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Paperback. In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "socialist" retailing and alsoendorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism?This book examines the discourses that the Stalinist regime's new approach to retailing and consumption engendered." Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJ; JFC; JFSR; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349364992
- ISBN
- 9781349364992
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€ 138.39
€ 138.39
Paperback. Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, this edited collection challenges conventional understandings of gendered interpersonal violence, and identifies emerging sites and forms of resistance to it. Editor(s): Throsby, Karen. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349365074
- ISBN
- 9781349365074
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€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Paperback. This diverse collection of gender research with an exclusive focus on spoken interaction explores how gender is reflected and accomplished in relation to other situational and larger-scale sociocultural practices, identities and structures. Editor(s): Pichler, Pia; Eppler, Eva. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSB; JFSJ; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 391.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349365098
- ISBN
- 9781349365098
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean. Editor(s): Young, H. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFC; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349365418
- ISBN
- 9781349365418
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Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBH; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349366354
- ISBN
- 9781349366354
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and ...
. Ed(S): Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Taylo...
Paperback. "Animated by scandals, scoundrels and imposters, this collection, with contributions from prominent scholars of literature, history and law, seeks to address issues of identity, trust and deception in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain through the optic of the twin concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Taylor, Jenny Bourne. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349366392
- ISBN
- 9781349366392
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Condition: New
€ 65.68
€ 65.68
Paperback. "This collection analyses relationships between religious and consumption practices and cultures, and their diverse responses to ecological crisis, ranging from indifference to engagement. The book includes contributions on Japan, Israel, Iran, Slovakia and Britain"-- Editor(s): Thomas, Lyn. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFC; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349366590
- ISBN
- 9781349366590
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Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Paperback. 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: JFSJ; JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JKV; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349366637
- ISBN
- 9781349366637
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349366934
- ISBN
- 9781349366934
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. 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: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DS; JFC; JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367498
- ISBN
- 9781349367498
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Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher E...
Brooks, Rachel; Waters, J.
Paperback. This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and experiences of students who choose to study abroad for the whole or part of a degree. It includes case studies of students from East Asia, Europe and the UK, and considers the implications of their movement for contemporary higher education. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHB; JNM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367696
- ISBN
- 9781349367696
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. 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; JFC; JFF; JFSL; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349367719
- ISBN
- 9781349367719
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Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Paperback. This bookexplores 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: HPQ; JFSJ; JHBK; JKSN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367849
- ISBN
- 9781349367849
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€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. 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: JFSJ; JFSP; JHBK; JMS; JPQB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367924
- ISBN
- 9781349367924
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market. Early Childhood Educa...
. Ed(S): Kjorholt, Anne Trine; Qvortrup, Jens
Paperback. This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in instuitutions in a variety of countries. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of modern child life. Editor(s): Kjorholt, Anne Trine; Qvortrup, Jens. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JKSN; JN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367962
- ISBN
- 9781349367962
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Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Paperback. Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation. Editor(s): Shepherd, A.; Brunt, Julia. Series: Rethinking International Development Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFF; JPSN; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368006
- ISBN
- 9781349368006
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€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Paperback. 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: JFC; JFSJ; JFSP; JKSN; JPQB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368105
- ISBN
- 9781349368105
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JHB; JHBS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368129
- ISBN
- 9781349368129
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Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. "More than 800,000 Soviet women fought against Hitler's onslaught during the 'Great Patriotic War,' 1941-45. Female participation in military conflict on such a scale is historically unique. This is the first comprehensive study of the hitherto largely hidden history of the crucial role women played in the defeat of fascism on the Eastern Front" Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBL; HBWQ; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 423.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368167
- ISBN
- 9781349368167
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Condition: New
€ 149.83
€ 149.83
Paperback. A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre. Num Pages: 242 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368242
- ISBN
- 9781349368242
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Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
Paperback. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFF; JHB; JHBL; KJWB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368716
- ISBN
- 9781349368716
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JHBA; JPA; JPS; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368730
- ISBN
- 9781349368730
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist gender order a context where gender equality has been mainstreamed, feminism has been dismissed, and a neoliberal culture of self-management has become firmly entrenched." Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFCX; JFSJ; JHBA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368877
- ISBN
- 9781349368877
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' ofone hundredsuicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JKSN; JMS; JPQB; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368914
- ISBN
- 9781349368914
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95