life is like in immigrant families. Editor(s): Foner, Nancy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814727713
- ISBN
- 9780814727713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.52
€ 46.52
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442207486
- ISBN
- 9781442207486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.67
€ 41.67