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Society & culture: general
Hardcover. Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique window into popular formations of AIDS and gender conflict in Africa. The first book on the subject to draw primarily on such narratives, this book shows how they provide rich insights into the struggles of people living in an era of social upheaval. Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; JFFH2; JFSJ1; JHBK5; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322449
- ISBN
- 9781137322449
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Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. This book argues that Americans' belief in post-racialism, rooted in both ideology and material progress among racial minorities, is wrong because both old and new patterns of racism continue to hinder the acceptance of African Americans as true equals in American society, despite the recent mobility of the black middle class. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322678
- ISBN
- 9781137322678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardback. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 297 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JHB; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 534.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323484
- ISBN
- 9781137323484
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€ 140.88
€ 140.88
Hardcover. How can the diffusion and development of women's cricket as a global sport be explained? Women's Cricket and Global Processes considers the emergence and growth of women's cricket around the world and seeks to provide a sociological explanation for how and why the women's game has developed the way it has. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBS; WSJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323514
- ISBN
- 9781137323514
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Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Hardcover. How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, while recognizing that they have sometimes maintained the mechanisms of violence against blacks. Editor(s): Lemoine, Xavier; Rocchi, Jean-Paul. Num Pages: 289 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325075
- ISBN
- 9781137325075
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Condition: New
€ 89.93€ 75.33
€ 89.93
€ 75.33
Communicating Awe: Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration (Palgrave ...
Meyers, Oren, Neiger, Motti, Zandberg, Eyal
Hardcover. Offering a cross-media exploration of Israeli media on Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of Israel's most sacred national rituals, over the past six decades, this fascinating book investigates the way in which variables such as medium, structure of ownership, genre and targeted audiences shape the collective recollection of traumatic memories. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBTZ1; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325235
- ISBN
- 9781137325235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFD; JFSF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325266
- ISBN
- 9781137325266
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Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and sociolinguistic variables affect a narrator's language use and linguistic behaviour. This book will be of interest to anyone engaged with narrative discourse, gender discourse, Arabic studies and linguistics. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 2CSR; CFB; CFFD; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325754
- ISBN
- 9781137325754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. Editor(s): Spyrou, Spyros; Christou, Miranda. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326300
- ISBN
- 9781137326300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
Hardcover. With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food. Editor(s): Klein, Jakob A.; Murcott, Anne. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV; JFFT; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326409
- ISBN
- 9781137326409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. Education policy is a core element of the state's sovereignty and autonomy. This book analyzes the rise of the western education state and its limits in times of transition from western to non-western globalization and of waning newspaper interest in France, Germany, the UK and the US. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326478
- ISBN
- 9781137326478
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Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the different care systems are in dealing with these problems through policy innovation. It combines theoretical and conceptual debates, cross-national comparisons and analytically-driven case studies. Editor(s): Leon, Margarita. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSP31; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326508
- ISBN
- 9781137326508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.82
€ 119.82
Hardcover. Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMW; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326560
- ISBN
- 9781137326560
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Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia. By taking the political agency of migrants into account, it approaches the subject of borders as a genuine political and socially constructed phenomenon and transcends a state-centered perspective. Editor(s): Schwenken, Helen; Russ-Sattar, Sabine. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JPVH1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326621
- ISBN
- 9781137326621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardback. A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture. Editor(s): Scapp, Ron; Seitz, Brian. Num Pages: 238 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326782
- ISBN
- 9781137326782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
Hardcover. This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to an historical overview of the culture-state relationships in East Asia, it provides an analysis of contemporary developments occurring in the regions' cultural policies and the challenges they are facing. Editor(s): Lee, Hye-Kyung; Lim, Lorraine. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; AB; JFC; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327765
- ISBN
- 9781137327765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3J; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327796
- ISBN
- 9781137327796
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Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardcover. The number of women in senior management remains stubbornly low. Women Who Succeed examines the real life experiences of forty-six senior women who have 'made it' into senior management. It considers the strategies that these women adopted, the support they received and the relationships they formed in building their careers. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJG; KJM; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328250
- ISBN
- 9781137328250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. Countering the commonplace view of teaching as inclusive, this collection highlights the persistence of inequalities in the teaching profession. It explores the ways in which gender, ethnicity, social class and other identity markers shape teachers' experiences in a range of institutional and national contexts. Editor(s): Moreau, Marie-Pierre. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ; JNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328595
- ISBN
- 9781137328595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Hardcover. This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and debates relevant to contemporary social science such as place and space, social stratification and power relations, production and consumption, individualism, dwelling and imagination. Editor(s): Benson, Michaela; Osbaldiston, Nick. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JFSL; JHBD; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328663
- ISBN
- 9781137328663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64