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Society & culture: general
The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Identity, Culture and...
Kendall, Gavin, Woodward, Ian, Skrbis, Zlatko
Hardcover. The dream of a cosmopolitical utopia has been around for thousands of years. Yet the promise of being locally situated while globally connected and mobile has never seemed more possible than today. Through a classical sociological approach, this book analyses the political, technological and cultural systems underlying cosmopolitanism. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JFFS; JHBA; JHMC; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008687
- ISBN
- 9780230008687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. This lucid and original work argues for a new style of political leadership, one which pays deliberate and sophisticated attention to the emotional dynamics of the public. A case study of terrorism, as a highly emotional topic and as a key political issue in many liberal democracies, grounds the book's ideas in today's political landscape. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPHL; JPHV; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008397
- ISBN
- 9780230008397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This study examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality and between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century, from Europe to America, it interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what is modern about homosexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; HRCC7; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008311
- ISBN
- 9780230008311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardcover. McMillan provides the first detailed account of the women's anti-violence movement in Europe, from an international comparative perspective. Exploring how feminists have responded to violence in society, this study also examines how they have organized their response, their achievements and the factors that have facilitated their calls to change. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007727
- ISBN
- 9780230007727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Based on empirical research from 29 major postwar housing estates in 15 European cities, this collection explores mass housing experiments, examining the problems, policy responses and residents' everyday experiences in the estates in the context of change and regeneration. Editor(s): Rowlands, Rob; Kempen, Ronald van. Num Pages: 297 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSG; JKSB; JPR; RPC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007307
- ISBN
- 9780230007307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Hardcover. In this systematic and mutual interrogation of radical democratic theory and Internet practice, contributors examine a range of democratic theories in relation to online communication and explore how such communication may advance democracy beyond what is conceptualized and practised within present liberal-capitalist political contexts. Editor(s): Dahlberg, Lincoln; Siapera, Eugenia. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JPHV; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007208
- ISBN
- 9780230007208
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Your guest at dinner kisses you. What does it mean? Where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost object of the law of love, the lex amatoria collated and presented here. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007185
- ISBN
- 9780230007185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.95
€ 149.95
Paperback. This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production', his 'social formalist' alternative to structuralism and post-structuralism and his approach to 'the media'. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006706
- ISBN
- 9780230006706
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This volumes offers a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilite has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century. Incorporating insights of cultural and social historians, this collection approaches masculinities in a complex and interdisciplinary manner that will appeal to a wide range of readers. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006614
- ISBN
- 9780230006614
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Condition: New
€ 150.07
€ 150.07
Hardcover. This study provides a comprehensive account of the situation of women refugees globally and explains how they differ from men. It looks at causes of refugee flows, international laws and conventions and their application, the policies and legislation of Western governments, and lived experiences of the refugees themselves. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006539
- ISBN
- 9780230006539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Mediating Madness examines how mediations of madness emerge, disappear and interleave, only to re-emerge at unexpected moments. Drawing on social and cultural histories of madness, history of art, and popular journalism, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary media representations of madness. Num Pages: 213 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFFH; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230005310
- ISBN
- 9780230005310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Regional Perspectives on Globalization (International Political Econom...
Bowles, Paul, Veltmeyer, Henry, Cornelissen, ...
Hardcover. The authors provide new perspectives on how we should think about globalization, its impacts and forms of resistance and response. Twelve regional chapters, encompassing all of the major regions of the world, provide a global dialogue and reveal the varied meanings and effects of globalization. Editor(s): Petras, James; Bowles, Paul; Veltmeyer, Henry; Cornelissen, Scarlett; Tang, Kwong-Leung; Invernizzi, Noela. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230004665
- ISBN
- 9780230004665
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Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category? Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial divisions that can become permanent and detrimental as well as being at odds with the social fluidity of modern societies. Preface by Jonathan Friedman. Editor(s): Rata, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003385
- ISBN
- 9780230003385
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This is an original study of the sociological imagination in regard to visual culture. It explores the reflexive dimensions of choice over seeing or not seeing in relation to paintings, images and islands. Bourdieu, Goffman and Simmel provide the basis for insights into how reflexivity in sociology has unexplored theological implications. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB; HRLP5; JFCX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002654
- ISBN
- 9780230002654
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. In this timely book, Marranci critically surveys the available theories on Islamic fundamentalism and extremism. Rejecting essentialism and cultural reductionism, the book suggests that identity and emotion play an essential role in the phenomenon that has been called fundamentalism. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JHB; JPWL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002555
- ISBN
- 9780230002555
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Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discou...
Hoskins, Andrew, O'Loughlin, Ben
Hardcover. The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JPWS; JWK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002319
- ISBN
- 9780230002319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Historians, anthropologists, political scientists and demographers explore the principal challenges and fears characterizing relations between Europe and the Mediterranean. The contributors suggest that the greatest challenge facing our political generation is no longer forming a Europe without the Mediterranean, but with it. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002234
- ISBN
- 9780230002234
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Post-Suburban Europe: Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe's...
Phelps, Nicholas A., Parsons, Nick, Ballas, D...
Hardcover. The term 'edge city' describes the rapid growth of urban centres at the edge of established cities. Widely discussed in the US, very little has been written about European edge cities. This book gives a comparative analysis of examples in Greece, Spain, Paris, Finland and the UK, with a theoretical analysis of edge cities and post-suburban Europe. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFF; JFSG; JKSB; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002128
- ISBN
- 9780230002128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This book explores representations of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in Hindi films, in the socio-political context and in terms of how young audiences in India and the UK construct them. In-depth interviews, observations and photographs provide insights into spectatorship and comparison with theories about Hindi film and popular culture. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; APF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001725
- ISBN
- 9780230001725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contributes to the making and remaking of male identity. It concludes that, unless addressed, the effects of negative discourse on the self-identity and self-esteem of men, are potentially devastating and that the longer-term and wider social implications will also be costly. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001671
- ISBN
- 9780230001671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Hardcover. This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and unhappy family situations. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230000209
- ISBN
- 9780230000209
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.48
€ 116.48
Hardcover. The central concern of this ambitious study is to understand the impact of social change on people's lives - in the vital areas of economy, politics and civil society. Combining social science rationality with the understanding of emotions through works of imagination, John Girling investigates international economic, political and social problems. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230000193
- ISBN
- 9780230000193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Managing Development in a Global Context examines the complex relationship between management, development and globalization from a multidimensional perspective. Key authors in the field explore the historical record, the current global, characteristics of present developmental and managerial dilemmas, and possible future scenarios. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230000056
- ISBN
- 9780230000056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Paperback. "Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and" Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFSL9; JHBA; JHMC; JMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780201050714
- ISBN
- 9780201050714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.62
€ 20.99
€ 17.62