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Wildfire Risk

06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Human Perceptions and Management Implications

By Wade E. Martin, Carol Raish, Brian Kent

£56.50 06 Jan 2009 Hardback Resources for the Future Press (RFF Press)

Follows from an increasing awareness among fire experts that relying on fire behavior models from the physical sciences to design a risk management program is no longer sufficient - and that simply increasing public knowledge related to wildfire hazard does not necessarily lead to appropriate risk reduction behaviors.

Paying for Care Handbook

06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A Guide to Services, Charges and Welfare Benefits for Adults in Need of Care

By CPAG

£19.50 06 Jan 2009 Paperback CPAG

Understanding Housing Finance

06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter King

£25.00 06 Jan 2009 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Presents the basic principles of housing finance. This book shows how markets work and the effects of government action in various tenures.

Understanding Housing Finance

06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter King

£85.00 06 Jan 2009 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Presents the basic principles of housing finance. This book shows how markets work and the effects of government action in various tenures.

Virtual Shadows

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Your Privacy in the Information Society

By Karen Lawrence Oqvist

£14.95 05 Jan 2009 Paperback British Computer Society

Web 2.0 and social networking sites are challenging traditional notions of privacy and security in cyberspace. This title explains the major concepts in this brave Information Society, and highlights issues of security and safety as key areas where the rules of play have not been clearly defined or understood.

Martyrdom

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Jon Cole, Benjamin Cole

£16.99 05 Jan 2009 Hardback Pennant Books Ltd

The Penal Crisis and the Clapham Omnibus

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Questions and Answers in Restorative Justice

By David J. Cornwell

£22.50 05 Jan 2009 Paperback Waterside Press

Designed for a wide readership, this book looks at the problems that have led to the penal crisis. It argues that informed media and public opinion has finally 'turned the corner' and that the time is ripe for a concerted pragmatic U-turn in criminal justice policy-making based on Restorative Justice principles.

The Natural History of Unicorns

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Christopher Lavers

£18.99 05 Jan 2009 Hardback Granta Books

For two and a half thousand years, unicorns have inspired, enchanted and eluded humanity. The beast appears in Old Testament texts and Greek and Roman natural histories; Christians adopted it as a symbol of Christ, the middle-ages as a symbol of courtly love.

The Baby Thief

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Barbara Bisantz Raymond

£18.99 05 Jan 2009 Hardback Blake Publishing

Slave Girl

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I Was an Ordinary British Girl. I Was Kidnapped and Sold into Sex Slavery.

By Sarah Forsyth, Tim Tate

£7.99 05 Jan 2009 Paperback Blake Publishing

Including All: Disabilities

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An Information and Activities Resource for Leaders

By Mariano Kalfors

£6.25 05 Jan 2009 Paperback The Guide Association

Logics of Empowerment

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India

By Aradhana Sharma

£46.50 05 Jan 2009 Hardback University of Minnesota Press

The Babylonian World

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Gwendolyn Leick

£29.99 05 Jan 2009 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. This book presents the history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.

Reclaiming Childhood

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Dr Helene Guldberg

£16.99 05 Jan 2009 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Exposes the consequences on child development of both our low expectations of fellow human beings and our safety-obsessed culture. This book argues that we need to identify what the real problems are - and how much they matter.

Reclaiming Childhood

05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Dr Helene Guldberg

£75.00 05 Jan 2009 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Addressing Methamphetamine Abuse

04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Nathan B. Talcott

£28.99 04 Jan 2009 Paperback Nova Science Publishers Inc

The meth epidemic has touched every State in the country, draining resources, causing serious environmental damage and destroying lives. SAMHSA's Drug Abuse Warning Network [DAWN], showed that in the early to mid-1990's, methamphetamine use was on the rise.

Next Generation 9-1-1

04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Eugene B. Zelik

£24.99 04 Jan 2009 Paperback Nova Science Publishers Inc

Although the 9-1-1 system has been an unqualified success story, changes in the public's use of technology, the saturation of the mobile market, and the spread of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony over broadband are contributing to greater expectations that the system need to address.

