Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community development and consequently promote active citizenship and social justice. Editor(s): Mayo, Marjorie; Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida; Packham, Carol. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFS; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034731
- ISBN
- 9781137034731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. This book offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs. Editor(s): Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Gootman, Jennifer Appleton. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKSB1; JPRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- National Academies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780309105903
- ISBN
- 9780309105903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.78
€ 56.78
Hardback. Editor(s): Bayerl, P. Saskia; Karlovic, Ruza; Akhgar, Professor Babak; Markarian, Garik. Series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Num Pages: 322 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 41 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JKSN; JPWL; KJU; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319533957
- ISBN
- 9783319533957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.78
€ 145.78
Hardcover. This incisive book provides a critical history and analysis of community organizing, the tradition of bringing groups together to build power and forge grassroots leadership for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice. Begun by Saul Alinsky in the 1930s, there are today nearly 200 institution-based groups active in 40 U.S. Series: Social Movements. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780745663197
- ISBN
- 9780745663197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. This book discusses how individuals, groups, and organizations develop the means to deal with problems in their interaction with institutions, exploring what methods and practices should be implemented to address various issues. Num Pages: 441 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFS; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 441
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231054621
- ISBN
- 9780231054621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.28€ 64.47
€ 82.28
€ 64.47
Paperback. This text looks to the history of "the commons" in American and European social thought to better understand contemporary environmental problems. The authors reveal the law's insufficient comprehension of community rights and advocate realistic policy alternatives. Series: New Social Formations. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JF; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742501614
- ISBN
- 9780742501614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.37
€ 77.37
New York City's main Arab communities exemplify the continuity and change that has taken place throughout the city's rich history. This is a collection of writings and photographs that document and tell the stories of these communities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 36 photographs, 4 maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBBEY; HBTB; JFSG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607397
- ISBN
- 9780815607397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Hardcover. This volume explores the neighbourhood, familial, religious, occupational, social and educational components of the daily community experience of 20th-century African Americans in Frankfort, Kentucky. Editor(s): Boyd, Douglas A.; Fletcher, Winona L. (Professor Emeritus Of Theater and Drama, Indiana University, USA); Butler, Sheila Mason; Wallace, James E. (Asst. Director, Kentucky Historical Society); Winter, Mary E. Num Pages: 208 pages, 200 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; HBTD; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1039.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916968304
- ISBN
- 9780916968304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.80
€ 52.80
Hardcover. Num Pages: 271 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 527.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977946
- ISBN
- 9781403977946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780830415687
- ISBN
- 9780830415687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.53
€ 59.53
Paperback. Offers a way of looking at our social, cultural and economic realities. Tackling the dimensions of personal responsibility, consensus and community, this work shows how we can find a language through which we can reinvigorate our individual and social lives, developing the resourcefulness we need but which proves so difficult to cultivate. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 166 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244. Very good copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0012760
- ISBN
- 9781853837340
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The contributors to this issue on community involvement discuss the topic from a variety of perspectives drawn from psychology, sociology and education. They present an overview of recent history and trends associated with community involvement, including definitions, goals and major movements. Editor(s): Stukas, Arthur; Dunlap, Michelle R. Series: Journal of Social Issues (JOSI). Num Pages: 242 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Volume 58, Number 3
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405107938
- ISBN
- 9781405107938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.87
€ 43.87
Mixed media product. Editor(s): Quinn, Heather S. Num Pages: 157 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 262 x 18. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 157
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Har/DVD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614709534
- ISBN
- 9781614709534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 235.06€ 162.43
€ 235.06
€ 162.43
Paperback. This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others. Editor(s): Salvan, Paula Martin; Salas, G. P.; Heffernan, J. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349448753
- ISBN
- 9781349448753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardback. The focus of this book is on how community comes to influence political behaviour; it takes an interdisciplinary approach blending the fields of community psychology, sociology, and political science. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621916
- ISBN
- 9780230621916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. The focus of this book is on how community comes to influence political behaviour; it takes an interdisciplinary approach blending the fields of community psychology, sociology, and political science. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBA; JPA; JPP; JPQB; KCP. 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
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349383672
- ISBN
- 9781349383672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Presents readers with a comprehensive understanding of economic structure in small communities and urban neighborhoods of America. This work also demonstrates how local participation and knowledge can be used to identify problems, form solutions, and maintain community support for long-term goals. Num Pages: 363 pages, 86. BIC Classification: JFSF; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 185 x 26. Weight in Grams: 833.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Iowa State University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 363
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813816371
- ISBN
- 9780813816371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.26
€ 143.26
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861349699
- ISBN
- 9781861349699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 35.39
€ 35.99
€ 35.39
Paperback. Community development finds itself in times of unprecedented political, social and economic change. This title develops critiques of the changing context and identifies challenges faced by community development both at community level and as a collective force for a more just, equal and sustainable future. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847426468
- ISBN
- 9781847426468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Paperback. Ted Cantle updates his concept of community cohesion, which critiques multicultural policies and offers a compelling alternative to community relations, which has been widely adopted in the UK. Revised in light of recent research, and now incorporating discussion on segregation and faith concerns. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFH; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230216730
- ISBN
- 9780230216730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
paperback. Series: Routledge Revivals. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFFB; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415708586
- ISBN
- 9780415708586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.57
€ 51.57
Paperback. In Community and Tradition, eight distinguished scholars articulate the clearest statement to date of the conservative vision of community. Editor(s): Carey, George W.; Frohnen, Bruce. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JF; JPA; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847686612
- ISBN
- 9780847686612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.26
€ 65.26
Paperback. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 466. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFS. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 26. Weight: 452.
- Publisher
- Darton Longman and Todd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780232526974
- ISBN
- 9780232526974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.10
€ 19.99
€ 16.10
Paperback. Community and ageing investigates changing concepts and experiences of community into older age and how they play out in housing with care settings, with an overview of how the housing with care sector in the UK and internationally. It explores the impact of a range of factors, from social networks to diversity and the built environment. Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JKSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 173 x 238 x 67. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847420701
- ISBN
- 9781847420701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.98
€ 40.99
€ 38.98