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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Relying on 56 open-ended interviews with members of the musical community in New Orleans, Michael Urban shows how the pleasure of participation in this storied assemblage outweighs commercial considerations. Music making and personal lives move in tandem, each reflecting an orientation elevating group goals over individual achievements. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; AVGQ; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137565747
ISBN
9781137565747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.81

Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489006
ISBN
9780801489006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.48

hardcover. Presenting what culture means, this book shows how understanding and misunderstandings of culture affect American society. It includes eleven case studies with discussion questions which help readers see about how their understandings of culture have real world implications. Num Pages: 128 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759101807
ISBN
9780759101807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.66

Paperback. By weaving together a life-histories approach to ethnography and with a concept of culture, the author presents an intimate and complex picture of Opportunity House, a highly functional community of mentally-retarded adults. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761989172
ISBN
9780761989172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.21

Paperback. Musician, political critic, and hedonist, international superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti created a sensation throughout his career. His music offers a perspective on race, class, and nation on both sides of the Atlantic and he synthesized a musical language while also clearing a space for political dissent and a type of counter-cultural expression. Num Pages: 352 pages, 36 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJP; AVG; AVH; BGF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566397650
ISBN
9781566397650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.53

Paperback. Series: Globalization. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742567467
ISBN
9780742567467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 43.35

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742568198
ISBN
9780742568198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.22

paperback. Num Pages: 430 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
WorldView Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9781872142449
ISBN
9781872142449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.14

Paperback. This book of ten original essays provides a showcase of currently diverse theoretical agendas in the field of international relations. Contributors address the theoretical analysis that their perspect Editor(s): Ikenberry, G. John. Num Pages: 304 pages, tables, figures, biblio, index. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Westview Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813399669
ISBN
9780813399669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.96

Paperback. This text explores the role that litigation has played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men. It explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement since the 1970s. Series: Language & Legal Discourse S. Num Pages: 372 pages, 5 line drawings, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JPVH; KCF; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226555720
ISBN
9780226555720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.50

Hardback. Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231163842
ISBN
9780231163842
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.93

Hardback. This pioneering study applies game theory to a selection of minoritarian texts from the American canon. Concentrating on rational decision making, the discussion introduces the most common social dilemmas such as the Stag Hunt and the Prisoner's Dilemma as a means of interpreting works by writers such as Douglass, Hurston, and Morrison. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137590558
ISBN
9781137590558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.35

Hardback. Issues are examined in an inter-disciplinary dialogue between distinguished anthropologists and economists and cover community development, famine relief, fundamentalism, HIV-AIDS, discrimination and heritage. Editor(s): Walton, Michael; Rao, Vijayendra. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804747868
ISBN
9780804747868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.84

Paperback. Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular states? This collection of essays by political theorists and lawyers deals with such questions. Editor(s): Walzer, Michael. Series: Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSR1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691125084
ISBN
9780691125084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSK; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
Zone Books
Number of pages
334
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951290
ISBN
9781890951290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.90

Paperback. Editor(s): Warner, Michael. Series: Cultural Politics S. Num Pages: 288 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816623341
ISBN
9780816623341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.87

Paperback. This stunning work illuminates today's black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets. Editor(s): Warr, Michael. Num Pages: 288 pages, 75 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCP; DCQ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393352733
ISBN
9780393352733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.81

Hardcover. Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, this book addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America also after the Revolution, and between West Africa and Britain in the years leading to the Revolution. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604681
ISBN
9780230604681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.06

Hardcover. Editor(s): Robertson, Margaret; Williams, Michael. Num Pages: 241 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 263 x 188 x 22. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594540295
ISBN
9781594540295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.25
€ 78.62

Paperback. Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. It includes examples that are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845192501
ISBN
9781845192501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.04

Hardback. Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. It includes examples that are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845192495
ISBN
9781845192495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.90

Paperback. A guide to Green political perspectives on a range of key contemporary issues, including the environment, security and globalisation. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 figures. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745319322
ISBN
9780745319322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.42

Paperback. Series: Key Ideas in Geography. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 28 black & white tables, 10 black & white halftones, 3 bl. BIC Classification: JFSF; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415442404
ISBN
9780415442404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.20

Paperback. What is childhood? In recent years, a cluster of critical and complex ideas have emerged around the nature of biological, social and psychological growth in the early years, reflecting the changing nature of adult - child relations, and political and cultural understandings of childhood in the twenty-first century. Series: Polity Key Concepts in the Social Sciences Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745662350
ISBN
9780745662350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.97

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