Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Hardback. Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media, and the 'real' lives of these women. Num Pages: 298 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFK; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340312
- ISBN
- 9780230340312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Paperback. This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFH2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340992
- ISBN
- 9780230340992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.66
€ 71.66
Hardback. The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align religious health assets - widely present in many contexts - and public health services and facilities. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JFFH2; JPA; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341272
- ISBN
- 9780230341272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Af...
Conway, Daniel, Leonard, Pauline
Hardcover. Twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office, this timely text interrogates the extent to which the attitudes, identities and everyday lives of British people have changed in accordance with the 'new' South Africa. New ethnographic research is drawn upon to explore important questions of mobility, locality and identity. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; JFFN; JFFS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230346574
- ISBN
- 9780230346574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a second-tier city in China and uses sociological theory to understand the impact of global mobility on identity, community and belonging. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFFS; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348394
- ISBN
- 9780230348394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFS; JFFT; JFSC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354449
- ISBN
- 9780230354449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Analyses change and continuity throughout the history of British animal research regulation. Num Pages: 379 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355118
- ISBN
- 9780230355118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63
Hardcover. This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the historical in contemporary cultural politics. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFFA; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360471
- ISBN
- 9780230360471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Immigrant incorporation is a critical challenge for France and other European societies today. Black Africans migrants are racialized and endowed with an immigrant status, which carries low status and is durable into the second generation. This book elucidates the conflict and issues pertinent to social integration. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HF; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361959
- ISBN
- 9780230361959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFJ; JFSG; JFSP; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363335
- ISBN
- 9780230363335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book explores the changing nature of party competition in four West European countries. It pays special attention to how different ideological positions give rise to contradictory cues when parties engage with atypical election issues like the EU and immigration. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JPLM; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367746
- ISBN
- 9780230367746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animal suffering. In this book, Dougherty defends radical possibilities for animal afterlife that allow a soul-making theodicy to apply to their case. Series Editor(s): Nagasawa, Yujin; Wielenberg, Erik J. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368484
- ISBN
- 9780230368484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.71
€ 149.71
Hardcover. Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948. He also examines the organization's prospects for managing global health security now and into the future. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; MBN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369313
- ISBN
- 9780230369313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.75
€ 149.75
Hardcover. This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 343 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390737
- ISBN
- 9780230390737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.19
€ 68.19
Hardback. This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a relational action constructed in interaction through pre-existing patterns and captures the features of ritual phenomena by analysing interactants' behaviour in culturally and socially diverse contexts. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230393042
- ISBN
- 9780230393042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. Focusing on the EU, this volume, with a combination of theoretical perspectives and empirical research, examines the problems multilevel governance causes for democratic legitimacy by placing it in a comparative and theoretical context, and explore how challenges faced by the EU compare with those faced by traditional federal systems worldwide. Editor(s): DeBardeleben, Joan; Hurrelmann, Achim. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500778
- ISBN
- 9780230500778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
hardcover. Drawing together insights from media studies, sociology and science and technology studies, this book is one of the first major studies of media coverage, policy debates and public perceptions of nanotechnologies, and makes a fascinating and timely contribution to debates about the public communication of science. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; PDR; TBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506930
- ISBN
- 9780230506930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardback. 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 book reviews research and debate in the media, globalization, migration and childhood, with empirical research in which children's voices are featured prominently and directly. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFN; JFSP1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506992
- ISBN
- 9780230506992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of international relations, bringing together leading scholars on the history and politics of global health. Editor(s): Bashford, Alison. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; JFFS; JPS; MBNS; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507067
- ISBN
- 9780230507067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Hardback. Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states. Editor(s): Outshoorn, Joyce; Kantola, Johanna. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 351
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230516618
- ISBN
- 9780230516618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.53
€ 128.53