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Social issues & processes

Hardback. Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JFFE; JFFG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362777
ISBN
9780822362777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Paperback. Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JFFE; JFFG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362883
ISBN
9780822362883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.55

Hardback. Editor(s): Fraser, Benjamin. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 23. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231177481
ISBN
9780231177481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.11
€ 79.73

Paperback. Editor(s): Fraser, Benjamin. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APFN; JFFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231177498
ISBN
9780231177498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Paperback. Exploring the motivations of migrants in countries around the world, this book proposes a new model of immigration that accounts for the cultural beliefs and social patterns that influence people to move--or to remain at home Num Pages: 179 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292726857
ISBN
9780292726857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Hardback. Intends to ponder the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. This title focuses on the psycho-social dynamics of chemical contamination. It deals with nuclear events, both accidents, but also the closed cities and closed society needed to produce a nuclear context. Editor(s): Edelstein, Michael, PhD; Tysiachniouk, Maria; Smirnova, Lyudmila V. Series: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. Num Pages: 522 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; JFF; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 884.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
522
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780762313716
ISBN
9780762313716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.28

Hardback. Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women's shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 halftones, 13 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JFFA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 736.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067097
ISBN
9780674067097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.64
€ 57.37

paperback. Cultures of care uses an innovative biographical case study approach to compare caring situations and caring strategies in Britain and East and West Germany. The findings underline the significance of caring within social policy agendas and the need to change the parameters of comparative social policy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1fig. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861341662
ISBN
9781861341662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 37.59

Hardback. Offers conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. This title challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. Editor(s): Rodgers, Daniel T.; Raman, Bhavani; Reimitz, Helmut. Series: Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; JFC; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159096
ISBN
9780691159096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.32

Paperback. A broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 808 pages, 71 maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JHBD; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 172 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1344. World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. 808 pages, 71 maps. A broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JHBD; RG. Dimension: 252 x 172 x 55. Weight: 1344.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
808
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349013
ISBN
9780822349013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.75

Paperback. Provides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. This title chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFFA; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520200234
ISBN
9780520200234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.73

Hardback. .
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Unabridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781443832175
ISBN
9781443832175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 31.62

Hardcover. Editor(s): Spierenburg, Marja J.; Wels, Harry. Num Pages: 145 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTB; JFFJ; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 264 x 183 x 10. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
145
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594541858
ISBN
9781594541858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.33
€ 108.36

Paperback. Editor(s): Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz, PhD. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837625332
ISBN
9783837625332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.68

Paperback. This, the first book in the Wiley Series in Culture and Professional Practice, is designed as a practical guide for professionals who work with children from differing cultural backgrounds. It relates cultural differences in development to the problems and practice of child care with a special contribution from cross-cultural psychology. Series: Wiley Series in Culture & Professional Practice. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSL1; JFSP1; JKSB1; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 10. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471966258
ISBN
9780471966258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 94.55

Paperback. Traces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. This book explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self. The author reveals cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. Num Pages: 224 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: JFFG; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 226 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226767321
ISBN
9780226767321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.88

Paperback. Drawing on diverse research literature from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies, Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide presents a new perspective through which to raise questions about globalization, a perspective framed by the concepts of territory, identity, and culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 220 x 12. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631235392
ISBN
9780631235392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.80

Hardcover. Drawing on diverse research literature from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies, Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide presents a new perspective through which to raise questions about globalization, a perspective framed by the concepts of territory, identity, and culture. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
186
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631235385
ISBN
9780631235385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.68

Hardback. Offers a multifaceted perspective on how global changes in the organization of power have transformed the ability of individuals and communities to create their own meanings. Editor(s): Rethmann, Petra; Szeman, Imre; Coleman, William D. Series: Globalization and Autonomy Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4217. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774817592
ISBN
9780774817592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.28

Paperback. The voices of Chinese immigrants who settled in the pre-1950s Canadian prairies come alive in this extraordinary record of migration, settlement, and community life. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774828017
ISBN
9780774828017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

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