Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221772
- ISBN
- 9780230221772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.53
€ 120.53
Hardcover. It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and disciplinary boundaries. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFCX; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221635
- ISBN
- 9780230221635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book explains how issues of governance lie at the heart of understanding and combating the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It reviews the debates surrounding the root causes of the pandemic and its continuing proliferation and examines the local and global socio-political forces that have contributed to the spread and impact of the disease. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HF; GTB; GTF; JFFH2; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221420
- ISBN
- 9780230221420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Cultural Globalization and Music: African Artists in Transnational Net...
Kiwan, Nadia, Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna
Hardcover. This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural, and civil society milieus of globalizing societies. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFFS; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221291
- ISBN
- 9780230221291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.33
€ 119.33
Hardcover. A history of French homosexuals since 1942 in the interconnected realms of law, politics and the media, with a focus on the complex relationship between French republican values and the possibilities they have offered for change in each of these three spheres. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221055
- ISBN
- 9780230221055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.85
€ 118.85
Hardcover. The book presents an analysis of empirical data on immigrant child poverty in the context of a controversial debate on the European migration policy, with special reference to Switzerland and France. It presents an alternative approach based on child rights and social justice. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFH; JFFA; JFFN; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition UK
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221048
- ISBN
- 9780230221048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.05
€ 119.05
Hardcover. This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters. Editor(s): Worth, Owen; Moore, Phoebe. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPS; KCL; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220751
- ISBN
- 9780230220751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. Mirbagheri traces the revival of Islamic/ist movements, and embarks on a theoretical study of some of the fundamental concepts in Islam and International Relations such as the self, Jihad, peace and universalism. Contemporary cases of conflict in the Middle East are analysed to pose a challenge to the universalist discourse of Western liberalism. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JPFR; JPS; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220614
- ISBN
- 9780230220614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21...
Broadhurst, Susan, Machon, Josephine
Hardcover. This innovative collection features essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220256
- ISBN
- 9780230220256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. This book provides the first dedicated introduction to the cultural writings and analyses of the radical West Indian thinker C.L.R. James. It lays out James' account of the way in which games, books, music and film become a part of the politics and history of popular struggles. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JHBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220218
- ISBN
- 9780230220218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 249 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ACND; DSB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219977
- ISBN
- 9780230219977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging...
Rogaly, Ben, Taylor, Becky
Hardcover. A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categorization by the state. This book challenges accepted wisdom on the white working class, providing new understandings of community, place and class, arguing for the importance of migration. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFFN; JFSC; JFSG; JKS; YQH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219939
- ISBN
- 9780230219939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Gender, Professions and Discourse: Early Twentieth-Century Women's Aut...
Christine Etherington-Wright
Hardcover. Analyzing ninety professional women's autobiographies from 1900-1920, the first part of this book concentrates on the endeavours of groups such as headmistresses, doctors, nurses, artists and writers to record their own lives, while the second part examines frontispiece photos, prefatory marginalia and the role of silences in autobiography. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219922
- ISBN
- 9780230219922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Paperback. In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative evaluation of moral theory as explored through the issue of animal rights. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219458
- ISBN
- 9780230219458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.81
€ 66.81
Hardcover. In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative evaluation of moral theory as explored through the issue of animal rights. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219441
- ISBN
- 9780230219441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA; DSB; DSG; JFCA; MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219342
- ISBN
- 9780230219342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.57
€ 139.57
Hardcover. In this bold intervention into the understanding of the diasporic experience within cultural studies, McCarthy challenges a critical position emergent over the last thirty years (what he calls the 'new marginalism'). He confronts the liberal orthodoxies that prevail in this area, exposing contradictions in the thinking of its major theorists. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218871
- ISBN
- 9780230218871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. Iosifidis considers the social, political, economic and technological changes arising from the globalization of the communications industries and assesses their impact on regulation and policy. Series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218796
- ISBN
- 9780230218796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Hardcover. An analysis of the production and consumption of the communications of Make Poverty History, a high profile episode of social movement protest in the UK. The book follows the campaign throughout its lifetime and explores how attitudes towards government and political opportunities influenced the negotiation of communications. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFA; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218550
- ISBN
- 9780230218550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.98
€ 62.98
Hardcover. This is an interdisciplinary study of the mechanisms by which power corrupts. It incorporates political theory, organizational studies and cognitive science. In particular, it introduces advances in the field of cognitive psychology, which it uses to examine the effects of institutionalized power on how we think. Num Pages: 180 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFX; JMR; JPHV; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218543
- ISBN
- 9780230218543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis. It concludes by reflecting on public speaking in the construction of the virtual city. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFSG; YQN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218093
- ISBN
- 9780230218093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent. Num Pages: 222 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388. 224 pages, 10 b/w photos. Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: APFB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230217768
- ISBN
- 9780230217768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Paperback. Reconciles cognitive metaphor theory with Critical Discourse Analysis to offer a fresh approach to the study of metaphor. In applying this framework to a substantial corpus of texts from business magazines, the author shows how metaphors of war, sports and evolutionary struggle are used to construct business as a masculinized social domain. Num Pages: 244 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 142 x 266 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230217072
- ISBN
- 9780230217072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Paperback. This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship. Editor(s): Bramham, Peter; Wagg, Stephen. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230216846
- ISBN
- 9780230216846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03