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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With multicultural incorporation as an option, the authors explore the potential impact of the politics of identity in societies with social democratic welfare states committed to redistributive politics. Editor(s): Kivisto, Peter; Wahlbeck, Osten. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFFN; JFSL1; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360198
- ISBN
- 9780230360198
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Condition: New
€ 63.51
€ 63.51
Hardcover. The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa. Editor(s): Clark, David Alexander. Series: Rethinking International Development Series. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360563
- ISBN
- 9780230360563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white tables, 44 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361676
- ISBN
- 9780230361676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardcover. As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists, and each essay examines the career, writing and strategic choices of women battling against the odds to secure recognition in a male-dominated society. Editor(s): Gray, F. Elizabeth. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; JFSJ1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361713
- ISBN
- 9780230361713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardcover. Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India, Turkey, and the US get their point across? These questions and many more are answered in this new collection on linguistics and comics, which explores language and how the verbal and the visual interact. Editor(s): Bramlett, Frank. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230362826
- ISBN
- 9780230362826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.66
€ 119.66
Hardcover. This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human. Editor(s): Branche, Raphaelle; Virgili, Fabrice. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBW; JFFE2; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363991
- ISBN
- 9780230363991
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Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's "exterior" is central to human subjectivity and relations. The authors explore racialization, body modification, self-harm, and comedic representations of skin, drawing from the clinical domain, visual arts, popular culture, and literature. Editor(s): Cavanagh, Sheila L.; Failler, Angela; Hurst, Rachel Alpha Johnston. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFCD; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 225 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230365063
- ISBN
- 9780230365063
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Condition: New
€ 119.54
€ 119.54
Hardcover. A state-of-the-art analysis of the situation of national television in Arab countries, addressing what Arab national broadcastings today say about public policy and political opening. The essays deal with the reforms of public broadcasting organizations and the evolution, perspectives and issues of national broadcasting. Editor(s): Guaaybess, Tourya. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFDT; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367166
- ISBN
- 9780230367166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations. Editor(s): Maes, Hans. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: AGH; HPN; HPQ; JFMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368200
- ISBN
- 9780230368200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.69
€ 119.69
Hardcover. Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. This book brings together key themes that dominate our current attention including emerging areas of contestation in rapidly changing and modernising cities and the effects of extreme and/or enduring conflicts upon ordinary civilian life. Editor(s): Pullan, Wendy; Baillie, Britt. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 maps, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSG; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368903
- ISBN
- 9780230368903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.82
€ 140.82
Hardcover. This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Bronte, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques. Editor(s): Boehm, Katharina. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369382
- ISBN
- 9780230369382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.79
€ 139.79
Hardcover. This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in legitimising migration regimes. By comparing most recent developments in Europe and China, it reveals insights on convergent social and political practices of boundary making under divergent conditions. Editor(s): Pries, Ludger. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; JFFM; JFFN; JFSL1; JPH; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369719
- ISBN
- 9780230369719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world. Editor(s): Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi. Series: Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSG; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230371545
- ISBN
- 9780230371545
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Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television. Editor(s): Miller, Cynthia J.; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Num Pages: 294 pages, 62 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 5. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230377318
- ISBN
- 9780230377318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardcover. Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development. Editor(s): Kingsbury, Damien. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Critical
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230389045
- ISBN
- 9780230389045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as glocalization. The contributors deal with a range of topics including migration, media, football, beauty, Christianity, democracy and the European Union. Editor(s): Robertson, Roland. Series: Europe in a Global Context. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFC; JFFN; JFFS; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390799
- ISBN
- 9780230390799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.05
€ 119.05
Hardcover. Under the themes of Justice, Participation and Social Exclusion contributors explore and discuss the impact on those targeted or excluded by important public and social policies in European countries. Contexts, consequences and controversies current in the global North are uncovered highlighting the ethical implications for policy research. Editor(s): Petrie, Stephanie. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSC; JKS; JPRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390829
- ISBN
- 9780230390829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Across European societies, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways. Our understanding of what it means for societies to be accepting of diversity has to therefore be revisited. This volume seeks to meet this challenge with perspectives that consider new dynamics towards tolerance, intolerance and respect. Editor(s): Dobbernack, Jan; Modood, Tariq. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFP; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390881
- ISBN
- 9780230390881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "Latin American multicultural turn" in Afro Latino social movements of the past two decades. Editor(s): Rahier, Jean. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSL3; JHMC; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230393608
- ISBN
- 9780230393608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema. Editor(s): Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng; Davidson, Andrew P. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506985
- ISBN
- 9780230506985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardcover. The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance. The authors present eight new case studies of balancing and balancing failure in pre-modern and non-European international systems. Editor(s): Kaufman, Stuart J.; Little, Richard; Wohlforth, William C. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFS; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507104
- ISBN
- 9780230507104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.38
€ 119.38
Hardcover. Examining the ways in which majority Western cultures govern, represent and exclude those that are considered to be ethically 'other', this book asks what is the impact of globalization, governance and Western immigration controls on the construction of the majority 'self' and the minority 'other'? Editor(s): Petersson, Bo; Tyler, Katharine. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507487
- ISBN
- 9780230507487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Drawing on econometric evidence and in-depth studies of West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, this book explores how horizontal inequalities - ethnic, religious or racial - are a source of violent conflict and how political, economic and cultural status inequalities have contributed. Policies to reverse inequality would reduce these risks. Editor(s): Stewart, Frances. Series: Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity. Num Pages: 385 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230516809
- ISBN
- 9780230516809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.13
€ 120.13
Hardcover. 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, Daniel Thomas. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFT; KJSU; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517042
- ISBN
- 9780230517042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.62
€ 62.62