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Hardback. Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture. Editor(s): Silva, Kumarini; Mendes, Kaitlynn. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454911
- ISBN
- 9781137454911
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Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. This book draws upon theory and theology to consider how religious institutions engage with post-conflict statebuilding and why they would choose to lend their resources to the endeavour. Drawing from the theologies of Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam, Dragovic explores their possible motivations to engage alongside the international community. Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict. Num Pages: 216 pages, 9 black & white tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRHT; JPFR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455147
- ISBN
- 9781137455147
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Professional Learning in Higher Education and Communities
Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun; Fletcher, Margaret; K...
Hardback. By integrating neuroscience and social science, this book introduces a bold new vision of Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR). The authors explain and enhance the art of action research through PALAR as a philosophy, methodology and theory of learning and as a facilitation process for professional learning and social justice. Num Pages: 336 pages, 28 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNM; JNRV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455178
- ISBN
- 9781137455178
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Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Hardcover. Drawing from in-depth interviews with a group of Puerto Ricans who requested a certificate of Puerto Rican citizenship, legal and historical documents, and official reports not publicly accessible, Jacqueline Font-Guzman shares how some Puerto Ricans construct and experience their citizenship and national identity at the margins of the US nation. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455215
- ISBN
- 9781137455215
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Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. Chapters establish a productive dialog between Peru and social science theory, focusing on insituional weakness and exclusion (economic, social, gendered, racial). Editor(s): Drinot, Paulo. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455253
- ISBN
- 9781137455253
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations. Editor(s): Johnson, Robert David. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QSP; HBJF; HBJM; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455376
- ISBN
- 9781137455376
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Many fathers are now providing hands-on, engaged care to babies and young children. This book draws on observations of, and interviews with, caregiving fathers, as well as analyses of fathers' memoirs and online blogs, to examine fathers' caregiving work as embodied practice and as lived experience. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455888
- ISBN
- 9781137455888
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Condition: New
€ 127.57
€ 127.57
Hardback. This comprehensive and up-to-date review of learning and educational quality in developing countries, written by 16 highly knowledgeable specialists from around the world, provides policymakers and researchers accessible perspectives with the Millennium Development Goals in mind. Editor(s): Wagner, Daniel A. Num Pages: 178 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JNAM; JNF; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455963
- ISBN
- 9781137455963
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.64
€ 53.37
€ 46.64
Hardcover. This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on the perceptions and phenomenal experience of lived in spaces and places. Drawing on users accounts of location-based social networking, a digital post-phenomenology of place is developed to explain how place is mediated in the digital age. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: H; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 222 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456106
- ISBN
- 9781137456106
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. This revised and updated 2nd edition of Freedman's hard-hitting study aims to remedy the current lack of gender-specific analyses of asylum and refugee issues. It provides a comprehensive account of the situation of women in global forced migration, and explains the ways in which women's experiences are shaped by gendered relations and structures. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition,New edition,2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456229
- ISBN
- 9781137456229
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Condition: New
€ 149.80
€ 149.80
Hardcover. Places of Memory examines the post-war history of the site where the 1942 Wannsee Conference was held. The author analyses the different uses of the house to investigate how a site turns into a site of memory. Num Pages: 85 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTZ; JMRM; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456403
- ISBN
- 9781137456403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. In this book on Marxist ethics, Norman Fischer applies abstract political philosophy and intellectual history to rarely discussed texts in terms of Marxist ethics. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456434
- ISBN
- 9781137456434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. The book questions the concept of "the enemy," beginning with Carl Schmitt's famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept. This book deconstructs this notion and views humanity at the center of a type of politics based on ethics. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456472
- ISBN
- 9781137456472
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
The African Diaspora Population in Britain. Migrant Identities and Exp...
Aspinall, Peter J.; Chinouya, Martha J.
Hardback. This book focuses on the 'Black African' diaspora population living in Britain, including history of settlement, migration patterns, and where Black Africans currently live. It provides an analysis of areas where Black Africans face disadvantage, including labour market participation, housing, and health and social care. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFN; JFSL3; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456533
- ISBN
- 9781137456533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. This book analyses the life histories of Jamaican men involved in the UK drugs trade, including wholesalers, street dealers, specialist cooks, cutters, and growers. Employing a life history approach, their autobiographical accounts are examined to provide an in-depth and unique insight of their journeys into drugs and crime. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KJWJ; JFFH1; JFSJ2; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 227 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456649
- ISBN
- 9781137456649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. The quadrennial summer Olympic Games produces the world's biggest single-city cultural event. Drawing on ethnographic work around the London 2012 Games, this book contrasts the rhetoric and reality of mega-event delivery and shows that the notions of beneficial Olympic legacies and delivery benefits for host communities are, for most, unobtainable. Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JHBS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456724
- ISBN
- 9781137456724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Multiple sclerosis is an incurable neurological disease of unknown cause with a fearful reputation for generating disability, unemployment, poverty and early death. This book critically surveys the current state of multiple sclerosis research, demonstrating the shortfall of current research undertaken on the lives of people with multiple sclerosis. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFA; JFFG; JFFH; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457059
- ISBN
- 9781137457059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJP; JFSC; JFSL4; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457189
- ISBN
- 9781137457189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.29
€ 105.29
Hardcover. Shin Kanemaru (1914-1996) served as a key power broker at the national level in Japan from the 1970s until the early 1990s. He was at the heart of the '1955 system' of conservative political rule. Though never Prime Minister himself, he controlled or strongly influenced the administrations of five Japanese Prime Ministers. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLW; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457363
- ISBN
- 9781137457363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Culture and the Politics of Welfare: Exploring Societal Values and Soc...
Hudson, John, Jo, Nam Kyoung, Keung, Antonia
Hardcover. This text offers an in-depth examination of the influence of culture on welfare states. It suggests new ways in which cross-national differences in culture might be measured and, using a range of approaches, utilizes these measures to explore the role culture plays in shaping differences in social policy frameworks across high income countries. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHB; JHBC; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457486
- ISBN
- 9781137457486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12