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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political elites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors. Editor(s): Beyen, Marnix; Deseure, Brecht. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
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- V9781137469373
- ISBN
- 9781137469373
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€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups to connect the past, the present and the future. Editor(s): Hajek, Andrea; Lohmeier, Christine. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470119
- ISBN
- 9781137470119
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€ 150.31
€ 150.31
Paperback. This book contains a collection of essential essays from some of the most influential and exciting practitioners of Theatre of the Oppressed with youth from around the world. Editor(s): Duffy, Peter, QC; Vettraino, Elinor. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137472250
- ISBN
- 9781137472250
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€ 45.99€ 36.81
€ 45.99
€ 36.81
Hardcover. This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film-makers, social scientists and other creative individuals, out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power. Editor(s): Yalcintas, Altug. Num Pages: 134 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JFFE; JHB; JPW; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473622
- ISBN
- 9781137473622
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€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Hardcover. This book examines theories and specific experiences of international migration and social transformation, with special reference to the effects of neo-liberal globalization on four societies with vastly different historical and cultural characteristics: South Korea, Australia, Turkey and Mexico. Editor(s): Castles, Stephen; Ozkul, Derya; Cubas, Magdalena. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474940
- ISBN
- 9781137474940
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Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardcover. This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal system. It explores the limits of criminal law for achieving 'rape justice' and highlights possibilities for expanding how we think about justice in the aftermath of sexual violence. Editor(s): Powell, Anastasia; Henry, Nicola; Flynn, Asher. Num Pages: 261 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFSJ1; JKV; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137476142
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- 9781137476142
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€ 149.96
€ 149.96
Hardcover. In this edited collection, the authors grapple with both the strengths and challenges that HBCUs face as the nation's demographics change, from their place in American society and growing diversity on HBCU campuses to class and elitism issues to study abroad and honors programs. Editor(s): Gasman, Marybeth; Commodore, Felicia. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480408
- ISBN
- 9781137480408
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€ 54.99€ 44.25
€ 54.99
€ 44.25
Hardcover. Since 9/11 Western states have sought to integrate 'securitisation' measures within migration regimes as asylum seekers and other migrant categories come to be seen as agents of social instability or as potential terrorists. Treating migration as a security threat has therefore increased insecurity amongst migrant and ethnic minority populations. Editor(s): Lazaridis, Dr. Gabriella; Wadia, Khursheed. Series: The European Union in International Affairs. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 black & white tables, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JPSL; JPSN2; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480576
- ISBN
- 9781137480576
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€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. European states and international organizations have established multiple policies and mechanisms to deal with various risks, crises and disasters. This edited volume examines the emerging multi-level policy space of European civil security governance, identifying patterns and reviewing the opportunities and obstacles for cooperation. Editor(s): Bossong, Raphael; Hegemann, Hendrik. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481108
- ISBN
- 9781137481108
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Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and spaces of belonging through which urban lives and politics are being forged. Editor(s): Diouf, Mamadou; Fredericks, Rosalind. Series: Africa Connects. Num Pages: 322 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; GTF; JFSG; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481870
- ISBN
- 9781137481870
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Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of new socialities associated with smartphone cameras in everyday life. Editor(s): Berry, Marsha; Schleser, Max. Num Pages: 174 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482655
- ISBN
- 9781137482655
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€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Hardcover. Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History is the first book to innovatively combine the history of childhood and youth with the history of emotions, combining multiple national, colonial, and global perspectives. Editor(s): Olsen, Stephanie. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBG; JFSP1; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484833
- ISBN
- 9781137484833
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Condition: New
€ 129.83
€ 129.83
Hardcover. As death rates continue to rise, this collection brings together scholars engaged in policy associated with death to analyse the challenges these trends present. Examining a range of issues including inheritance, palliative care, euthanasia, funeral costs and marginalised deaths, this unique volumes portrays how death factors in social policy. Editor(s): Foster, Liam; Woodthorpe, Kate. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 figures, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFME; JHBZ; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484895
- ISBN
- 9781137484895
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€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. The intercultural occurs in the space between two or more distinct cultures that encounter each other, an area where meanings are translated and difference is negotiated. In this volume, scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on the phenomenon of interculturality and on the theoretical and methodological frameworks of interpreting it Editor(s): Rozbicki, Michal Jan. Num Pages: 277 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFFP; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489135
- ISBN
- 9781137489135
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Human capital theory, developing children as future workers, shapes thinking about early childhood education policy around the globe. International contributors problematize this thinking and offer alternatives. Editor(s): Lightfoot-Rueda, Theodora; Peach, Ruth Lynn; Leask, Nigel. Series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JNF; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490858
- ISBN
- 9781137490858
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€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law is a compilation of essays on the nexus of new information and communication technologies, cultural identity, law and politics. The essays provoke timely discussions on how these different spheres affect each other and co-evolve in our increasingly hyper-connected and globalized world. Editor(s): De Been, Wouter; Arora, Payal; Hildebrandt, Mireille. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; LAQ; LNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137491251
- ISBN
- 9781137491251
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€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contested, complex, and frequently problematic. Editor(s): Nally, Claire; Smith, Angela. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492845
- ISBN
- 9781137492845
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€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles. Inspired by the eminent Glasgow-based sociologist, John Eldridge, it re-engages with the concept and shows how it can be applied to analyzing society today. Editor(s): Dawson, Matt; Fowler, Bridget; Smith, Andrew; Miller, David Leslie; Rampton, David. Num Pages: 277 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493637
- ISBN
- 9781137493637
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Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. This book explores the absent and missing in debates about science and security. Through varied case studies, including biological and chemical weapons control, science journalism, nanotechnology research and neuroethics, the contributors explore how matters become absent, ignored or forgotten and the implications for ethics, policy and society. Editor(s): Rappert, Brian; Balmer, Brian. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMG; JPS; PDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493729
- ISBN
- 9781137493729
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Condition: New
€ 108.79
€ 108.79
Hardcover. This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities. Editor(s): Jermyn, Deborah; Holmes, Susan; Jones, J. Gwynfor. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSP31. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495112
- ISBN
- 9781137495112
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Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented. Editor(s): Vertovec, Steven. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMS; 1HFMS; 1KBBEY; JFFN; JFFS; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495471
- ISBN
- 9781137495471
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Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions. Editor(s): Adkins, Lisa; Dever, Maryanne. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 black & white tables, 1 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495532
- ISBN
- 9781137495532
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Condition: New
€ 139.45
€ 139.45
Hardcover. This book uses global perspectives to address questions of media ethics and justice in a local and transnational global environment, and examines the common denominator running through such disparate investigations of theories and practices of media ethics and justice in the democracies of India, South Africa, Pakistan, and the United States. Editor(s): Rao, Shakuntala; Wasserman, Herman. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137498250
- ISBN
- 9781137498250
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Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. This volume captures the essence of how we communicate differences in relationships, between and across cultures, in organizations, through education and in moments of local and global conflict and crisis that demonstrates the importance and viability of approaching peace and conflict communication from various fields within communication studies. Editor(s): Roy, Sudeshna; Shaw, Ibrahim Seaga. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFC; JFD; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499257
- ISBN
- 9781137499257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.38
€ 119.38