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Hardcover. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday lives. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white tables, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFN; JFFP; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033307
- ISBN
- 9781137033307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This book is the first full length history of the all-female National Federation of Women Workers (1906-21) led by the gifted and charismatic Mary Macarthur. Its focus is on the people who made up this pioneering union - the organisers, activists and members who built branches and struggled to improve the lives of Britain's working women. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033536
- ISBN
- 9781137033536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. By exploring the concepts of 'crisis' and 'critique', this study offers a thought-provoking re-examination of the political and social thought of Cornelius Castoriadis in light of the current world crisis and with regard to his radical critique of both the traditional Left and contemporary capitalist societies. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPA; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034458
- ISBN
- 9781137034458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. This study examines the evolution and political consequences of the 2009 British MPs' expenses scandal. Despite claims of a revolution in British politics, we show how the expenses scandal had a limited, short-term impact. Editor(s): Van Heerde-Hudson, Jennifer. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMC; 3JMG; JPQ; JPVK; LNDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034540
- ISBN
- 9781137034540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the question of how the communities within which justice applies are constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem, arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of 'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of distributive and commutative justice. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263247
- ISBN
- 9781137263247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Based on an insightful and innovative reading of Kant's theory of knowledge, this book explores the political implications of Kant's philosophical writings on knowledge. It suggests that Kant offers a stable foundation for the reconsideration of the idea of progress as crucial in matters of political management at the outset of the 21st Century. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137264374
- ISBN
- 9781137264374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have pointed to negative consequences of this development, this volume also discusses the evidence for a new and socially inclusive European employment standard. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHBL; JPB; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137267153
- ISBN
- 9781137267153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Ipsative assessment is a powerful new approach that provokes a radical rethink of the purposes and methods of assessment. This book presents a case for partially replacing competitive assessment with ipsative assessment, and it explores the possibilities and the challenges with research evidence and case studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 black & white tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: JMBT; JNC; JNKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137267214
- ISBN
- 9781137267214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality. Editor(s): Burrell, Kathy; Horschelmann, Kathrin. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; JFFN; JPFF; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137267283
- ISBN
- 9781137267283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Technology and Touch addresses the development of a range of new touch technologies, both technologies that we reach out to touch and technologies that touch us, by exploring how we use touch to connect with and understand our world, and ourselves. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JF; JHBA; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268303
- ISBN
- 9781137268303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. Teachers in schools where students have experienced trauma face particularly difficult challenges, for how is a teacher to promote academic growth and attainment of educational goals in such a situation? Provides advice, understanding, and proven strategies for meeting the challenges that must be faced after a traumatic experience. Editor(s): Mears, Carolyn Lunsford. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268549
- ISBN
- 9781137268549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.45€ 95.61
€ 116.45
€ 95.61
Hardcover. This book discusses changes to student teacher education globally and in the UK, exploring how student teachers learn through school teaching practices and ideas for developing and maximizing learning opportunities in school-based student teacher education. Series: Policy and Practice in the Classroom. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268679
- ISBN
- 9781137268679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Hardcover. A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; HPM; JMTD; MMZS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268730
- ISBN
- 9781137268730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. Erik Ringmar elucidates how Europeans spread "civilization" by barbarian means in the 1860 destruction of the palace of the emperor of China. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 268 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; 3JH; HBJD; HBJF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268914
- ISBN
- 9781137268914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Analysing the historical circumstances and theoretical sources that have generated ideas about citizen and community participation in crime control, this book examines the various ideals, outcomes and effects that citizen participation has been held to stimulate and how these have been transformed, renegotiated and reinvigorated over time. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSW1; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269324
- ISBN
- 9781137269324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Published with the support of the Academy for Social Sciences, this volume provides an illuminating look at topics of concern to everyone at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Leading social scientists tackle complex questions such as immigration, unemployment, climate change, war, banks in trouble, and an ageing population. Editor(s): Cooper, Cary; Michie, Jonathan. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269911
- ISBN
- 9781137269911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.26
€ 38.26
Hardcover. Using an innovative framework for the study of voting behavior in parliamentary democracies, this book sheds new light on the ongoing personalization of politics. The analysis makes use of national election study data from Britain, Germany and The Netherlands and shows that party leaders can often be the difference between victory and defeat. Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology. Num Pages: 152 pages, 12 black & white tables, 26 figures. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270221
- ISBN
- 9781137270221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Watching the Watchers: Parliament and the Intelligence Services
Defty, Andrew, Bochel, Hugh, Kirkpatrick, Jan...
Hardcover. This study offers the first detailed examination of the varied means by which parliament through its committees and the work of individual members has sought to scrutinise the British intelligence and security agencies and the government's use of intelligence. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPH; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270429
- ISBN
- 9781137270429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book provides a cross-regional investigation of the role of citizenship and ethnicity in migration, political incorporation, and political transnationalism in the age of globalization, exploring the political realities of Dutch Antilleans in the Netherlands and Latin American Nikkeijin in Japan. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270542
- ISBN
- 9781137270542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Explaining Collective Violence in Contemporary Indonesia: From Conflic...
Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin
Hardcover. Tadjoeddin uniquely explores four types of violent conflicts pertinent to contemporary Indonesia (secessionist, ethnic, routine-everyday and electoral violence), and seeks to discover what socio-economic development can do to overcome conflict and make the country's transition to democracy safe for its constituencies. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFE; JPA; JPHV; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270634
- ISBN
- 9781137270634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95