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Paperback. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. Proceeding from the women's life-stories, McGinty explores the appeal of Islam to some Western women and the personal meaning assigned to the religion. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616684
- ISBN
- 9780230616684
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions of life, and therefore minimizes the changes that feminists can envision or enact in the social field to work towards equality, access, deliberation, participation, just distribution, rights, and authority for women. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616417
- ISBN
- 9780230616417
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Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 46.46
€ 53.46
€ 46.46
Hardcover. Argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public responding to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge gap in its political thinking on the public. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616400
- ISBN
- 9780230616400
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Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 47.43
€ 53.46
€ 47.43
Hardcover. This book assesses the recent growth and future prospects of private transnational environmental certification and standards regimes, examining in detail to what degree, and under what circumstances, do these transnational regimes truly influence industrial environmental practices in developing countries? Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPQB; JPSN; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616356
- ISBN
- 9780230616356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society. Issues addressed include: sexuality and the curriculum, theories of the family, critiques of postmodernism, socialist feminism, and activist tactics/strategies for organizing in K-12 settings. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JNA; JNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410. Sexuality and Schooling. Series: Marxism and Education. 268 pages. This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society. Issues addressed include: sexuality and the curriculum, theories of the family, critiques of postmodernism, socialist feminism, and activist tactics/strategies for organizing in K-12 settings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JNA; JNH. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616080
- ISBN
- 9780230616080
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Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 47.24
€ 53.46
€ 47.24
Hardcover. Through a gender, ethnicity, and sexuality lens, Perez demonstrates that queer Chicana/o and Latina/o identities are much more prevalent in cultural production than most people think. By claiming a variety of characters and texts as queer, he expands the breadth of queer representation in cultural production. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 209 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSK; JFSL4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616066
- ISBN
- 9780230616066
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Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in America. This groundbreaking book sheds light on the coexisting practices of discrimination and accommodation and the ways in which immigrants and established residents reimagine ethnic identity in a more positive light. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616028
- ISBN
- 9780230616028
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. This book casts a critical eye on scholarship in the field of criminal justice, and offers some new orientations to help develop explanations for twenty-first century criminology and criminal justice studies. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JKV; LNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615984
- ISBN
- 9780230615984
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. In a clear and accessible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615939
- ISBN
- 9780230615939
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. As Mubarak's regime nearing its end becomes a strong possibility, many pressures, both foreign and domestic, are coming to bear on Egypt to bring democratic reforms to this struggling country. In The Mubarak Leadership and Future of Democracy in Egypt, Alaa Al-Din Arafat studies this new era and the obstacles that must be overcome. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615588
- ISBN
- 9780230615588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Gender and Decolonization in the Congo focuses on women and questions of gender in its examination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the assassinated leader of the independent Congo. Num Pages: 247 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; HBTR; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615571
- ISBN
- 9780230615571
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Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This insightful ethnography explores cross-cultural contact in the highlands of Vietnam, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615366
- ISBN
- 9780230615366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. This study argues that the work of forgiveness can facilitate productive mourning and that creative communication plays a critical role in negotiating forgiveness. Num Pages: 259 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615311
- ISBN
- 9780230615311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615168
- ISBN
- 9780230615168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy but also offers a new and different way of conceptualizing public education in response to the neoliberal climate affecting all aspects of public education. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290. Public Education and Venture Philanthropy. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. 200 pages, 0. This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy but also offers a new and different way of conceptualizing public education in response to the neoliberal climate affecting all aspects of public education. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JNK. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615151
- ISBN
- 9780230615151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 46.13
€ 53.46
€ 46.13
Hardcover. The revolutionary political upheavals in Africa in the early 1990s continue to have an impact almost two decades later. This book argues we must look to the defining period of transition to understand how politics in these countries changed since the fall of dictatorial one-party states. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDB; 1HFDT; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613904
- ISBN
- 9780230613904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy. The author argues that these two 'halves' of his philosophy help construct a new form of politics for contemporary readers, a possibility of revolution post-Marx. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613584
- ISBN
- 9780230613584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This book simultaneously explores the contemporary utilizations of gods in political theory and the significance of cities to the ways we understand what it is to be human. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAM2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613553
- ISBN
- 9780230613553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party's emphasis was on "kill many," in the 2000s the direction of policy began to move toward "kill fewer." This book details the policies, institutions, and story behind the reform of the death penalty. Series: Palgrave Series in Asian Governance. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613546
- ISBN
- 9780230613546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.20
€ 128.20
Hardcover. This book maps the seascape borders of Australia's insular imagination. It explores how the boundaries and contours of the nation were made and remade in the first years of the war on terror, offering a striking reassessment of the territoriality of 'the island continent'. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613539
- ISBN
- 9780230613539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95