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Society & culture: general
Childhood Poverty: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Palgrave Studies on C...
Oxford Department Of International Developmen...
Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Oxford Department of International Development; Boyden, Jo; Bourdillon, Michael. Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Num Pages: 350 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319240
- ISBN
- 9780230319240
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€ 128.92
€ 128.92
Hardcover. Michal Nahman traces different kinds of 'extraction': the practices of human egg harvesting in different national contexts; the political economic consequences of such extraction for the women involved and the ways in which this has consequences for nationalism and race or 'Israeli extraction'. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; GTF; JFFK; JFFN; JFM; JHMC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319295
- ISBN
- 9780230319295
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€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention of Authority (P...
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Hardcover. Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion which prompted new kinds of identification and belonging in which communities came together regardless of race, class, gender and sexuality. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; JFCA; JFCX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320260
- ISBN
- 9780230320260
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€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; JFCX; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320345
- ISBN
- 9780230320345
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€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities. Editor(s): Olah, Livia Sz. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFF; JFSJ1; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230320888
- ISBN
- 9780230320888
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€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFDT; JPVH1; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321427
- ISBN
- 9780230321427
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€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFN; JFMG; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321618
- ISBN
- 9780230321618
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€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism (Consumption an...
Bostrom, Magnus, Klintman, Mikael, Boström, ...
Paperback. As conscientious consumers, we have become overwhelmed with scares over food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other environmental and health-related risks. This book explores green and politically engaged consumersim, asking the question: does green labelling offer ways toward a greener and more democratic society? Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; RNP; RNT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321724
- ISBN
- 9780230321724
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€ 127.04
€ 127.04
Paperback. This book offers a fresh look at sustainable consumption, exploring how grassroots community action can spread ideas in society. It presents a 'New Economics' approach based on alternative measures of wealth and value, examining how these are put into practice through local organic food systems, low-impact eco-housing, and complementary currencies. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; RNU; THX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321755
- ISBN
- 9780230321755
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€ 127.12
€ 127.12
Hardcover. This book challenges the popular view that established ideologies no longer make sense in today's globalizing world. Considered from a broad historical perspective, major ideological traditions have not become destabilized and incoherent by globalization, but remain meaningful political beliefs that shape the globalization debate. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPB; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230336940
- ISBN
- 9780230336940
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€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. "This book is adapted from the German manuscript 'Die Rote Linie. Eine Geschichte der Veterinèar- und Siedlungsgrenze in Namibia (1890er-1960er Jahre),' completed in 2009 and published in 2012 by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Switzerland Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBTD; HBTQ; JFC; JHM; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337480
- ISBN
- 9780230337480
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€ 68.19
€ 68.19
Hardcover. What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed conflict can be interpreted through a feminist politics of location, attentive to the frictions and flows within transnational circuits of exchange. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337541
- ISBN
- 9780230337541
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€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace (Palgrave...
El-Nawawy, Mohammed, Khamis, Sahar
Paperback. This book analyzes the discourses and deliberations in the discussion forums of three of the most visited Islamic websites and investigates the extent to which they have provided a venue for Muslims to freely engage in discussion among themselves and with non-Muslims about political, economic, religious and social issues. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSR2; JPVH2; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338159
- ISBN
- 9780230338159
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Condition: New
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Hardcover. Examines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; APFA; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338180
- ISBN
- 9780230338180
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€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Aims to inform students, scholars, and educators about the complex processes and factors that promote or impede education's potential to enhance individual advancement within the socioeconomic structure of a late-industrialized country within the context of modern capitalism. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFFM; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338227
- ISBN
- 9780230338227
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€ 53.37€ 47.40
€ 53.37
€ 47.40
Culture, Education, and Community: Expressions of the Postcolonial Ima...
Lavia, J., Mahlomaholo, S.
Hardcover. Provides a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. Takes the imagination of the postcolonial as its focus, acknowledging that it is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation. Editor(s): Lavia, Jennifer; Mahlomaholo, Sechaba. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 286 pages, 1 figures, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBTR; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338258
- ISBN
- 9780230338258
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€ 53.37€ 47.40
€ 53.37
€ 47.40
Hardcover. The primary aim of this volume is to synthesize the two fields of disability studies and biblical studies. It illustrates how academic or critical biblical scholarship has shown that many texts involving disability in the Bible is much more nuanced than a casual reading or isolated proof texting may indicate. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRLC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338296
- ISBN
- 9780230338296
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Condition: New
€ 160.86
€ 160.86
Paperback. Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots, local media. Editor(s): Fuller, Linda K. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338326
- ISBN
- 9780230338326
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems a local or limited basis and scale them up to expand their impact in a more widespread, deeper, and efficient way.The editors address this issue with a comprehensive collection of original papers written by leading scholars. Series: Social Entrepreneurship Series. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; KJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338371
- ISBN
- 9780230338371
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This book analyzes the political transformations in black women's socially engaged community-based political work in England in the late twentieth century. It situates these shifts alongside Britain's political economy and against the discourse and deployment of blackness as a political imaginary in which to engage in struggles for social justice. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339170
- ISBN
- 9780230339170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56