The Bachelors' Ball

04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Crisis of Peasant Society in Bearn

By Pierre Bourdieu

£37.00 04 Jan 2009 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Sees the author return to Bearn, the village where he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This book is an account of the way the influence of urban values has precipitated a crisis for male peasants. Tied to the land through inheritance, these bachelors find themselves with little to offer the women of Bearn.

Sketch for a Self-analysis

04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Pierre Bourdieu

£32.50 04 Jan 2009 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

An outcome of the author's preoccupation with reflexivity, this book is an application of his theories to his own life and intellectual trajectory. It also offers insights into the distinguished French intellectuals of the time - including Foucault, Sartre, Aron, Althusser, and de Beauvoir.

Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine

03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Peasants, Nobles and Colonists, 1774-1905

By Leonard Friesen

£29.95 03 Jan 2009 Hardback Harvard University Press

Presents a study of the transformation of New Russia - the region north of the Black and Azov seas - from its conquest by the Russian Empire in the late 18th Century to the revolutionary tumult of 1905. This book talks about the dynamic and multifaceted relations between the region's peasants, European colonists, and Russian estate owners.

Plato's Children

03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The State We are in

By Anthony O'Hear

£7.99 03 Jan 2009 Paperback Gibson Square Books Ltd

Imazighen!

03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life

By Lisa Bernasek

£16.95 03 Jan 2009 Paperback Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.

In Artistry of the Everyday: Beauty and Craftsmanship in Berber Art, anthropologist Lisa Bernasek gives an insightful overview of Berber history and culture, focusing on the rich aesthetic traditions of Berber craftsmen and -women. She also tells the stories of the collectors whose generosity enhanced the holdings of the Peabody Museum. In a final chapter, she looks at Berber arts in the present day, examining how traditional arts are being used in new forms by Berber artists in North Africa and Europe.

Migration and Development

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Pro-Poor Policy

By SIDDIQUE Tasneem

£39.00 02 Jan 2009 Hardback University Press Ltd ,Bangladesh

Malton 1850 Map

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter J. Adams

£9.50 02 Jan 2009 Sheet Map (Folded) Heritage Cartography

America on Film

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

By Harry M. Benshoff, Sean Griffin

£19.99 02 Jan 2009 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Gives an introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. This title provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality. It also includes over 100 illustrations, and a glossary of key terms.

EnCompass thesaurus., 46th ed., 2009

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

£145.60 02 Jan 2009 Hardback Elsevier Engg Info

Denver

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An Archaeological History

By Sarah Nelson

£19.99 02 Jan 2009 Paperback University Press of Colorado, U.S.

Setting the scene with descriptions of the natural environment, summaries of prehistoric sites, and archaeologists' knowledge of Denver's early inhabitants, this title presents the region's history. It is suitable for lay readers, amateur archaeologists, professional archaeologists, and academic historians.

Books out loud : Bowker's guide to audiobooks., 24th ed., 2009, v.1-2

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

£200.55 02 Jan 2009 Paperback Bowker

Complete directory of large print books & serials., 2009.

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

£217.03 02 Jan 2009 Paperback Bowker

Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Dieter Arnold

£45.00 02 Jan 2009 Hardback Yale University Press

Documents twenty-two private tombs of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty that were excavated by the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition from 1906 to 1934 and 1986 to 1989. Focusing on the study and reconstruction of the architecture of the tombs, this book also includes remains of wall decoration and inscriptions.

Out of Reach

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State

By Scott W. Allard

£22.50 02 Jan 2009 Paperback Yale University Press

Changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. Drawing on survey data from faith-based and secular service organizations in three cities, this book examines which agencies are most accessible to poor populations and looks at the impact of unstable funding on these agencies' assistance programs.

King's Dream

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Eric J. Sundquist

£16.99 02 Jan 2009 Hardback Yale University Press

Exploring Martin Luther King Junior's "I have a dream" speech, this book places it in the history of American debates about racial justice, debates as old as the nation itself, and demonstrates how the speech, an exultant blend of grand poetry and powerful elocution, perfectly expressed the story of African American freedom.

Mortgaging the Ancestors

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Ideologies of Attachment in Africa

By Parker Shipton

£35.00 02 Jan 2009 Hardback Yale University Press

Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, this book discusses how people in Africa's interior feel about their attachment to family, to clan land, and to ancestral graves on the land. It explains why systems of property, finance, and mortgaging imposed by outsiders threaten Africa's rural people.

