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Paperback. This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With multicultural incorporation as an option, the authors explore the potential impact of the politics of identity in societies with social democratic welfare states committed to redistributive politics. Editor(s): Kivisto, P.; Wahlbeck, Osten. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JKS; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347698
- ISBN
- 9781349347698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, with its chapters drawing on original research to present a more nuanced reality, whilst also developing a critical dialogue with one another. Editor(s): Roberts, Steven. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSJ2; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394835
- ISBN
- 9781137394835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Paperback. Debating Globalization is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the field. Published by Polity in association with openDemocracy, the book is notable not just for focusing on the pressing difficulties facing our world, but also on solutions. Editor(s): Barnett, Anthony; Held, David; Henderson, Caspar. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745635255
- ISBN
- 9780745635255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.53
€ 23.53
Hardcover. The essays in this volume exploring the construction of gender ideology in early modern England, focus attention on the implications of the gender debate for women writers and their literary relations, cultural ideology and the family, and political discourse and ideas of nationhood. Editor(s): Malcolmson, Cristina; Suzuki, Mihoko. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294571
- ISBN
- 9780312294571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Num Pages: 221 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL9; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Clear Light Publishers United States
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st Printing
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780940666788
- ISBN
- 9780940666788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 23.86
€ 34.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. A classic collection on the fluid nature of culture and identity from some of the world's greatest Post-Colonial thinkers. Editor(s): Werbner, Pnina; Modood, Tariq. Series: Critique. Influence. Change. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783601615
- ISBN
- 9781783601615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.71
€ 31.99
€ 28.71
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 3rd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442208650
- ISBN
- 9781442208650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Hardback. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of view and considers authenticity in terms of how meaning is produced in and through discourses about authenticity. Incorporating case studies from four continents, the topics reach from art and colonialism to exoticism-primitivism, film, ritual, and wilderness. Editor(s): Fillitz, Thomas; Saris, A. Jamie. Num Pages: 276 pages, 36 ills. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 186 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857454966
- ISBN
- 9780857454966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.19
€ 137.19
paperback. Examines how political rule in Arab countries is effectuated, organized, and executed, and how authoritarianism works in practice and how it can be grasped conceptually. Editor(s): Schlumberger, Oliver. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBX; HBJF1; JFC; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804763332
- ISBN
- 9780804763332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857386106
- ISBN
- 9780857386106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Hardback. Editor(s): Barclay, Katie; Reynolds, Kimberley; Rawnsley, Ciara. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 257 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSP; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137571984
- ISBN
- 9781137571984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Num Pages: 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1002. The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight: 1006.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520075375
- ISBN
- 9780520075375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 32.16
€ 44.99
€ 32.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, 14 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441926319
- ISBN
- 9781441926319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardback. Analyzes the meaning and impact of homicidal threats, the means by which they are communicated, and their development from infrequent private occurrence to social problem. Num Pages: 188 pages, 14 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JMK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387766614
- ISBN
- 9780387766614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490831
- ISBN
- 9781611490831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.42
€ 137.42
Hardcover. In The Death Penalty: What's Keeping it Alive an award-winning criminal defense attorney turns a critical eye towards the death penalty in America. Filled with gripping case studies, the book analyzes why the death penalty remains active in most states in spite of well-documented flaws in the justice system. Num Pages: 174 pages, 1 maps, 2 charts, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JKVP; LNFX1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442232679
- ISBN
- 9781442232679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.84
€ 66.84
Paperback. Examines the negotiations and controversies that took place during the planning and construction of The Dalles Dam and the profound impact the project had on both the Indian community of Celilo Village and the non-Indian town of The Dalles, intertwined with local concerns that affected the entire American West. Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 photos. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; JFSL9; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 351.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985466
- ISBN
- 9780295985466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.86
€ 27.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316332774
- ISBN
- 9780316332774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.54
€ 18.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. Though they were acquitted, these same defendants were soon being ostracized by their own neighbors, and within four months of Till's death, Southern blacks were staging the historic Montgomery bus boycott-the first major battle in the coming war against racial injustice that would lead to the passage of civil rights legislation a decade later. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; BGH; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801843266
- ISBN
- 9780801843266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.76
€ 32.76
Hardback. Explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book shows how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. It helps discover the Baitshepi's maternal ethos. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 368 pages, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMB; HRCX6; JFFH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520259652
- ISBN
- 9780520259652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.06€ 73.24
€ 95.06
€ 73.24
Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816695300
- ISBN
- 9780816695300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. This title provides the study of the representation of death and dying in mainstream Western cinema from its earliest to its latest renditions. It explores the impact of gender, race, nation and narration upon death's dramatics on screen and more. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474402750
- ISBN
- 9781474402750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. As death rates continue to rise, this collection brings together scholars engaged in policy associated with death to analyse the challenges these trends present. Examining a range of issues including inheritance, palliative care, euthanasia, funeral costs and marginalised deaths, this unique volumes portrays how death factors in social policy. Editor(s): Foster, Liam; Woodthorpe, Kate. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 figures, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFME; JHBZ; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484895
- ISBN
- 9781137484895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. Argues that understanding the relation between death and conversion in the Andes involves not only considering the obvious attempts to destroy the cult of the dead, but also investigating a range of policies and strategies whose application demanded continuous negotiation between Spaniards and Andeans. Series: History, Languages and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; HBJD; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 298 x 27. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268040284
- ISBN
- 9780268040284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73