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Hardcover. Public discourse and everyday life during the last days of Yugoslavia Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DV; GTB; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780253356239
ISBN
9780253356239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.48
€ 78.04

Paperback. A study of the colonial state's imposition of regimes of sexuality, as seen through archives of law, literature and pornography. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTB; HBG; HBLL; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345336
ISBN
9780822345336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.49

Paperback. A comprehensive history of the transformation of Russia's southern steppes from border territories to Empire. Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 b&w photos, 10 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253217707
ISBN
9780253217707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. A groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studies Editor(s): Johnson, E. Patrick; Henderson, Mae G. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; GTB; JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336181
ISBN
9780822336181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.72

Paperback. This volume looks at what it is to be European. While concentrating on the question of identity, it takes a broad view ranging from culture to monetary union, from East-West rapprochement to the role of the EU in the globalized world of the new millennium. Editor(s): Joyce, Christopher. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 345. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Number of pages
256
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KST0010244
ISBN
9781860646966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. Contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anti-capitalist Black liberation movements based in the United States. The author finds hidden within the histories and logics generated by US-based struggles against racism, sexism, and homophobia, the Black femme's invisible, affective labour. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: 1K; APFA; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340256
ISBN
9780822340256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.49

Paperback. Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeber uncovers the layers of historical, social, and cultural knowledge required to understand a disastrous communal ordeal and elaborates a new view of power, inequality, and the political role of narrative. Num Pages: 488 pages, 9 figures, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1HSM; GTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253219152
ISBN
9780253219152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.66

Paperback. Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780141187426
ISBN
9780141187426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 10.28

Paperback. Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy. Series: Africa Now. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; GTB; KNAC; LNSH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780321486
ISBN
9781780321486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.46

Paperback. A tribute to the mixed hybrid and multicultural nature of Sri Lanka's society, which challenges assumptions of ethnic purity and attempts to recover a hidden history of hybridity. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FKS; GTB; JFC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781842772034
ISBN
9781842772034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.53

Paperback. An examination of Africa's experience of modernity which draws out its wider implications for social theory Editor(s): Macamo, Elisio Salvado. Series: Africa in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 256 pages, Tables Notes References Index. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781842776179
ISBN
9781842776179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.55

Paperback. Drawn from a CODESRIA conference on 'Intellectuals and Nationalism', the essays of this book look at different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka, Ngugi, and Achebe, the military men in power and the students who defy repression. Editor(s): Beckman, Bjorn; Adeoti, Gbemisola. Series: Africa in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 135. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781842777657
ISBN
9781842777657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.53

Hardcover. Examines the important role that Jordan plays in the politics of the wider Middle East Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781842774700
ISBN
9781842774700
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.03

Hardcover. In this pioneering work, Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary debates and their practice. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HRH; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 153. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781842778104
ISBN
9781842778104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.11

Hardcover. Provides an account of Bangladesh's political system, economic performance, and social ambiguities arising out of its people's multiple identities. Editor(s): Jahan, Rounaq. Num Pages: 420 pages, tables, figures, chronology, map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FKB; 1FM; GTB; GTF; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 33. Weight in Grams: 625.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781856498258
ISBN
9781856498258
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.03

Hardcover. This is the third volume in a trilogy on identity, memory and subjectivity. Contributors to this volume share an ambition to combine personal, political and existential dimensions in detailed evocations of the ambitions and vulnerabilities of contemporary Africans. Editor(s): Werbner, Richard. Series: Postcolonial Encounter S. Num Pages: 256 pages, photographs, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781856499545
ISBN
9781856499545
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.11

Paperback. An introduction to Indonesia s history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches. Editor(s): Hellwig, Tineke; Tagliacozzo, Eric. Series: The World Readers. Num Pages: 488 pages, 46 photos, 2 tables, 1 map, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; GTB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344247
ISBN
9780822344247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.72

Paperback. Introduces the history, culture, and politics of the Czech people through more than 150 primary texts and images. Editor(s): Bazant, Jan; Bazantova, Nina; Starn, Frances. Series: The World Readers. Num Pages: 568 pages, 64 b&w photos, 8 page color insert, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; GTB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347941
ISBN
9780822347941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.72

Hardcover. This work examines the notion of Europe as expressed in Romanian and British fiction. It surveys symbolic notions of the common cultural links which seem to embody "European identity". In particular, the author examines the shift in post-Iron Curtain literary concepts of this ancient identity. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVWR; DSB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761817468
ISBN
9780761817468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.17

Paperback. Fully revised and updated, this widely-praised introductory text explores Japan through the prism of three alternative perspectives: Mainstream, revisionist and culturalist. Beginning with the notion of Japan as a 'contested territory' the book focuses on debates about the real nature of Japan's successes and shortcomings. Series: Contemporary States and Societies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 black & white halftones, 6 black & white tables, 7 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JM; GTB; HBJF; HBLX; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Third Edition, Revised
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248694
ISBN
9780230248694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.55

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