Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Hardcover. This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic a miraclea s. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFS; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557868879
- ISBN
- 9781557868879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.43
€ 77.43
Paperback. Editor(s): Norma, Caroline; Reist, Melinda Tankard. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFFE; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781742199863
- ISBN
- 9781742199863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.73
€ 26.99
€ 18.73
Paperback. How can society cope with this diaspora of the twenty-first century? Is there a difference between 'good' asylum seekers and 'bad' economic migrants? What happens to those whose applications are turned down? This title celebrates the courage and will to survive shown by ordinary human beings. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFD; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784703615
- ISBN
- 9781784703615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Hardback. By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780745334127
- ISBN
- 9780745334127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.96€ 82.07
€ 99.96
€ 82.07
Paperback. By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745334110
- ISBN
- 9780745334110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.46
€ 35.99
€ 28.46
Hardback. By 1940, Acker concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s prompted changes in the understanding of addiction-and in public policy. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFH1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801867989
- ISBN
- 9780801867989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.86€ 51.18
€ 55.86
€ 51.18
Paperback. Caroline Dick asks how group identity claims, especially in the courts, obscure significant intragroup differences. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL9; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774820639
- ISBN
- 9780774820639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.44
€ 34.99
€ 33.44
Paperback. This work examines how Indian and Vietnamese immigrants in the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth area of Texas learn and practice civic engagement. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804775298
- ISBN
- 9780804775298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.19
€ 33.99
€ 33.19
hardcover. Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Series: Immigration and Society. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780745687889
- ISBN
- 9780745687889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.37
€ 65.37
Paperback. Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Series: Immigration and Society. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 292 x 19. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745687896
- ISBN
- 9780745687896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.93
€ 22.93
Hardback. A collection of personal letters to friends from a foreign correspondent who is trying to understand what she witnessed during the iconic human disasters of our time - in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and New York City on September 11th, among the other places. Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: BJ; HBG; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129037
- ISBN
- 9780691129037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.19
€ 26.99
€ 20.19
Hardback. Series: Feminist Technosciences. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFFK; JFSJ; JHBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295999098
- ISBN
- 9780295999098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.21
€ 119.21
Paperback. Series: Feminist Technosciences. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFFK; JFSJ; JHBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 247 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295999104
- ISBN
- 9780295999104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only half the story. Series: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780745604329
- ISBN
- 9780745604329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.21
€ 29.99
€ 24.21
Paperback. Assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual active in the U.S. and U.K. Num Pages: 344 pages, 31 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGH; JFFK; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First edition, paperback issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341161
- ISBN
- 9780822341161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.26
€ 32.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Very few will return to the country they barely remember. Who are they, and what America do they know? This book provides an account of the lives, dreams, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants. Num Pages: 440 pages, 14 line illustrations, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSP1; JNA; JNKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674045804
- ISBN
- 9780674045804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.44
€ 26.99
€ 26.44
Paperback. In the midst of the largest wave of immigration in history, America is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role in reworking the fabric of the nation. This study offers an interdisciplinary view of who these children are and what their future might hold. Series: The Developing Child. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSP1; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674008380
- ISBN
- 9780674008380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.27
€ 36.99
€ 31.27
paperback. Editor(s): Wilkinson, Carol W. Num Pages: 283 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBL; KNXC; VFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Government Institutes Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865875425
- ISBN
- 9780865875425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 173.43
€ 173.43
paperback. Editor(s): Suarez-Orozco, Carola; Abo-Zena, Mona M.; Marks, Amy Kerivan. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814770177
- ISBN
- 9780814770177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.45
€ 33.99
€ 30.45
Paperback. Carol Smart presents a new gendered analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist post- structuralist approach. She comments on pornography, as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation. Series: Sociology of Law and Crime. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; JFFK; LN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415026710
- ISBN
- 9780415026710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.80
€ 82.80
paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, 15 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253018069
- ISBN
- 9780253018069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.04
€ 28.04
Paperback. Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to demystify the process of assessing risk for people with intellectual impairment (previously called 'learning disabilities'). Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470974858
- ISBN
- 9780470974858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.42
€ 46.99
€ 46.42
Paperback. Growing Up with Disability encompasses a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications. The book adopts a child-centred approach, stressing the importance of communicating with disabled children, and includes interviews and pieces of their own writing. The book explores how such children can best be protected. Editor(s): Robinson, Carol; Stalker, Kirsten. Series: Research Highlights in Social Work. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKSB1; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853025686
- ISBN
- 9781853025686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.39
€ 34.39
Paperback. Presents the story of the changing life of a community, revealing historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves. This book relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. It reveals their confidence and anxiety. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022522
- ISBN
- 9780674022522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.25
€ 27.99
€ 26.25