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Hardcover. Shows us the undeniable realities of mass migration to which we have turned a blind eye: how it has driven down workers' wages and driven up inequality; how it has fostered unsafe working conditions; and how it has stalled our economic maturity by keeping us ever-focused on increasing consumption. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226190655
ISBN
9780226190655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Hardback. In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. This title examines linguistic diversity as a global social phenomenon and considers what degree of linguistic variety might result in the greatest economic good. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 line illus. 34 tables. BIC Classification: CF; JFFS; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136899
ISBN
9780691136899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.51
€ 42.58

Paperback. A collection of stories exploring a host of female parts - rites of passage, love, loss, danger, revelations, strange relationships, - the pleasures and pains of growing up female. Editor(s): Lefanu, Sarah. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; FYB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 276. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Aurora Metro Publications
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000994
ISBN
9780951587744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; JKS; JPQB; KFFN; LNTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 120 x 3. Weight in Grams: 57.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594037528
ISBN
9781594037528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.02

Paperback. This book examines how labor migration is changing the countryside in post-Mao China. Series: Cambridge Modern China Series. Num Pages: 306 pages, 28 b/w illus. 2 maps 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FPC; GTB; JFFN; JP; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
306
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521005302
ISBN
9780521005302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.46

Hardback. According to current deabtes, 'individualization' has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to 'globalization'. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a globe without any political, economic or cultural structures. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Num Pages: 100 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745633886
ISBN
9780745633886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRE; JFFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 355.
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780861716852
ISBN
9780861716852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.26

Paperback. An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; JFCX; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007140978
ISBN
9780007140978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Series: Encounter Broadsides. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 120 x 4. Weight in Grams: 62.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594034886
ISBN
9781594034886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.04

Paperback. Drawing on experiments and survey data, this title shows that Americans who watch partisan programming do become more certain of their beliefs and less willing to weigh the merits of opposing views or to compromise. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 208 pages, 18 line drawings, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226069012
ISBN
9780226069012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Hardcover. Drawing on experiments and survey data, this title shows that Americans who watch partisan programming do become more certain of their beliefs and less willing to weigh the merits of opposing views or to compromise. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 208 pages, 18 line drawings, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226068961
ISBN
9780226068961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 79.41

Paperback. Describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. This study reveals how philosophers employed allegory and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. Translator(s): Tihanyi, Catherine. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226075372
ISBN
9780226075372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 438 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSP31; JKSB; JKSG; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691634296
ISBN
9780691634296
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.47

Paperback. Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why? And does it matter for policy outcomes? This book argues that democratic participation and public policy reinforce each other. It shows how highly participatory groups get their policy preferences fulfilled, and how public policy itself helps create political inequality. Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 39 line illus. 52 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122502
ISBN
9780691122502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137463098
ISBN
9781137463098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 118.89
€ 74.83

Hardback. This book traces how popular culture products and media portrayals of women and girls impact their development through various ages and pre-scripted 'stages' of life: as a young girl, an adolescent, a dating woman, a bride, a wife, a pregnant woman, a mother, a middle-aged woman, and a maturing woman. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137566171
ISBN
9781137566171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.09

Hardcover. This is an interdisciplinary study of the mechanisms by which power corrupts. It incorporates political theory, organizational studies and cognitive science. In particular, it introduces advances in the field of cognitive psychology, which it uses to examine the effects of institutionalized power on how we think. Num Pages: 180 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFX; JMR; JPHV; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230218543
ISBN
9780230218543
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 40 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 213 x 4. Weight in Grams: 86.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
SKU
V9781617282850
ISBN
9781617282850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.71
€ 52.53

Paperback. Examines Mexican immigration - from 1924 when immigration acts drastically reduced immigration to the US to 1965 when many quotas were abolished - to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
213
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280083
ISBN
9780520280083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.18

Paperback. How racism shapes urban spaces and how African Americans create vibrant communities that offer models for more equitable social arrangements Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439902561
ISBN
9781439902561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. This is a social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the US. It tells a human story about people who had a deep and unshakeable desire to transform their bodily sex. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JFSJ5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013797
ISBN
9780674013797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.13

Paperback. Uncovers the hidden influence of Shakespeare in our culture, including these tidbits: Shakespeare coined over 1,700 words, including hobnob, glow, lackluster, and dawn; Paul Robeson's 1943 performance as "Othello on Broadway" was a seminal moment in black history; and, more. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061965548
ISBN
9780061965548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442202115
ISBN
9781442202115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.25

paperback. Drawing on postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist, and First Nations theory, Hoy raises and addresses questions around 'difference' in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First Soft Cover Edition
SKU
V9780802084019
ISBN
9780802084019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.95

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