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Hardcover. Providing the first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, law makers and enforcers, and the media since the 1960s, this book examines the regulation and policing of the phenomenon, which has been influenced by security-related developments within post-bipolar Europe Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFE; WSJA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230201149
ISBN
9780230201149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This book is the first sociological and feminist critique of multicultural theory and practice. Using empirical research, it answers the question: is multiculturalism bad for women? arguing that it is not only bad for (minority ethnic) women, but for minority and majority communities, and for society as a whole. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JFSL1; YQN; YXN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230201101
ISBN
9780230201101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Hardcover. This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe document and reflect on their own learning processes and music activities. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230200586
ISBN
9780230200586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.91

Hardcover. This book presents an interdisciplinary reassessment of the War on Terror. It examines the development of the conflict since the September 11 attacks, combining a theoretically distinctive perspective with the examination of a diverse body of previously unexplored source material -- from media coverage, to cinema, photography and contemporary art. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230200081
ISBN
9780230200081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HRQM2; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230200050
ISBN
9780230200050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.67

Hardcover. The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then charts the extent to which governments have regulated tobacco in the modern era. It identifies major policy change from the post-war period and uses theories of public policy to help explain the change. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JPP; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230200043
ISBN
9780230200043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.08

Hardcover. Many of the present problems of 'globalization' are mirrored in the historical expansion of the European state system. This title is a structured, comparative case study analysis of four regions and examines how these regions and their peoples were absorbed into the expanding European-centered state system from roughly the 1400s through to 1800. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120884
ISBN
9780230120884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Hardcover. Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the 'quest for place' in women's writing from Argentina from 1920 to the present. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Ed.
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120853
ISBN
9780230120853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 47.12

Hardcover. This study shows the promise of Israeli-Palestinian peace from the perspective of former combatants who transform themselves, each other, and those around them through moral conviction and action that reclaims the dignity of both peoples. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120846
ISBN
9780230120846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

Paperback. In this edited volume, leading scholars from the United States and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the twenty-first century, each emphasizing particular dimensions of politics, economics, political culture, and foreign policy. Num Pages: 295 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; JFFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120723
ISBN
9780230120723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazilian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; AVGR; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120716
ISBN
9780230120716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.70

Paperback. This book presents a compelling and innovative new theory and framework for examining the variation in Islamist mobilization strategies in Muslim Asia and the Middle East. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JFSR2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120709
ISBN
9780230120709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

Hardcover. The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s socialist projects and the ensuing years of repression in their activism, film, and literature. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSH; 1KLSU; HBJK; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120600
ISBN
9780230120600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.88

Hardcover. Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects. This is the first work to tell the story of its invention, from the sixteenth century until the present day. The book concludes with a sketch of an alternative: a curriculum based on a well-argued set of fundamental aims. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. 208 pages, 0. Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects. This is the first work to tell the story of its invention, from the sixteenth century until the present day. The book concludes with a sketch of an alternative: a curriculum based on a well-argued set of fundamental aims. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JNF; JNLC. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120563
ISBN
9780230120563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 46.76

Hardcover. In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DS; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120471
ISBN
9780230120471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 47.31

Hardcover. Explores the intricate entwinement of religion, 'culturalism,' and ethnic politics, using as its lens a contemporary Bidayuh community in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMNX; HRC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120464
ISBN
9780230120464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.84

Hardcover. This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.S. women of color. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTW; JFFK; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120457
ISBN
9780230120457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.53

Hardcover. This volume centers on the lives and experiences of female and African American leaders of foundations and nonprofits. Contributors to the volume examine race and gender as constructs and provide a theoretical background for understanding their effect on the psycho-social development of the individuals. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL3; JN; KJVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120396
ISBN
9780230120396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 46.68

Hardcover. Author Anne Kane analyzes the intertwined cultural, political and social transformations that occur during historical events by focusing specifically on the case of the Irish Land War, a pivotal event in the formation of the modern Irish nation. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 298 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120297
ISBN
9780230120297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.28

Hardcover. There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived. This book explores different aspect of theatre for young audiences using examples from theatrical events globally. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120198
ISBN
9780230120198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.74
€ 87.77

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