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Hardcover. What does it mean to be a woman in the 21st century? The feminist movement has a long and rich history, but is its time now passed? This edited collection is driven by the question, why is feminism viewed by some (we would add a majority) as outdated, no longer necessary and having achieved its goals, and what role have the media played in this? Editor(s): Savigny, Heather; Warner, Helen. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFCA; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384652
- ISBN
- 9781137384652
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Condition: New
€ 99.77
€ 99.77
Hardcover. Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, with its chapters drawing on original research to present a more nuanced reality, whilst also developing a critical dialogue with one another. Editor(s): Roberts, Steven. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSJ2; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394835
- ISBN
- 9781137394835
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€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Hardcover. Through rap and hip hop, entertainers have provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of society. Examining the moral and social implications of Kanye West's art in the context of Western civilization's preconceived ideas, the contributors consider how West both challenges religious and moral norms and propagates them. Editor(s): Bailey, Julius. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVGR; AVH; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395818
- ISBN
- 9781137395818
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€ 149.68
€ 149.68
Hardcover. The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By using the term 'living', this book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations Editor(s): Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Beville, Maria. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406637
- ISBN
- 9781137406637
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Condition: New
€ 117.03
€ 117.03
Hardcover. This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities. Editor(s): Gammon, Sean; Elkington, Sam. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428523
- ISBN
- 9781137428523
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Condition: New
€ 161.04
€ 161.04
Hardcover. In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling. Editor(s): Hassler-Forest, Dan; Nicklas, Pascal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 figures. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443847
- ISBN
- 9781137443847
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Condition: New
€ 117.48
€ 117.48
Hardcover. This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. Editor(s): Amberson, Deborah; Past, Elena M. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454751
- ISBN
- 9781137454751
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Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.15
€ 52.90
€ 47.15
Hardcover. Elaborating on themes of resilience, memory, critique and metal beyond metal, this volume highlights how the development and future of metal music scholarship is predicated on the engagement with other forms of popular culture such as comics, documentaries, and popular music. Editor(s): Snell, Dave. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1. BIC Classification: AVGT; JFCA; JFSS; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456670
- ISBN
- 9781137456670
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Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Hardcover. This collection takes the study of diasporic communication beyond the level of simply praising its existence, to offering critical engagements and analysis with the systems of journalistic production, process and consumption practices as they relate to people who are living outside the borders of their birth nation. Editor(s): Ogunyemi, Ola. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457226
- ISBN
- 9781137457226
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Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political elites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors. Editor(s): Beyen, Marnix; Deseure, Brecht. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469373
- ISBN
- 9781137469373
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Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups to connect the past, the present and the future. Editor(s): Hajek, Andrea; Lohmeier, Christine. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470119
- ISBN
- 9781137470119
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Condition: New
€ 161.29
€ 161.29
Hardcover. The intercultural occurs in the space between two or more distinct cultures that encounter each other, an area where meanings are translated and difference is negotiated. In this volume, scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on the phenomenon of interculturality and on the theoretical and methodological frameworks of interpreting it Editor(s): Rozbicki, Michal Jan. Num Pages: 277 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFFP; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489135
- ISBN
- 9781137489135
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Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities. Editor(s): Jermyn, Deborah; Holmes, Susan; Jones, J. Gwynfor. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSP31. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495112
- ISBN
- 9781137495112
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Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. This volume captures the essence of how we communicate differences in relationships, between and across cultures, in organizations, through education and in moments of local and global conflict and crisis that demonstrates the importance and viability of approaching peace and conflict communication from various fields within communication studies. Editor(s): Roy, Sudeshna; Shaw, Ibrahim Seaga. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFC; JFD; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499257
- ISBN
- 9781137499257
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Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. This book offers analyses of the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-apocalyptic visions of early twenty-first century film and television shows. Contributors examine the production, reproduction, and re-imagination of some of our most deeply held human ideals through sociological, anthropological, historical, and feminist approaches. Editor(s): Gurr, Barbara. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; APT; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501509
- ISBN
- 9781137501509
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Condition: New
€ 149.32
€ 149.32
Hardcover. This collection brings together leading research on contemporary and popular culture, focussing on marginalised voices and representations; socially marginalised, marginalised in media and media scholarship. It spans five continents, with contributions on topics like gender, sexuality, nation, disability, disciplinary boundaries, youth and age. Editor(s): Savigny, Heather; Alexander, Jenny; Jackson, Daniel; Thorsen, Einar. Num Pages: 277 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137512802
- ISBN
- 9781137512802
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Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world. Individual chapters provide historical and ethnographic accounts of the people, places, and activities involved in Asia's culinary globalization. Editor(s): Farrer, James. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFCV; JFFS; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137522283
- ISBN
- 9781137522283
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Condition: New
€ 138.49
€ 138.49
Hardcover. This book is about forms of media that have reflected - or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of devolution, the chapters explore, through contextualized case studies, the aesthetics of a wide range of local, regional and grassroots forms of media. Editor(s): Franklin, Ieuan; Chignell, Hugh; Skoog, Kristin. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137532824
- ISBN
- 9781137532824
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Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain. It makes a critical intervention in British studies of religion by bringing the analytical insights of material culture, to bear on religion in the British World. Editor(s): Jones, Timothy Willem; Matthews-Jones, Lucinda. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137540553
- ISBN
- 9781137540553
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Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought is a collection of critical essays and responses for twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. Editor(s): Sifuentes-Jauregui, Ben; Miguel, Yolanda Martinez San; Belausteguigoitia, Marisa. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554291
- ISBN
- 9781137554291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.78
€ 150.78