Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
paperback. Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349309863
- ISBN
- 9781349309863
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This study, by two leading scholarsin the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studiesto uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not?" Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSP; JHB; LNTM; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310128
- ISBN
- 9781349310128
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€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. It explores sexual identifications, politics and inequalities as these (dis)connect across time and place, and are re-constituted in relation to class, disability, ethnicity, gender and age. Editor(s): Taylor, Yvette; Hines, S.; Casey, M. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSJ; JFSL; JHB; JHBA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310708
- ISBN
- 9781349310708
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€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Paperback. In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. Thisbook offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union." Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHBS; VFX; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310722
- ISBN
- 9781349310722
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. Itargues that the development of 'ethnic economies' provides the material basis for alternative models of social integration, such as multiculturalism 'from below', which are critical of mainstream assimilationist thinking." Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL; JHBL; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310760
- ISBN
- 9781349310760
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Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. "A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena"-- Editor(s): Waters, M. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; JFC; JFD; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310982
- ISBN
- 9781349310982
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHBK; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311316
- ISBN
- 9781349311316
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. An authoritative, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together international experts to examine the key issues and core debates related to gender and healthcare. A vital resource for a wide range of academics, researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Editor(s): Kuhlmann, Ellen; Annandale, Ellen. Num Pages: 503 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPQB; MBS; VFD; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 737.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 503
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311354
- ISBN
- 9781349311354
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Condition: New
€ 196.04
€ 196.04
Paperback. This new study maps and synthesizes existing research on the ways in which journalism deals with death. Folker Hanusch provides a historical overview of death in the news, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death online. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311477
- ISBN
- 9781349311477
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; AV; JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- SKU
- V9781349311491
- ISBN
- 9781349311491
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HPQ; JFSJ; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311514
- ISBN
- 9781349311514
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Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; HPK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311965
- ISBN
- 9781349311965
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds tothe body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World WarI to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity." Editor(s): Rau, Petra. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311989
- ISBN
- 9781349311989
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349312092
- ISBN
- 9781349312092
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349312399
- ISBN
- 9781349312399
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313167
- ISBN
- 9781349313167
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Sian Lincoln considers the use, role and significance of private spaces in the lives of young people. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, she explores the place of 'the private' in youth cultural discourses, both historically and contemporarily, that until now have remained largely absent in youth cultural research. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSP; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313327
- ISBN
- 9781349313327
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. This book is a concise and engaging analysis of contemporary literature viewed through the critical lens of cosmopolitan theory. It covers a wide spectrum of issues including globalisation, cosmopolitanism, nationhood, identity, philosophical nomadism, posthumanism, climate change, devolution and love. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349313556
- ISBN
- 9781349313556
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examineshow she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form." Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313587
- ISBN
- 9781349313587
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Dealing withthe historical and thematic intersections of Christianity and critical theory, this collection brings together a diversity of specialist scholars in the area. Building on recent discourses in theology as well as their knowledge of hermeneutic and critical traditions, they examine major themes in contemporary critical theory." Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; HRC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313600
- ISBN
- 9781349313600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95