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Social issues & processes
Paperback. Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520227408
- ISBN
- 9780520227408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 28.50
€ 37.99
€ 28.50
Paperback. Tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. This book traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496804
- ISBN
- 9781558496804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.52
€ 40.52
Paperback. A major new manifesto for a high-tech future, free from work Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFR; JPF; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784786229
- ISBN
- 9781784786229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.58
€ 21.99
€ 18.58
Paperback. Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book discusses how such gendering occurs, the scientific basis for claims of sex difference, the medicalization of womena s bodies and the political issues raised by reproductive technology. Editor(s): Kirkup, Gill; Keller, Laurie Smith. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cambridge
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745609782
- ISBN
- 9780745609782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.44
€ 34.44
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
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE3; VFV; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Perigee Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780399166587
- ISBN
- 9780399166587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.93
€ 20.99
€ 20.93
Paperback. In this chilling expose, investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper in a brothel and unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade. Adapted into the Channel Four film documentary 'Sex: My British Job', by Nick Broomfield Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFN; JFMX; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- The Westbourne Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908906069
- ISBN
- 9781908906069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.40
€ 14.99
€ 14.40
Paperback. Series: Asian American Studies Today. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL3; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813570662
- ISBN
- 9780813570662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.47
€ 37.99
€ 35.47
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813570679
- ISBN
- 9780813570679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.42
€ 158.42
Paperback. This collection covers a variety of issues facing elder caregivers: community health, aging, HIV services, child welfare, education, public policy, and mental health. Editor(s): Joslin, Daphne. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH2; MQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KT00002203
- ISBN
- 9780231119375
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 327 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 220 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137578372
- ISBN
- 9781137578372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.49
€ 140.49
paperback. A provocative look at the true forces that shape housing markets, challenging mainstream theories of supply and demand and calling for a new way to provide shelter to cities' most overlooked inhabitantsothe elderly, the disabled and the poor Num Pages: 281 pages, 30 b&w illus., 4 figures, 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKSB; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 15. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717107
- ISBN
- 9780292717107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.24
€ 29.99
€ 27.24
Paperback. Editor(s): Davies, Pamela; Francis, Peter W.; Wyatt, Tanya. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JKV; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467501
- ISBN
- 9781349467501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.76
€ 126.76
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347817
- ISBN
- 9781137347817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.05
€ 129.05
Paperback. Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England s last major wave of emigration." Series: Studies in Immigration and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD1; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887557774
- ISBN
- 9780887557774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.78
€ 36.78
Paperback. Based on in-depth reporting from five major cities, this book looks backward at the historical context of family homelessness, as well as forward at what needs to be done to alleviate this widespread, although often hidden, poverty. It is suitable for anyone who wants to know what is happening to the millions of families living in poverty. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 222 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520292673
- ISBN
- 9780520292673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.45
€ 38.45
Paperback. Invisible Victims presents the first comprehensive, integrated study of the risks faced by homeless people and their attempts to find safety and security in often dangerous environments. Num Pages: 192 pages, 9. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442611764
- ISBN
- 9781442611764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.05
€ 34.99
€ 32.05
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643284
- ISBN
- 9781442643284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 404 pages, 180 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 404
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781876756918
- ISBN
- 9781876756918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 26.96
€ 38.99
€ 26.96
Paperback. This important book illuminates how the poor live, and offers an opportunity to think of efficient ways, rooted in the reality, to fight poverty in the world. Translator(s): Al Shamy, Anwar Al. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789992195246
- ISBN
- 9789992195246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12