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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBK; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594432
- ISBN
- 9780230594432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594456
- ISBN
- 9780230594456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Paperback. This book compares the state of knowledge on men and masculinities in 14 countries across Europe, examining the effects of social change, Europeanization, globalization and new post-socialist configurations of Europe for men. Special attention is given to home and work, social exclusion, violence, and health. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594470
- ISBN
- 9780230594470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia, this collection - now available in paperback - presents empirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internet to reveal both how media structure public spheres and how people use media to participate in the public sphere. Editor(s): Butsch, Richard. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHMC; JPV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594494
- ISBN
- 9780230594494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. This thoughtful and surprising book analyzes the effect of animal extremism on the world's scientists, their institutions, and professional societies. The Animal Research War traces the evolution of the animal rights movement, profiles its leadership, and reveals the truth behind university animal research. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFZ; MBGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600140
- ISBN
- 9780230600140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Of States, Rights, and Social Closure: Governing Migration and Citizen...
Schmidtke, Oliver, Ozcurumez, Saime
Hardcover. Do nation-states act to facilitate or limit immigration and integration, how and why? How do nation-states themselves transform in understanding and interpreting rights respond to immigration? Does the European Union make a difference in terms of how immigrants are perceived or how they act as stakeholders in liberal democracies? Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600317
- ISBN
- 9780230600317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. This book examines conflicting interpretations of the origins, evolution, and end of apartheid. Lipton asserts that it began around 1970 with relatively non-violent reform, and ended following President de Klerk's release of Nelson Mandela, and his reinstatement of the African National Congress and other organizations, in February 1990. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJH; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600591
- ISBN
- 9780230600591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Although the impact of Hurricane Katrina has certainly been felt in political, economic, and social terms, the impacts on and of the media have largely been ignored. This book tells the stories of the reporters, newspapers, and broadcast stations most affected by Katrina and details their struggles to cover the aftermath. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600843
- ISBN
- 9780230600843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book uses new imagery - the metaphor of sugar - to highlight how race, class, and gender are produced, used, experienced, and 'digested' in our human and institutional bodies. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600935
- ISBN
- 9780230600935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes require that we rethink governance and urban policy, and that we do so through the dual lens of theory and practice. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; JP; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602304
- ISBN
- 9780230602304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. By identifying and analyzing the intellectual writings and activities of women throughout the centuries this study, the first of two volumes, documents a level of female participation in intellectual matters that overturns conventional views of Western intellectual history. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602335
- ISBN
- 9780230602335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.36
€ 61.36
Hardcover. Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602960
- ISBN
- 9780230602960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. This groundbreaking look at the origins of the 'zero tolerance' approach to schools and discipline provides scholars with an in-depth look at the Los Angeles City School District and examines how and why authority over school discipline shifted from school-site educators to the centralized bureaucracy of the district. Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJP; JFSL1; JNB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603684
- ISBN
- 9780230603684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.64
€ 53.37
€ 46.64
Hardcover. This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell phone, television, and radio, among others. Best argues that Caribbean culture has gone wireless, virtual, and simulated in the age of the machines. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603769
- ISBN
- 9780230603769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. This book compares rebel media use in three Mesoamerican rebellions: the Nicaraguan Revolution, the Salvadoran civil war and the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. Directly comparing media use in all three rebellions provides a richer understanding of the role of media in social change, particularly violent change. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 235 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBTV; JFD; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604438
- ISBN
- 9780230604438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, this book addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America also after the Revolution, and between West Africa and Britain in the years leading to the Revolution. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604681
- ISBN
- 9780230604681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. 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: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604728
- ISBN
- 9780230604728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.82
€ 116.82
Hardcover. This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604742
- ISBN
- 9780230604742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.83
€ 67.83
Hardcover. This innovative book explores the role of evangelical religion in the conflict in Northern Ireland, including how it may contribute to a peaceful political transition. Ganiel offers an original perspective on the role of a 'strong' religion in conflict transformation, and the misunderstood role of evangelicalism in the process. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; GTJ; JFSR; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605398
- ISBN
- 9780230605398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 292 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605558
- ISBN
- 9780230605558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.80
€ 67.80
Paperback. This book examines the challenges faced through history by female leaders of Britain. From empress Matilda to Queen Victoria, the author shows how these powerful women succeeded in a male-dominated patriarchal culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606340
- ISBN
- 9780230606340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.87
€ 71.87
Paperback. This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements. Editor(s): Mngxitama, Andile; Alexander, Amanda; Gibson, Nigel. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606494
- ISBN
- 9780230606494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Taking up such issues as mainstreaming, the male gaze, and female masculinity, this book puts forward provocative readings of little explored texts and offers new insights into the contemporary representation of lesbians. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606746
- ISBN
- 9780230606746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. By examining the minister who helped inspire the founding of the Harlem Unitarian Church Reverend Ethelred Brown, Floyd-Thomas offers a provocative examination of the religious and intellectual roots of Black humanist thought. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; HRCC9; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606777
- ISBN
- 9780230606777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16