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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This collection brings together international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental understandings and responses to sexual violence. Exploring issues such as how to manage sex offenders, the volume provides recommendations for how to reduce offending and improve community engagement. Editor(s): McCartan, Kieran. Series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JKVQ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137358127
- ISBN
- 9781137358127
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€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFE; JKVC; JKVJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358080
- ISBN
- 9781137358080
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€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. Baker explores public protests and their management by the police, focusing on the fatalities of strikers at the hands of police and outlining practices towards preventing such tragedies. Num Pages: 109 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTK; JFFE; JKV; JKVC; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137358059
- ISBN
- 9781137358059
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. Bringing together leading academics and practitioners from across the globe, this unique collection explores the emerging field of heritage crime studies. Moving beyond the traditional focus on illicit antiquities, the volume identifies the diversity of crimes that affect heritage and outlines various approaches to prevention. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABK; HD; JFC; JKV; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357502
- ISBN
- 9781137357502
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€ 148.57
€ 148.57
Hardcover. Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change. Editor(s): Verschuur, Christine; Guerin, Isabelle; Guetat-Bernard, Helene. Series: Gender, Development and Social Change. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSJ; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356819
- ISBN
- 9781137356819
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€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not just about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people; it is an ethical process of opening up to find new possibilities. Langlois uses case studies of social media platforms (including Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon) to revisit traditional conceptions of meaning. Num Pages: 210 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356604
- ISBN
- 9781137356604
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€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. This book examines the non-fiction work of literary artist Alice Walker in order to glean values and ethical imperatives for womanist theological and ethical reflection. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HRA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 212 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356024
- ISBN
- 9781137356024
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Condition: New
€ 82.19
€ 82.19
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Cultures of Financialization argues that, in our age of crisis, the global economy is more invested than ever in culture and the imagination. We must take the idea of 'fictitious capital' seriously as a way to understand the power of finance, and what might be done to stop it. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; KC; KF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355966
- ISBN
- 9781137355966
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€ 105.13
€ 105.13
Transitions to Adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa: Young Wo...
Gebel, Michael, Heyne, Stefanie
Hardcover. This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. Adopting a life course perspective, it provides a new integrative micro-macro-theoretical framework and innovative analyses of individual life courses based on longitudinal data. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFSJ1; JFSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355553
- ISBN
- 9781137355553
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book empirically investigates the (im)mobility decisions, social network formation, sense of European identity and migratory aspirations of higher education students. It draws on a large-scale survey, in-depth interviews and focus groups, conducted in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Norway, Poland and the UK. Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education. Num Pages: 224 pages, 23 black & white tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JNKS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355430
- ISBN
- 9781137355430
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. Ecotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation. Davidov offers a comparative analysis of the issue using a case study of indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador and their interactions with globalization and transnational systems. Num Pages: 279 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; JFFS; JFSL9; JHMC; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355379
- ISBN
- 9781137355379
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€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. What enables the few working-class people who enter higher education to achieve against the odds? This book offers answers by comparing social contexts, educational institutions and policies in Austria and England to demonstrate a surprising number of similarities behind those who succeed using Bourdieu's concept of habitus. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JFSC; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355300
- ISBN
- 9781137355300
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Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. Black Women's Bodies and the Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of iconic Black women's bodies within popular culture in the US, UK and the Caribbean and the racialization and affective load of muscle, bone, fat and skin through the trope of the subaltern figure of the Sable-Saffron Venus as an 'alter/native- body'. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355270
- ISBN
- 9781137355270
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€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and place. Editor(s): Cobb, Russell. Num Pages: 298 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353825
- ISBN
- 9781137353825
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 116 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DST; JFC; JFD; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353412
- ISBN
- 9781137353412
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. This volume presents a ground-breaking collection of interdisciplinary chapters from international scholars which complicate, and offers new ways to make sense of, children's sexual cultures across complex political, social and cultural terrains. Editor(s): Renold, Emma; Ringrose, Jessica; Egan, R. Danielle. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 618.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353382
- ISBN
- 9781137353382
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Condition: New
€ 184.14
€ 184.14
Hardcover. This study presents a unique overview of the cultural, social and practical aspects of interviewing rape victims. Exploring a range of issues that affect rape cases including discourse, gender, attitudes and victim's rights, Rich reveals the complexities of sexual assault and looks to how communities can work to respond to and combat such violence. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFFE2; JFSJ; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353221
- ISBN
- 9781137353221
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Condition: New
€ 77.38
€ 77.38
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351395
- ISBN
- 9781137351395
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and...
Westall, Claire, Gardiner, Michael
Hardcover. In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing. The problem, our problem, is the public - which we are so often told will bring us together and provide for us - and it is this we must move beyond. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFF; JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351333
- ISBN
- 9781137351333
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Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Hardcover. This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. Eight ethnographic case studies from across the continent examine how uncertainty is used to negotiate insecurity, create and conduct relationships, and act as a source for imagining the future. Editor(s): Cooper, Elizabeth; Pratten, David. Series: Anthropology, Change and Development. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSL3; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350824
- ISBN
- 9781137350824
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers to the most common issues and problems of multi generational work by assessing differences and commonalities between and among generations. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBL; KJMV2; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350572
- ISBN
- 9781137350572
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Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. Placed within the context of reception studies, this book investigates how advertisements that rely on re-contextualising shared cultural knowledge are understood by their viewers, and examines their persuasive potential. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFDV; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 209 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350428
- ISBN
- 9781137350428
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New York Times, explores how the nonprofit group Say Yes to Education has instituted a network of reforms in Syracuse, New York, that aim to expand the city's the middle class by supporting its children. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG; JNF; JNK; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349651
- ISBN
- 9781137349651
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.61
€ 53.36
€ 46.61
Paperback. A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke's examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this pivotal moment of gay American history between the Stonewall riots and the AIDS epidemic. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSG; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349422
- ISBN
- 9781137349422
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.40
€ 53.36
€ 46.40