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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance and shown that feminist theory must reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing representations of how the symbolic power of gender is in the service of neoliberal practices. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381194
- ISBN
- 9781137381194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. This volume fills the gap in books dedicated to the ideas of ground-breaking theorist Juliet Mitchell. Essays from internationally renowned scholars address themes that cross-cut her oeuvre: equality, violence, collective movements, subjectivity, sexuality and power. Mitchell herself contributes a chapter and an afterward. Editor(s): Duschinsky, Robbie; Walker, Susan. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JMAF; JMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381170
- ISBN
- 9781137381170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.38
€ 119.38
Hardcover. This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving, analyzing how societies can promote relationships in which individuals can give and receive 'care'. Editor(s): Gonzalez, Ana Martha; Iffland, Craig. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381163
- ISBN
- 9781137381163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearan...
Schindel, Estela, Colombo, Pamela
Hardcover. Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception. Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Jay Winter and David Harvey. Editor(s): Schindel, Estela; Colombo, Pamela. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380906
- ISBN
- 9781137380906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRKP; HRQX2; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380876
- ISBN
- 9781137380876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.69
€ 108.69
Hardback. Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, providing a more balanced picture of the way new immigrant groups are depicted and popularly perceived. Num Pages: 136 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JFS; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380609
- ISBN
- 9781137380609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.80
€ 61.80
Hardcover. Poor countries do not need Western guidance, but can make good use of Western resources. Eggen and Roland demonstrate how aid must be re-invented to become relevant to future development. Num Pages: 124 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFF; JFFA; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380319
- ISBN
- 9781137380319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Sustainable Human Development: A New Territorial and People-Centred Pe...
Biggeri, Mario, Ferrannini, Andrea
Hardcover. Integrating Amartya Sen's approach with the literature on place-based territorial development processes, this book recognises the interplay between the evolution of local development systems and the expansion of individual and collective capabilities. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JPS; JPWH; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380289
- ISBN
- 9781137380289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.15
€ 119.15
Hardcover. Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes. Series: Africa Connects. Num Pages: 304 pages, 35 figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380166
- ISBN
- 9781137380166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book explores how masculinities and fatherhood are transmitted across family generations of white British, Irish and Polish fathers. Providing unique insights into men's lives, migration, employment, father-son relationships and intergenerational transmission, it offers a rich methodological story of how intergenerational research is done. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 1DVP; HBTB; JFFN; JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 242 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379665
- ISBN
- 9781137379665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFSJ2; JFSK2; JHBK5; JHBS; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379634
- ISBN
- 9781137379634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. This collection explores whether and how religious and secular worldviews and political ideologies held by scientists, citizens, decision-makers and politicians influence science as practiced and understood today. Contributors explore the social and scientific repercussions of 'customizing' science to fit the needs and interests of various groups. Editor(s): Fuller, Steve; Stenmark, Mikael; Zackariasson, Ulf. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM3; JFMG; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379603
- ISBN
- 9781137379603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and clinically the use of terminal sedation as efficacious treatment. Num Pages: 129 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFME; JHBZ; MBQ; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379153
- ISBN
- 9781137379153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Hardcover. This book analyses the reform movement in Iran and the Egyptian opposition movement since the early 1990s in their historical contexts. It argues that the contemporary movements seen on the streets of the regions today represent the culmination of over twenty years of mobilisation by social movements. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1HBE; 3JJPR; 3JM; JFFJ; JPHV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378996
- ISBN
- 9781137378996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
Paperback. SlutWalk explores representations of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in mainstream news and feminist blogs around the world. It reveals strategies and practices used to adapt the movement to suit local cultures and contexts and explores how social media organized, theorized and publicized this contemporary feminist campaign. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 black & white tables, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFFK; JKV; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378903
- ISBN
- 9781137378903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.76
€ 33.76
Hardback. SlutWalk explores representations of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in mainstream news and feminist blogs around the world. It reveals strategies and practices used to adapt the movement to suit local cultures and contexts and explores how social media organized, theorized and publicized this contemporary feminist campaign. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFFK; JKV; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378897
- ISBN
- 9781137378897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. This brief volume takes a panoramic view of the candidates for the most succinct theory of the 21st century division of labor that would replace Fordism, Taylorism and scientific management. Num Pages: 91 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSC; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378774
- ISBN
- 9781137378774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.47
€ 61.47
Hardcover. Placing struggles for communication rights within the broader context of human rights struggles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this broad-based collection offers a rich range of illustrations of national, regional and global struggles to define communication rights as essential to human needs and happiness. Editor(s): Padovani, Claudia; Calabrese, Andrew. Series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series. Num Pages: 377 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFFJ; JPV; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378293
- ISBN
- 9781137378293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.79
€ 63.79
Hardcover. This book is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. Narratives provide an ethnographic snapshot of this violence, while raising concerns over whether or not existing paradigms for pastoral care and counseling are congruent with how many Black women approach healing. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378132
- ISBN
- 9781137378132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.44
€ 149.44
Treating Child Sexual Abuse in Family, Group and Clinical Settings
Jones, Adele D.; Breo, Hazel Da; Jemmott, Ena...
Hardback. Num Pages: 355 pages, 34 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JKSB1; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 591.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377685
- ISBN
- 9781137377685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.63
€ 63.63