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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137288868
- ISBN
- 9781137288868
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. Can universities continue to play a major role in advancing social justice today? This volume illuminates key aspects of social justice as a theoretical project and as a set of practical challenges. Authors address related issues from the perspectives of active practitioners in the context of or from close proximity to universities. Editor(s): Shefner, Jon; Dahms, Harry F.; Jones, Robert Emmet; Jalata, Asafa. Num Pages: 369 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JNK; JNMN; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289377
- ISBN
- 9781137289377
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Condition: New
€ 130.11
€ 130.11
Hardback. How people move from deviant to conventional lifestyles is an issue that has attracted considerable interest over the past few years. However, much of this work has focused on men desisting from crime. This book provides one of the first examinations of desistance which is centred on women and, more specifically, how they exit prostitution. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMX; JFSJ1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289414
- ISBN
- 9781137289414
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPCH; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289902
- ISBN
- 9781137289902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.67
€ 117.67
Hardcover. Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBA; JFC; JHB; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290168
- ISBN
- 9781137290168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This book presents a new approach to film analysis. It provides methods for analysing meaning making in film through tracking concrete details of film images such as characters, objects, settings and character action. It also represents new ground for investigating empirical issues in film. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; APFR; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290335
- ISBN
- 9781137290335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This unique study explores the relationship between informal financial systems, illegal migration and human smuggling. Focusing on Chinese illegal immigrants working in the US, it examines the motivation and patterns of the use of illegal fund transfer systems, providing a revealing insight into the workings of Chinese underground banks. Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBBEY; JFFN; JKVM; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290892
- ISBN
- 9781137290892
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Condition: New
€ 66.93
€ 66.93
Hardcover. Culture, understood broadly, lay at the heart of contrasting right-wing strategies for government in France during the pivotal decade of 2002-2012. Looking at issues of secularism, education, televisual performance, public memory and nation-branding Ahearne analyses how presidents Chirac and Sarkozy sought to redefine contemporary French identity. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFC; JPFM; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290984
- ISBN
- 9781137290984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of mobile internet technologies which have become ubiquitous in everyday life. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSP1; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137292520
- ISBN
- 9781137292520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardback. This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It charts the historical development of such policies from prohibition in the 1830s and how opposition to it was overcome in the 1970s, thereby allowing the increasing supplementation of the wages of poorly paid working people. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JKSB; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293961
- ISBN
- 9781137293961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.43
€ 68.43
Hardcover. Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and severity. Drawing on both disaster research and social theory, this book offers a critical examination of their causes, consequences and future avoidance. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6. BIC Classification: JFFC; JHBA; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294258
- ISBN
- 9781137294258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.82
€ 127.82
Hardcover. This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group - Gujarati Indians - born and brought up in two different countries. In a rapidly globalizing world, this comparative ethnographic study explores how the context in which we are brought up shapes our most intimate attachments and family lives. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294296
- ISBN
- 9781137294296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Children, Film and Literacy examines children's engagements with film and how these engagements impact on their developing literacy, identity and textual productions. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFC; DSY; JFD; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294326
- ISBN
- 9781137294326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardcover. The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms provides a comparative analysis of contemporary feminist activism in the US and Britain. Drawing upon in depth research undertaken with activists on both sides of the Atlantic, the book explores contentious themes and debates that have occurred over the past twenty years. Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFFK; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295262
- ISBN
- 9781137295262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.90
€ 139.90
Hardcover. This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love story as a cinematic form, it also contributes, through comparison, to research on the romantic comedy. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA; JFD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295378
- ISBN
- 9781137295378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.93
€ 66.93
Hardback. This book draws upon data collected over an 18 year period with over 1000 boys and young men across Northern Ireland. Providing critical reflections on violence, masculinity and education, it uses the voices and experiences of young men to inform and influence research, practice and policy. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JFSJ2; JFSP2; JHBA; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137297341
- ISBN
- 9781137297341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardback. With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life. Using in-depth interviews the authors explore the lived reality of donor conception and offer insights into the complexities of these new family relationships. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFM; JHBF; JHBK; MFKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137297631
- ISBN
- 9781137297631
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life. Using in-depth interviews the authors explore the lived reality of donor conception and offer insights into the complexities of these new family relationships. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 black & white tables, 1 figures. BIC Classification: JFM; JHBF; JHBK; MFKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137297662
- ISBN
- 9781137297662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardback. We live in an age of crises that are global in scale and potentially apocalyptic in severity, affecting the lives of millions - billions - of people. Peter Lee examines the struggle for truth at the heart of these crises to show how political leaders attempt to shape individual behavior, attitudes and identity. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFL; JPS; JPSF; JPV; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298478
- ISBN
- 9781137298478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Paperback. We live in an age of crises that are global in scale and potentially apocalyptic in severity, affecting the lives of millions - billions - of people. Peter Lee examines the struggle for truth at the heart of these crises to show how political leaders attempt to shape individual behavior, attitudes and identity. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFL; JPS; JPSF; JPV; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298485
- ISBN
- 9781137298485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99
€ 40.99
Hardback. Benjamin K. Sovacool applies concepts from justice and ethics theory to contemporary energy problems, and illustrates particular solutions to those problems with examples and case studies from around the world. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFM; RNA; RNFY; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298645
- ISBN
- 9781137298645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited investigates the rise of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as effective and sustainable responses to increasing hunger and food poverty in twelve rich 'food-secure' societies. Editor(s): Riches, Graham; Silvasti, Tiina. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JPVH; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 469.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 New ed
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298713
- ISBN
- 9781137298713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide a necessary seasonal pause for reflection on our fears. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298942
- ISBN
- 9781137298942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
Hardcover. This is the first book to consider the moral regulation of the female body through an analysis of the crime of infanticide. An in-depth perspective from the nineteenth century to the present, Cossins provides a revealing insight into the history of a little-known but widespread social crime. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JKSB1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299413
- ISBN
- 9781137299413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91