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Society & culture: general
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483034
- ISBN
- 9781137483034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.62
€ 62.62
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.41
€ 129.41
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
€ 140.21
€ 140.21
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482297
- ISBN
- 9781137482297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
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
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
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
€ 61.95
€ 61.95
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481252
- ISBN
- 9781137481252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.09
€ 44.09
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
€ 108.71
€ 108.71
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
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
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
€ 118.82
€ 118.82
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.
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- 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
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFSL; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480644
- ISBN
- 9781137480644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. Today, there is new appeal in the analysis of ethnicity, not merely as innate and fixed identities or fragmented and lost identities, but rather as wounded and then creatively reclaimed. Kearney discusses international examples of cultural wounding and healing and presents two close readings of emerging ethnicities in Australia and Brazil. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1MBF; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480569
- ISBN
- 9781137480569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 156 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPL; JFD; JPWQ; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480347
- ISBN
- 9781137480347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.90
€ 61.90
hardcover. This book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on feelings of belonging and we-ness as important structuring forces that guide and restrict students' school choices. Num Pages: 108 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JNFR; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480064
- ISBN
- 9781137480064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.51€ 51.80
€ 60.51
€ 51.80
Hardcover. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; BGX; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 365.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479631
- ISBN
- 9781137479631
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.64
€ 108.64
Hardcover. Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479617
- ISBN
- 9781137479617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Paperback. This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society's culture, and reveals how the individual actualizes and sustains an integrated and stable self while navigating the sometimes treacherous waters of everyday institutional life. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFSC; JHB; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479600
- ISBN
- 9781137479600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.38
€ 77.38
Hardcover. This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479525
- ISBN
- 9781137479525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.05
€ 72.05