Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 343 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390737
- ISBN
- 9780230390737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.19
€ 68.19
Hardcover. Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948. He also examines the organization's prospects for managing global health security now and into the future. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; MBN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369313
- ISBN
- 9780230369313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.75
€ 149.75
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action
Blitvich, Pilar Garces-Conejos. Ed(S): Lorenz...
Hardback. This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in Argentina and New Zealand, and talent shows in the UK and USA. Editor(s): Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368712
- ISBN
- 9780230368712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardback. Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368699
- ISBN
- 9780230368699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Hardcover. Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animal suffering. In this book, Dougherty defends radical possibilities for animal afterlife that allow a soul-making theodicy to apply to their case. Series Editor(s): Nagasawa, Yujin; Wielenberg, Erik J. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368484
- ISBN
- 9780230368484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.71
€ 149.71
Hardcover. This book explores the changing nature of party competition in four West European countries. It pays special attention to how different ideological positions give rise to contradictory cues when parties engage with atypical election issues like the EU and immigration. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JPLM; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367746
- ISBN
- 9780230367746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardback. This collection of essays by scholars with expertise in a range of fields, cultural professionals and policy makers explores different ways in which the arts and humanities contribute to dealing with the challenges of contemporary society in ways that do not rely on simplistic and questionable notions of socio-economic impact as a proxy for value. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; H; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230366657
- ISBN
- 9780230366657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
Hardcover. Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFJ; JFSG; JFSP; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363335
- ISBN
- 9780230363335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFDT; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230362833
- ISBN
- 9780230362833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.47
€ 116.47
Hardcover. Immigrant incorporation is a critical challenge for France and other European societies today. Black Africans migrants are racialized and endowed with an immigrant status, which carries low status and is durable into the second generation. This book elucidates the conflict and issues pertinent to social integration. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HF; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361959
- ISBN
- 9780230361959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JFSP2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361744
- ISBN
- 9780230361744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the historical in contemporary cultural politics. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFFA; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360471
- ISBN
- 9780230360471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFD; JHBS; WSBT; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355408
- ISBN
- 9780230355408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Analyses change and continuity throughout the history of British animal research regulation. Num Pages: 379 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355118
- ISBN
- 9780230355118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63
Hardcover. Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFS; JFFT; JFSC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354449
- ISBN
- 9780230354449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a second-tier city in China and uses sociological theory to understand the impact of global mobility on identity, community and belonging. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFFS; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348394
- ISBN
- 9780230348394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Af...
Conway, Daniel, Leonard, Pauline
Hardcover. Twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office, this timely text interrogates the extent to which the attitudes, identities and everyday lives of British people have changed in accordance with the 'new' South Africa. New ethnographic research is drawn upon to explore important questions of mobility, locality and identity. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; JFFN; JFFS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230346574
- ISBN
- 9780230346574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HBG; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341364
- ISBN
- 9780230341364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardback. The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align religious health assets - widely present in many contexts - and public health services and facilities. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JFFH2; JPA; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341272
- ISBN
- 9780230341272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Paperback. This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFH2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340992
- ISBN
- 9780230340992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.66
€ 71.66