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Paperback. Draws a portrait of how welfare staff and their clients negotiate the complexities of the low wage labor market in an age of global competition. This title chronicles how entrepreneurial efforts ranging from front-line caseworkers to high-level administrators set the pace for restructuring a resistant bureaucracy. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814775943
ISBN
9780814775943
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. This work serves as an indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 line illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ; KJMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126432
ISBN
9780691126432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.43

Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270909
ISBN
9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.62
€ 65.54

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813576329
ISBN
9780813576329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.83

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813576336
ISBN
9780813576336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.16

Hardback. Tells the story of how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society. This book traces the histories of punk, hardcore, heavy metal, glam, thrash, alternative rock, grunge, and riot grrrl music, and relates them to wider social changes that have taken place. Num Pages: 286 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814757475
ISBN
9780814757475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback. Tells the story of how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society. This book traces the histories of punk, hardcore, heavy metal, glam, thrash, alternative rock, grunge, and riot grrrl music, and relates them to wider social changes that have taken place. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press
Edition
11/15/09
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814757482
ISBN
9780814757482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 394 pages, 25 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813168463
ISBN
9780813168463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

Paperback. When Dr. Martin Luther King arrived in Selma, Alabama, in January, 1965 to organize peaceful demonstrations against discriminatory voting, Sheyann Webb was aged eight and Rachel West Nelson aged nine. This is their account of the events of the winter of 1965 which changed American history. Num Pages: 168 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817308988
ISBN
9780817308988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.48

Paperback. Drawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this gripping account offers a brief and nuanced narrative of this critical phase of the black freedom struggle. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421605
ISBN
9781421421605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.79

Hardback. Drawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this gripping account offers a brief and nuanced narrative of this critical phase of the black freedom struggle. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781421421599
ISBN
9781421421599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.57

Hardback. This text draws upon ethnographic research in Nepal to examine how selves, identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships through time in a multi-ethic nation-state and within a discourse of nationalism. Editor(s): Holland, Dorothy; Pach, Alfred, III; Skinner, Debra. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKN; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847685981
ISBN
9780847685981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.72

Hardback. Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Num Pages: 158 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; CFK; JFFK; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137598424
ISBN
9781137598424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Editor(s): Streib, Heinz. Num Pages: 709 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLK; JHB; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1778.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
709
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319212449
ISBN
9783319212449
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 273.48

Paperback. "This book explores the effect of semi-presidentialism on newly-democratising countries. In recent years semi-presidentialism -- the situation where a constitution makes provision for both a directly elected president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature -- has become the regime type of choice for many countries"-- Editor(s): Elgie, Robert; Wu, Y. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349318087
ISBN
9781349318087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2J; DSB; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714529677
ISBN
9780714529677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.51

Paperback. Describes Milton Erickson's contribution to practical psychotherapy. The text presents the actual approaches, methods and techniques Erickson developed that would enable people to use their own experiences to change behaviour. Editor(s): Sharp, Florence. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JMTH; MMJT; MX; VSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Free Association Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853434068
ISBN
9781853434068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.84

Paperback. .
Publisher
Free Association Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853434204
ISBN
9781853434204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.70

Hardback. Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; GTC; GTE; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137587480
ISBN
9781137587480
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.05

Edition
Pap/Psc
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441137746
ISBN
9781441137746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.41

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