Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. An exploratory study, based on group discussions and in-depth interviews of real managers, that examines different aspects of the life cycle to clarify why so few women get to the top. It offers advice on how to establish priorities, and explores existing stereotypes within organizations regarding women in upper management. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202993
- ISBN
- 9780230202993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. Martin Flanagan uses Bakhtin's notions of dialogism, chronotope and polyphony to address fundamental questions about film form and reception, focussing particularly on the way cinematic narrative utilises time and space in its very construction. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HPCF3; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202962
- ISBN
- 9780230202962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. This day by day account of the Dreyfus Affair chronicles for the first time in English the drama that destabilized French society (1894-1906) and reverberated across the world. Meticulous research, new translations of key documents, a wealth of primary sources and illustrations and a select bibliography make this an indispensable reference work. Num Pages: 560 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 856.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202856
- ISBN
- 9780230202856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Political Engagement Amongst Ethnic Minority Young People: Making a Di...
O'Toole, Therese, Gale, Richard
Hardcover. This book engages with debates on ethnic minority and Muslim young people showing, beyond apathy and violent political extremism, the diverse forms of political engagement in which young people engage. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSL1; JFSP2; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202733
- ISBN
- 9780230202733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as examples. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0, 2 black & white halftones, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202702
- ISBN
- 9780230202702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Following a group of people as they make the transition from homeless to 'housed' , this book presents a new perspective on homelessness, the individual factors associated with it such as addiction, mental illness and traumatic life histories, and how welfare and poverty interact with these conditions. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201620
- ISBN
- 9780230201620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Based on interview material with a wide range of Protestant clergy in Northern Ireland, this book examines how Protestant identity impacts on the possibility of peace and stability and argues for greater involvement by the Protestant churches in the transition from conflict to a 'post-conflict' Northern Ireland. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; GTJ; HBJD1; HRCC9; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201613
- ISBN
- 9780230201613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.61
€ 67.61
Household Divisions of Labour: Teamwork, Gender and Time (Palgrave Mac...
Birch, Elisa Rose, Le, Anh, Miller, Paul
Hardcover. This book investigates the extent of gender inequality in the division of labour in the modern household. Through comparisons of the time allocations of single couple families without children, couple families with children and lone parents, a comprehensive account of the evolution of gender inequality over a typical lifecourse is presented. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 266 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JHBL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201583
- ISBN
- 9780230201583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Community, Citizenship and the 'War on Terror': Security and Insecurit...
Noxolo, Patricia, Huysmans, Jef
Hardcover. In the context of the 'global war on terror', the issue of security has come to affect more and more intimate elements of people's everyday lives. This is the starting point of this interdisciplinary collection, which focuses on how the line between security and insecurity is negotiated through changing concepts of 'community' and 'citizenship'. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPB; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201217
- ISBN
- 9780230201217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardcover. Providing the first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, law makers and enforcers, and the media since the 1960s, this book examines the regulation and policing of the phenomenon, which has been influenced by security-related developments within post-bipolar Europe Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFE; WSJA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201149
- ISBN
- 9780230201149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book is the first sociological and feminist critique of multicultural theory and practice. Using empirical research, it answers the question: is multiculturalism bad for women? arguing that it is not only bad for (minority ethnic) women, but for minority and majority communities, and for society as a whole. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JFSL1; YQN; YXN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201101
- ISBN
- 9780230201101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe document and reflect on their own learning processes and music activities. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200586
- ISBN
- 9780230200586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Hardcover. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HRQM2; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200050
- ISBN
- 9780230200050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.67
€ 116.67
Global Tobacco Control: Power, Policy, Governance and Transfer
Cairney, Paul, Studlar, Donley T., Mamudu, Ha...
Hardcover. The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then charts the extent to which governments have regulated tobacco in the modern era. It identifies major policy change from the post-war period and uses theories of public policy to help explain the change. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JPP; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200043
- ISBN
- 9780230200043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Hardcover. Many of the present problems of 'globalization' are mirrored in the historical expansion of the European state system. This title is a structured, comparative case study analysis of four regions and examines how these regions and their peoples were absorbed into the expanding European-centered state system from roughly the 1400s through to 1800. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120884
- ISBN
- 9780230120884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the 'quest for place' in women's writing from Argentina from 1920 to the present. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120853
- ISBN
- 9780230120853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 47.12
€ 53.46
€ 47.12
Paperback. In this edited volume, leading scholars from the United States and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the twenty-first century, each emphasizing particular dimensions of politics, economics, political culture, and foreign policy. Num Pages: 295 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; JFFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120723
- ISBN
- 9780230120723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazilian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; AVGR; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120716
- ISBN
- 9780230120716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.70
€ 48.99
€ 38.70
Paperback. This book presents a compelling and innovative new theory and framework for examining the variation in Islamist mobilization strategies in Muslim Asia and the Middle East. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JFSR2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120709
- ISBN
- 9780230120709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DS; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120471
- ISBN
- 9780230120471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 47.31
€ 53.46
€ 47.31
Hardcover. This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.S. women of color. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTW; JFFK; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120457
- ISBN
- 9780230120457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Race, Gender, and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations
Gasman, Marybeth, Drezner, Noah D. D., Epstei...
Hardcover. This volume centers on the lives and experiences of female and African American leaders of foundations and nonprofits. Contributors to the volume examine race and gender as constructs and provide a theoretical background for understanding their effect on the psycho-social development of the individuals. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL3; JN; KJVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120396
- ISBN
- 9780230120396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 46.68
€ 53.46
€ 46.68
Hardcover. There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived. This book explores different aspect of theatre for young audiences using examples from theatrical events globally. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120198
- ISBN
- 9780230120198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.93€ 87.77
€ 106.93
€ 87.77
Paperback. This book explores how girls growing up in girl power media culture understand gender, self, empowerment, and resistance. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119963
- ISBN
- 9780230119963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81