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Society & culture: general
Hardback. This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBTB; HBTD; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 289 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110168
- ISBN
- 9780230110168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardback. The essays in this collection use the interpretative lens to interrogate the meanings of Meyer's books, making a compelling case for the cultural relevance of Twilight and providing insights on how we can "read" popular culture to our best advantage. Editor(s): Anatol, Giselle Liza. Num Pages: 255 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; DSY; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110670
- ISBN
- 9780230110670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
Hardback. This volume analyzes intergenerational solidarity from diverse interdisciplinary angles within the social sciences. It provides analytical tools to advance research and documents how societies are adjusting to major changes that affect the core of the social fabric. Editor(s): Cruz-Saco, Maria Amparo; Zelenev, Sergei. Num Pages: 243 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110748
- ISBN
- 9780230110748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.61
€ 127.61
Hardback. Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse. Editor(s): Frakes, Jerold C. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111431
- ISBN
- 9780230111431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.39
€ 149.39
Hardcover. Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111592
- ISBN
- 9780230111592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. This important look at CAP combines historical research and analysis with the author's first-hand experience with the organization, providing the first historical narrative of a consequential player in the Black Power Movement. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- PALGRAVE MD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112155
- ISBN
- 9780230112155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112575
- ISBN
- 9780230112575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardback. This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father's Law (2008). Editor(s): Craven, Professor Alice Mikal; Dow, William. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112810
- ISBN
- 9780230112810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Paperback. This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy since his death in 2005. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANB; DD; DSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113015
- ISBN
- 9780230113015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.15
€ 52.93
€ 47.15
Hardback. How do NGOs overcome the suspicion and perception of them as Western agents? This book uncovers the skilful manoeuvring that women's NGOs have to perform in order to survive a hostile environment Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113206
- ISBN
- 9780230113206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. Hecht examines the relationship between Jewish assimilation and the changing face of the American musical though the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; AVGM; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113275
- ISBN
- 9780230113275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.09
€ 52.93
€ 47.09
Paperback. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113633
- ISBN
- 9780230113633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASDL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114081
- ISBN
- 9780230114081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.24€ 82.67
€ 96.24
€ 82.67
Hardback. The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. Editor(s): McJannet, Linda; Andrea, Bernadette. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115422
- ISBN
- 9780230115422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardback. This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115934
- ISBN
- 9780230115934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Hardback. This volume considers 'global mobility' as an alternative concept to 'international migration' in order to gain insights into international cooperation on movements of people across international borders. Editor(s): Koslowski, Rey. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116924
- ISBN
- 9780230116924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.07
€ 128.07
Hardback. The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116962
- ISBN
- 9780230116962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardback. The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFC; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230118218
- ISBN
- 9780230118218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Paperback. This book explores the regulation of intimate relationships today. Using historical and contemporary legal-political sources, the author investigates the changing meanings and effects of conjugality. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; LAM; LNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120051
- ISBN
- 9780230120051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFCA; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120594
- ISBN
- 9780230120594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardback. The authors provide a systematic analysis of looking beyond the abuses of human rights in the Middle East with a view toward problematizing traditional doctrinal thinking and concepts in the region, ascertaining comparative and historical roots of human rights abuses in the Middle East. Editor(s): Monshipouri, Mahmood. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRH; JFSR2; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120617
- ISBN
- 9780230120617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.36
€ 52.93
€ 47.36
Hardback. Securitizing Immigration deals with the growing concern for immigration as a matter of security at the EU level. It combines an analysis of the way bureaucratic and political processes have interacted in the integration process with an analysis of how these practices are located in a context shaped by the preoccupation with risk. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JFFN; JPA; JPSN2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 226 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200067
- ISBN
- 9780230200067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Human rights play a crucial role in today's international relations. They provide standards to which states must conform when dealing with their own citizens. Non-governmental human rights organizations remind states of their obligations in that field. Without this, human rights would have drifted to the bottom of the international agenda. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPS; JPVH; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201347
- ISBN
- 9780230201347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Hardback. Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book responds to political and media discourses that stigmatise 'unruly' youthful bodies, by combining the critical analysis of imagined and disciplined youthful bodies with a focus on young people's lived and performed, embodied subjectivities. Editor(s): Horschelmann, Kathrin; Colls, Rachel. Num Pages: 277 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201385
- ISBN
- 9780230201385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12