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Social issues & processes
hardcover. Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes the politics of state building and the implications for contemporary statehood and the global order. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251861
- ISBN
- 9780230251861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. This book examines the meanings and significance of the UK Gender Recognition Act within the context of broader social, cultural, legal, political, theoretical and policy shifts concerning gender and sexual diversity, and addresses current debates about equality and diversity, citizenship and recognition across a range of disciplines. Series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFJ; JFSJ; LAQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230271890
- ISBN
- 9780230271890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardback. This book investigates the relationships between political violence, social violence and economic violence using examples from South Africa, Northern Ireland, Lebanon and Syria. It examines the cultural impact of war and argues that a culture of violence can explain the high levels of violence which are frequently found in post-war societies. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JP; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272033
- ISBN
- 9780230272033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered makeup. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFSJ; JHBK; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272521
- ISBN
- 9780230272521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new approaches aimed at renewing migration policy-making. This book, now in paperback, critically analyzes the actors, discourses and practices of migration management. Editor(s): Pecoud, Antoine; Geiger, Martin. Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPQB; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272583
- ISBN
- 9780230272583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.12
€ 68.12
Hardback. A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies. Editor(s): Assmann, Aleida; Conrad, Sebastian. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFS; JHBA; JMRM; YQN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272910
- ISBN
- 9780230272910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.79
€ 116.79
Paperback. Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global citizens, through their experience of migration and transnational networks. This study examines the relationships between children, the media, migration and globalization and is now available in paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFN; JFFS; JFSP1; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273443
- ISBN
- 9780230273443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardback. Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273825
- ISBN
- 9780230273825
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Hardcover. EPUB Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBS; KNSP; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230274440
- ISBN
- 9780230274440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. Received opinion has it that humans are morally superior to non-human animals; human interests matter more than the like interests of animals and the value of human lives is alleged to be greater than the value of nonhuman animal lives. Since this belief causes mayhem and murder, its de-mythologizing requires urgent attention. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230276628
- ISBN
- 9780230276628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.00
€ 127.00
Hardback. EPUB Editor(s): Anker, Christien van den; Liempt, Ilse van. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPVH; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279131
- ISBN
- 9780230279131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this transcontinental perspective, the book makes a new contribution to the literature on both language and identity and language and globalization. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230291010
- ISBN
- 9780230291010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response. Anderson contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilising gender as structural violence and identifies how gendered power structures are responded to at the local level in Malawi. Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; JFFH2; JFSJ; JPVH; KCQ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230292888
- ISBN
- 9780230292888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
The EU and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms. Europa, Eur...
Graziano, Paolo R.. Ed(S): Jacquot, Sophie; P...
Hardback. This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political settings. It explores the political mechanisms through which the EU plays a role in domestic social policy changes. Editor(s): Jacquot, Sophie; Palier, Bruno. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 369 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHBL; JKSB; JPB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 369
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296435
- ISBN
- 9780230296435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.27
€ 68.27
Hardcover. This book examines the migration, integration and transnational activity of overseas Americans - American migrants - in France, Germany and the UK. It examines the reasons for their migration, introduces the concept of 'accidental migrant' and explores the question of overseas Americans' integration and identity formation. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 347 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296961
- ISBN
- 9780230296961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 67.85
Hardcover. Visibility matters in contemporary societies; online, in the media and in the public eye. But who is seen and how? Are women still seen through a male gaze? This book explores the politics of looking and being looked at, and the relationship between actual and virtual worlds, for example in sport, art and cinema. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBK5; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302556
- ISBN
- 9780230302556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea and what is at stake in its ongoing production? Drawing on ethnographic research, interviews and media and policy texts, this book traces the remaking of addiction in contemporary Western societies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308107
- ISBN
- 9780230308107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardback. Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries. Editor(s): Okome, Mojubaolu Olufunke; Vaughan, Olufemi. Num Pages: 294 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JFFN; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338678
- ISBN
- 9780230338678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal order. The book examines the roots and evolution of honor-based violence, as well as the ongoing struggle to eradicate it worldwide. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339781
- ISBN
- 9780230339781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. This is the first book to thoroughly examine Al Jazeera English and its coverage methods, its effects on its audience, and its place in the world of mediated geopolitics. Editor(s): Seib, Philip. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340206
- ISBN
- 9780230340206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.03€ 80.76
€ 97.03
€ 80.76