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Cultural studies
Hardcover. Traces the political, historical, and philosophical trajectories of a specifically German tradition in which thinkers take recourse to music, both as an aesthetic practice and as the object of their speculative work. This volume examines the texts of such influential writers and thinkers as Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, and others. Editor(s): Hermand, Jost; Richter, Gerhard. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; AVA; HP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299219307
- ISBN
- 9780299219307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.31
€ 51.31
Paperback. Brings together a range of original essays that address different aspects of the role and presence of Jews and Jewishness in British film and television from the interwar period to the present. It constructs a historical overview of the Jewish contribution to British film and television, which has not always been sufficiently acknowledged. Editor(s): Abrams, Nathan. Series Editor(s): Lassner, Phyllis. Series: Cultural Expressions of World War II. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; APF; APT; JFCA; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810132825
- ISBN
- 9780810132825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.16
€ 43.16
Paperback. Published in the BFI Silver series, this new edition of Laura Mulvey's classic work of feminist theory features a new introduction and new illustrations. This collection contains writings, ranging from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane, and Blue Velvet and the work of American Indian artist Jimmie Durham to the feminist photography of Cindy Sherman. Series: BFI Silver. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844575084
- ISBN
- 9781844575084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.38
€ 33.99
€ 28.38
Paperback. Cultural theorist Colin McCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between the popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; CF; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- Number of pages
- 193
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851706788
- ISBN
- 9780851706788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.49
€ 49.99
€ 41.49
Hardcover. Discusses formations of blackness and whiteness in US culture Num Pages: 200 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253356567
- ISBN
- 9780253356567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.77
€ 93.77
Hardcover. Explores the traditions represented in the cultural and musical practices of the late Sixties San Francisco counterculture. This book examines primary source material to demonstrate that the San Francisco counterculture in 1966-67 displayed no interest in commitment to a cause - embracing everything in general, but nothing in particular. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPK; AVG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472115587
- ISBN
- 9780472115587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.52
€ 60.52
Paperback. A bold reconsideration of the meaning of 1960s San Francisco counterculture Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; HBJ; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472035724
- ISBN
- 9780472035724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.72
€ 38.72
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442207486
- ISBN
- 9781442207486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.67
€ 41.67
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
Hardback. Presents studies attempting to define and dissect American humor for students and scholars. Editor(s): Walker, Nancy A. Series: American Visions: Readings in American Culture. Num Pages: 284 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842026871
- ISBN
- 9780842026871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.68
€ 150.68
Paperback. Presents studies attempting to define and dissect American humor for students and scholars. Editor(s): Walker, Nancy A. Series: American Visions: Readings in American Culture. Num Pages: 284 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842026888
- ISBN
- 9780842026888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.57
€ 58.57
Paperback. Political and public debate recently has centred on issues of community, family and culture. Presenting traditional and non-traditional approaches, the essays in this text challenge and refine thinking on issues of contemporary social and political importance. Editor(s): Snow, Nancy E. Series: Studies in Social, Political and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JHM; JKS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847681457
- ISBN
- 9780847681457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.25
€ 60.25
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
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. 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
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. 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
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. 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. 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
€ 58.58€ 56.81
€ 58.58
€ 56.81
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
Hardback. Offers a views of rhetoric through the lens of modality, arguing that rhetoric's guiding interest in what is possible makes it a suitable tool for understanding politics. This title examines rhetoric's role in the history of modernity and to makes connections between thinkers from the classical, early modern, and modern periods. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226777481
- ISBN
- 9780226777481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.96
€ 60.96
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. 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