Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Hardcover. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global implications. It posits social development theory and practice in a critically important context challenging the scientific orthodoxy of our times. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110250
- ISBN
- 9780230110250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Calls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Compels the reader to question conventional wisdom and explores alternative ways of achieving meaningful, enduring improvements to human well-being. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFFS; KCL; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110762
- ISBN
- 9780230110762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 44.09
€ 53.99
€ 44.09
Hardcover. This book looks at Chinese policy towards the South Pacific in the context of China's grand strategy. Analysts are divided on the implications of China's deepening involvement in the region and the study of Chinese involvement in the South Pacific is a part of the great debate on the rise of China. Num Pages: 254 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1M; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113237
- ISBN
- 9780230113237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Hardcover. Told through the voices of local community leaders, this book analyzes how communities respond to natural disasters and how outsiders contribute positively - or negatively - to their response, promoting debate on the role of aid and the media in times of crisis. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114289
- ISBN
- 9780230114289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JFSJ1; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115187
- ISBN
- 9780230115187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115279
- ISBN
- 9780230115279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Educating from Marx: Race, Gender, and Learning (Marxism and Education...
Mojab, Shahrzad, Carpenter, Sara
Hardcover. Educators have been working to develop an important body of literature on neo-liberalism, capitalism, and imperialism. This combines original empirical studies with literature review from critical adult education and feminist theory to examine the theories, and practices of adult education from a Marxist-Feminist perspective. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JNA; JNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115811
- ISBN
- 9780230115811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.28
€ 53.37
€ 47.28
Hardcover. Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcolonial methods and offers a new look on a 'forgotten' continent now the focus of ecological concern. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 202 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MTS; JFFS; JHB; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116870
- ISBN
- 9780230116870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; HBTD; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117860
- ISBN
- 9780230117860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.32
€ 39.32
Paperback. A comparative history of the Spanish, Yugoslav and Greek Civil Wars 1936-1949 from the standpoints of politics, socio-economic structures, national questions, international conjunctures and foreign interventions. From the shifting nexus of relations between domestic and international conditions, Minehan explores the similarities and differences. Num Pages: 414 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBW; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117877
- ISBN
- 9780230117877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Mobility and Migration in Asian Pacific Higher Education (Internationa...
Neubauer, Deane E., Kuroda, Kazuo
Hardcover. Through case studies in eight Asian countries, Europe, and the United States, this volume explores the range and consequences of increased mobility within Asia-Pacific higher education and the patterns of migration emerging for persons, ideas, institutions, and practices. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRP; JFFN; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230118188
- ISBN
- 9780230118188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.09
€ 53.37
€ 47.09
Paperback. This book explores how girls growing up in girl power media culture understand gender, self, empowerment, and resistance. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119963
- ISBN
- 9780230119963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Hardcover. This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.S. women of color. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTW; JFFK; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120457
- ISBN
- 9780230120457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. In this edited volume, leading scholars from the United States and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the twenty-first century, each emphasizing particular dimensions of politics, economics, political culture, and foreign policy. Num Pages: 295 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; JFFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120723
- ISBN
- 9780230120723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Many of the present problems of 'globalization' are mirrored in the historical expansion of the European state system. This title is a structured, comparative case study analysis of four regions and examines how these regions and their peoples were absorbed into the expanding European-centered state system from roughly the 1400s through to 1800. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120884
- ISBN
- 9780230120884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Global Tobacco Control: Power, Policy, Governance and Transfer
Cairney, Paul, Studlar, Donley T., Mamudu, Ha...
Hardcover. The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then charts the extent to which governments have regulated tobacco in the modern era. It identifies major policy change from the post-war period and uses theories of public policy to help explain the change. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JPP; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200043
- ISBN
- 9780230200043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Hardcover. This book is the first sociological and feminist critique of multicultural theory and practice. Using empirical research, it answers the question: is multiculturalism bad for women? arguing that it is not only bad for (minority ethnic) women, but for minority and majority communities, and for society as a whole. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JFSL1; YQN; YXN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201101
- ISBN
- 9780230201101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. Providing the first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, law makers and enforcers, and the media since the 1960s, this book examines the regulation and policing of the phenomenon, which has been influenced by security-related developments within post-bipolar Europe Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFE; WSJA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201149
- ISBN
- 9780230201149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Community, Citizenship and the 'War on Terror': Security and Insecurit...
Noxolo, Patricia, Huysmans, Jef
Hardcover. In the context of the 'global war on terror', the issue of security has come to affect more and more intimate elements of people's everyday lives. This is the starting point of this interdisciplinary collection, which focuses on how the line between security and insecurity is negotiated through changing concepts of 'community' and 'citizenship'. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPB; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201217
- ISBN
- 9780230201217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardcover. Following a group of people as they make the transition from homeless to 'housed' , this book presents a new perspective on homelessness, the individual factors associated with it such as addiction, mental illness and traumatic life histories, and how welfare and poverty interact with these conditions. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201620
- ISBN
- 9780230201620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53