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Social issues & processes

Paperback. Investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 213 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JKSB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814768020
ISBN
9780814768020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. A multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua. Her work has challenged and expanded previous views in American Studies, composition studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, literary studies, critical pedagogy, and queer theory. Num Pages: 281 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC; JFC; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2005th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230605930
ISBN
9780230605930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 133.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816638048
ISBN
9780816638048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.10

Paperback. Argues that the environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences - contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence. This book develops a model of the sources of environmental scarcity. It shows that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 line illus., 6 tables. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFFR; JPA; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691089799
ISBN
9780691089799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.00

Hardback. The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research. Editor(s): Hillmann, Felicitas; Pahl, Marie; Rafflenbeul, Birte. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 figures, 13 black & white tables, 6 maps. BIC Classification: JFFN; RNK; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137538901
ISBN
9781137538901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.52

Hardcover. This volume presents papers which address both individual and societal levels of environment in relation to disability and shed new light on the processes involved with creating or modifying these environmental supports or barriers. Editor(s): Altman, Barbara Mandell; Barnartt, Sharon N. Series: Research in Social Science and Disability. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784412630
ISBN
9781784412630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.87

Paperback. Deane Curtin puts todays most important social and environmental ethical issues into their historical, political and philosophical contexts, and offers deep insights into the nature of our freedom and its relation to justice in our globalized, commercialized culture. Series: Nature's Meaning. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742525795
ISBN
9780742525795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.35

Paperback. Editor(s): Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Antweiler, Christoph. Num Pages: 284 pages, 43 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AMCR; JFFS; JPQB; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837619591
ISBN
9783837619591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.32

hardcover. Envisioning America is a revealing ethnographic portrait of how naturalized Chinese in Southern California have pursued the democratic ideals of participation through political empowerment and community recognition despite impediments to their full inclusion as American citizens. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762410
ISBN
9780804762410
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.64

Hardback. Outlines the history of drug abuse and redefines its phenomena to reflect our knowledge. This book discusses the state and future of the field, balancing the practical concerns involved in gathering drug abuse data with the ethics of using the information. Editor(s): Sloboda, Zili. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1190.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387244150
ISBN
9780387244150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612055459
ISBN
9781612055459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New Press, The
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620970393
ISBN
9781620970393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.55

Paperback. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 reflects America's aspirational belief that girls and boys, women and men, both deserve equal educational opportunities in athletics. This book shows how this ideal has been both implemented and thwarted over the years via actions in the legislature, executive and judicial branches of government. Editor(s): Hogshead-Makar, Nancy; Zimbalist, Andrew. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JNU; YNW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Temple University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592133802
ISBN
9781592133802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.90

Hardback. Details the televising of the revolution in American civil rights Series: The History of Communication. Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFF; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252036682
ISBN
9780252036682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.40

Hardback. This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 183 x 16. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847426079
ISBN
9781847426079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.30

paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780674004221
ISBN
9780674004221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.02

Paperback. How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This book sets out a fresh interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, it applies a fresh framework to a range of contemporary inequalities. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFJ; JHBA; JPA; JPF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230227163
ISBN
9780230227163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 177.80

Paperback. This book explains the provision, both law and practice, of equipment and home adaptations to assist older or disabled people in daily living. The range of items covered is great, from alarms to artificial limbs, baths to bedrooms, chopping boards to crutches, electronic toothbrushes to environmental controls, and walking frames to wheelchairs. Editor(s): Mandelstam, Michael. Num Pages: 600 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; JFFG; JKSG; LNB; LNTH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 934.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853023521
ISBN
9781853023521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.56

Hardback. Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JHBL; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802089564
ISBN
9780802089564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.75

paperback. "The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture.. [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience." -- Labor History Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JH; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 288. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Good clean copy. Ownership details on ffep. Covers showing some shelf wear. Spotting on page edges, however text is crisp and clear and remains a very nice reading copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0031449
ISBN
9780801828720
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 14.00

Paperback. Explores contemporary America's preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children. Claiming that our culture has yet to come to terms with the bungled legacy of Victorian sexuality, this title examines how children and images of youth are idealised, fetishised, and eroticised in everyday culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFE1; JFFE2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321934
ISBN
9780822321934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Survival narrative meets scientific, natural and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 pages of illustrations; 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JJPN; JFFC; JKSR; RBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393353587
ISBN
9780393353587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; JFFD; JPHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Encounter Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594037290
ISBN
9781594037290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.34

Paperback. A true, rare, and haunting story about life inside the deadly Gaza Strip, a refugee's daring escape, and hope. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; BTP; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 11. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
O Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785352218
ISBN
9781785352218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.09

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