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Society & culture: general
Paperback. The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Using a broad multicultural approach, "States of Confinement" uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in policing and punishment systems. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK; JFSL1; JKVF; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294502
- ISBN
- 9780312294502
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.21
€ 53.37
€ 47.21
Paperback. This text looks at how economics, politics, gender, and other factors have influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and influenced women's experiences with breast cancer. Editor(s): Kasper, Anne S.; Ferguson, Susan J. Num Pages: 400 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; MJCL; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294519
- ISBN
- 9780312294519
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Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Paperback. From marketing to electronic Shakespeare, comics to romance novels, "Star Trek" to Branagh, radio and popular music to "Bartlett's Quotations", the volume explores the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare in a broad array of mass media contexts. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294540
- ISBN
- 9780312294540
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Lee unfolds the stories of six women with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles and Napoleon against the grand narrative of England's 18th century empire building. This book is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy, transformation and triumph in the age of reason. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294588
- ISBN
- 9780312294588
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Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial ...
Joe W. Trotter, Earl Lewis, Tera W. Hunter
Hardcover. In order to illuminate transformations in African-American urban life, this book brings together urban history, contemporary social, cultural and policy research and comparative perspectives on race, ethnicity and nationality within and across national boundaries. Editor(s): Trotter, Joe; Lewis, Earl; Hunter, Tera W. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294649
- ISBN
- 9780312294649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.55
€ 68.55
The African American Urban Experience. Historical, Contemporary, and C...
. Ed(S): Trotter, Joe; Lewis, Earl; Hunter, T...
Paperback. In order to illuminate transformations in African-American urban life, this book brings together urban history, contemporary social, cultural and policy research and comparative perspectives on race, ethnicity and nationality within and across national boundaries. Editor(s): Trotter, Joe; Lewis, Earl; Hunter, Tera W. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294656
- ISBN
- 9780312294656
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Condition: New
€ 73.05
€ 73.05
Hardcover. At the intersection of the warmth of hearth and home and the dangers of the street lies the tenuous position of women engaged in reproductive labor, those involved in the sex trade and those in domestic positions. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVC; 1DVG; 1DVT; JFSJ1; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 169 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294663
- ISBN
- 9780312294663
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. This volume develops a set of provocative themes: globalization is not new; it is neither legally inevitable nor irreversible; and international legal systems and institutions can assert only a special and limited influence on globalizing developments. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; LB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294786
- ISBN
- 9780312294786
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Instead of viewing globalization and nation states as two separate and opposed domains of theorization and politics, this volume contextualizes US borders within global processes that are reconstituting the relationship between nation states and private corporations at the site of US borders. Editor(s): Sadowski-Smith, Claudia. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 291.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294830
- ISBN
- 9780312294830
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.34
€ 53.37
€ 46.34
Hardcover. This volume develops a set of provocative themes: globalization is not new; it is neither legally inevitable nor irreversible; and international legal systems and institutions can assert only a special and limited influence on globalizing developments. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; LB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294915
- ISBN
- 9780312294915
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Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Hardcover. Through the growth of internationalization and a growing acceptance of immigration rights, union leaders now support more open immigration policies than those once adopted in the first part of the 20th century. This is a research into those changes from the beginning to the end of the century. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294946
- ISBN
- 9780312294946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Paperback. Sadovnik and Semel investigate why, during a time of under-representation, the so-called progressive era, many women founded private, experimental progressive schools in the United States. Editor(s): Sadovnik, Alan R.; Semel, Susan F. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JNK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295028
- ISBN
- 9780312295028
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Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 39.65
€ 48.99
€ 39.65
Paperback. Bringing together history, literature, and popular culture, this book provides a cultural history of France from a period of dominance in the mid-19th century to one of decline or crisis in the first few years of the third millennium. Contains both chronological narrative and a selection of primary documents in translation. Num Pages: 429 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295240
- ISBN
- 9780312295240
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Condition: New
€ 73.65
€ 73.65
Hardcover. This volume explores the influence that well-placed, energetic women had on literary and political culture in the US and in England in the years 1870-1920. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295295
- ISBN
- 9780312295295
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 393.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295417
- ISBN
- 9780312295417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.12
€ 72.12
The American Woman 2003-2004: Daughters of a Revolution - Young Women ...
Cynthia B. Costello, Vanessa R. Wight, Anne J...
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 9th
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295493
- ISBN
- 9780312295493
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Condition: New
€ 127.82
€ 127.82
The American Woman 2003-2004: Daughters of a Revolution - Young Women ...
Cynthia B. Costello, Vanessa R. Wight, Anne J...
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 9th
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295516
- ISBN
- 9780312295516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.91
€ 129.91
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Palgra
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295660
- ISBN
- 9780312295660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.12
€ 53.37
€ 47.12
Paperback. Shari Stone-Mediatore brings together the theoretical perspectives of Hannah Arendt and post-colonial theory to develop a "post positivist" account of narrative which can form the basis for a progressive feminist politics. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295677
- ISBN
- 9780312295677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.34
€ 53.37
€ 46.34
Hardcover. By reading scenes from films alongside biblical texts, this book analyses biblical influence in culture. Through engagement with feminist, queer and ideological critical theories, it discusses the processes by which texts can disrupt identifications with the norms driving politics and culture. Editor(s): Runions, Erin. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HRCG; JFC; JFSJ1; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295721
- ISBN
- 9780312295721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68