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Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa: A Multidisciplinary ...
. Ed(S): Pauleit, Stephan; Jorgensen, Gertrud...
hardcover. Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa Editor(s): Pauleit, Stephan; Jorgensen, Gertrud; Kabisch, Sigrun; Gasparini, Paolo; Fohlmeister, Sandra; Simonis, Ingo; Yeshitela, Kumelachew; Coly, Adrian; Lindley, Sarah; Kombe, Wilbard J. Series: Future City. Num Pages: 414 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 115 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSG; RNPG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Switzerland
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319039848
- ISBN
- 9783319039848
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€ 182.73
€ 182.73
Paperback. Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa Editor(s): Pauleit, Stephan; Jorgensen, Gertrud; Kabisch, Sigrun; Gasparini, Paolo; Fohlmeister, Sandra; Simonis, Ingo; Yeshitela, Kumelachew; Coly, Adrian; Lindley, Sarah; Kombe, Wilbard J. Series: Future City. Num Pages: 414 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 115 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSG; RNPG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319039817
- ISBN
- 9783319039817
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€ 183.32
€ 183.32
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Pauels, Heinrich; Wittkamper, Gerd W. Series: Medien in Der Politischen Bildung. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810002822
- ISBN
- 9783810002822
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Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Strukturen Und Angebote Lokaler Medien in Nordrhein-Westfalen
. Ed(S): Patzold, Ulrich; Roper, Horst; Volpe...
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Patzold, Ulrich; Roper, Horst; Volpers, Helmut. Series: Schriftenreihe Medienforschung Der Landesanstalt Fur Medien. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810037954
- ISBN
- 9783810037954
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Condition: New
€ 68.27
€ 68.27
Paperback. The first authoritative summary of its kind in this area, Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation is the primary resource for the many researchers, including a new generation of investigators, who are continuing to advance understanding in this field. Editor(s): Patterson, Charlotte J.; D'Augelli, Anthony R. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMC; JMG; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 179 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190247072
- ISBN
- 9780190247072
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Condition: New
€ 91.85
€ 91.85
paperback. This volume explores various issues relating to theories of rational choice and social welfare and their applications. The topics include resource allocation problems, population ethics, game theory, and changes in individual welfare. Editor(s): Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Tadenuma, Koichi; Xu, Yongsheng; Yoshihara, Naoki. Series: Studies in Choice and Welfare. Num Pages: 284 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642098567
- ISBN
- 9783642098567
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€ 119.48
€ 119.48
Hardback. This volume explores various issues relating to theories of rational choice and social welfare and their applications. The topics include resource allocation problems, population ethics, game theory, and changes in individual welfare. Editor(s): Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Tadenuma, Koichi; Xu, Yongsheng; Yoshihara, Naoki. Series: Studies in Choice and Welfare. Num Pages: 284 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540798316
- ISBN
- 9783540798316
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Condition: New
€ 119.78
€ 119.78
Inter-Group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities
. Ed(S): Pastore, Ferruccio; Ponzo, Irene
Hardback. Editor(s): Pastore, Ferruccio; Ponzo, Irene. Series: IMISCOE Research Series. Num Pages: 222 pages, 38 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319230955
- ISBN
- 9783319230955
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Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Hardback. Documents the phenomenon of feminised migration by analysing accounts of the lives of women migrants in the 'host' countries. Based on more than 100 interviews with women migrants from Hungary and Bulgaria and with 'host' women in Italy and the Netherlands, this book includes theoretical debates on migration and subjectivity, and more. Editor(s): Passerini, Luisa; Lyon, Dawn; Capussotti, Enrica. Num Pages: 335 pages, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452773
- ISBN
- 9781845452773
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Condition: New
€ 163.72
€ 163.72
Hardback. In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilization from others. Editor(s): Passerini, Luisa; Ellena, Liliana; Geppert, Alexander C. T. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457365
- ISBN
- 9781845457365
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Condition: New
€ 163.95
€ 163.95
Paperback. As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation. Editor(s): Pascual Soler, Nieves; Abarca, Meredith E. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349478354
- ISBN
- 9781349478354
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Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
The Post-2000 Film Western. Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity.
. Ed(S): Paryz, Marek; Leo, John R.
