Society & social sciences
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Society & social sciences
The traditional image of the family as a life--long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private life are changing rapidly, and people are embarking on new lifestyles based on cohabitation, separation and same--sex partnerships. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622132
- ISBN
- 9780745622132
Condition: New
€ 76.22
€ 76.22
Written by a distinguished group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of the major issues dominating British politics. Editor(s): Hay, Colin. Series: Politics Today. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745623184
- ISBN
- 9780745623184
Condition: New
€ 88.93
€ 88.93
In this book Rajneesh Narula examines the interdependence of globalization and technological innovation at two levels: first, between locations, by examining the role of cross--border initiatives in the innovation process; second, between corporate entities, by studying the dynamics of inter--firm R&D collaboration. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFS; KN; PDK; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745624563
- ISBN
- 9780745624563
Condition: New
€ 88.27
€ 88.27
Future developments in war, armed conflict and international relations are central to our collective fate in this century. This book looks forward by considering the forces that will drive changes in military organizations, sources of conflict, the power of states and the nature of the international system. Series: Themes for the 21st Century Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JM; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745625201
- ISBN
- 9780745625201
Condition: New
€ 70.89
€ 70.89
* Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in a series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms. Translator(s): Pollack, Michael. Series: Polity Conversations Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628233
- ISBN
- 9780745628233
Condition: New
€ 76.27
€ 76.27
Paperback. In this exciting new book, Rieger and Leibfried argue persuasively for the need to understand developments in welfare and social provision alongside the processes of globalization. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFS; JKS; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 169 x 32. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628516
- ISBN
- 9780745628516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.54
€ 38.54
What is the West? Why does it need to be defended? From what, by whom, and how? These are thorny questions that international society must grapple with in order to meet the security challenges of the 21st Century. This little book provides answers to these questions. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745632346
- ISBN
- 9780745632346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.35
€ 77.35
Paperback. Europe is Europe's last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain trapped in the straightjacket of methodological nationalism. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745635637
- ISBN
- 9780745635637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.56
€ 35.56
In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a timely and wide-ranging account of the changing nature of suicide in the world today. The suicide rate is soaring in the former Communist bloc, in India and in China, which now has the highest female suicide rate in the world. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745640563
- ISBN
- 9780745640563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.92
€ 73.92
Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America's most successful export. His career began a new chapter in mass culture. At the same time, American post war liberalism was breaking down. Series: Polity America Through the Lens Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745640822
- ISBN
- 9780745640822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.37
€ 71.37
Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual for a world of intensive discord. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745648415
- ISBN
- 9780745648415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.98
€ 70.98
Hardback. With around 645 million people expected to be displaced D by wars and other catastrophes D by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745648637
- ISBN
- 9780745648637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.26
€ 55.26
Hardcover. This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using Greece as an example, Douzinas argues that the persistent sequence of protests, uprisings and revolutions has radically changed the political landscape. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMG; JPA; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745665436
- ISBN
- 9780745665436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.27
€ 77.27
Hardcover. This book explores the issue of migrants, Muslims, integration and citizenship in Europe. Editor(s): Triandafyllidou, Anna; Modood, Tariq; Meer, Nasar. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFSL1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748644520
- ISBN
- 9780748644520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.15
€ 173.15
Hardcover. Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. This title explores the term 'Afromodernisms' and the study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic. It sets an agenda for the study of blackness and modernism. Editor(s): Sweeney, Fionnghuala; Marsh, Kate. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646401
- ISBN
- 9780748646401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.42
€ 150.42
Paperback. Biography of Fidel Castro Series: Pocket Biographies. Num Pages: 128 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJ; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750923842
- ISBN
- 9780750923842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.96
€ 11.99
€ 11.96
Hardcover. The Battle of Cambrai has become synonymous with one of the Allies' first large-scale use of tanks on the Western Front. This title explores how new techniques of sound-ranging and artillery strategy played a greater part on the battlefield than the tanks which have dominated the history of the battle. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 201 x 16. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752479774
- ISBN
- 9780752479774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.45
€ 19.99
€ 18.45
Paperback. Demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the experience of Chinese immigration in America. This book is a useful resource on the Asian immigrant experience for researchers and students in Chinese American studies, Asian American history, immigration studies, and American history. Editor(s): Cassel, Susie Lan. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 480 pages, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759100015
- ISBN
- 9780759100015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.62
€ 77.62
Paperback. This text examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks that integrated Maya society. Editor(s): Masson, Marilyn A.; Freidel, David A. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 1QDA; HBJK; HBLC; JP; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759100817
- ISBN
- 9780759100817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.71
€ 88.71
Paperback. Applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book is suitable for students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work. Series: Gender Lens Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759101524
- ISBN
- 9780759101524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.30
€ 62.30