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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFCA; JFD; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273505
- ISBN
- 9781137273505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Examining the emotional practices of workers within the criminal justice system, this book argues that emotions can have both positive and negative impacts on practice, but are largely ignored in policy and practice discourse. Illustrating the value of these 'soft skills', Knight calls for the building of emotional resources within organizations. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JKSN; JKVQ1; JKVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273192
- ISBN
- 9781137273192
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272713
- ISBN
- 9781137272713
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the adaptation industry and the marketing of ethnic bestsellers as new globalization strategies that connect postcolonial artworks to the market place. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272584
- ISBN
- 9781137272584
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretical insights from gender theory and transnational criminology, Fleetwood argues that women's participation in the drugs trade cannot be adequately understood through the lenses of either victimization or agency. Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSJ1; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137271891
- ISBN
- 9781137271891
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Explaining Collective Violence in Contemporary Indonesia: From Conflic...
Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin
Hardcover. Tadjoeddin uniquely explores four types of violent conflicts pertinent to contemporary Indonesia (secessionist, ethnic, routine-everyday and electoral violence), and seeks to discover what socio-economic development can do to overcome conflict and make the country's transition to democracy safe for its constituencies. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFE; JPA; JPHV; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270634
- ISBN
- 9781137270634
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book provides a cross-regional investigation of the role of citizenship and ethnicity in migration, political incorporation, and political transnationalism in the age of globalization, exploring the political realities of Dutch Antilleans in the Netherlands and Latin American Nikkeijin in Japan. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270542
- ISBN
- 9781137270542
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. Published with the support of the Academy for Social Sciences, this volume provides an illuminating look at topics of concern to everyone at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Leading social scientists tackle complex questions such as immigration, unemployment, climate change, war, banks in trouble, and an ageing population. Editor(s): Cooper, Cary; Michie, Jonathan. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269911
- ISBN
- 9781137269911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.26
€ 38.26
Hardcover. Technology and Touch addresses the development of a range of new touch technologies, both technologies that we reach out to touch and technologies that touch us, by exploring how we use touch to connect with and understand our world, and ourselves. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JF; JHBA; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268303
- ISBN
- 9781137268303
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality. Editor(s): Burrell, Kathy; Horschelmann, Kathrin. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; JFFN; JPFF; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137267283
- ISBN
- 9781137267283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have pointed to negative consequences of this development, this volume also discusses the evidence for a new and socially inclusive European employment standard. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHBL; JPB; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137267153
- ISBN
- 9781137267153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday lives. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white tables, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFN; JFFP; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033307
- ISBN
- 9781137033307
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. By positioning the late Edward Said's political interventions as a public intellectual on behalf of Palestinian populations living under Israeli occupation as a form of intellectual resistance, Abraham moves to consider forms of physical resistance, seeking to better understand the motivations of those who choose to turn their bodies into weapons. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; JFC; JNM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031945
- ISBN
- 9781137031945
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Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Hardcover. Informed by ethnographic research with children, Davies offers new sociological insights into children's personal relationships, as well as closely examining methodological approaches to researching with children and researching relationships. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBK; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030061
- ISBN
- 9781137030061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. A pioneering study of American Jewish involvement in the fight against racial injustice in South Africa. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; JFSR1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029713
- ISBN
- 9781137029713
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 figures, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSV; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029454
- ISBN
- 9781137029454
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026637
- ISBN
- 9781137026637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from 'traditional' Chinese values impacts on their child-rearing methods. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; JFSL3; JHBK; JMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026606
- ISBN
- 9781137026606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process, and, most importantly, provides ideas and insights into building audience-centered and audience-powered conversations about the arts. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023919
- ISBN
- 9781137023919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardcover. Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023827
- ISBN
- 9781137023827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why they differ and why they change. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCD; JFFT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022493
- ISBN
- 9781137022493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Ben Light puts forward an alternative way of thinking about how we engage with social networking sites. He analyses our engagements social networking sites in public, at work, in our personal lives and as related to our health and wellbeing, emphasizing the importance of disconnection instead of connection. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFFP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022462
- ISBN
- 9781137022462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Through a rigorous critique of the dominant narrative of the Rwandan genocide, Collins provides an alternative argument to the debate situating the killings within a historically-specific context and drawing out a dynamic interplay between national and international actors. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; HBTZ; JFM; JPS; JPVH; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022318
- ISBN
- 9781137022318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This book examines the evolving relationship between the nation-state, citizenship and the education of citizens, exploring the impact European integration had on national policies towards educating its citizens and citizenship. Series: Education, Economy and Society. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSP2; JHB; JNF; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137019561
- ISBN
- 9781137019561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04