Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Hardback. Examines the mesodomain of welfare reform through re-negotiating the order of economic inequality, provides a grounded fractal analysis into the medicalization of homelessness and the sociology of the self, and looks at the labeling of immigrant men as criminals. This title deals with issues of gender, ethnicity, illness and the urban situation. Editor(s): Denzin, Norman K. Series Editor(s): Denzin, Norman K. Series: Studies in Symbolic Interaction. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFP; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780521565
- ISBN
- 9781780521565
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.41
€ 142.41
Hardcover. When disasters strike, people are not the only victims. Hurricane Katrina raised public attention about how disasters affect dogs, cats, and other animals considered members of the human family. The author argues that humans cause most of the risks faced by animals and urges for better decisions about the treatment of animals in disasters. Series: Animals and Ethics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592138340
- ISBN
- 9781592138340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.65
€ 34.65
Paperback. A pioneering study of women's movements in two developing-world revolutions and post-revolutionary transitions to neo-liberal democracies Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 1KLCN; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592138296
- ISBN
- 9781592138296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.23
€ 36.99
€ 35.23
Paperback. The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America Num Pages: 286 pages, 30 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFG; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592136988
- ISBN
- 9781592136988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.25
€ 34.99
€ 34.25
Paperback. How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals Series Editor(s): Arluke, Arnold; Sanders, Clinton R. Series: Animals, Culture, & Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592136490
- ISBN
- 9781592136490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.12
€ 36.99
€ 35.12
Paperback. In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. This book offers a depiction of the racism suffered by them in rural South Dakota. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNS; 3JJPN; BM; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592136162
- ISBN
- 9781592136162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.42
€ 28.42
Hardcover. Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was 'both the worst and best thing that happened' to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen-year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. This title re-constructs the defining moments of his life. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BGSA; JFFG; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5346 x 3564 x 458. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592134748
- ISBN
- 9781592134748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.84
€ 72.84
Paperback. At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592134588
- ISBN
- 9781592134588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. Observations of animals playing, solving problems, and behaving fairly toward each other reveal a range of animal behaviors and show that the ethical treatment of animals is a significant issue. Series: Animals, Culture, & Society. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592133482
- ISBN
- 9781592133482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.88
€ 36.99
€ 32.88
Paperback. Traces how the military historically constructed definitions of homosexual identity relying upon religious, medical, and psychological discourses that defined homosexuals as evil, degenerate, and unstable, making their risk to national security obvious, and mandating their exclusion from the Armed Services. Series: Queer Politics, Queer Theories. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 b&w illustrations,1 table, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSK; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592130351
- ISBN
- 9781592130351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.60
€ 30.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. The first book to examine religious feminist activists in Israel, the U.S., and Kuwait Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRH; HRJ; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584659730
- ISBN
- 9781584659730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.82
€ 32.99
€ 25.82
Paperback. A provocative look at the centrality of desire for "the Land" among early settlers in pre-state Israel Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781584659686
- ISBN
- 9781584659686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.71
€ 37.99
€ 29.71
Paperback. A unique comparative study of immigrant and diaspora literatures in America Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584658467
- ISBN
- 9781584658467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.41
€ 43.99
€ 33.41
Hardback. Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s. Editor(s): Neswald, Elizabeth; Smith, David F.; Thoms, Ulrike. Num Pages: 238 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFF; MBNH3; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580465762
- ISBN
- 9781580465762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.22
€ 127.22
Paperback. This collection of essays aims to reveal the everyday practice of cultural hierarchies. The essays demonstrate social inequality in a variety of settings through a series of case studies on gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and their complex intersections. Editor(s): Brien, Jodi O.; Howard, Judith A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSC; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781577181224
- ISBN
- 9781577181224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.71
€ 54.71
Paperback. Surveys the contours of Asian America. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 tables, references. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399388
- ISBN
- 9781566399388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Examines the organizational aspects of vegetarianism and tries to explain why the predominant movement strategies have not successfully attracted more people to adopt a vegetarian identity. This book also takes into account the history of North American vegetarianism and the various reasons why people adopt vegetarian diets. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFZ; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399364
- ISBN
- 9781566399364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.61
€ 31.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. What is the effect of a "nation"? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, only dormant? The title collects essays that looks at a range of aesthetic productions - especially literature and the visual arts - that give context to how art and society interact. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AB; ACB; HPS; JFFS; JPA; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566398664
- ISBN
- 9781566398664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.86
€ 31.99
€ 30.86
paperback. Presents an account of how Chinese are being smuggled into the United States, and what happens to the people who risk their lives to reach Gold Mountain. This book shows how the problem of human smuggling will continue for as long as China's citizens are deprived of fundamental human rights and economic security. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 221 pages, 24 tables, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; GTB; JFFN; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566397339
- ISBN
- 9781566397339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
Paperback. Moving from examinations of narratives about disability and illness, the stigmatizing things that healthcare providers unwittingly say to their patients, and communication problems in the intensive care unit, to more personal reflections on anger, isolation, and stories of tragedy, tis work also discusses disability in the workplace. Num Pages: 191 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 407. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566396769
- ISBN
- 9781566396769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.17
€ 34.17