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Cultural studies

Paperback. Contributors focus on such key media texts of the 1960s as The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, demonstrating what close textual investigation can reveal about the great social and cultural transformation of the decade. Editor(s): Aldgate, Anthony; Chapman, James (Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, Open University); Marwick, Arthur (Professor of History, Open University). Num Pages: 232 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; JFC; JFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860643835
ISBN
9781860643835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.28

Paperback. An innovative and lively account of both the history and key debates in postcolonialism. Robert Young situates it in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, and as a means of changing the way that we think about the world. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 118 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006138
ISBN
9780192801821
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. This title gathers conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch look at a 20th century characterized by enormous technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and horror. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 186 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906497859
ISBN
9781906497859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.47

Paperback. Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. This book offers an examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. It shows how the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226317908
ISBN
9780226317908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.61

Paperback. Explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live. This title tells the story of how we have tamed fire and ice, wielded whisks, spoons, graters, mashers, pestles and mortars, all in the name of feeding ourselves. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV; JHMC; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141049083
ISBN
9780141049083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.28

Paperback. Deals with human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. This title shows the surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and also features objects which characterise the world we live in today. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: HBG; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780241951774
ISBN
9780241951774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.52

Paperback. Takes us underground to the sewers of NYC and London and overground, to meet the heroes of India's sanitation movement, American sewage schoolteachers, the Japanese genius of toilet technology, and the biosolids lobbying team. This title also proves that shit doesn't have to be a dirty word. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; VF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781846270703
ISBN
9781846270703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30ill. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816643936
ISBN
9780816643936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.07

Paperback. Seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life. Translator(s): Kendall, Stuart. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; AM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Autonomedia
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350330
ISBN
9781584350330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.20

Paperback. This work provides a framework for understanding the urban and the domestic in 19th-century Paris and London by examining the cities' homes. It argues that the apartment house embodied the intersections of city and home, public and private, and masculine and feminine spheres. Num Pages: 333 pages, 24 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; DSBF; HBTB; JFC; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520217263
ISBN
9780520217263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. In 1785 James Boswell and Dr Johnson were trying to come up with a way of distinguishing human beings from animals. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree,' said Boswell, but no beast is a cook. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFCV; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745646916
ISBN
9780745646916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.13

Paperback. An interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary resources never before published in English. Editor(s): Joseph, Gilbert M.; Henderson, Timothy J. Series: Latin America Readers. Num Pages: 808 pages, 91 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1078.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
808
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822330424
ISBN
9780822330424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.23

Hardback. From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance-and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JFCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420608
ISBN
9781421420608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 50.70

Paperback. Cultural theorists see contemporary society marked by radical hybridity in manifold social practices. This title is about cultural memory as a history of seeing and writing. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780253214454
ISBN
9780253214454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.33

Paperback. A collection of essays discussing the meaning and the philosophical implications of "Darwinism". The contributors to Darwinism and Philosophy are international scholars from the fields of philosophy, science, and history of ideas. Editor(s): Hosle, Vittorio; Illies, Christian. Num Pages: 416 pages, 19 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: DN; HP; JFCX; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268030735
ISBN
9780268030735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.77

Paperback. Suitable for sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and others curious about the semiotics of food, this book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalising. It includes chapters on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CFG; DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 776.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323419
ISBN
9780822323419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.23

Paperback. Addresses four major themes: the evolution of race as an idea in France; representations of "the other" by French writers, artists, and business people; the international dimensions of French racial thinking, particularly in relation to colonialism; and the impact of racial differences on the shaping of the modern French city. Editor(s): Peabody, Sue; Stovall, Tyler. Num Pages: 400 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3734 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822331179
ISBN
9780822331179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.00

Paperback. Presents an account of the scientific achievements and lives of cosmologists from Babylonians to Newton. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; PDA; PDX; PGK; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 454. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0008099
ISBN
9780140192469
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 29.95

Paperback. Challenging the myth of the "post-belief society". Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Verso
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781681749
ISBN
9781781681749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.91

Paperback. Traces the dangers and problems of anthropocentrism in texts written from 1558 to 1649. This title examines scientific, legal, political, literary, and religious writings that offer depictions of human perceptions about the natural world. It probes issues of animal ownership and biological and spiritual superiority in early modern England. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252070686
ISBN
9780252070686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.92

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