The Nature of Difference

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics

By Evelynn Maxine Hammonds, Rebecca Herzig

£61.95 02 Jan 2009 Hardback MIT Press Ltd

Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients

02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Second Edition

By Ronald H. Rooney

£26.50 02 Jan 2009 Paperback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Involuntary clients are individuals who are required to see a professional (such as juveniles on probation) or pressured to seek help (such as alcoholics threatened with the desertion of a spouse). This book presents an analysis of the involuntary transaction and suggests ways to act within it.

Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed?: A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science

By Brown, Richard C.

£39.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company

This book analysis 'postmodern interpretations of science' (PIS) and the closely related 'sociology of scientific knowledge' (SSK). It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Steve Shapin, Bruno Latour, and PIS-like doctrines in mathematics.

One People, One Language, Many Mother Tongues

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lee Kuan Yew: Transiting from Many Languages into English and Mother Tongue

By Chua Chee Lay

£21.00 01 Jan 2009 Multimedia Item World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Hong Kong and Malaysia? Which countries offer valuable lessons that we can learn from in terms of language education? What kinds of language and cultural environments could we hope to see in the future? This book answers such questions.

One People, One Language, Many Mother Tongues: Lee Kuan Yew: Transiting from Many Languages Into English and Mother Tongue, (wit

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lee Kuan Yew: Transiting from Many Languages into English and Mother Tongue

By Lay, Chua Chee

£35.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Company

Faith on the Move: Toward a Theology of Migration in Asia

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Toward a Theology of Migration in Asia

By Baggio, Fabbio Brazal, Agnes M.

£37.50 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Ateneo de Manila Univ Press

A work on migration in Asia that deftly blends sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology, and spirituality to show that migration, is a universal phenomenon, thanks in part to globalization, must be a constant concern of the Church's mission.

Balikbayang Sinta: An E. San Juan Reader

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An E.San Juan Reader

By Juan, Epifanio San

£52.95 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Ateneo de Manila Univ Press

Presents an anthology of the author's interventions into cultural studies in the stage fo corporate-led globalization. This book shows how the author inserted Philippines into the contemporary discourse on the crisis of the humanities and modern letters.

Meeting the "Other": Living in the Present: Gender and Sustainability in Bhutan

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Crins, Rieki

£19.23 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Eburon Academic Publishers

Women's Rights?: The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan

By Kato, Masae

£25.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Amsterdam University Press

This volume explores the concept of Japanese reproductive rights and liberties in light of recent developments in disability studies. Masae Kato asks important questions about what constitutes personhood and how, in the twenty-first century, we come to understand eugenic abortion and other bioethical arguments. Tracing the origin and influence of the concept of a "right," the author places the term in local social and historical contexts in order to determine that it still carries overtones of Anglo-American philosophy, rather than universal truth. Digging deeply into Japanese debates on selective abortion, "Women's Right?" discusses how this charged term can be both de-Westernized and de-masculinized, especially in its appropriations by the Japanese women's movement and disability scholars.

Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

America in Contemporary Pop Culture

By Kooijman, Jaap

£25.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Amsterdam University Press

Nag Hammadi bibliography, 1995-2006

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Scholer, David M.

£86.81 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

This is the third volume of the immensely useful "Nag Hammadi Bibliography", the first volume of which covered 1948-1969 and was the first publication in the "Nag Hammadi Studies" series. The second volume covered 1970-1994. This third volume provides a complete integration of Supplements II/1-II/8 to the Bibliography as published in "Novum Testamentum 1998-2008", with additions and corrections. This latest update contains 3,063 entries, with the set of three volumes containing 11,580 entries. Nag Hammadi and Gnostic studies continue to be of critical importance for the study of ancient religions in the Graeco-Roman world and for the study of the world of early Christianity, and the present bibliography provides an indispensable reference tool for work in these fields.

Artists and Intellectuals and the Requests of Power

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Gennaro, I. De Gnther, H. C.

£87.36 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Brill Academic Publishers

Religion, Politics and Law: Philosophical Reflections on the Sources of Normative Order in Society

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Labuschagne, Bart.

