Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Hardcover. New Systems Theories of World Politics uses systems theoretical approaches to analyze the structure and dynamics of the international system. Drawing from different systems theoretical traditions, it argues that the system of world politics can be analyzed in a comprehensive fashion by continuing the pioneering work of theorists like Karl Deutsch. Editor(s): Albert, Mathias; Cederman, Lars-Erik; Wendt, Alexander. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233294
- ISBN
- 9780230233294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.12
€ 68.12
Hardcover. A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena. Editor(s): Waters, Melanie. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA; JFDT; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229655
- ISBN
- 9780230229655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Hardcover. Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade. Editor(s): Stobart, Dr. Jon; Van Damme, Ilja. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFFT; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229464
- ISBN
- 9780230229464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Hardcover. Experts from ethicists and political philosophers to clinicians and trade unionists seek answers to a number of key ethical questions to further a deeper understanding of the ethics of health worker migration. Editor(s): Shah, Rebecca. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFN; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224414
- ISBN
- 9780230224414
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. This anthology contributes to the still emerging theoretical debates in political theory and philosophy about multiculturalism, nationalism and immigration. It focuses on multiculturalism and nationalism as factual consequences of, and normative responses to, immigration and on the normative significance (or lack thereof) of the notion of culture. Editor(s): Holtug, Nils; Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper; Laegaard, Sune. Num Pages: 273 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFN; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224346
- ISBN
- 9780230224346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. This volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is and how it be practised. Rather than another demand for radical reform, it makes the case for thinking clearly and critically. It urges people living with HIV to become full partners in designing and implementing their own care and for caregivers to accept them in this role. Editor(s): Karpf, Ted; Ferguson, Todd; Swift, Robin; Lazarus, Jeffrey V. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFH2; MBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223387
- ISBN
- 9780230223387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory, doctor-patient encounters, lifeworld issues and the new genetics. Editor(s): Scambler, Graham; Scambler, Sasha. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222700
- ISBN
- 9780230222700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.86
€ 160.86
Hardcover. This book provides a focused and critical international overview of the intersections between race, crime perpetration and victimization, and criminal justice policy and practice responses to crime perpetration and crime victimization. Editor(s): Kalunta-Crumpton, Anita. Num Pages: 370 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL; JKV; LNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554. International Perspectives. 368 pages, 5 graphs, 5 figures, 36 black & white tables. Editor(s): Kalunta-Crumpton, Anita. This book provides a focused and critical international overview of the intersections between race, crime perpetration and victimization, and criminal justice policy and practice responses to crime perpetration and crime victimization. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL; JKV; LNF. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 26. Weight: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220294
- ISBN
- 9780230220294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.40
€ 68.40
Hardcover. Which practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is it truly progressive? In addressing these questions, this book brings together novel theoretical and empirical perspectives from a diverse range of disciplinary and geographical locales. Editor(s): Cheliotis, Leonidas K. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFF; JFM; JKV; JPV; YQH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210394
- ISBN
- 9780230210394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It consider questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change. Editor(s): Hayden, Professor Patrick; El-Ojeili, Chamsy. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPF; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203594
- ISBN
- 9780230203594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Containing expert contributions from a variety of scholars working in these areas of research, this book explores contemporary concerns in economic development and globalization as well as examining how the issues have changed since Ajit Singh first began working on these subjects. Editor(s): Arestis, Philip; Eatwell, John. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203587
- ISBN
- 9780230203587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Hardcover. What does it take to become a citizen of a particular nation? Is it justified to restrict membership of a society, and if so, on what grounds? This book explores a series of pressing, controversial issues surrounding the acquisition of citizenship, in theory and practice. Editor(s): Calder, Gideon; Cole, Phillip; Seglow, Jonathan. Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203198
- ISBN
- 9780230203198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Through analyzing recent change within six industries this book develops a resolutely interdisciplinary approach to studying globalization. By combining questions and methodologies from institutionalist economics and political science, it proposes a generalizable model for studying the politics of industry. It then tests a causal hypothesis. Editor(s): Jullien, Bernard; Smith, Andy. Series: Globalization and Governance. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201682
- ISBN
- 9780230201682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This exciting collection offers a range of undutiful feminist voices of our time. Editor(s): Gunkel, Henriette; Nigianni, Chrysanthi; Soderback, Fanny. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230118317
- ISBN
- 9780230118317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.77
€ 149.77
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies. Editor(s): Berghoff, Hartmut; Spiekerman, Uwe. Series: Worlds of Consumption. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116627
- ISBN
- 9780230116627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.35
€ 68.35
Hardcover. The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history. Editor(s): Berg, Manfred; Wendt, Simon. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115880
- ISBN
- 9780230115880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Editor(s): Polit Duenas, Gabriela; Rueda, Maria Helena. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFFE; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113787
- ISBN
- 9780230113787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Contributors offer an in-depth look at the dynamics of cultural and political change in Pakistan and the Pakistani Diaspora. Moving past static viewpoints, this volume demonstrates the multidirectional nature of the flow of ideas and people that create the social landscape experienced by Pakistanis globally. Editor(s): Lyon, Stephen; Bolognani, Marta. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110939
- ISBN
- 9780230110939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. Editor(s): Sierra, Marta; Roman-Odio, Clara. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109810
- ISBN
- 9780230109810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. This volume deals with issues of widespread interest including, the origins of investor rights in different markets, the political, legal and economic conditions that determine levels of shareholder participation, and the implications of variation in investor rights. Editor(s): Koppell, Jonathan G. S. Num Pages: 306 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; KFFH; KFFM; KJR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230107328
- ISBN
- 9780230107328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17