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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the current debates, to encourage new thinking on these issues, and to indicate areas for needed research. Editor(s): Turshen, Meredeth. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFFK; JFSJ1; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230106758
- ISBN
- 9780230106758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Hardcover. This book argues that there are some important implications of the role the voice plays in popular music when thinking about processes of identification. The central thesis is that the voice in popular music is potentially uncanny (Freud's unheimlich), and that this may invite or guard against identification by the listener. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFCA; JFFK; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan London
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105904
- ISBN
- 9780230105904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. An insider's account of the Postville case, this book gauges the raid's human, social, and economic impact, based on interaction with the main participants and interviews with local citizens and arrestees in the US and Guatemala. Num Pages: 268 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFN; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105850
- ISBN
- 9780230105850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.27
€ 63.27
Paperback. Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way - not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. It calls our attention to strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory that have previously gone unrecognized. Editor(s): Burt, Richard. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105607
- ISBN
- 9780230105607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Paperback. This innovative collection brings together work from several disciplines to address the politics of queer representation in global contexts. This accessible volume offers useful analytical tools that will help readers make sense of the problems and promise of queer pop culture. Num Pages: 275 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105591
- ISBN
- 9780230105591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.95
€ 61.95
Hardcover. The book takes the social contract as a metaphor for understanding the challenges to education within a context of paradigmatic transition, and of profound social and political transformations. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JNA; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105386
- ISBN
- 9780230105386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.71
€ 54.99
€ 43.71
Hardcover. This text presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon 'Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog', along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and assizes. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 211 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105065
- ISBN
- 9780230105065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. This book investigates the role of the news media in the development of EU-China relations in the post-Cold War era. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 230 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; 3JJP; JFD; JPS; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105027
- ISBN
- 9780230105027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect. In this book, Bettin examines the debate between integration and assimilation in the early twentieth century and Jewish culture to trace the 'rebirth of Judaism' that characterized the period. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104761
- ISBN
- 9780230104761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Hardcover. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104327
- ISBN
- 9780230104327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. This book presents a history of AIDS control in Uganda, from the start of the epidemic in the early 1980s up until 2005. Uganda is well known internationally as an AIDS 'success story', both for its bringing down HIV incidence and prevalence over the 1990s, and for its innovative approach to scaling up the provision of antiretroviral therapy. Num Pages: 258 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; JFFH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104280
- ISBN
- 9780230104280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. "This volume is the first full-length study on pioneering sexologist and sexual rights activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, that examines his impact on the politics and culture of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Germany and the value of his rationalist humanist approach for contemporary debates on sexual rights"-- Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104266
- ISBN
- 9780230104266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.75
€ 149.75
Social Movements in Latin America: Neoliberalism and Popular Resistanc...
Petras, James, Veltmeyer, Henry
Hardcover. The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decline, and capitalism is in crisis. Series: Social Movements and Transformation. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSG; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104112
- ISBN
- 9780230104112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. Signifying 'others' or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; APF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104020
- ISBN
- 9780230104020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.30
€ 54.99
€ 44.30
Hardcover. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSK; JFC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103900
- ISBN
- 9780230103900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.21
€ 31.99
€ 27.21
Paperback. In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer culture is dissected in new and fascinating ways. Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103733
- ISBN
- 9780230103733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.47
€ 61.47
Hardcover. This book challenges the widely-held view that the information technology (IT) revolution has empowered people in the Third World. Tracing the making of the global IT regime, it shows that governments and corporations of the wealthy countries dominated this process, systematically excluding representatives of low-income countries. Series: Information Technology and Global Governance. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JFF; JP; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103641
- ISBN
- 9780230103641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity. Translator(s): Selim, Samah. Series: Theory in the World. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103610
- ISBN
- 9780230103610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book addresses how Saturday Night Live's confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production, contributing to some of the biggest hits in Hollywood history. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103580
- ISBN
- 9780230103580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. This book explores the complexity of women's social status in the Middle East and North African region and fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an up-to-date and comprehensive portrait of women's status from a theoretical and socio-demographic perspective. Num Pages: 228 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFSJ2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103504
- ISBN
- 9780230103504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Paperback. A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress. Num Pages: 249 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342. The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. 256 pages, illustrations. A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103306
- ISBN
- 9780230103306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Palestinian Activism in Israel: A Bedouin Woman Leader in a Changing M...
Dahan-Kalev, Henriette, Le Febvre, Emilie, Sa...
Hardcover. A close description of Amal El'Sana-Alh'jooj's experiences as a Palestinian Bedouin female activist, this book explores Amal's activism and demonstrates that activists' biographies provide a means of understanding the complexities of political situations they are involved in. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103252
- ISBN
- 9780230103252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Making the Invisible Visible: Understanding Leadership Contributions o...
Thatchenkery, Tojo, Sugiyama, Keimei
Hardcover. Making the Invisible Visible is a study of Asian Americans in the workplace and provides a framework through which to transform the same qualities that are contributing to this invisibility phenomenon into a positive leadership approach that provides a counterweight to balance the showmanship approach to leadership. Num Pages: 212 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388. Understanding Leadership Contributions of Asian Minorities in the Workplace. 212 pages, Illustrations. Making the Invisible Visible is a study of Asian Americans in the workplace and provides a framework through which to transform the same qualities that are contributing to this invisibility phenomenon into a positive leadership approach that provides a counterweight to balance the showmanship approach to leadership. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; KJMB. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103061
- ISBN
- 9780230103061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.37
€ 139.37
Hardcover. This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of Sao Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. Num Pages: 287 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; JFSG; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103023
- ISBN
- 9780230103023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76