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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Integrating theories from a wide range of disciplines, Nir Kshetri compares the patterns, characteristics and processes of cybercrime activities in major regions and economies in the Global South such as China, India, the former Second World economies, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMG; JKVM; JPZ; UD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137021939
- ISBN
- 9781137021939
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Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they get involved in deviance and risk-taking when they go abroad, driven by self validation and a commodified social context. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSEB; JFFP; JFSP2; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022394
- ISBN
- 9781137022394
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how masculinities are embodied and performed. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ2; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022875
- ISBN
- 9781137022875
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Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought the material and spiritual culture of Iran to its present state even after the term was eradicated from the literary and popular language of the region. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HRE; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022936
- ISBN
- 9781137022936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.59
€ 150.59
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023094
- ISBN
- 9781137023094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. Responding to the targeted destruction of women, Fields argues for establishing Gender as a protected class under the Genocide Convention. Cases are explored, historically, anthropologically, psychologically and sociologically, from the author's field research, as well as focuses on morbidity, mortality and demographic documentation data. Num Pages: 236 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025142
- ISBN
- 9781137025142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026668
- ISBN
- 9781137026668
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Thomas Birtchnell examines recent ideas of Indian innovation, or 'Indovation', from an historical and critical perspective, at both the bottom and the top of India's social pyramid. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTF; JFFS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027405
- ISBN
- 9781137027405
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Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. How is The Simpsons a satirical artwork engaged with important social, political, and cultural issues? Henry offers the first comprehensive understanding of the show as a satire and explores the ways in which The Simpsons participates in the so-called "culture war" debates taking place in American society. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027788
- ISBN
- 9781137027788
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Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Hardcover. Drawing on data from ethnographic fieldwork among civic activists and identifying a range of domestic and international socio-political contexts, Refractions of Civil Society in Turkey explores different perceptions of civil society in Turkey and pursues the general question of why civil society holds such power to move those who evoke it. Num Pages: 225 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027917
- ISBN
- 9781137027917
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Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. A timely and original examination into the ways in which religion is conceptualized in two areas of law relating to children - child welfare cases and education law and policy. The book focuses on the relationship between race, religion and culture, bringing critical race and religion perspectives from other disciplines to bear on law. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; LAQ; LNTD; LNTH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029270
- ISBN
- 9781137029270
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Paperback. This book charts the evolution, from the World War II period to the present day, of racial relationships and their repercussions in Hollywood films and examines a neglected sub-genre. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029348
- ISBN
- 9781137029348
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Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. This work, now in paperback, explores contemporary debates on migration and integration, focussing on Euro-Muslims. It critically engages with republicanist and multiculaturalist policies of integration and claims that integration means more than cultural and linguistic assimilation of migrant communities. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JFSR2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030221
- ISBN
- 9781137030221
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new approaches aimed at renewing migration policy-making. This book critically analyses the actors, discourses and practices of migration management. Editor(s): Geiger, Martin; Pecoud, Antoine. Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPA; JPS; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030238
- ISBN
- 9781137030238
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the public sphere perform their activities in a civilized manner. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030412
- ISBN
- 9781137030412
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Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Drawing on the ambiguous meaning of the notion of vulnerability, the book offers an innovative approach to the topic of the female body in relation to women's rights; going beyond the age-old dichotomy of casting women as either passive victims or conscious agents. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030719
- ISBN
- 9781137030719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Ch...
Rocha, Carolina, Seminet, Georgia
Hardcover. This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the consequences of political divisions. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KL; APFA; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030863
- ISBN
- 9781137030863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.16
€ 53.36
€ 47.16
Hardcover. Alfred Weber was an important participant in the dialogue over the political and cultural crises of the late Empire and Weimar Republic. This study connects Weber's career to the social, political, intellectual, cultural, and institutional contexts of the period. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031143
- ISBN
- 9781137031143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032034
- ISBN
- 9781137032034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.85
€ 53.36
€ 46.85
Paperback. Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032041
- ISBN
- 9781137032041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 45.96
€ 53.36
€ 45.96
Hardcover. Highlights concerns about the impact of a falling standard of living in America as 40 million 'tradable jobs' are digitized and outsourced off shore. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFF; KCJ; KJC; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032294
- ISBN
- 9781137032294
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Mitra analyzes how race and class of immigrant Punjabi taxi drivers influence their settlement patterns in the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032843
- ISBN
- 9781137032843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Arab Women in Management and Leadership: Stories from Israel
Arar, Khalid, Shapira, Tamar, Azaiza, Faisal,...
Hardcover. An exploration of the life-stories of 22 pioneer Arab women who have forged their path to management and leadership in education and welfare, overcoming challenges imposed by a patriarchal society that sees female leadership as a threat. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSJ1; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032935
- ISBN
- 9781137032935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. (Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation advances a series of psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary South Africa, exploring key psychosocial topics such as space-identity, social fantasy, the body, whiteness, memory and nostalgia. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFE; JFFJ; JMAF; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032997
- ISBN
- 9781137032997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11