Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Hardcover. By conversing with the main bodies of relevant literature from Migration Studies and Memory Studies, this overview highlights how analysing memories can contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migrant incorporation. The chapters consider international case studies from Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. Editor(s): Kleist, J. Olaf; Glynn, Irial. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293380
- ISBN
- 9780230293380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Women on Corporate Boards and in Top Management: European Trends and P...
Fagan, Colette, Gonz?Lez Men?Ndez, Maria, G?M...
Hardcover. This book examines the international trends and associated developments in gender equality policy including corporate governance such as gender quotas. International comparative analysis is combined with detailed analysis of eight European countries with different policy regimes and trajectories. Editor(s): Gonzalez Menendez, Maria; Gomez Anson, Silvia. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFJ; JFSJ1; KCF; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293441
- ISBN
- 9780230293441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. This book examines ideas of 'home' of Americans and Western Europeans under the influence of the two major revolutions of our times: the gender revolution and increased mobility due to globalization. It analyzes how 'home' has been politicized, as well as alternative home-making strategies that aim to transcend the 'logic of identities'. Num Pages: 168 pages, 7 black & white tables, 2 figures, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JFSJ; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 161
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293991
- ISBN
- 9780230293991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.40
€ 65.40
Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe ...
Triandafyllidou, Anna, Maroukis, Thanos
Hardcover. This books explores the phenomenon of irregular migration, notably the organization and role of migrant smuggling networks in aiding irregular migration from Asia and Africa to Europe. It also discusses how migration control policies in southern European countries shape the migrant smuggling phenomenon and the smuggling 'business'. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 1H; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296374
- ISBN
- 9780230296374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Baker provides a unique insider perspective on factors affecting British Muslim converts and their susceptibility to violent radicalisation, including firsthand accounts of convicted terrorists Richard Reid (the 'Shoe Bomber'), Zacarius Moussaoui (the 20th 9/11 bomber), and Abdullah el-Faisal who is alleged to have been a radicalising influence. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JFFE; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296541
- ISBN
- 9780230296541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cogni...
Bluhm, Robyn, Maibom, Heidi Lene, Jaap Jacobs...
Hardcover. Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains? Do women empathize, while men systematize? Is there a 'feminine' ethics? What does brain research on intersex conditions tell us about sex and gender? Editor(s): Jacobson, Anne Jaap. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JMR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296732
- ISBN
- 9780230296732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.56
€ 128.56
Gender, Migration and Domestic Work: Masculinities, Male Labour and Fa...
Kilkey, Majella, Perrons, Diane, Plomien, Ani...
Hardcover. Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, exploring issues such as increasing inequality, migration, the rise of commoditized domestic services, contemporary masculinities and the gendering of paid work. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ2; JHBK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230297203
- ISBN
- 9780230297203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. 296 pages, 25 black & white halftones. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298279
- ISBN
- 9780230298279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Hardcover. This book examines feminist art of the 1970s through contemporary art made by women. In a series of readings of artworks by, amongst others, Tracey Emin, Vanessa Beecroft, Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneemann the reader is taken on a journey through maternal desire, fantasies of escape and failed femininity. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10 figures. BIC Classification: ABA; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298484
- ISBN
- 9780230298484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.24
€ 116.24
Hardcover. EU internal security concerns such as migration, police and judicial cooperation are today part of EU foreign policy. This book shows how those concerns dominate the EU agenda towards Mediterranean countries. Adopting a rational-choice institutionalist approach, it explores EU policy and the strategic choices made after the 2011 Arab revolts. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPQ; JPSN2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299931
- ISBN
- 9780230299931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. What determines Europe's migrant policies and where does the EU fit into this picture? This book is a comparative analysis of the impact of the EU, if any, on the policies and politics of immigrant integration in its member states. It investigates whether the EU can be a force for good in this policy area. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QFE; JFFN; JPB; JPQB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299993
- ISBN
- 9780230299993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Same Sex Marriages: New Generations, New Relationships (Genders and Se...
Heaphy, Brian, Smart, Carol, Einarsdottir, An...
Hardcover. Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300231
- ISBN
- 9780230300231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP1; JHBK; JMC; JNLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300330
- ISBN
- 9780230300330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; JFSC; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300354
- ISBN
- 9780230300354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland (Migration, Dia...
Lentin, Ronit, Moreo, Elena
Hardcover. This book analyzes the interaction between migrant activists and leaders and the state of the Republic of Ireland - a late player in Europe's immigration regime - against the background of an increasingly restrictive immigration regime. Editor(s): Lentin, Ronit; Moreo, Elena. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300620
- ISBN
- 9780230300620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. A timely and critical investigation into the way media operates in a so-called global age, presenting new empirical data on key sites of news production and crucially tying these findings to ongoing debates on globalization and democracy. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301337
- ISBN
- 9780230301337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Immigration Policy and the Scandinavian Welfare State 1945-2010 (Migra...
Brochmann, Grete, Hagelund, Anniken
Hardcover. This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3JJP; 3JMC; JFFN; JKSB1; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302389
- ISBN
- 9780230302389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Through in-depth analysis of interviews from across Europe, this book explores how European citizens identify themselves with Europe and the development of a 'European mental space.' Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFS; JHBC; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302563
- ISBN
- 9780230302563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV (H...
Michael, Mike, Rosengarten, Marsha
Hardcover. With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and topological dimensions of the expectations, ethics and evidence that surround the innovation of PrEP. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JFMG; MBS; MQW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302679
- ISBN
- 9780230302679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzing poverty conceptions and measures, and concludes with concrete recommendations regarding both the procedures for and substance of future global poverty measurement. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302860
- ISBN
- 9780230302860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37