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Society & culture: general
Policing Transnational Organized Crime and Corruption: Exploring the R...
Congram, Mitchell, Bell, Peter, Lauchs, Mark
Hardcover. Examining the role of communication interception technology (CIT) in the investigation of transnational organised crime, the authors demonstrate that a proactive intelligence-led policing framework and a re-evaluation of the constraints of CIT are required to combat the international issue of corruption. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JKVC; JKVM; UR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333780
- ISBN
- 9781137333780
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€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardcover. Offering a critique of contemporary wedding discourse, this book marries together analyses of media texts and their reception to propose a new approach to media discourse. The analysis richly illustrates how women are invited to embrace not only the stereotypical idea of bridal femininity but also a consumptive way of experiencing it. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333575
- ISBN
- 9781137333575
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€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. Exploring the interlinkages of political parties, religiosity, and women's leadership and nominations to public office, this book argues that as party religiosity increases, women's chances of assuming leadership positions fall. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, it advances a new theory of party variation in religiosity. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBL; JFSJ1; JFSR; JPB; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333209
- ISBN
- 9781137333209
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€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Mulholland offers a scholarly, yet wholly accessible, critical engagement with young people's negotiation with the pornification of culture. This work foregrounds the affective dynamics in young people's institutional and everyday sexual peer cultures. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ; JFSP2; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332936
- ISBN
- 9781137332936
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€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. This study considers the use of they and he for generic reference in post-2000 written British English. The analysis is framed by a consideration of language-internal factors, such as syntactic agreement, and language-external factors, which include traditional grammatical prescriptivism and the language reforms resulting from second-wave feminism. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; CFK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332721
- ISBN
- 9781137332721
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€ 127.28
€ 127.28
The Middle Classes and the City: A Study of Paris and London
Bacque, Marie-Helene, Bridge, Gary, Benson, M...
Hardcover. What does it mean to be middle class in contemporary global cities? What do the middle classes do to these cities and what do these cities do to the middle classes? Do the middle classes engage in social mix or are they focused on 'people like us'? Based on comparative study this book explores middle-class identities across Paris and London. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332592
- ISBN
- 9781137332592
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€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power to present an analytic tool-kit for a critically engaged public criminology. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330352
- ISBN
- 9781137330352
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€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and debates relevant to contemporary social science such as place and space, social stratification and power relations, production and consumption, individualism, dwelling and imagination. Editor(s): Benson, Michaela; Osbaldiston, Nick. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JFSL; JHBD; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328663
- ISBN
- 9781137328663
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€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Countering the commonplace view of teaching as inclusive, this collection highlights the persistence of inequalities in the teaching profession. It explores the ways in which gender, ethnicity, social class and other identity markers shape teachers' experiences in a range of institutional and national contexts. Editor(s): Moreau, Marie-Pierre. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ; JNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328595
- ISBN
- 9781137328595
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€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardcover. The number of women in senior management remains stubbornly low. Women Who Succeed examines the real life experiences of forty-six senior women who have 'made it' into senior management. It considers the strategies that these women adopted, the support they received and the relationships they formed in building their careers. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJG; KJM; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328250
- ISBN
- 9781137328250
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€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Hardcover. Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3J; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327796
- ISBN
- 9781137327796
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€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to an historical overview of the culture-state relationships in East Asia, it provides an analysis of contemporary developments occurring in the regions' cultural policies and the challenges they are facing. Editor(s): Lee, Hye-Kyung; Lim, Lorraine. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; AB; JFC; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327765
- ISBN
- 9781137327765
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture. Editor(s): Scapp, Ron; Seitz, Brian. Num Pages: 238 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326782
- ISBN
- 9781137326782
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€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia. By taking the political agency of migrants into account, it approaches the subject of borders as a genuine political and socially constructed phenomenon and transcends a state-centered perspective. Editor(s): Schwenken, Helen; Russ-Sattar, Sabine. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JPVH1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326621
- ISBN
- 9781137326621
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€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMW; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326560
- ISBN
- 9781137326560
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€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the different care systems are in dealing with these problems through policy innovation. It combines theoretical and conceptual debates, cross-national comparisons and analytically-driven case studies. Editor(s): Leon, Margarita. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSP31; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326508
- ISBN
- 9781137326508
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€ 128.48
€ 128.48
Hardcover. Education policy is a core element of the state's sovereignty and autonomy. This book analyzes the rise of the western education state and its limits in times of transition from western to non-western globalization and of waning newspaper interest in France, Germany, the UK and the US. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326478
- ISBN
- 9781137326478
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€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food. Editor(s): Klein, Jakob A.; Murcott, Anne. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV; JFFT; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326409
- ISBN
- 9781137326409
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€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. Editor(s): Spyrou, Spyros; Christou, Miranda. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326300
- ISBN
- 9781137326300
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Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and sociolinguistic variables affect a narrator's language use and linguistic behaviour. This book will be of interest to anyone engaged with narrative discourse, gender discourse, Arabic studies and linguistics. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 2CSR; CFB; CFFD; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325754
- ISBN
- 9781137325754
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Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24