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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's most beloved and controversial wife, and a central figure in Islamic cultural history. Instead of employing the traditional chronological technique of the biographer, however, Spellberg uses 'A'isha as a lens through which to examine the place of women in Islamic societies. Num Pages: 243 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231079990
ISBN
9780231079990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719087318
ISBN
9780719087318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.98

Paperback. Governance has emerged as a central concept and key word in China's governmental and local policy and practice at different levels. This edited collection combines empirical and normative researches as well as theoretical exploration and case studies on the governance theories and practices in China. Editor(s): Zhenglai, D. Num Pages: 251 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349297825
ISBN
9781349297825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. In this volume, some of the leading scholars on China's development examine China's responses to the global financial crisis and their implications for China's economy, society, and the international balances of power. Editor(s): Yang, D. Series: China in Transformation. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JP; KCP; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343584
ISBN
9781349343584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

paperback. This is the first book of its kind to look across disciplines at this vital aspect of British art, literature and culture. It brings the various intertwined histories of social realism into historical perspective, and argues that this sometimes marginalized genre is still an important reference point for creativity in Britain. Editor(s): Tucker, D. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; DSA; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349317868
ISBN
9781349317868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.75

Paperback. Editor(s): Simmons, D. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349461660
ISBN
9781349461660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.87

Paperback. Editor(s): Lovatt, D. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR; JPA; JPS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349413041
ISBN
9781349413041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.92

Paperback. Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa, and by contrasting Pentecostal and secular models of change. Editor(s): Freeman, D. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HRA; JFC; JHM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349437030
ISBN
9781349437030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.87

Paperback. This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine at face-to-face encounters in marketplaces. Editor(s): Cook, D. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JHB; JHMC; KJSU; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349354849
ISBN
9781349354849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.24

Paperback. Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other. Editor(s): Ryan, L.; Erel, Umut; Hetherington, Paul. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JHBC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349467716
ISBN
9781349467716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.11

Paperback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530861
ISBN
9781349530861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary, ' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBTB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349469703
ISBN
9781349469703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349443017
ISBN
9781349443017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.64

Hardcover. Editor(s): Shek, Daniel T. L.; Ma, Hing Keung; Merrick, Professor Joav, MD, MMedSci, DMSc. Num Pages: 221 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 266 x 190 x 21. Weight in Grams: 728.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608768301
ISBN
9781608768301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 284.31
€ 212.51

Hardcover. Editor(s): Shek, Daniel T. L.; Sun, Rachel C. F.; Merrick, Professor Joav, MD, MMedSci, DMSc. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 188 x 17. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626186224
ISBN
9781626186224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.97
€ 158.44

Paperback. Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JFFS; JFSL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349459827
ISBN
9781349459827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.64

Paperback. "Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan shows the continued relevance of the approach with reference to time and space, the body, emotions, ethics and work/life balance"-- Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JKSN; JPQB; PDZ; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 240 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349358021
ISBN
9781349358021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.27

Paperback. This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind, ' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner subjective states Num Pages: 219 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349288557
ISBN
9781349288557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JPS; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 305.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349317257
ISBN
9781349317257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Collection of essays forges compelling linkages between cultural experiences of refugees and indigenous peoples worldwide. Editor(s): Coleman, Daniel; Glanville, Erin Goheen; Hasan, Wafaa; Kramer-Hamstra, Agnes. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888645920
ISBN
9780888645920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.43

Paperback. This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each. Editor(s): Boyarin, Daniel; Itzkovitz, Daniel; Pellegrini, Ann. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113755
ISBN
9780231113755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.66

Paperback. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349417681
ISBN
9781349417681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of male authors from across the Arab world to explore the traditional and evolving nature of father-son relationships in Arab families. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2013
SKU
V9781349462940
ISBN
9781349462940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.88

Hardcover. Editor(s): D'Aubigne, Paul. Num Pages: 147 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
GAZELLE BOOK SERVICES
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629485058
ISBN
9781629485058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 190.33
€ 130.56

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