£98.35 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Brill Academic Publishers

Exploring the pre-political en pre-legal spiritual infrastructure from which modern, liberal democracies in the West live, but cannot guarantee, this book inquires the relations between religion, politics and law from a philosophical perspective, discussing historical, systematical and practical issues.

Marriage Dissolution in Singapore: Revisiting Family Values and Ideology in Marriage

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Straughan, Paulin Tay

£69.23 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Brill Academic Publishers

Drawing on sociological perspectives, this book provides an important insight into social change and its impact on marital expectations. Marriage stability is influenced by women's changing expectations of their roles in the family, notions of romantic love and expecations of the ideal spouse, preparedness for parenthood, and work demands.

In the Long Shadow of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Postnationalism

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Anastasakis, Othon Oktem, Kerem Nicolaidis, Kalypso A.

£86.81 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Brill Academic Publishers

Through the lens of nationalism, trans-nationalism and supra-nationalism, this book offers a fresh perspective on relations between Greece and Turkey under the shadow of Europe, as both European history and European integration.

Animal Encounters

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Rossini, Manuela S. Tyler, Tom

£64.29 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Brill Academic Publishers

In a series of encounters between leading practitioners in the field of Animal Studies, this collection of essays explores the contradictory and revealing ways in which humans and other animals meet, interact, and experience one another.

Women, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Naguib, Nefissa

£59.89 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Brill Academic Publishers

This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire, Mandate period, the founding of Israel, the Arab-Israeli wars and Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water.

Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

£157.14 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Brill Academic Publishers

The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon Trotsky for more than a century. The documents in this volume demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a debate over Permanent Revolution from 1903-1907. The volume reassembles that debate and provides new insight into the formative years of Russian Marxism.

The Locus of Tragedy

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Cools, Arthur N. J. M. Crombez, Thomas K. M. Taels, Johan M. J.

£54.40 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Brill Academic Publishers

Past, Present and Future

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National

By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund

£18.95 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen,Denmark

Celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark, which traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650. This book tells the story of ancient cultures and is partially the history of Denmark.

The Past, Present and Future

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National

By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund

£18.95 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen,Denmark

Celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark which traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650. This book contains the story of ancient cultures and is partially, the history of Denmark.

Politics of Culture

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

European Identity in Perspective

By Thomas Petersen

£22.75 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Aarhus University Press

What do Europeans have in common apart from the rights and duties deriving from the treaties? Is there such a thing as 'Europeanness' in the sense of a common identity? Can rights serve as a unifying factor in the new ED of 27 member states? And what are the sources of human identity as such?

This book addresses these topical issues through a combination of theoretical and philosophical enquiry and empirical analysis. The nature of Political Man is investigated, as well as the sources of identity. The author argues in favour of a broad conception of political rationality and develops a new individualistic approach to the study of identity and culture summarized in the formulation "culture is choice - and choice is culture". The notion that culture and identity are holistic phenomena, something that citizens have to accept as a kind of destiny, is challenged, because with the exception of gender, identity and culture are very much chosen. While the existing literature tends to define culture in terms of customs and habits, the author argues that the emphasis ought to be shifted towards subjective meanings and tastes (broadly defined). But choice is also culture in the sense that humans are cultural beings With cultural needs and the simplistic notions of rational choice and globalization, which assume that human beings are utility maximizers in a narrow, materialistic sense, must therefore be abandoned. From this perspective European identity suddenly looks quite solid: It is based on a variety of sources of identity, and some of the strongest sources of identity are immaterial and cultural. There is such a thing as a cultural community of distance; a sharing of outlook, memories and not least aesthetic experiences.

Une Francophonie Plurielle

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Lise Toft, Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen

£16.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Museum Tusculanum Press

Explores the long experience in the French-speaking world of encounters between languages and cultures due to migration. Through analyses of language use and various artistic forms of expression, this work presents answers to a number of contemporary questions relating to the interaction of culture, language and history.

Incestuous and Close-Kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An Examination of the Evidence

By Paul John Frandsen

£35.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Museum Tusculanum Press

Examines the evidence for marriage and sexual relations between siblings and between parent and child in ancient Egypt and pre-Islamic Iran. This book examines the sources for incestuous relationships between members of non-royal nuclear families and puts forth the generally held axiom that the prohibition of incest is a universal phenomenon.

