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Society & culture: general
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033468
- ISBN
- 9781137033468
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€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point in modern American culture. Authors Bruce Tucker and Priscilla L. Walton examine critical moments in the aftermath of 9/11 arguing that commentators abandoned complexity, seeking to reduce events to their simplest signification. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033499
- ISBN
- 9781137033499
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€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. China is growing in importance to the economies and governments of the world, and it has been run by men with very different ideas. How China copes with the pressures for good governance with the Asian economic model, treats its ethnic minorities under scrutiny, and gathers resources to fuel its dynamic economy, impacts us all. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; HRAM2; JFSL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033833
- ISBN
- 9781137033833
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€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Aims to increase awareness about the specific circumstances of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) diversity. Based on a wide array of literature this volume provides a global vision of this reality, explaining the evolution of homosexuality during history and reasons why it has been considered a sin, an illness and a crime. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033932
- ISBN
- 9781137033932
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€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardcover. This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated. Num Pages: 235 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFFA; JPH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263025
- ISBN
- 9781137263025
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€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; HBTQ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263216
- ISBN
- 9781137263216
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Condition: New
€ 162.24
€ 162.24
Paperback. This book considers how white U.S.-Americans may participate in racial justice-making, and shows how 'white' identities embody problematic moral realities, arguing that reparations for people of African descent and sovereignty for Native peoples are critical for racial justice and transformation of what it means to be white in the United States. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFSL; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263674
- ISBN
- 9781137263674
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€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137264312
- ISBN
- 9781137264312
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€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. International students are often engaged not just in education, but in high stakes towards gaining permanent migration status. This book unpacks the consequences of this education-migration nexus, analyzing migration policies and providing a vivid picture of student-migrants' lived experiences. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JFFN; JFFS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137267078
- ISBN
- 9781137267078
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€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. By engaging in an ethnography of the social text of German, European and USA monetary affairs, this book introduces a new analytical framework that will enable practitioners and academics, particularly within sociology, economics, political economy, and political science, to gain a clear understanding of the role of culture in central banking. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; KCBM; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268822
- ISBN
- 9781137268822
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269102
- ISBN
- 9781137269102
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. The first extensive analysis of the representation of queens in early modern fairy tales and the historical record. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269683
- ISBN
- 9781137269683
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269836
- ISBN
- 9781137269836
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€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This book explores the material and everyday intersections between popular culture and new media. Using a range of interdisciplinary resources the chapters open up various hidden dimensions, including objects and infrastructures, archives, algorithms, data play and the body that force us to rethink our understanding of culture as it is today. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270047
- ISBN
- 9781137270047
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€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Popular Culture in Asia consists studies of film, music, architecture, television, and computer-mediated communication in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, addressing three topics: urban modernities; modernity, celebrity, and fan culture; and memory and modernity. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270191
- ISBN
- 9781137270191
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
The Evolution of American Women's Studies. Reflections on Triumphs, Co...
Alice E. . Ed(S): Ginsberg
Paperback. This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first introduction in the University setting to the present day. Editor(s): Ginsberg, Alice E. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270306
- ISBN
- 9781137270306
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.34
€ 53.36
€ 46.34
Hardcover. This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270474
- ISBN
- 9781137270474
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Condition: New
€ 138.33
€ 138.33
Hardcover. Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life. Topics include the profiles and motivations of gang members; the processes of gang evolution, organization, and recruitment; gang members' uses of violence, media, and technology and the role of gangs in the drugs trade and organized crime Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFE; JKVJ; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137271501
- ISBN
- 9781137271501
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Condition: New
€ 149.56
€ 149.56
Hardcover. Journalistic activity crosses national borders in creative and sometimes unexpected ways. Drawing on many interviews and newsroom observation, this book addresses an overlooked but important aspect of international journalism by examining how journalists carry out their daily work at the transnational and regional transborder level. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272645
- ISBN
- 9781137272645
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. This innovative and adventurous work uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. Margrit Shildrick argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary, and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272805
- ISBN
- 9781137272805
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Condition: New
€ 115.92
€ 115.92
Hardcover. Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and television programs play with, imitate, subvert, mock, critique, and queer the romantic narrative conventions so common in Western culture. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APT; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 561.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Critical
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272966
- ISBN
- 9781137272966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274052
- ISBN
- 9781137274052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. 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; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274106
- ISBN
- 9781137274106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. Drawing on interviews with Civil Society organizations and in conjunction with an examination of EU Civil Society Policy and the legal and institutional environment in Turkey this book examines EU policies on Turkish Civil Society organizations and highlights the significant constraints and limited impacts of these policies. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QFE; JFFS; JPA; JPR; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274410
- ISBN
- 9781137274410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50