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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JFSL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484581
- ISBN
- 9781137484581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. This book provides a critical perspective on people's response to disasters in the Philippines. It draws upon an array of case studies to discuss people's vulnerability, capacities and resilience in facing a wide range of different hazards. Series: Disaster Studies. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFFC; RNR; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484284
- ISBN
- 9781137484284
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Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relationships with W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson, this book tracks racial identity in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484093
- ISBN
- 9781137484093
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. Politics, Disability, and Education Reform in the South explores how race, gender, disability, and politics all came together to impact the career of one State Superintendent of Education in South Carolina who fought to improve educational conditions for African-Americans, women, and millworkers' children in South Carolina. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JNF; JNH; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484055
- ISBN
- 9781137484055
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Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.85
€ 52.90
€ 46.85
Hardcover. Chechens: Culture and Society is an ethnography that elaborates the lived experiences of Chechens, focusing primarily on relationships and socio-cultural norms within the context of the current conflict in the Chechen Republic. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUAC; JFFD; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483966
- ISBN
- 9781137483966
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Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
What's New about the "New" Immigration?: Traditions and Transformation...
Halter, Marilyn, Johnson, Marilynn S., Viens,...
Hardcover. Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period. Editor(s): Stachura, Peter D. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFN; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483867
- ISBN
- 9781137483867
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Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization. Series: Social Movements and Transformation. Num Pages: 212 pages, 9 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFJ; JFSC; JPW; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483492
- ISBN
- 9781137483492
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 447.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483218
- ISBN
- 9781137483218
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Condition: New
€ 149.59
€ 149.59
Hardback. The chapters in this volume represent diverse attempts to explain women's movements from rural areas, taking prevailing market conditions as well as gender relations into account. The analysis of the different working and living conditions in different parts of rural Europe reveals distinct obstacles but also prospects for young women. Editor(s): Wiest, Karin. Series: New Geographies of Europe. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFSF; JFSJ1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483034
- ISBN
- 9781137483034
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Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; ASZH; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482648
- ISBN
- 9781137482648
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Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Hardback. This book looks at developmental pathways to poverty reduction that emphasize employment-centred structural change, social policies that both protect citizens and contribute to economic development, and types of politics that support economic transformation and participation of the poor in growth processes. Editor(s): Bangura, Yusuf. Series: Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCG; KCM; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 555.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482532
- ISBN
- 9781137482532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.38
€ 150.38
Hardback. This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the present day. It focuses in particular on scientific boundaries, gender and the relationship between sociology and the Swedish welfare state. Series: Sociology Transformed. Num Pages: 111 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSJ; JHB; JHBC; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482297
- ISBN
- 9781137482297
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Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Hardcover. This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482235
- ISBN
- 9781137482235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle and accommodation, and movement and stasis. Editor(s): Fernandez, Bina; De Regt, Marina; Currie, Gregory. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFFN; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482105
- ISBN
- 9781137482105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Hardcover. Ethnicity and ethnic parties have often been portrayed as a threat to political stability. This book challenges the notion that the organization of politics in heterogeneous societies should overcome ethnicity. Rather, descriptive representation of ethnic groups has potential to increase regime support and reduce conflict. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JFSL1; JPHF; JPL; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481689
- ISBN
- 9781137481689
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Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Paperback. How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demonstrates how a different research methodology, underpinned by a psychoanalytically informed epistemology, can transform our understanding of the early foundations of maternal identity. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 graphs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JMAF; JMC; JMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481252
- ISBN
- 9781137481252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.15
€ 47.15
Hardback. How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demonstrates how a different research methodology, underpinned by a psychoanalytically informed epistemology, can transform our understanding of the early foundations of maternal identity. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JMAF; JMC; JMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481221
- ISBN
- 9781137481221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.54
€ 116.54
Hardcover. Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics beyond their local or national origin and offers the first systematic sociological treatment of this important phenomenon. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481160
- ISBN
- 9781137481160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardback. In this book, Perlin and Lynch approach issues of sexual autonomy and disability from multiple perspectives, including constitutional law, international human rights, therapeutic jurisprudence, history, cognitive psychology, dignity studies, and theories and findings on gender constructs and societal norms. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; LAQ; LNTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481078
- ISBN
- 9781137481078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40
hardcover. This book explores the significance of riots and public disturbances caused by marginalized youth with a migrant background in France and the Netherlands, and how their demands for recognition, justice and equal opportunities are voiced in uncivil, yet politically meaningful ways. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480958
- ISBN
- 9781137480958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64