Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. A collection of eight essays by scholars who have published extensively within the disability studies literature, and who have helped build the field to its current state. Includes contributions from Robert Bogdan, Doug Biklen, Susan Schweik, and more. Editor(s): Wappett, Matthew; Arndt, Katrina. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373526
- ISBN
- 9781137373526
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€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. Despite the explosion of interest in the "global 1968," the arts in this period - both popular and avant-garde forms - have too often been neglected. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars in history, cultural studies, musicology and other areas to explore the symbiosis of the sonic and the visual in the counterculture of the 1960s. Editor(s): Brown, Timothy Scott; Lison, Andrew E. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; ACXJ; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 598.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375223
- ISBN
- 9781137375223
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€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Paperback. A collection of original articles edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Dominik Bartmanski, and Bernhard Giesen that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons. Editor(s): Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Bartmanski, Dominik; Giesen, Bernhard. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 272 pages, includes 12 pgs figs. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375964
- ISBN
- 9781137375964
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€ 47.95
€ 47.95
Hardcover. How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration. Editor(s): Whelehan, Imelda; Gwynne, Joel. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSP31. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137376527
- ISBN
- 9781137376527
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€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through these prisms and proposes new conceptual foundations for youth studies, capable of bridging the gap between these approaches. Editor(s): Woodman, Dan; Bennett, Andy. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377227
- ISBN
- 9781137377227
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Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. 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; DSB; JFCV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378590
- ISBN
- 9781137378590
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body. Editor(s): Jafar, Afshan; Casanova, Erynn Masi de. Num Pages: 210 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFFS; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378668
- ISBN
- 9781137378668
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€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern societies by undermining teleological and reassuring narratives of progress. Editor(s): Martschukat, Jurgen; Niedermeier, Silvan. Num Pages: 318 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378682
- ISBN
- 9781137378682
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€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Discussing crises through diverse examples, including the UK's National Theatre, public art installations, Occupy LSX, repatriation ceremonies and performances of the everyday, this book asks how performance captures and resists what is considered (politically, ideologically, culturally or socially) 'inside' or 'outside' Europe. Editor(s): Zaroulia, Marilena; Hager, Philip. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1DVG; AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379368
- ISBN
- 9781137379368
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Research about children and young people's participation and involvement in research is an emerging area of academic inquiry. Based on the themes of participation, citizenship and intergenerational relations, this edited collection draws on the latest research in this area, and includes chapters co-authored with children and young people. Editor(s): Westwood, Joanne; Larkins, Cath; Moxon, Dan; Perry, Yasmin; Thomas, Nigel. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPS; JFSP1; JHBK; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379696
- ISBN
- 9781137379696
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This book provides critically examines how recent international developments in victims theory and policy are experienced within specific local contexts. The chapters approach key criminological issues including the experience of criminal justice agencies, policy formulation, the construction of victim identities and the 'discovery' of new victims. Editor(s): Wilson, Dean; Ross, Stuart. Series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JKV; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 505.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383921
- ISBN
- 9781137383921
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Condition: New
€ 183.29
€ 183.29
Hardcover. A unique, comparative survey of community-based research within a higher education context, featuring some of the top scholars in the field, this book brings together a global range of experiences with community-based research and engages the leaders in the field worldwide to set out visions for future directions, practices, and developments. Editor(s): Munck, Professor Ronaldo; McIlrath, Lorraine; Hall, Budd; Tandon, Rajesh. Num Pages: 261 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JNKP; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385277
- ISBN
- 9781137385277
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€ 106.74€ 87.53
€ 106.74
€ 87.53
Hardcover. This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses their advantages and shortcomings, drawing links to anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. Each contribution's approach is illustrated with recent cases of mobilization. Editor(s): Baumgarten, Britta; Daphi, Priska; Ullrich, Peter. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385789
- ISBN
- 9781137385789
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Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights. The book examines the impact children's rights and Childhood Studies has had on how children are constructed and regulated internationally. Editor(s): Smith, Anne B. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 365 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JKSB1; JNL; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386090
- ISBN
- 9781137386090
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Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Psychosocial studies challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. The book reflects this agenda in its varied theoretical and empirical strands, producing a newly contextualised and restless body of understanding of how 'psychic' and 'social' processes intertwine. Editor(s): Frosh, Stephen. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFS; JHBA; JMAF; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388179
- ISBN
- 9781137388179
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Condition: New
€ 99.93
€ 99.93
Hardcover. Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization. Editor(s): Diefendorf, Jeffry M.; Ward, Janet. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFSG; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390165
- ISBN
- 9781137390165
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities. Editor(s): Alston, Margaret. Series: Gender, Development and Social Change. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390561
- ISBN
- 9781137390561
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, with its chapters drawing on original research to present a more nuanced reality, whilst also developing a critical dialogue with one another. Editor(s): Roberts, Steven. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSJ2; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394835
- ISBN
- 9781137394835
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Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. This edited collection addresses the relationship between diaspora, religion and the politics of identity in the modern world. It illuminates religious understandings of citizenship, association and civil society, and situates them historically within diverse cultures of memory and state traditions. Editor(s): Garnett, Jane; Hausner, Sondra L. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFFN; JFSL1; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400291
- ISBN
- 9781137400291
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Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Social interaction is the engine which drives an individual's psychological development and it can create changes on all levels of society. Social Relations in Human and Societal Development includes essays by internationally renowned academics from a range of disciplines including social psychology, international relations and child development. Editor(s): Psaltis, Charis; Gillespie, Alex; Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JMC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400987
- ISBN
- 9781137400987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99