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Social groups
Hardcover. A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress. Num Pages: 249 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604728
- ISBN
- 9780230604728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.82
€ 116.82
Hardcover. This groundbreaking look at the origins of the 'zero tolerance' approach to schools and discipline provides scholars with an in-depth look at the Los Angeles City School District and examines how and why authority over school discipline shifted from school-site educators to the centralized bureaucracy of the district. Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJP; JFSL1; JNB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603684
- ISBN
- 9780230603684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.64
€ 53.36
€ 46.64
Hardcover. Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602960
- ISBN
- 9780230602960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Paperback. By identifying and analyzing the intellectual writings and activities of women throughout the centuries this study, the first of two volumes, documents a level of female participation in intellectual matters that overturns conventional views of Western intellectual history. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602335
- ISBN
- 9780230602335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.36
€ 61.36
Paperback. This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes require that we rethink governance and urban policy, and that we do so through the dual lens of theory and practice. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; JP; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602304
- ISBN
- 9780230602304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. This book uses new imagery - the metaphor of sugar - to highlight how race, class, and gender are produced, used, experienced, and 'digested' in our human and institutional bodies. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600935
- ISBN
- 9780230600935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. This book compares the state of knowledge on men and masculinities in 14 countries across Europe, examining the effects of social change, Europeanization, globalization and new post-socialist configurations of Europe for men. Special attention is given to home and work, social exclusion, violence, and health. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594470
- ISBN
- 9780230594470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594456
- ISBN
- 9780230594456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Paperback. The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a Britishness with new inflections. It is this sensibility that marks them as Brasians. Editor(s): Wright, Sue; Kelly-Holmes, Helen. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFFS; JFSL1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580077
- ISBN
- 9780230580077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by boys themselves. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBG; CFB; CJ; JFSJ; JNU; YQF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580053
- ISBN
- 9780230580053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Hardcover. This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single or mixed gender classes? Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMA; JFSP2; JHBK5; JNF; MBNH4; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579439
- ISBN
- 9780230579439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579309
- ISBN
- 9780230579309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity especially as these pertain to teenage motherhood. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579200
- ISBN
- 9780230579200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten legacy of a colonial past that cannot be confined to the past. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFSC; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230578494
- ISBN
- 9780230578494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577817
- ISBN
- 9780230577817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts. Editor(s): Saltmarsh, Sue. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ; JFSP2; JNHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576698
- ISBN
- 9780230576698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576650
- ISBN
- 9780230576650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. This book is a timely reassessment of Byron's legacy, focusing on the ever-present figure of the Byronic hero in the fiction of Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, together with screen versions of their novels. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; APT; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574397
- ISBN
- 9780230574397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. Exploring how men in service and caring occupations (cabin crew, primary school teachers, nurses and librarians) both 'do' and 'undo' gender as they manage the potential mismatch between gender and occupational identity, this book engages with the key theoretical concepts of identity, visibility and emotions to examine men's experiences. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHBL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 479.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574069
- ISBN
- 9780230574069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, this edited collection challenges conventional understandings of gendered interpersonal violence, and identifies emerging sites and forms of resistance to it. Editor(s): Throsby, Karen; Alexander, Flora. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFFP; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574014
- ISBN
- 9780230574014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89