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Society & culture: general
Social Justice in the Globalization of Production: Labor, Gender, and ...
Islam, Md Saidul, Hossain, Md Ismail
Hardcover. Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain investigate how neoliberal globalization generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in labor, gender and environmental relations; and how a broader global social justice can mitigate the tensions and improve the conditions. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white tables, 10 figures, 1 charts. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPS; KCF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 2. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434005
- ISBN
- 9781137434005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.38
€ 116.38
Hardcover. The magazine Photoplay pioneered the construction of both female stars as social types and fans as aspiring consumers in the first mass consumption society. The construction of female identity based on goods and performance in a consumer society resulted in multiple, fragmented, and unstable selves - a legacy evident in postmodern culture today. Num Pages: 310 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433992
- ISBN
- 9781137433992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public debates on Romanian migrants and the Roma minority in Italy and Spain. Series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JHMC; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433916
- ISBN
- 9781137433916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. The increased targeting of civilians by militants raises serious and profound questions for policy-makers. Examining conflict in Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, this book focuses on ethno-nationalist militant groups and formulates a model to constrain violence against civilians. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1FBH; 1FBP; JFFE; JPB; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433794
- ISBN
- 9781137433794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardback. Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places speculates on animation, documentary, experimental, interactive, and narrative media that probe human-machine performances, virtual migrations, global warming, structural inequality, and critical cartographies across Brazil, Canada, China, India, USA, and elsewhere. Num Pages: 296 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433619
- ISBN
- 9781137433619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. Examining performers from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern Islamic Middle East, including India and Pakistan, Shay explores the careers, artistic performances, and legacies of these individuals who were forced to produce entertainment and art for, and have sex with, any and all patrons. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFM; ASD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433602
- ISBN
- 9781137433602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.93
€ 138.93
Hardcover. This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 192 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTQ; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432773
- ISBN
- 9781137432773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. The Luxury Market in Brazil provides a holistic and practitioners approach to luxury marketing in Brazil. The book analyses the key challenges and opportunities facing luxury brands, while providing an insight into the skills and competencies to develop and implement effective luxury marketing strategies that are specific to the market in question. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCK; KJD; KJK; KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432544
- ISBN
- 9781137432544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardback. Women's Voices in Management examines a wide array of women's voices across different geo-political, social and organizational contexts in management. Extant research provides clear evidence on gendering in organizations throughout all the ranks including top management. Editor(s): Syna, Helena Desivilya; Costea, Carmen-Eugenia. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJG; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432131
- ISBN
- 9781137432131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.31
€ 128.31
Hardcover. This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It explores how the sense made of key childhood and adult experiences influences the ability to manage roles and identities and choices they feel empowered or forced to make. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFMX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431752
- ISBN
- 9781137431752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Hardcover. This volume examines British and US attitudes towards the means and mechanisms for the facilitation of an Arab-Israeli reconciliation, focusing specifically on the refugee factor in diplomatic initiatives. It explains why Britain and the US were unable to reconcile the local parties to an agreement on the future of the Palestinian refugees. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJPG; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFFD; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431509
- ISBN
- 9781137431509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. This book investigates key issues facing leaders in increasingly complex decision-making environments as a result of globalization. It presents a synthesis and interpretation of academic research in multiple disciplines and integrates it into a practical approach that is readily useable by leaders in government, corporations, and civil society. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JPP; KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431202
- ISBN
- 9781137431202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.72
€ 67.72
Hardcover. Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media. Editor(s): Hernandez, Ellie D.; Gibson, Eliza Rodriguez Y. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431073
- ISBN
- 9781137431073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardback. Num Pages: 302 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JHBC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430762
- ISBN
- 9781137430762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.03
€ 117.03
Hardcover. The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430663
- ISBN
- 9781137430663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. This book brings together experts across disciplines to examine the connection between digital technologies and human movement, and to consider the creative and artistic possibilities of technologized human motion. Editor(s): Salazar Sutil, Nicolas; Popat, Sita. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 338 pages, 40 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 261 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430403
- ISBN
- 9781137430403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.54
€ 161.54
hardcover. This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory in Hispanic America. It shows that theories need active involvement from scholars in the receiving field in order to travel. Num Pages: 137 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 137
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430021
- ISBN
- 9781137430021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardcover. Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429698
- ISBN
- 9781137429698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429346
- ISBN
- 9781137429346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary approach to urban education policy to examine the formal education and physical environment of young people from low-income backgrounds and demonstrate how gentrification shapes these circumstances. Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFSG; JNF; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429155
- ISBN
- 9781137429155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.87
€ 52.90
€ 46.87