Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Exploring how men in service and caring occupations (cabin crew, primary school teachers, nurses and librarians) both 'do' and 'undo' gender as they manage the potential mismatch between gender and occupational identity, this book engages with the key theoretical concepts of identity, visibility and emotions to examine men's experiences. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHBL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 479.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574069
- ISBN
- 9780230574069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This book is a timely reassessment of Byron's legacy, focusing on the ever-present figure of the Byronic hero in the fiction of Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, together with screen versions of their novels. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; APT; DSBF; JFSJ1. 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
- V9780230574397
- ISBN
- 9780230574397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Anti-War Activism: New Media and Protest in the Information Age (New S...
Gillan, Kevin, Pickerill, Jenny, Webster, Fra...
Hardcover. The first academic account of the 21st century anti-war and peace movement. Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, Anti-War Activism pays especially close attention to the changed information environment of protest, the complex alliances of activists, the diversity of participants, as well as campaigners' use of new (and old) media. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574496
- ISBN
- 9780230574496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Drawing on fieldwork in the Herat area, Afghanistan, this book addresses migration patterns in war. It launches a framework for understanding the role of social networks for people's responses to war and disaster as well as mobilizing or maintaining material resources for security and gathering information. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFFD; JFFN; JHBC; JHBD; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576551
- ISBN
- 9780230576551
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardcover. These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576650
- ISBN
- 9780230576650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts. Editor(s): Saltmarsh, Sue. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ; JFSP2; JNHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576698
- ISBN
- 9780230576698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Radio was one of the major weapons used in the Cold War and The Undivided Sky gives a lively and comprehensive account of radio programming and audience responses in the divided Germany of the 1960s by looking at the reportage of major war-crimes trials of the time, issues of the Holocaust and German national identity. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576766
- ISBN
- 9780230576766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This book explores the determinants of forced migration and its political implications from an economic perspective. It describes the distribution of burdens from forced migration across countries, and analyzes the strategic interaction of national refugee policies to control refugee flows. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378. 224 pages, 16 figures, 32 black & white tables. This book explores the determinants of forced migration and its political implications from an economic perspective. It describes the distribution of burdens from forced migration across countries, and analyzes the strategic interaction of national refugee policies to control refugee flows. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFFN; KCP. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576889
- ISBN
- 9780230576889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. This book is the first critical genealogy of Jacques Derrida's philosophy of technology. It traces the evolution of what Derrida calls 'originary technicity' via an appraisal of his own philosophy of technology together with that of key interlocutors including Marx, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger and Bernard Stiegler. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576926
- ISBN
- 9780230576926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.95
€ 149.95
Hardcover. This innovative book provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and 'magic' in African literature. Emphasizing the ambivalent nature of the sacred, it advances work on the religious dimension of canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DNF; DSB; GTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577558
- ISBN
- 9780230577558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. Shi-xu critiques ethnocentrism in discourse studies in terms of its intellectual and cultural consequences. He outlines a culturally pluralist stance that advocates the construction of theory and use of methodology from an innovative position in-between Eastern and Western cultures. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577626
- ISBN
- 9780230577626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.85
€ 126.85
Hardcover. Providing a unique insight into how gender is performed in contemporary high-tech work and introducing a creative and novel way of analyzing the fluidity and rigidity of gender at work through discourse analytic methods the author highlights how changes in the world of work interact with changes in gender relations. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577817
- ISBN
- 9780230577817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture (Critical Crim...
O'Neill, Maggie, Seal, Lizzie
Hardcover. This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 200 pages, 13 black & white halftones, 1 figures. BIC Classification: JFFE; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577848
- ISBN
- 9780230577848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Hardcover. This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten legacy of a colonial past that cannot be confined to the past. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFSC; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230578494
- ISBN
- 9780230578494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity especially as these pertain to teenage motherhood. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579200
- ISBN
- 9780230579200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579309
- ISBN
- 9780230579309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single or mixed gender classes? Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMA; JFSP2; JHBK5; JNF; MBNH4; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579439
- ISBN
- 9780230579439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to a new location, allowing for a powerful interrogation both of what these texts mean in the modern world, and of Englishness itself. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; DSBF; DSGS; DSK; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579552
- ISBN
- 9780230579552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by boys themselves. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBG; CFB; CJ; JFSJ; JNU; YQF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580053
- ISBN
- 9780230580053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Paperback. The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a Britishness with new inflections. It is this sensibility that marks them as Brasians. Editor(s): Wright, Sue; Kelly-Holmes, Helen. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFFS; JFSL1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580077
- ISBN
- 9780230580077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84