Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Paperback. Accessibly written and based on the latest research, this book tackles a key issue in contemporary society. Pulling no punches, addiction authority Jim Orford presents evidence that gambling represents a serious danger to public health due to its potential addictiveness. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFH; WDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470661208
- ISBN
- 9780470661208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.06
€ 65.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846948084
- ISBN
- 9781846948084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.60
€ 21.99
€ 19.60
Paperback. Jim Sleeper discusses what liberals need to do to return their political movement to the vital centre. This text reawakens the debate surrounding race and ethnicity and challenges us to transcend race, to reject foolish policies that have only reinforced racial divisions. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography; index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 265.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742522015
- ISBN
- 9780742522015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.01
€ 57.01
Paperback. BIC Classification: HRCX6; HRLM; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587434006
- ISBN
- 9781587434006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.90
€ 19.99
€ 15.90
Paperback. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Oak Tree Press Dublin
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KEX0208262
- ISBN
- 9781860761195
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. What kind of activity is global governance? What do all of the many sectoral forms of global governance -- of the planetary environment, of global finance and global health -- have in common? Moving beyond sector-specific studies, this book outlines the fundamentals of global governance in eight chapter-length propositions. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPH; JPSN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572539
- ISBN
- 9780230572539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Jin Young Choi rereads discipleship in the Gospel of Mark from a postcolonial feminist perspective, developing an Asian and Asian American hermeneutics of phronesis. Colonized subjects perceive Jesus' body as phantasmic. Discipleship means embodying the mystery of this body while engaging with invisible, placeless and voiceless others. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCF2; HRCG; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541543
- ISBN
- 9781137541543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.68
€ 160.68
Hardcover. This book sheds light on North Korean migrants' Christian encounters and conversions throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on churches as primary contact zones, it highlights the ways in which the migrants and their evangelical counterparts both draw on and contest each others' envisioning of a reunified Christianized Korea. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; HRC; JFFD; JFFN; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450388
- ISBN
- 9781137450388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.31
€ 116.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; DSB; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816651269
- ISBN
- 9780816651269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Hardcover. This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society. Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFF; KNTJ; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406668
- ISBN
- 9781137406668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. Editor(s): Huang, Jinyan. Num Pages: 171 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KB; JFFS; JNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 262 x 184 x 14. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 171
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626181953
- ISBN
- 9781626181953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 250.84€ 172.78
€ 250.84
€ 172.78
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447325550
- ISBN
- 9781447325550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.59
€ 36.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. Looks at the work of a diverse range of artists and explores the effect of feminist theory on art practice. The book provides a provocative and valuable account of the diversity and revolutionary potential of women's art practice. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AGB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415080156
- ISBN
- 9780415080156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.61
€ 54.61
Hardcover. Using case studies from seven Asian countries, this volume examines why people move from rural to urban areas, how globalization affects such movements, and the synergies between globalization, urbanization, and migration. Editor(s): Beall, Jo; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb; Kanbur, Ravi. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations map. BIC Classification: 1F; JFFS; JFSG; KCM; KCU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- OUP India India
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198078531
- ISBN
- 9780198078531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.80
€ 73.80
Paperback. Explores ethical interpretations of biotechnology and examines whether sufficient consensus exists or is emerging to enable this technology to occupy a stable role in the techno-economic, social and cultural order. The contributors address the nature and implications of biotechnologies for nature, life and social organisation. Editor(s): Campling, Jo; O'Mahony, Patrick. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPF; HPQ; JFFR; JHBA; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333665886
- ISBN
- 9780333665886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.58
€ 71.58
Paperback. The recent focus on reducing child poverty stems mainly from worries about the future consequences of poverty on children's later achievement. This report explores the link between childhood poverty and poverty later in life, and asks whether this link has grown stronger or weaker in recent decades. Free PDF available at www.jrf.org.uk Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 298 x 193 x 5. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861348524
- ISBN
- 9781861348524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.65
€ 24.99
€ 24.65
Hardcover. The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States. Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; HRCC7; JFFE1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384027
- ISBN
- 9781137384027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. Editor(s): Beissbarth, Ev. Num Pages: 286 pages, b/w & colour photos. BIC Classification: 1MBF; ASZW; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 177 x 17. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 286
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559558
- ISBN
- 9781875559558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.05
€ 26.99
€ 19.05
Hardcover. This study traces the resurgence of a conservative suffrage leadership, questions the inevitability of the narrow franchise granted to women in 1918, and suggests that something important was lost, especially to the Labour party and to feminism, when a broad vision of democracy and patriotism became a casualty of war, self-interest and jingoism. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013353
- ISBN
- 9780230013353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. Located within a burgeoning therapeutic/self-help culture this book explores stories of childhood sexual abuse, 'recovered memories' and multiple personalities, and explodes the myths surrounding women who, without memories, redefine themselves as victims. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JFFE2; JKSB1; JKSN2; JMU. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574045
- ISBN
- 9780230574045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92