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Social groups
Paperback. This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Policies examined include unemployment benefits, active labour market policies, partial pension receipt, pension principles, early retirement and incentives for deferral. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JFSP31; JHB; JHBK; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346066
- ISBN
- 9781349346066
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€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Paperback. A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power. Editor(s): Schachter, J.; Howells, Richard; Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; JFC; JFD; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346127
- ISBN
- 9781349346127
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€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBK; JNT; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346776
- ISBN
- 9781349346776
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€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Paperback. Whisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scenes resurfaced; a more masculine view of homosexuality also became prominent. Above all, a public debate about homosexuality emerged, constituting a critical debate within the Sexual Revolution. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346813
- ISBN
- 9781349346813
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346912
- ISBN
- 9781349346912
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Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Paperback. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFD; JFSR; JHB; JHBS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347070
- ISBN
- 9781349347070
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€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Paperback. Drawing upon field work and interviews with cultural workers in the UK and Australia, this book examines the cultural work experiences of rural, regional and remotely located creative practitioners, and how this sits within local economies and communities. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; JFSR; JHBL; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347117
- ISBN
- 9781349347117
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€ 61.72
€ 61.72
Paperback. Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSR; JHB; JHBK; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347131
- ISBN
- 9781349347131
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€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Paperback. The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth to contemporary film. Looking at news media, cinema, drama and other cultural forms, this study considers the interaction between representations of 'real life' 'femmes fatales' and their fictional counterparts. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HBTB; JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347216
- ISBN
- 9781349347216
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€ 61.72
€ 61.72
Paperback. This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and political landscape. Authors map desires, struggles and reconfigurations, thereby broadening current understandings of what contemporary intimate life looks like. Editor(s): Sanger, Tam; Taylor, Yvette. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHBK; JPQB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347315
- ISBN
- 9781349347315
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€ 61.92
€ 61.92
Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere
. Ed(S): Siim, Birte; Mokre, Ms. Monika
Paperback. The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project. Editor(s): Siim, Birte; Mokre, Ms. Monika. Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSJ; JHB; JPA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347650
- ISBN
- 9781349347650
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€ 61.53
€ 61.53
Paperback. This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With multicultural incorporation as an option, the authors explore the potential impact of the politics of identity in societies with social democratic welfare states committed to redistributive politics. Editor(s): Kivisto, P.; Wahlbeck, Osten. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JKS; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347698
- ISBN
- 9781349347698
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€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Paperback. This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the historical in contemporary cultural politics. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFC; JFD; JFSR; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347766
- ISBN
- 9781349347766
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€ 61.25
€ 61.25
Paperback. As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists, and each essay examines the career, writing and strategic choices of women battling against the odds to secure recognition in a male-dominated society. Editor(s): Gray, F. Elizabeth. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349348367
- ISBN
- 9781349348367
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSP; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 203.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349348381
- ISBN
- 9781349348381
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Although most advanced industrialized countries are facing population aging and other social changes, public long-term care programs for the aged are remarkably diverse across them. This book accounts for the variations in elderly care policy by combining statistical analysis with historical case studies of Sweden, Japan and the USA. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHB; JPB; JPP; JPQB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349348466
- ISBN
- 9781349348466
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intellectuals. This book aims redresses this balance by studying these forgotten intellectuals creating a cultural and theoretical re-evaluation of the gendered phenomenon of the public intellectual in France. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSJ; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349348800
- ISBN
- 9781349348800
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349348831
- ISBN
- 9781349348831
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€ 61.41
€ 61.41
Paperback. Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSP; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349348879
- ISBN
- 9781349348879
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€ 61.39
€ 61.39
Paperback. This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSR; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349333
- ISBN
- 9781349349333
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€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Paperback. An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's "exterior" is central to human subjectivity and relations. The authors explore racialization, body modification, self-harm, and comedic representations of skin, drawing from the clinical domain, visual arts, popular culture, and literature. Editor(s): Failler, Angela. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349418
- ISBN
- 9781349349418
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€ 62.03
€ 62.03
paperback. This book analyses the nature of the contemporary racial state, exploring issues such as the nature of postraciality, racial neoliberalism, the state of multiculturalism and whiteness, alongside the functioning of state institutions and policy concerning the military, education, community surveillance, asylum and extradition. Editor(s): Rhodes, J.; Kapoor, Nisha; Kalra, Virinder. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349349678
- ISBN
- 9781349349678
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Condition: New
€ 35.78
€ 35.78
Paperback. Repression receives little attention in philosophical literature. This study of cases of repression that inhibit an agent's deliberative access to his reasons argues that an agent cannot correctly deliberate about a reason to overcome repression as if he did so, he would already have overcome repression and so would have no reason to do so. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFSJ; JMR; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349975
- ISBN
- 9781349349975
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Condition: New
€ 61.51
€ 61.51
Paperback. Editor(s): Dobbernack, Jan; Modood, Tariq. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351404
- ISBN
- 9781349351404
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Condition: New
€ 61.87
€ 61.87