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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
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
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
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
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
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
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
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
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
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
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
€ 71.11
€ 71.11
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
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
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
€ 65.74
€ 65.74
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
€ 138.58
€ 138.58
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
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
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
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
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
€ 76.84
€ 76.84
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
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
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
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
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
€ 96.19€ 79.97
€ 96.19
€ 79.97
Hardcover. Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research. Num Pages: 161 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBF; MBS; MFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310712
- ISBN
- 9781137310712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardcover. Jim Armstrong explores emerging approaches to the capacity development of developing nations. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; JKSR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 213 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310101
- ISBN
- 9781137310101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman's film in which woman's claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femme fatale. This book examines Lola as a specific and enduring aspect of the "new woman": woman's forthright claim to pleasure on her own terms, liberated from the usual constraints of sex and gender. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309723
- ISBN
- 9781137309723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.33
€ 138.33
Hardcover. Exploring how restrictions on citizenship helped create conditions for political violence in Peru, this book recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean town were persistently overruled, thereby perpetuating antagonism toward the state and political centralism in Peru. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFFE; JPH; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309525
- ISBN
- 9781137309525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. Katherine Tonkiss offers a succinct account of constitutional patriotism theory, specifically arguing that it involves a commitment to free migration. She draws on qualitative research to explore the implications of this claim for the dynamics of post-national identity and belonging in local communities. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPFM; JPL; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309075
- ISBN
- 9781137309075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. This book offers the first multi-case analysis of the politics of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU, including studies on Central Europe, the Balkans and Cyprus. Tesser explains the politics of minority return in a post-national Europe, with particular attention to the long-term aftermath of minority removal as a conflict resolution policy. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JHMP; JPSN2; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308764
- ISBN
- 9781137308764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Native American Communities on Health and Disability: Borderland Dialo...
Lovern, Lavonna L., Locust, Carol
Hardcover. This volume offers a unique and real dialogue between Western/Academic and Native American/Indigenous voices on the concepts of disability and wellness. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHB; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308603
- ISBN
- 9781137308603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.09
€ 139.09
Hardcover. This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Through the presentation of empirical work by contemporary queer theorists this book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and the ways in which they aim to further queer futurity. Editor(s): Jones, Angela. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ; JFSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308597
- ISBN
- 9781137308597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Paperback. Realism and the Audiovisual Media constitutes a major original contribution to contemporary scholarship on realism, one of the most fundamental concepts in audiovisual studies. Editor(s): Nagib, Lucia; Mello, Cecilia. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306739
- ISBN
- 9781137306739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46