Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
paperback. Series: Contemporary Social Issues. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781444335378
- ISBN
- 9781444335378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.32
€ 41.32
Hardback. In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America their enemy? Inferno in Chechnya is the first book Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUAC; 1KBB; HRAM9; JFFE; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611687378
- ISBN
- 9781611687378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.81
€ 32.99
€ 25.81
hardcover. This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches. Editor(s): Grusky, David B.; Kanbur, Ravi. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748421
- ISBN
- 9780804748421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.36
€ 126.36
paperback. Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. This book treats the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. Series: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology. Num Pages: 437 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520072022
- ISBN
- 9780520072022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.15
€ 35.99
€ 26.15
Paperback. Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poem's production in the first feminist edition of these two tales. Also includes a line-by-line gloss and historical introduction. Series: Routledge English Texts. Num Pages: 218 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DCF; DSBB; DSC; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 262.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & London
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415001342
- ISBN
- 9780415001342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.68
€ 54.68
Paperback. An intriguing historical examination of China's widespread opium epidemic Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 325.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- First Softcover Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067688
- ISBN
- 9780472067688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Hardcover. As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations. Num Pages: 236 pages, 11 ills. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFH; MJND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383543
- ISBN
- 9781782383543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.10
€ 137.10
hardcover. Editor(s): Hirschmann, Nancy J.; McClure, Kirstie M. Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; JFFK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780271029528
- ISBN
- 9780271029528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.79€ 88.05
€ 105.79
€ 88.05
paperback. "A hard-headed and systematic critique of the way the goal of development has been replaced by hand-wringing about 'poverty'." Colin Leys, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Series: Third World in Global Politics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 maps, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JFFA; JFFS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780745319605
- ISBN
- 9780745319605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.80
€ 40.99
€ 31.80
hardcover. This book examines how Indian American motel owners have created a successful immigrant business niche, yet still suffer significant social and cultural inequalities. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804778824
- ISBN
- 9780804778824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.70
€ 117.70
hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFFJ; JFSL1; KNTC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813586304
- ISBN
- 9780813586304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.04
€ 161.04
hardcover. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816653416
- ISBN
- 9780816653416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.23
€ 74.23
The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Developme...
Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo
paperback. Argues that crucial twentieth-century revolutionary challenges to colonialism and capitalism in the Americas have failed to resist - and in fact have been constitutively related to - the very developmentalist narratives that have justified and naturalized post-war capitalism. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331667
- ISBN
- 9780822331667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.67
€ 41.99
€ 37.67
hardcover. In this feminist cultural study of reenactments, Katie King traces the development of a new kind of transmedia storytelling during the 1990s, as a response to the increasing difficulty of reaching large audiences at a time where entertainment media and knowledge production were both being restructured. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350545
- ISBN
- 9780822350545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.12
€ 124.12
hardcover. Looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the nineteenth century to live and work in Paris. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351696
- ISBN
- 9780822351696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.39
€ 111.39
Paperback. This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias. It is the first systematic appraisal of two central themes of his thought -- violence and civilization. Although Elias is best known for his theory of civilizing processes, this study highlights the crucial importance of the concept of decivilizing processes. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745618791
- ISBN
- 9780745618791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.62
€ 25.62
Paperback. Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual - as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo this belief and push developing countries ever deeper into the global economy. Num Pages: 216 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745635545
- ISBN
- 9780745635545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.60
€ 28.60
Paperback. This work shows how immigrants in the USA responded to the Civil War. It stresses the social and political situation in the US from which the phenomonon of the ethnic regiments emerged, the relationships the groups had within larger society, and the impact the war had on the ethnics. Series: North's Civil War. Num Pages: 282 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBW; JFFN; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823218288
- ISBN
- 9780823218288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.83
€ 41.99
€ 37.83
Hardcover. What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? This book looks at the emotionally charged South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFE; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226119984
- ISBN
- 9780226119984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.08
€ 44.99
€ 34.08
Paperback. Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues S. Num Pages: 208 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press Ithaca
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487798
- ISBN
- 9780801487798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.67
€ 41.99
€ 37.67