Other Half of the Society

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Backward Castes and Politics of Bihar

By Sushil Kumar Sinha

£28.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Raj Publications, India

Prisons in Colonial Bengal 1838-1919

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By SEN Madhurima

£20.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Thema Books

Dissent

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Writings on Nandigram and the State of West Bengal

By Saoli Mitra

£12.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Bhatkal & Sen,India

Includes articles that combine research with on-the-field activism, trying to make sense of each situation in terms of the lessons drawn from the writer's years of involvement in meaningful theatre.

Trauma and the Triumph (v. 2)

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Gender and Partition in the Eastern Region

By Jasodhara Bagchi, Subhoranjan Dasgupta

£35.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Bhatkal & Sen,India

Discussing Partition in the Eastern Region, this volume presents a portrait through literature, interviews, surveys and documents. It describes what Partition wrought, the way women dealt with its mindless havoc, how new lives were built, and offers insights on displacement, loss, abduction and rape.

Means of Awakening

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Gender, Politics and Practice in Rural India

By Sirpa Tenhunen

£34.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Bhatkal & Sen,India

Investigating the agency of rural women in West Bengal, the author offers her ethnographic insights from her fieldwork in 'Janta' a village in Bankura. She presents the women's views on dowry, marriage and their role in the panchayats. She documents the process by which women are emerging in the forefront of political struggles in West Bengal.

Putting Women First

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Women and Health in a Rural Community

By Rani Dr. Bang

£35.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Bhatkal & Sen,India

Offers a commentary on the chronic myopia of a planning process that refuses to see millions of Indians and the ways in which their lives can be bettered. This work reveals the way 'tribal society is being buffeted by the modern and whose traditional kinship and ecological systems are being sorely stressed'.

Displaced by Development: Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice

By Mehta, Lyla

£37.50 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Sage Publications (CA)

The Munich Hofbrauhaus

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Place, the Beer, and Other Articles of Faith

By Annette Von Altenbockum

£8.99 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Prestel

Macroeconomic patterns and stories : a guide for MBAs

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A Guide for Mbas

By Leamer, Edward E.

£47.99 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Springer Verlag

Das Programm: Linz 2009 Kulturhauptstadt Europas

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Linz 2009 Kulturhauptstadt Europas

£16.46 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Springer

2009 ist fA1/4r Linz ein groAes Jahr. Die Hauptstadt des Bundeslandes OberAsterreich wird, gemeinsam mit Vilnius, Kulturhauptstadt Europas. In vielen Veranstaltungen wird das Kulturhauptstadtjahr ein Schaufenster fA1/4r die Vielfalt Europas bieten. Thematisch wird das Programm so offen wie mAglich gehalten.

Architektur, Bildende Kunst, Bildung und Wissenschaft, Darstellende Kunst, Design, Europa, Film und Kino, Gender, Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Politik, Industrie und Arbeit, Infrastruktur, Jugend, Kinder, Kommunikation, Kulinarik, Literatur, Medien, Musik, A-ffentlicher Raum, Natur und A-kologie, Region, Religionen, Soziales und Migration, Sport, Stadtteile, Tourismus, Vilnius, Volkskultur und Wirtschaft heiAen die Stichworte. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Industrie, Kultur und Natur ist dabei von besonderem Interesse. Der Band enthAlt nicht nur das komplette Programm, sondern zeigt auch auf, warum das Kulturhauptstadtjahr auch ein Meilenstein fA1/4r die Zeit danach ist.

Theory of the Post-War Periods: Observations on Franco-German Relations Since 1945

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Sloterdijk, Peter

£21.95 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Springer

Kunst Und Kirche 3/2008: Transkulturalitat? Religion Und Migration Neu Denken

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Prasidium D. Evangelischen Kirchbautages Diazesan-Kunstverein Linz in Verbindung

£10.96 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Springer

Umweg Nach Buckow: Bildunterschriften

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Strouhal, Ernst

£32.94 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Springer

a žAoeber kurz oder lang" enthAlt eine Vielzahl von Essays Ernst Strouhala (TM)s aus den letzten Jahren, die sich der Themen Literatur, Spiel, Kunst, Politik und Reise annehmen. Auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise tragen die Texte, die sich programmatisch als a žBildunterschriften" verstehen, dem zusehends beliebigen a žiconic turn" in den Medien und Kulturwissenschaften Rechnung, und reflektieren diesen kritisch. Auch wenn sich der Blick des Autors jeweils am Detail des Bildes und der Quelle entwickelt, so gilt das Interesse der Gegenwart. Das Spektrum des Bandes ist weit: Es reicht von der Begegnung des Autors mit Defoes Robinson, A1/4ber Fragonard und die Kunst der RAtselmacher bis Arnold SchAnberg, Marcel Duchamp und Bert Brecht.

