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Social issues & processes
Hardback. With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice? Is government intervention no longer required? This book offers fresh insights and effective remedies for race issues in America. Num Pages: 264 pages, 100 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141985
- ISBN
- 9780691141985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
€ 46.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. This book is an exploration of violence both by and against children, its causes and approaches to its amelioration. The contributors examine topics such as children who kill; violent young offenders; immigrant children who have been the victims of war; the influence of television; the relationship to the family; and racial and sexual violence. Editor(s): Varma, Ved. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSP1; JFSP2; JKSB1; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853023446
- ISBN
- 9781853023446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.69
€ 44.99
€ 44.69
Paperback. The authors apply ideas about quality of life to the field of disability to assist front-line professionals, managers and policy-makers in effective service provision. They examine the historical context of the concept of quality of life and discuss the application of quality of life in the daily lives of people who have disabilities. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKS; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843100058
- ISBN
- 9781843100058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.25
€ 47.25
Paperback. A collection of essays focusing on postmoderism as a concept and its relevance to a number of issues of concern to contemporary society, including the areas of politics, feminism, architecture, fashion and the visual arts. Editor(s): Boyne, Roy; Rattansi, Ali. Series: Communications & Culture S. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 397. Very good clean copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0004733
- ISBN
- 9780333475119
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. Treating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSK; JFFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802044945
- ISBN
- 9780802044945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.61
€ 91.61
Paperback. 'I'm human, full of contradictions, and a feminist.' Bad Feminist is collection of frank, funny, whip-smart and spot-on essays from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay (@rgay). Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472119735
- ISBN
- 9781472119735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.13
€ 18.99
€ 14.13
Hardback. Editor(s): Rowsen, Jeffrey D.; Eliot, Amanda P. Num Pages: 191 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613248423
- ISBN
- 9781613248423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.73€ 115.01
€ 168.73
€ 115.01
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 304 pages, 29 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; JFF; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349950461
- ISBN
- 9781349950461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.05
€ 112.05
Hardback. Editor(s): Rowell, Lanette. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; JP. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631173110
- ISBN
- 9781631173110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.12€ 129.15
€ 190.12
€ 129.15
Paperback. Offers a vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can be read as rich with homo-erotic suggestiveness. Drawing from work in queer and feminist theory, this book argues that the most fruitful approach to James is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321477
- ISBN
- 9780822321477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.35
€ 27.99
€ 26.35
Hardcover. Editor(s): Rouse, Rabecca E. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 186 x 16. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626183780
- ISBN
- 9781626183780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 221.02€ 149.61
€ 221.02
€ 149.61
Hardback. Editor(s): Rouse, Rabecca E. Num Pages: 149 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628086577
- ISBN
- 9781628086577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.12€ 129.19
€ 190.12
€ 129.19
Hardback. Editor(s): Rouse, Rabecca E. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JP. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631175473
- ISBN
- 9781631175473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.12€ 130.16
€ 190.12
€ 130.16
paperback. This report breaks explores how disabled people who are already in work get and keep paid work. Drawing on experiences of disabled people themselves, it looks at difficulties experienced, the strategies they adopt and the policy context in which they work. The authors are all disabled people with a mix of practice and academic experience. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; JFFG; JHBL; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 299 x 3. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345226
- ISBN
- 9781861345226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.60
€ 25.99
€ 25.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 196 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTC; JFFP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 262 x 190 x 16. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621004974
- ISBN
- 9781621004974
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Condition: New
€ 231.72€ 156.76
€ 231.72
€ 156.76
Paperback. The Witch-Hunt Narrative is a magisterial and empirically powerful account of the social dynamics that led, in the early 1990s, to widespread popular skepticism about the veracity of child sex abuse claims. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JFFE2; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 532
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190465575
- ISBN
- 9780190465575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.37
€ 68.37
Paperback. A must for anyone working with questions of drug use; from students across the social sciences to practitioners such as nurses, health workers and social workers. This is not a medical text but rather a critical account of psychoactive drugs in our society that enables the reader to think about drugs beyond cultural myths and presuppositions. Series: Sage Key Concepts Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847874856
- ISBN
- 9781847874856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.69
€ 46.99
€ 46.69
Hardback. Describes world food organizations' efforts to alleviate the continuing and often devastating problem of world hunger and explains why they are largely unsuccessful. Series: Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations. Num Pages: 218 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JPSN; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810828476
- ISBN
- 9780810828476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.41
€ 135.41
Paperback. Using data from the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe survey, this timely study focuses on the second generation of immigrants from Turkey and former Yugoslavia in Switzerland. Series: IMISCOE Research. Num Pages: 314 pages, 0 black and white; 6 full color. BIC Classification: 1DFH; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089648433
- ISBN
- 9789089648433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.42€ 10.26
€ 53.42
€ 10.26
Paperback. This volume comprises a collection of case studies from analysts who have treated patients who have committed serious acts of violence, either against others or themselves. Editor(s): Perelberg, Rosine Jozef; Shengold, Leonard. Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBZ; MJN; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415199322
- ISBN
- 9780415199322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.56
€ 53.56
Paperback. An angry look at the private renting in the UK, including corruption, inequality and deregulation. Series: Left Book Club. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFB; LNSH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780745336466
- ISBN
- 9780745336466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 6.23
€ 14.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. In the much-anticipated follow-up to Sunday Times bestseller Trapped, foster carer Rosie Lewis tells the heartbreaking true story of 13-year-old Zadie. When the young teenage girl runs away from home and is discovered hiding on the city streets by the police, it is clear that all is not as it should be. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFE1; JKSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0007597
- ISBN
- 9780007541805
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Trapped was a Sunday Times bestseller and the first memoir from foster carer Rosie Lewis. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; BT; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0011015
- ISBN
- 9780007541782
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. As an Equal draws on detailed research to examine the lives of au pairs and the families who host them in contemporary Britain, and explores how au pairing has become increasingly indistinguishable from other forms of domestic labour and low paid childcare. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ1; JHB; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783604975
- ISBN
- 9781783604975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.63
€ 32.99
€ 27.63