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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
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from psychological and biomedical perspectives. Importantly, Hope in Health explores how hope manifests and is sustained in various arenas of health, medicine and healthcare. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; JHB; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361935
- ISBN
- 9780230361935
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Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
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
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
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
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
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
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
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
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
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
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
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
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
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
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
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
Hardback. Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media, and the 'real' lives of these women. Num Pages: 298 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFK; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340312
- ISBN
- 9780230340312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardback. This is the first book to thoroughly examine Al Jazeera English and its coverage methods, its effects on its audience, and its place in the world of mediated geopolitics. Editor(s): Seib, Philip. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340206
- ISBN
- 9780230340206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.82€ 80.75
€ 95.82
€ 80.75
Hardback. Through a series of close readings of most of Rousseau's major writings, this book provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century philosopher's sexual politics. The text argues that Rousseau's writings provide a critique of not only normative gender identity, but also normative familial and kinship relations. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBTB; HPCD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340084
- ISBN
- 9780230340084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development of the literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, and Russell Leong, among others, this book captures the effects of international politics and globalization on Chinese American diasporic consciousness. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340060
- ISBN
- 9780230340060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardback. Gives long overdue attention to O'Neill's one-acts, this edited collection offers a variety of lenses through which to better understand both his one-act plays and entire oeuvre. Editor(s): Bennett, Michael Y.; Carson, Benjamin D. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339811
- ISBN
- 9780230339811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 46.85
€ 52.70
€ 46.85
Hardback. Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal order. The book examines the roots and evolution of honor-based violence, as well as the ongoing struggle to eradicate it worldwide. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339781
- ISBN
- 9780230339781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardback. This book is a collection of grounded accounts by feminist popular educators reflecting critically on processes of collective learning andself- and social transformation in various geopolitical settings.The contributorsadd to the debateon the forging of feminist praxis today. Editor(s): Walters, Shirley; Manicom, Linzi. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339132
- ISBN
- 9780230339132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338739
- ISBN
- 9780230338739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49