Faith Is: The Quest for Spirituality and Religion

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Looking for Faith and Religion

By Niederberger, Lukas Ma1/4ller, Lars

£30.50 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Lars Muller Publishers

Marranos on the Moradas

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States

By Norman Simms

£53.50 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Academic Studies Press

The Penitentes are a lay Catholic brotherhood that practiced bloody rites of self-flagellation and crucifixion. Marranos, an ambiguous and complicated population of Sephardic descendants, claim to be anousim. This book uses rabbinics, literary analyses, psychohistory and cultural anthropology to consolidate a history of mentalities.

The Wisdom of Love

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Man, Woman and God in Jewish Canonical Literature

By Naftali Rothenberg

£33.50 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Academic Studies Press

Challenges the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introducing readers to the significant treatment of love in the Jewish canon. This book draws various manifestations of love, such as love of God, love of wisdom, and love of one's fellow.

Religious Zionism

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

History and Ideology

By Dov Schwartz

£29.99 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Academic Studies Press

Religious Zionism is a major component of contemporary Israeli society and politics. This work reviews the history of religious Zionism from both a historical and ideological-theological perspective.

Sticker Nation 2: The Big Book of Subversive Stickers, Volume 2

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Big Book of Subversive Stickers

By Kumar, Srini

£9.99 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Disinformation Company

Black Social and Political Thought: Selected Writings Volume II

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Ahmad, Muhammad

£24.53 01 Jan 2009 Paperback University Readers

State of Emergency

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Jawanza Kunjufu, Donald K. Burleson

£10.99 01 Jan 2009 Paperback African American Images

Examines the challenges facing African American males. This book investigates educational issues, class struggles, absentee fathers, penal institutions, and the drug industry. It condemns the standards and circumstances that have declared war on black men: why is there such a disparity between punishments for crack and cocaine?

Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Miller, Ivor L.

£30.22 01 Jan 2009 Hardback University Press of Mississippi

How African secret societies changed the music, art, and history of Cuba

Grants - Awards - Scholarships - Everything Technology [2009]

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Technology Grant News, Grant News

£85.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Technology Grant News

My Year 2006: Serving

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Messerli, Douglas

£8.76 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Green Integer

In this, the third volume of his ongoing cultural memoir, Douglas Messerli explores figures and issues of 2006-the films of Robert Altman and Jean Renoir; The Queen; the writing of Guest, Hauser, Sorrentino, and others; Southern myths-centered on the topic of "serving."

Home: Social Essays

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Social Essays

By Jones, LeRoi Baraka, Amiri

£10.99 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Akashic Books

"Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro-and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights-not conditional favors."-"The New York Times Book Review"

In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's literary consciousness with the short story collection "Tales of the Out & the Gone," This reissue features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of 1960s social and political essays.

LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities, from 20022004. His most recent book, "Tales of the Out & the Gone "(Akashic Books, 2007), was a "New York Times "Editors' Choice. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.

The Great Cheese Sandwich War: Thirty Humorous Devotional Stories and One Really Inspiring One

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Fausch, Tim

£7.69 01 Jan 2009 Paperback VMI Publishers

Having None of It

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Su, Adrienne

£7.66 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Manic D Press

In this third collection, award-winning poet Adrienne Su reflects deeply about the circumstances in which people are forced to remake themselves: as parents, as immigrants, as people whose marriages have ended, as people who've wound up in a place they never intended to settle.

From "Breakup":

"Another ending finds its place"
"among novels, lives, summers"
"that fled, but this kind has a way"
"of getting filed under failure: "

"yes, the relationship failed, "
"if to fail is to fail to endure."

