Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Paperback. "A fascinating and important book--one that should be read by every man, woman and man-child in America." --A.J. Jacobs BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ2; JHB; JMH. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 153 x 204 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240. 240 pages. "A fascinating and important book--one that should be read by every man, woman and man-child in America." --A.J. Jacobs. Cateogry: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ2; JHB; JMH. Dimension: 153 x 204 x 17. Weight: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- First Trade Paper Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465028368
- ISBN
- 9780465028368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.42
€ 17.99
€ 15.42
Paperback. In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering. Series: Contemporary Societies Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393973259
- ISBN
- 9780393973259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.90
€ 30.90
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
€ 126.77
Hardback. In this work, theoretical contributions to the globalization debate within international political economy are empirically evaluated, covering different geographical parts of the world (Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Malaysia and South Africa). Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFFS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333987643
- ISBN
- 9780333987643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.87
€ 63.87
Hardback. The aim of development is always poverty reduction but the devil is in the detail and planning impacts heavily on the results. This study examines and evaluates macroeconomic strategies and their effectiveness in truly reducing poverty. Editor(s): Potts, David; Ryan, Patrick; Toner, Anna. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; KCM; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333970171
- ISBN
- 9780333970171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.47
€ 122.47
Hardback. The United Nations (UN) must either remain a "decision frozen in time" or develop an agenda to be relevant to 21st-century global governance. This study examines UN change processes, assessing learning strategies that would allow the UN to maintain relevance amidst evolving global governance. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; JFFS; JPSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333801512
- ISBN
- 9780333801512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.38
€ 64.38
hardcover. This text examines the destabilizing effects of financial crises on economic growth, stability and development. It also presents some innovative ideas intended to inform the design of institutions able to foster more effective international policy co-ordination. Editor(s): Arestis, Philip; Baddeley, Michelle; McCombie, John. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- SKU
- V9780333800171
- ISBN
- 9780333800171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.40
€ 122.40
Paperback. This is a collection of theoretical discussion and empirical evidence on the way people think about, and cope with, the risks and uncertainties of late 1990s life. It concludes that policies that assume people are self-interested rational actors are unlikely to succeed. Editor(s): Taylor-Gooby, Peter. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333764930
- ISBN
- 9780333764930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.05
€ 58.05
Hardback. A collection of essays which focus on the nature and control of drug abuse in Britain, past, present and future. Topics covered include the British policy of prescribing for and rehabilitating registered users, action against illegal users, and issues relevant to the drug control debate. Editor(s): Whynes, David K.; Bean, Philip. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFH1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333522295
- ISBN
- 9780333522295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.57
€ 122.57
Hardback. Anthropologist Michel Laguerre, author of several books including "Urban Life in the Caribbean" and "American Odyssey - Haitians in New York and Voodoo and Politics in Haiti", focuses on Martinique as a social laboratory to investigate the process of reproduction of urban poverty in the Caribbean. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QSC; JFFA; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333521724
- ISBN
- 9780333521724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.80
€ 121.80
Paperback. Part of a series, this collection contains essays delivered as papers, which focus on 18th-century British culture. Other titles in the series, by various authors, include "The Crisis in Historical Materialism", "The Freudian Subject" and "Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics and Cinema". Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 280 pages, 43 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333482889
- ISBN
- 9780333482889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.35
€ 69.35
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1979th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333294833
- ISBN
- 9780333294833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.13
€ 189.13
Paperback. Editor(s): Schapiro, Leonard; Godson, Joseph. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333288474
- ISBN
- 9780333288474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.15
€ 65.15
Hardcover. This book offers a detailed road map for overcoming sexual and relationship impasses originating from painful childhood experiences. Series: Sex, Love and Psychology. Num Pages: 167 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313392122
- ISBN
- 9780313392122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.03
€ 57.03
Paperback. Shari Stone-Mediatore brings together the theoretical perspectives of Hannah Arendt and post-colonial theory to develop a "post positivist" account of narrative which can form the basis for a progressive feminist politics. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295677
- ISBN
- 9780312295677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.74€ 44.82
€ 51.74
€ 44.82
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 393.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295417
- ISBN
- 9780312295417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.00
€ 69.00
Paperback. Instead of viewing globalization and nation states as two separate and opposed domains of theorization and politics, this volume contextualizes US borders within global processes that are reconstituting the relationship between nation states and private corporations at the site of US borders. Editor(s): Sadowski-Smith, Claudia. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294830
- ISBN
- 9780312294830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.74€ 44.39
€ 51.74
€ 44.39
Paperback. This text looks at how economics, politics, gender, and other factors have influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and influenced women's experiences with breast cancer. Editor(s): Kasper, Anne S.; Ferguson, Susan J. Num Pages: 400 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; MJCL; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294519
- ISBN
- 9780312294519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.53
€ 65.53
Paperback. The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Using a broad multicultural approach, "States of Confinement" uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in policing and punishment systems. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK; JFSL1; JKVF; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294502
- ISBN
- 9780312294502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.74€ 46.14
€ 51.74
€ 46.14
Paperback. This volume proposes to answer the question: what is new in French feminism at the beginning of the 21st century? The essays reflect the shift from the theoretical and philosophical approaches that characterized feminism in the 1980s to the more social and political questions of 2001. Editor(s): Celestin, Roger; DalMolin, Eliane; Courtivron, Isabelle de. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240400
- ISBN
- 9780312240400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.89
€ 64.89
Paperback. Based on long-term ethnographic research, this book explores the intersection of "gender" and "modernity" as they are mediated in the lives and subjectivities of diverse individuals and groups. Editor(s): Hodgson, Dorothy L. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240134
- ISBN
- 9780312240134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardback. There is no European society whose modern history has been more deeply marked by disasters, both natural and social, than has Italy's. This volume brings new research on all aspects of the Italian experience of disaster from unification to the present day. Editor(s): Dickie, John; Foot, John; Snowden, Frank M. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLW; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 351
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239602
- ISBN
- 9780312239602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.79
€ 122.79
Hardcover. Long regarded as a local institution, the community college has been affected by global forces, and by the interpretations of organizational members to these forces and to the responses of intermediaries. This book examines seven case studies to demonstrate organizational change in the 1990s. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; JFFS; JH; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239060
- ISBN
- 9780312239060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.11
€ 42.11
Hardback. Coca-Globalization explores globalization through an historical and anthropological study of soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi, examining how they have become more than mere commodities. Num Pages: 275 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHM; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238711
- ISBN
- 9780312238711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.34
€ 64.34