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Hardback. The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JNAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509504268
- ISBN
- 9781509504268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509504565
- ISBN
- 9781509504565
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Condition: New
€ 66.09
€ 66.09
Hardback. Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Series: Urban Futures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JP; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509504817
- ISBN
- 9781509504817
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Condition: New
€ 66.09
€ 66.09
Hardback. In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509505517
- ISBN
- 9781509505517
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.38
€ 72.38
Hardback. "Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509505722
- ISBN
- 9781509505722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.09
€ 66.09
Hardback. Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. Series: What's Wrong?. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509507436
- ISBN
- 9781509507436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.69
€ 78.69
Hardback. Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures of fear. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509507757
- ISBN
- 9781509507757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.02
€ 72.02
Hardback. What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism's leading contemporary scholars. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 31. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509507863
- ISBN
- 9781509507863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.69
€ 78.69
Hardback. * This is an engaging new book from one of the most influential and widely read sociologists in the world today * Bauman, in conversation with Leonidas Donskis, reflects on the nature of evil in our liquid modern world. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFF; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509508112
- ISBN
- 9781509508112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the stranglehold of top-down, stage-managed politics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509508365
- ISBN
- 9781509508365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.21
€ 47.21
Hardback. The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and compromise are becoming increasingly ineffective. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509508679
- ISBN
- 9781509508679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.25
€ 72.25
Hardback. We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509509607
- ISBN
- 9781509509607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Hardback. Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe s leading radical thinkers. Marrying her Catholic faith with a passion for social justice, she came to prominence for her eloquent condemnation of the abuses of some of the world s biggest pharmaceutical companies. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 123 x 15. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509509751
- ISBN
- 9781509509751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.39€ 40.84
€ 50.39
€ 40.84
Hardback. China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby shows why such assumptions are wrong. Series: Global Futures. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509510962
- ISBN
- 9781509510962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.24
€ 53.24
Hardback. In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509511242
- ISBN
- 9781509511242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.02
€ 72.02
Hardback. GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509511341
- ISBN
- 9781509511341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.27
€ 68.27
Hardback. The ascendance of austerity policies and the protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509511457
- ISBN
- 9781509511457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.38
€ 72.38
Hardback. Amidst the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of Left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509511570
- ISBN
- 9781509511570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.09
€ 66.09
Hardback. Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. Series: Resources. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; KNBP; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509511723
- ISBN
- 9781509511723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.69
€ 78.69
Hardback. Today's economic system premised on the sale of physical goods does not fit the information age we live in. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509513222
- ISBN
- 9781509513222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.02
€ 72.02