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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Today, more than at any other point in history, we are aware of the cultural impact of global processes. This has created new possibilities for the development of a cosmopolitan culture but, at the same time, it has created new risks and anxieties linked to immigration and the accommodation of strangers. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745653839
- ISBN
- 9780745653839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.61
€ 25.61
Hardback. Today, more than at any other point in history, we are aware of the cultural impact of global processes. This has created new possibilities for the development of a cosmopolitan culture but, at the same time, it has created new risks and anxieties linked to immigration and the accommodation of strangers. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745653822
- ISBN
- 9780745653822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.25
€ 71.25
Hardback. In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 483.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633985
- ISBN
- 9780745633985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.25
€ 71.25
Hardcover. How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 51. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670997
- ISBN
- 9780745670997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.25
€ 71.25
Paperback. How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671000
- ISBN
- 9780745671000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.19
€ 24.19
Hardcover. Num Pages: 267 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JFSR1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137578198
- ISBN
- 9781137578198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.81
€ 108.81
Hardcover. Cosmopolitan Liberalism is a critique of the western tradition of liberal thought and an effort to overcome the philosophical boundaries of individualism towards a more inclusive and open conception. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350. Expanding the Boundaries of the Individual. 240 pages. Cosmopolitan Liberalism is a critique of the western tradition of liberal thought and an effort to overcome the philosophical boundaries of individualism towards a more inclusive and open conception. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JPFK. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 16. Weight: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613522
- ISBN
- 9780230613522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Paperback. Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349312092
- ISBN
- 9781349312092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
paperback. Editor(s): Dannreuther, Roland; Hutchings, Kimberly. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPA; JPB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1999
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349146253
- ISBN
- 9781349146253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Hardcover. Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'. Editor(s): Geiger, Martin. Series: Mobility and Politics. Num Pages: 115 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JPF; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351395
- ISBN
- 9781137351395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Hardback. Cosmopolitan Animals asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing and 'becoming-with' animals. It calls for a fresh awareness that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly. Editor(s): Nagai, Kaori; Jones, Karen; Landry, Donna; Mattfeld, Monica; Rooney, Caroline; Sleigh, Charlotte. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFZ; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137376275
- ISBN
- 9781137376275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.62
€ 62.62
Paperback. An ethnographic account of the logics and regimes of value propelling desires for transnational mobility-largely via human smuggling networks-throughout Fuzhou, China. Num Pages: 360 pages, 20 illustrations, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348061
- ISBN
- 9780822348061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
Hardcover. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC; MNPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403912992
- ISBN
- 9781403912992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.07
€ 119.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; MNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349511600
- ISBN
- 9781349511600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.34
€ 118.34
Paperback. Bestselling author and highly respected BBC news correspondent Kate Adie brings a century of dramatic change for women in uniform vividly to life in this newly reformatted paperback edition of her successful hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2x8. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFSJ1; JWTU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KNW0008532
- ISBN
- 9780340820605
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFFX; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Germany
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531160399
- ISBN
- 9783531160399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.11
€ 61.11
Paperback. A thought-provoking examination of the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as ways to overcome it, Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) provides a wide-ranging overview of the key questions and issues. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFFX; JPZ; KCP; KJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190463977
- ISBN
- 9780190463977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.45
€ 15.99
€ 12.45
Hardback. Editor(s): Davis, Brenda. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: JFFX; JFM; JPZ. Dimension: 260 x 180. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634841870
- ISBN
- 9781634841870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 252.18€ 185.32
€ 252.18
€ 185.32
Paperback. Corruption one of the biggest issues facing the contemporary international community. In this Very Short Introduction, Leslie Holmes explores the problem - how it is defined, the impact it has on society, politics, and the economy, its various causes - and considers how we might deal with it globally. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 168 pages, 6 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFX; JKV; JPZ; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 112 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199689699
- ISBN
- 9780199689699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.74
€ 11.99
€ 10.74
Hardback. Analysing the influence of corruption on economic growth and environmental protection, this book includes a theoretical discussion of corruption and its definition (often omitted in economic studies), along with econometrics, case studies and policy debates. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFX; KCG; KCM; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400705982
- ISBN
- 9789400705982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.12
€ 122.12