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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Interweaving feminist theological ideas, Asian spirituality, and the witnesses of World War II sex slaves, this book offers a new theology of body. It examines the multi-layered meaning of the broken body of Christ from Christological, sacramental, and ecclesiological perspectives, while exploring the centrality of body in theological discourse. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBWQ; HRCM; HRKN; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334503
- ISBN
- 9781137334503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; JFC; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334046
- ISBN
- 9781137334046
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes. Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; JFFE; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333988
- ISBN
- 9781137333988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.19
€ 68.19
Hardcover. This is the first book dedicated to Australian youth gangs, exploring the subtleties and nuances of street life for young men and their quest for social respect. The key focus is on group violence and the ways in which the 'gang' provides a forum for the expression of this violence. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 figures, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSC; JFSP2; JKVJ; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333841
- ISBN
- 9781137333841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Editor(s): Jansen, Sue Curry; Pooley, Jefferson; Taub-Pervizpour, Lora. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Adapted ed
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331441
- ISBN
- 9781137331441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.57
€ 66.57
Hardcover. Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, Puerto Rico Is in the Heart examines the emigration, labor, and political experiences of documentary photographer, human rights activist, and Puerto Rican community leader Frank Espada and considers the cultural impact of neoliberal programs directed at Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans. Num Pages: 148 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: A; D; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331410
- ISBN
- 9781137331410
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Paperback. The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes American identity and culture? Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331403
- ISBN
- 9781137331403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.43
€ 95.43
Hardcover. Vaughan renews perspectives on the changes brought about by Irish migrant communities in terms of identity, politics and religion. The book examines on the experience of generations of Irish migrants in the West of Scotland from the aftermath of the Great Famine until the creation of the Republic of Ireland. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329837
- ISBN
- 9781137329837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new arenas in the workplace, sport and recreation. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1; MBNH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328137
- ISBN
- 9781137328137
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Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardcover. This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326539
- ISBN
- 9781137326539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.30
€ 63.30
Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World (Palgra...
Cunningham, Stuart, Silver, Jon
Hardcover. Drawing on comparisons with historical shake-ups in the film industry, Screen Distribution Post-Hollywood offers a timely account of the changes brought about in global online distribution of film and television by major new players such as Google/YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo!, Facebook, Netflix and Hulu. Num Pages: 142 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326447
- ISBN
- 9781137326447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.72
€ 66.72
Hardcover. Through analysis of newspaper coverage on the debate over the future of Europe in Great Britain and Germany between 2000 and 2005, this book explores the intricate ways in which national identities shape media discourses on European integration. In doing so, it provides some compelling insights into Europe's emerging communicative space(s). Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; JFD; JPL; JPP; JPVL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326065
- ISBN
- 9781137326065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.96
€ 67.96
Hardcover. Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity. Num Pages: 267 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HRAC; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325297
- ISBN
- 9781137325297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Hardcover. What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the 'media philosophies' of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324498
- ISBN
- 9781137324498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Paperback. In Rethinking Family Practices, now available in paperback, David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan shows the continued relevance of the approach with reference to time and space, the body, emotions, ethics and work/life balance. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324078
- ISBN
- 9781137324078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.75
€ 71.75
Hardcover. When conflict, competing identities, and segregation collide; Identity, Segregation and Peace-building in Northern Ireland explores the implications for peace-building in Northern Ireland, and across the globe. Num Pages: 105 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; GTJ; JFF; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323170
- ISBN
- 9781137323170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. Intimacy on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it, asking the reader to re-imagine what it means to be intimate online. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322845
- ISBN
- 9781137322845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.33
€ 66.33
Hardcover. Sex Worker Unionisation outlines a more efficacious model for sex worker unionisation based upon combining occupation unionism and social movement unionism, and offers an important study of business organization in a unique industry. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320131
- ISBN
- 9781137320131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.09
€ 139.09
Paperback. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137319920
- ISBN
- 9781137319920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
Hardcover. This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in favour of or opposed to the expansion of solidarities. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1QFE; JFF; JHBC; JKS; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137319579
- ISBN
- 9781137319579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardcover. This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social life in the digital world, its main focus is on the political economy and in particular the extent to which the paradigms of capitalism and socialism can be mapped as postcapitalism onto this new world. Num Pages: 93 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHB; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137312396
- ISBN
- 9781137312396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.37
€ 77.37
Hardcover. While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a dominated "Persian hegemony," the systematic neglect of ethnic groups by both the Islamic Republic and its predecessor regime has resulted in the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSL; JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310866
- ISBN
- 9781137310866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Paperback. This book explores the new terrain of network capitalism through the transformations of the discourse on technology. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JFFT; JHB; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310811
- ISBN
- 9781137310811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.84
€ 66.84
Paperback. The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings of dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JNA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310774
- ISBN
- 9781137310774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.48€ 80.69
€ 95.48
€ 80.69