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Cultural studies

Hardback. This work explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. It shows how cosmetic surgery has been represented in medicine and popular culture, drawing upon a range examples taken from the media, music, performance art and literature. Series: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; MNPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742514201
ISBN
9780742514201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.37

paperback. Overpopulation, overexploitation of natural resources, overconsumerism, the predictions of environmental experts do not bode well for us. Num Pages: 162 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPQ; JFC; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Austin & Winfield Publishers United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9781880921852
ISBN
9781880921852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.29

Paperback. Investigates "the Oprah" phenomenon and finds in Winfrey's empire - Harpo Productions, "O Magazine", and her television network - an uncanny reflection of religion in modern society. This title shows that when Oprah liked, needed, or believed something, she offered her audience nothing less than spiritual revolution. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520267527
ISBN
9780520267527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.96

Paperback. Traces Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive 'socio-environmentalism' which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340317
ISBN
9780822340317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.06

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780932885289
ISBN
9780932885289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Babayan, Kathryn; Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Series: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR2; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032040
ISBN
9780674032040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.43

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253212368
ISBN
9780253212368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.58

Paperback. In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women track a dense social imaginary through stories of traumas, apparitions, encounters, and eccentricities. This book explores how this storytelling imbues everyday life in the hills and forms a cultural poetics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691011035
ISBN
9780691011035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.85

Paperback. Presents an argument for attention to various dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. This book shows how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capacity to affect and be affected. It relates the intensities and banalities of common experiences and encounters, and the lingering resonance of passing events. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341079
ISBN
9780822341079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.88

Paperback. These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity. Editor(s): Ashley, Kathleen M.; Gilmore, Leigh; Peters, Gerald (all Professors of English, University of Southern Maine, USA). Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870239007
ISBN
9780870239007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.07

Paperback. The peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia Editor(s): Adams, Kathleen M.; Gillogly, Kathleen A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 15 b&w illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253223210
ISBN
9780253223210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.34

Paperback. This work examines a number of sites of struggle over the cultural meaning of fatness. It is grounded in scholarship on identity politics, the social construction of beauty, and the subversion of hegemonic medical ideas about the dangers of fatness. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558494299
ISBN
9781558494299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.86

Paperback. A spellbinding journey into the heart of Neapolitan life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Fleet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349006321
ISBN
9780349006321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.62

Paperback. How a TV show changed the way we hear America singing Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 b&w illus., 9 music exx. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222718
ISBN
9780253222718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.43

Paperback. By bringing together debates and discussions of diversity, this volume offers insight into the Nordic region and its diverse peoples, from the Sami and the Inuit to newer immigrants. It presents a set of historical reviews on the formation of national museums and emerging and contested perceptions of national identity. Editor(s): Goodnow, Katherine; Akman, Haci. Num Pages: 192 pages, ills. BIC Classification: 1DN; GM; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 270 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 818.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781845455774
ISBN
9781845455774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.22

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329725
ISBN
9780822329725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.93

Hardback. The newest volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies Editor(s): McCann, Katherine D.; North, Tracy. Series: Handbook of Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 649 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GBCR; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
649
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292722637
ISBN
9780292722637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: JFCV; TVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870716058
ISBN
9780870716058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.93

Paperback. Presents a portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles. This book establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues. Illustrator(s): Lattimore, Deborah Nourse. Num Pages: 356 pages, 23 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520074071
ISBN
9780520074071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.07

Paperback. This book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within a richly detailed account of its working at the village level. Num Pages: 392 pages, 35 photos. BIC Classification: 1FMT; JFC; JFSF; JHM; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103916
ISBN
9780231103916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.07