Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Based on interviews with women academics, engineers, politicians, mathematicians, neurologists and others in male dominated organizations as well as the author's own experiences, this book will offer insights and advice to women who aspire to top positions in companies and industries where men traditionally have held those positions. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJ; VSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402. How Women Can Succeed in Male-Dominated Industries. 188 pages. Based on interviews with women academics, engineers, politicians, mathematicians, neurologists and others in male dominated organizations as well as the author's own experiences, this book will offer insights and advice to women who aspire to top positions in companies and industries where men traditionally have held those positions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJ; VSC. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 15. Weight: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618121
- ISBN
- 9780230618121
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.97
€ 53.37
€ 46.97
Hardcover. This book considers neopopulism as a central issue to understand patterns of women's citizenship construction in many countries of contemporary Latin America. It also explains the paradoxes entailed for women's participation and citizenship rights. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618152
- ISBN
- 9780230618152
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.95
€ 53.37
€ 46.95
Hardcover. This study analyzes a variety of transnational South Asian mobilities in the West in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618206
- ISBN
- 9780230618206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'soft power' that is popular culture. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618695
- ISBN
- 9780230618695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities. Editor(s): Mohanty, Satya P. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619081
- ISBN
- 9780230619081
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Freiner defines a new understanding of nationalism, with a focus on the ways in which the Japanese state has utilized Confucian philosophy to create a Japanese national identity and on the impact of this on women. She examines the key policy areas of education and social security alongside the roles that women have played in these initiatives. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFE3; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619289
- ISBN
- 9780230619289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape urban environments. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619579
- ISBN
- 9780230619579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.85
€ 53.37
€ 46.85
Paperback. The author offers a new account of the formation of sexual identity, coined 'emerged fusion,' which avoids the traps of the essentialism versus constructivism debate, and offers a viable third alternative. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619654
- ISBN
- 9780230619654
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Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Hardcover. This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHMC; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619913
- ISBN
- 9780230619913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. This book examines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at the phenomenon of Barack Obama, from his striking emergence as a successful candidate for the Illinois State Senate to President of the United States, as part of the continuum of African American political leaders. Editor(s): Marable, Manning; Clarke, Kristen. Series: Critical Black Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620506
- ISBN
- 9780230620506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.92
€ 69.92
Paperback. This book examines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at the phenomenon of Barack Obama, from his striking emergence as a successful candidate for the Illinois State Senate to President of the United States, as part of the continuum of African American political leaders. Editor(s): Marable, Manning; Clarke, Kristen. Series: Critical Black Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620520
- ISBN
- 9780230620520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements a...
Kapoor, Dip, Choudry, Aziz
Hardcover. The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JNA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414. Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production. 266 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Choudry, Aziz; Kapoor, Dip. The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFF; JNA; JNK. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621039
- ISBN
- 9780230621039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.75€ 88.25
€ 106.75
€ 88.25
Paperback. European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, white settlers never comprised more than a tiny minority. Instead of grafting themselves onto local societies, they adopted a strategy of escape. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; HBJH; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621435
- ISBN
- 9780230621435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors, Minority Reports offers a theoretical defense of the use of identity categories in American studies by examining how early American literature not only responds to the social stratification of the nineteenth century but also challenges modern historical conceptions of this era. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622630
- ISBN
- 9780230622630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. From her perspective as a white feminist theologian, Karen Teel dialogues with five womanist thinkers to develop a Christian theology of the body that can compel Christians, especially U. S. Christians of European descent, to actively resist the sin of racism. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCM; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622777
- ISBN
- 9780230622777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. The book develops a new multidisciplinary model to understand elite press news in the twenty-first century. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 257 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622821
- ISBN
- 9780230622821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This book presents data on Ugandan khat within the context of international debates on the drug, and the proposed ban in 2009. By telling of the story of khat, the book will serve as a vehicle for the analysis of social change, development priorities and shifting ethnic identities in Uganda over the last 80 years. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBLW; JFFH1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623101
- ISBN
- 9780230623101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This book examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. Num Pages: 225 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623156
- ISBN
- 9780230623156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Focusing on womanist and mestiza feminist thought, literary writings, and cultural representations, Unassimilable Feminisms offers a comparative theoretical model of identity formation. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623163
- ISBN
- 9780230623163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623453
- ISBN
- 9780230623453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76