Paperback. This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television commercials, the contributors seek to account for the appeal and currency of the film Western today. Editor(s): Paryz, Marek; Leo, John R. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349506842
- ISBN
- 9781349506842
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Editor(s): Parsons, E.; Clarke, A. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBK; JHBS; JHM; MFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349258840
- ISBN
- 9781349258840
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Condition: New
€ 118.62
€ 118.62
Hardback. Editor(s): Parry, Emma; McCarthy, Jeanette. Num Pages: 767 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; KCF; KJMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 767
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467799
- ISBN
- 9781137467799
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€ 268.26
€ 268.26
Hardback. This collection of essays examines the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations and links these seemingly disparate movements through the category of Asian diasporas. Editor(s): Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar; Siu, Lok. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFF; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804752435
- ISBN
- 9780804752435
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Condition: New
€ 125.85
€ 125.85
Hardback. This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor-care, domestic, and sex work-and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations. Editor(s): Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar; Boris, Eileen. Num Pages: 360 pages, 2 tables, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761925
- ISBN
- 9780804761925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.63
€ 136.63
Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labo...
. Ed(S): Parpart, Professor Jane L.; Stichter...
Hardback. In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into employment by multinational and state investment in the Third World. This volume investigates the interrelations between women's participation in the economy and their roles in family and home. Editor(s): Parpart, Professor Jane L.; Stichter, Sharon. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 473.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333451618
- ISBN
- 9780333451618
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Condition: New
€ 181.09
€ 181.09
Hardback. Provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. Editor(s): Parodi, Giuliana; Sciulli, Dario. Series: AIEL Series in Labour Economics. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2012
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783790827712
- ISBN
- 9783790827712
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Condition: New
€ 119.92
€ 119.92
Hardback. The line between what is regarded by people as "traditional" and "modern" is constantly being altered by new configurations of power. These essays examine the ways in which such changes are both communicated and created through cultural performances in diverse ethnographic settings. Examples are drawn from a wide range of forms and expressions.. Editor(s): Parkin, David; Caplan, Lionel; Fisher, Humphrey. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 587.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571818980
- ISBN
- 9781571818980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.71
€ 152.71
Hardback. The appetite for illicit drugs in the UK continues to grow and diversify. Young Britons consume more drugs than their peers anywhere else in Europe. Why and how has this happened and why have official efforts to stem drug "abuse" so far failed? This collection describes the drugs landscape. Editor(s): Parker, Howard; Aldridge, Judith; Egginton, Roy. Num Pages: 198 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFH1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333918173
- ISBN
- 9780333918173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.82
€ 118.82
Paperback. Used primarily to decide to abort a fetus that would have been born with mental or physical impairments, prenatal tests arguably reinforce discrimination against and misconceptions about people with disabilities. This title presents a debate about prenatal testing and selective abortion. Editor(s): Parens, Erik; Asch, Adrienne. Series: Hastings Center Studies in Ethics Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBDC; MFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878408047
- ISBN
- 9780878408047
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Condition: New
€ 72.12
€ 72.12
Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse
. Ed(S): Paravisini-Gerbe, Lisabeth; Romero-C...
Hardback. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnographic accounts as vehicles for women's rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures and societies. Editor(s): Paravisini-Gerbe, Lisabeth; Romero-Cesareo, Yvette. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312219963
- ISBN
- 9780312219963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.72
€ 119.72
Hardback. Contains contributions that apply advanced statistical methods and artificial intelligence techniques to approach the description of physical processes, the discrimination of experimental data and the assessment and management of risk. This book is intended as a reference scientists, students, engineers, and the insurance industry. Editor(s): Papadopoulos, George A.; Murty, Tad S.; Venkatesh, Srinivasan; Blong, R. (Natural Hazards Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia). Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPS; JFFC; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Reprinted from naturals hazards, 21:2-3, 2000
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365952
- ISBN
- 9780792365952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.35
€ 182.35
Hardback. Educational Leaders Without Borders Editor(s): Papa, Rosemary P.; English, Fenwick W.; Saiti, Anna. Num Pages: 239 pages, 7 colour illustrations, 3 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JNC; JNF; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 537.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319123578
- ISBN
- 9783319123578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.52
€ 119.52