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Society & social sciences
Paperback. Editor(s): Hollander, C.F.; Becker, H.A. Translator(s): Lopey, C.N.T.H. Series: Future Health Scenarios. Num Pages: 326 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780898388695
- ISBN
- 9780898388695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 181.86
€ 181.86
Hardcover. How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume answers these research questions through nine country case studies from the Global North and the Global South. Editor(s): Ibrahim, Solava; Tiwari, Meera. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHBC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001443
- ISBN
- 9781137001443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardback. The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002273
- ISBN
- 9781137002273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardback. This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible to anticipate ethical questions and problems at a stage when the technology can still be changed. Editor(s): Van der Burg, Simone; Swierstra, Tsjalling. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMG; PDA; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002921
- ISBN
- 9781137002921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in which Muslim homophobia contributes to this dialectic. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSK; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002952
- ISBN
- 9781137002952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. In an increasingly mobile world with mounting concerns about the states' control of borders and migration, passports and citizenship rights matter more than ever. This book asks what citizenship ceremonies can tell us about how citizenship is understood through empirical research in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Ireland. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003201
- ISBN
- 9781137003201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Hardcover. Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate life. It provides a rich and human perspective on how bodies, emotions and connections to others are key in maintaining intimate relationships. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JMF; VFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003867
- ISBN
- 9781137003867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Over the past two decades in the United States, a profound reorientation of human attention has taken shape. This book addresses the recent cultural anxiety about attention as a way of negotiating a crisis of the self that is increasingly managed, mediated, and controlled by technologies. Num Pages: 259 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137004123
- ISBN
- 9781137004123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Hardback. Territorial rights are often perceived to create barriers and discriminate against the poor. This study challenges that notion by re-examining the cosmopolitan understanding of territory. It addresses issues from the right to vote, the right to exclude others to the legitimacy of territorial boundaries and the exploitation of natural resources. Series: Comparative Territorial Politics. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPSL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137004949
- ISBN
- 9781137004949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. Conflicting conservative and radical impulses in English society after WWII were played out in microcosm in education. They particularly shaped English teaching, examined in three post-war London schools in a detailed study that uses oral history-interviews with former teachers and students-and documents including mark books and students' work. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPG; JNL; JNU; YQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137005137
- ISBN
- 9781137005137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.97
€ 54.99
€ 43.97
Paperback. Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007278
- ISBN
- 9781137007278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.68
€ 67.68
Hardcover. This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field. Editor(s): Buckingham, David. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFS; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008145
- ISBN
- 9781137008145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.98
€ 62.98
Hardcover. The historical involvement of Jews in the political Left is well known, but far less attention has been paid to the political and ideological factors which attracted Jews to the Left. After the Holocaust and the creation of Israel many lost their faith in universalistic solutions, yet lingering links between Jews and the Left continue to exist. Num Pages: 347 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HRJ; JFSR1; JPFF; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008299
- ISBN
- 9781137008299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.69
€ 119.69
Hardback. The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider secularism a prerequisite for democratic transitions. Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai offer a comprehensive view of the complex nature of contemporary political Islam and its relationship to democracy. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 275 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008480
- ISBN
- 9781137008480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.20
€ 63.20
Hardcover. A look at how the women's health agenda has been reframed in the past several decades. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008619
- ISBN
- 9781137008619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This book explores the morality of love and sex, and how distortions of these sometimes develop into abuse. Hayes argues that there are strong similarities between different kinds of abusive relationships, and that these similarities arise out of the common narratives surrounding romantic love and the logic of intimate relationships. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFFE3; JFSJ; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008800
- ISBN
- 9781137008800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.92
€ 61.92
Hardcover. The authors present an overview of private development aid in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the EU as a whole. They illustrate how private aid organisations receive support as well as the relations they have with their respective governments. Editor(s): Schulpen, Lau. Series: EADI Global Development Series. Num Pages: 348 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JPWH; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009784
- ISBN
- 9781137009784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.59
€ 63.59
Hardback. Marty Branagan uses Australian and international case studies to show that nonviolence is a viable alternative to militarism for national defence and regime change. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPW; JW; RNB; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137010094
- ISBN
- 9781137010094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.23
€ 192.23
Hardcover. The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argues for a simple care ethical slogan: dependency relationships generate responsibilities. It uses this slogan to unify, specify and justify the wide range of views found within the care ethical literature. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137011442
- ISBN
- 9781137011442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.55
€ 149.55
Hardcover. Was the victory of Francois Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book argues that a combination of economic downturn, policy choices and personal unpopularity meant that the Right-wing incumbent faced an almost impossible task in holding onto power for another five years. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JMG; JPHF; JPL; JPQ; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137011633
- ISBN
- 9781137011633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39