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Society & culture: general
Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere
. Ed(S): Siim, Birte; Mokre, Ms. Monika
Paperback. The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project. Editor(s): Siim, Birte; Mokre, Ms. Monika. Series: Gender and Politics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSJ; JHB; JPA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347650
- ISBN
- 9781349347650
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€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century
. Ed(S): Waddell, N.; Reeve-Tucker, Ms. Alice
Paperback. Editor(s): Waddell, N.; Reeve-Tucker, Ms. Alice. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347636
- ISBN
- 9781349347636
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€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provision. This book explores not only the development of their distinctive approach, but also the challenges posed in recent years, and currently, by rapid socio-economic and demographic change. Editor(s): Doling, J.; Ronald, R. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JPQB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347537
- ISBN
- 9781349347537
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€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypertexts and virtual reality Irish tourism, the book introduces a new strand of Irish studies for the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DS; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347414
- ISBN
- 9781349347414
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€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. A new and innovative account of British sociology's intellectual origins that uses previously unknown archival resources to show how the field's forgotten roots in a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century debate about biology can help us understand both its subsequent development and future potential. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX; JHB; JHBA; PDX; PSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347377
- ISBN
- 9781349347377
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and political landscape. Authors map desires, struggles and reconfigurations, thereby broadening current understandings of what contemporary intimate life looks like. Editor(s): Sanger, Tam; Taylor, Yvette. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHBK; JPQB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347315
- ISBN
- 9781349347315
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€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth to contemporary film. Looking at news media, cinema, drama and other cultural forms, this study considers the interaction between representations of 'real life' 'femmes fatales' and their fictional counterparts. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HBTB; JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347216
- ISBN
- 9781349347216
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347155
- ISBN
- 9781349347155
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€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSR; JHB; JHBK; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347131
- ISBN
- 9781349347131
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. Drawing upon field work and interviews with cultural workers in the UK and Australia, this book examines the cultural work experiences of rural, regional and remotely located creative practitioners, and how this sits within local economies and communities. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; JFSR; JHBL; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347117
- ISBN
- 9781349347117
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFD; JFSR; JHB; JHBS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347070
- ISBN
- 9781349347070
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. Examining the work of three authors: Richardson, Haywood and Burney, and their representation of domestic space, this book argues that to make such spaces accessible to modern readers they need to have information of the real domestic. By recreating specifics of these spaces this book innervates the fictional domestic interior for modern readers. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346998
- ISBN
- 9781349346998
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€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346912
- ISBN
- 9781349346912
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Whisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scenes resurfaced; a more masculine view of homosexuality also became prominent. Above all, a public debate about homosexuality emerged, constituting a critical debate within the Sexual Revolution. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346813
- ISBN
- 9781349346813
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBK; JNT; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346776
- ISBN
- 9781349346776
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
paperback. A historical survey of the Iraqi media from its beginning up to the present day, focusing on the post-2003 media scene and the political and societal divisions that occurred in Iraq after US-led occupation. Investigates the nature of the media outlets and offers an analysis of the way Iraqi satellite channels covered the 2010 general elections. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; HBTB; JFC; JFD; JP; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349346516
- ISBN
- 9781349346516
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346479
- ISBN
- 9781349346479
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. 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: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFS; JHB; KCP; KJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346455
- ISBN
- 9781349346455
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Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Citizens' Reactions to European Integration Compared
Duchesne, Sophie; Frazer, Elizabeth; Haegel, ...
Paperback. Pre-financial crisis, EU citizens were 'overlooking' Europe ignoring it in favour of globalisation, economic flows, and crises of political corruption. Innovative focus group methods allow an analysis of citizens' reactions, and demonstrate how euroscepticism is a red herring, instead articulating an indifference to and ambivalence about Europe. Editor(s): Van Ingelgom, Virginie. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346400
- ISBN
- 9781349346400
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Through critical analysis of Turkey's transformation under the AKP, this book explores the relationship between domestic transformations and global/regional dynamics. It also discusses the relationship between the Turkish transformation and the Arab uprisings and the implications of the Turkish case for regime transitions in the Arab world. Series: Islam and Nationalism. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPHF; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349346325
- ISBN
- 9781349346325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81