Annual meeting abstracts., 110th, 2009 (v.32)

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Archaeological, Institute Of America

£12.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Archaeological Inst Am/David Brown Book Co

The official publication of abstracts for papers, workshops, colloquia, and posters presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (January 8-11, 2009) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Valley Farms sites : prehistoric floodplain agriculture on the Santa Cruz River in Southern Arizona

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

£16.48 01 Jan 2009 Paperback S W C A Environmental/U of Arizona Pr

The Politics of Storage: Storage and Sociopolitical Complexity in Neopalatial Crete

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Storage and Sociopolitical Complexity in Neopalatial Crete

By Christakis, Kostandinos S.

£40.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback INSTAP Academic Press

The storage of staples and its importance for the functioning of Cretan Bronze Age society has become a topic of debate. This study reassesses the relationship between storage and sociopolitical complexity by combining testimonies on the storage of staples from palatial, nonpalatial elite, and ordinary domestic contexts dated to the LM I period.

Daughters of Afghanistan

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

£13.73 01 Jan 2009 Dvd Repnet LLC

Aboriginal Art: Creativity and Assimilation

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Creativity and Assimilation

By Leslie, Donna

£55.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback MacMillan Art Pub.

Demonstrates how Aboriginal art has questioned the 'assimilationist' policies which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s. This book reveals a grasp of issues relating not only to the practice and history of art, but also in fields of anthropology, ethnology and sociology.

Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Mirabello, Mark

£13.74 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Mandrake of Oxford

A-Z of Rebels and Outlaws: Blasphemy; Terrorism (History and Practice); Megaterrorism (Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Nuclear Weapons); Survivalism and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Non-Violent Resistance (Hunger Strike, General Strike, Civil Disobedience); The "Temporary Autonomous Zone"; Communications, Clandestine; The Revolutionary Cell; The Assassin in History; "Dirty War" and the State; Coup d'Etat (Theory and Practice); Secret Police (Techniques and Tricks); Deception in War (Theory and Practice); Guerillas, Partisans, and Asymmetric Warfare (History and Practice); The Urban Guerilla; The Bandit and Pirate in History and Legend; Mafias and Organized Crime; White-Collar Crime (Non-Violent Crime); Violent Crime; Tyranny in History (Four Types Of); The Police in History; The Informant in History; Evidence (Physical and Eye-Witness); State-Sanctioned Killing; Torture (History and Practice); Prison and Punishment; Escape form "Controlled Custody"; Techniques of the Fugitive

Governance and Crisis of the State in Africa: The Context and Dynamics of the Conflicts in West Africa

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Context and Dynamics of the Conflicts in West Africa

By Akude, John Emeka

£25.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Adonis & Abbey Publishers

Governance and Crisis of the State in Africa: The Context and Dynamics of the Conflicts in West Africa (Hb)

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Context and Dynamics of the Conflicts in West Africa (HB)

By Akude, John Emeka

£50.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Adonis & Abbey Publishers

Yiddish and the Cold War

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Estraikh, Gennady

£45.00 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Legenda

Yiddish-speaking groups of Communists played a visible role in many countries, most notably in the Soviet Union, United States, France, Canada, Argentina and Uruguay. This book recreates the intellectual environments of the Moscow literary journal "Sovetish Heymland", the New York newspaper "Morgn-Frayhayt" and the Warsaw newspaper "Folks-Shtime".

Covert Human Intelligence Sources

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The 'unlovely' Face of Police Work

By Roger Billingsley

£22.50 01 Jan 2009 Electronic Book Waterside Press

Presents an insight into the hidden world of informers and related aspects of covert policing.

Interpersonal Skills for the People Professions

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Learning from Practice

£15.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Reflect Press Ltd

Fact File 2009

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Essential Statistics for Today's Key Issues

By Christine A. Shepherd

£45.00 01 Jan 2009 Paperback Carel Press Ltd

Contains accessible statistics in full colour about: animals, Britain & its citizens, education, environmental issues, family & relationships, financial issues, food & drink, health, internet & media, law & order, sport & leisure, travel & transport, war & conflict, wider world, and work. This title has coverage of UK, Europe and the world.

Nationalism and the Imagination

01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

By Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Kiossev, Alexander

£14.99 01 Jan 2009 Hardback Seagull Books