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Society & culture: general
Childbearing, Women's Employment and Work-Life Balance Policies in Con...
Fratczak, Ewa. Ed(S): Olah, Livia Sz.
Paperback. This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities. Editor(s): Olah, Livia Sz. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JHBL; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340279
- ISBN
- 9781349340279
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€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famineandhuman trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JPA; JPVH; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340415
- ISBN
- 9781349340415
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBL; HBTB; JFC; JFF; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340439
- ISBN
- 9781349340439
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€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JKV; JP; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 325.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340477
- ISBN
- 9781349340477
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€ 126.70
€ 126.70
Paperback. Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in these two periods, exemplifying the emergence of the multiple normalities and the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340637
- ISBN
- 9781349340637
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval. Editor(s): Ashton, Gail. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340859
- ISBN
- 9781349340859
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBTD; HBTQ; JFC; JHM; RGL. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340989
- ISBN
- 9781349340989
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€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. This book explores the challenges and obstacles faced by dissident leaders in Asia seeking to introduce reforms into regimes that are either imperfectly democratic or frankly hostile to democratic practices and institutions. Editor(s): Kane, J.; Loy, Hui-Chieh; Patapan, Haig. Series: Palgrave Series in Asian Governance. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341023
- ISBN
- 9781349341023
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Focuses specifically on video as a central medium for both archiving events and experimenting with modes of representation and reception, and studies not only on how artists and documentarians record political, social, and economic conditions, but also how feminist politics are mediated in culture. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341047
- ISBN
- 9781349341047
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€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341061
- ISBN
- 9781349341061
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. This volume includes both thematic essays and focused examinations of each of his major works of fiction. Editor(s): Burn, S.; Boswell, Marshall. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341122
- ISBN
- 9781349341122
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Condition: New
€ 127.00
€ 127.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHM; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341146
- ISBN
- 9781349341146
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€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Lo Vuolo, Ruben. Series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; KCA; KCF; KCL; KCP; KCU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 369.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341207
- ISBN
- 9781349341207
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€ 126.97
€ 126.97
Paperback. This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ; JNB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341269
- ISBN
- 9781349341269
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€ 53.37€ 47.28
€ 53.37
€ 47.28
Paperback. A study of performances and depictions of marriage by gay playwrights in contemporary British and American drama Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; D; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341399
- ISBN
- 9781349341399
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€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Paperback. Traces changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 429.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341412
- ISBN
- 9781349341412
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€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume showcases a new generation of testimonio scholarship. Editor(s): Detwiler, Louise; Breckenridge, Janis. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFD; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341450
- ISBN
- 9781349341450
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHM; JHMC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341511
- ISBN
- 9781349341511
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€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. Brings together and compares/contrasts the writing/influence of the two most important theorists in film studies today: Gilles Deleuze and Slavoj Zizek. Editor(s): Jagodzinski, J. Num Pages: 299 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFD; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341559
- ISBN
- 9781349341559
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsettling stories. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341597
- ISBN
- 9781349341597
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Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64