Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Paperback. An introduction to the range of potential disaster scenarios, covering the issues and organizational relationships of importance to the student of consequence management. These include the roles, responsibilities, and coordination requirements of first responders, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the military. Editor(s): Larsen, Jeffrey A. Series: Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 2 maps, 13 charts. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPS; JWKW; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336415
- ISBN
- 9781137336415
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Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. Bringing together important contributions from leading Israeli Jewish and Palestinian scholars, this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary volume addresses the most recent developments and outcomes of the labor market integration of the Palestinian minority inside Israel. Editor(s): Khattab, Nabil; Miaari, Sami. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; JFFJ; JFSL; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336446
- ISBN
- 9781137336446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations between underground and overground dynamics all over the globe. It aims to provide a new take on the dark side of globalization. Editor(s): Talani, Leila Simona; Clarkson, Alexander; Pardo, Ramon Pacheco. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 227 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343147
- ISBN
- 9781137343147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. This volume addresses new tendencies related to migration from a Middle Eastern and Mediterranean perspective and with an emphasis on security and citizenship. Contributors aim not only to intervene in scholarly debates surrounding citizenship and migration but also to contribute to policy-oriented discussions related to migration. Editor(s): Seeberg, Peter; Eyadat, Zaid. Series: The Modern Muslim World. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFFN; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345400
- ISBN
- 9781137345400
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Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. This book explores mobile representations in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and research and examines the methodological potential of these representations and the ways in which representations co-produce mobilities. Editor(s): Murray, Lesley; Upstone, Sara. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346650
- ISBN
- 9781137346650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. This unique collection explores the continuing invisibility of much crime and victimization, and the lack of adequate responses to them. Shaping the lens through which criminology and victimology is approached in the twenty-first century, the volume examines major issues including (in)justice, risks, rights, regulation and enforcement. Editor(s): Davies, Pamela; Francis, Peter W.; Wyatt, Tanya. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JKV; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347817
- ISBN
- 9781137347817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
Hardcover. The rise in popularity of South Korean entertainment and culture began and is promoted as an official policy of the Korean government to revive the country's economy. This study examines cultural production and consumption, glocalization, the West versus. Asia, global race consciousness, and changing views of masculinity and femininity. Editor(s): Kuwahara, Yasue. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; JFCA; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350275
- ISBN
- 9781137350275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.58
€ 143.58
Hardcover. This book examines how feminist movements have contested the dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s. It deals with two important facets of this struggle, prostitution and the right to abortion, as they relate to the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. Editor(s): Outshoorn, Joyce. Series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 figures, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFK; JFMA; JFMX; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351654
- ISBN
- 9781137351654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Hardcover. For the first time, European professional deregulation is the focus of reflection by social scientists. This book explores how professional associations act as pressure groups and highlights the democratic regime that is prevailing and the potential convergence problems that Europe may face. Editor(s): Rego, Raquel. Num Pages: 108 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBL; JPH; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 110
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352743
- ISBN
- 9781137352743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. This book combines overviews of the nature and causes of inter-group violence in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa with a collection of country case studies. Both the overview chapter and the case studies trace how economic policy initiatives, and consequent changes in the roles and statuses of various groups, shape conflict or cooperation. Editor(s): Ascher, William; Mirovitskaya, Natalia. Series: Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFE; JP; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356789
- ISBN
- 9781137356789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.90
€ 64.90
Hardcover. This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New York, the nation's largest public urban university. Editor(s): Gambs, Deborah S.; Kim, Rose M. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360687
- ISBN
- 9781137360687
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Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Paperback. This book investigates the processes through which different higher education systems have determined national higher education policies related to competitiveness, as well as the strategies they have adopted to enhance their global competitiveness. Editor(s): Rust, Val D.; Portnoi, Laura M.; Bagley, Sylvia S. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 284 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366559
- ISBN
- 9781137366559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.25€ 44.79
€ 51.25
€ 44.79
Hardcover. The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty. Editor(s): Lemanski, Charlotte; Marx, Colin. Series: EADI Global Development Series. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137367426
- ISBN
- 9781137367426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardcover. A collection of essays from a diverse array of emerging scholars in the field of Disability Studies. Editor(s): Wappett, Matthew; Arndt, Katrina. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372024
- ISBN
- 9781137372024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. The original scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas across borders. Editor(s): Casanova, Erynn Masi de; Jafar, Afshan. Num Pages: 204 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFFS; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372185
- ISBN
- 9781137372185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the field to its current state. Includes contributions from Robert Bogdan, Doug Biklen, Susan Schweik, and more. Editor(s): Wappett, Matthew; Arndt, Katrina. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373526
- ISBN
- 9781137373526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
Hardcover. This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body. Editor(s): Jafar, Afshan; Casanova, Erynn Masi de. Num Pages: 210 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFFS; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378668
- ISBN
- 9781137378668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardcover. Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern societies by undermining teleological and reassuring narratives of progress. Editor(s): Martschukat, Jurgen; Niedermeier, Silvan. Num Pages: 318 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378682
- ISBN
- 9781137378682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardcover. Edited by Francois Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works. Editor(s): Depelteau, Francois; Powell, Christopher. Num Pages: 252 pages, 10 black & white line drawings, 3 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFFS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379917
- ISBN
- 9781137379917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardcover. This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of critical theory in education and its uses in Latin American society today. An international group of contributors discuss both individual countries and the region as a whole. Editor(s): Motta, Sara C.; Cole, Mike. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFF; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380678
- ISBN
- 9781137380678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.25€ 45.44
€ 51.25
€ 45.44