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Hardcover. McMillan provides the first detailed account of the women's anti-violence movement in Europe, from an international comparative perspective. Exploring how feminists have responded to violence in society, this study also examines how they have organized their response, their achievements and the factors that have facilitated their calls to change. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007727
- ISBN
- 9780230007727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Terry Thomas considers the use of criminal records within the criminal justice system and beyond - especially the growth of their use for pre-employment screening via the Criminal Records Bureau. This book also considers future developments and the impact that transferring criminal records across international borders will have. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKV; LNF; UN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007673
- ISBN
- 9780230007673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Based on empirical research from 29 major postwar housing estates in 15 European cities, this collection explores mass housing experiments, examining the problems, policy responses and residents' everyday experiences in the estates in the context of change and regeneration. Editor(s): Rowlands, Rob; Kempen, Ronald van. Num Pages: 297 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSG; JKSB; JPR; RPC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007307
- ISBN
- 9780230007307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Hardcover. In this systematic and mutual interrogation of radical democratic theory and Internet practice, contributors examine a range of democratic theories in relation to online communication and explore how such communication may advance democracy beyond what is conceptualized and practised within present liberal-capitalist political contexts. Editor(s): Dahlberg, Lincoln; Siapera, Eugenia. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JPHV; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007208
- ISBN
- 9780230007208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. Your guest at dinner kisses you. What does it mean? Where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost object of the law of love, the lex amatoria collated and presented here. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007185
- ISBN
- 9780230007185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.95
€ 149.95
Hardcover. This volume offers a new cultural and political history of the idea of the nation. Situating the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, it reveals the popularity and political importance of a transnational discourse of the psychology of nations that had taken shape in the previous half-century. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007178
- ISBN
- 9780230007178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Focusing on the EU and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, this book demonstrates how collective identity depends on the construction of outsider states, such as Morocco, Turkey, and Australia, as different. It then analyzes how these regional organizations can consequently aggravate conflicts involving outsider states. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 191 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FM; JPA; JPSN2; JWLP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007024
- ISBN
- 9780230007024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production', his 'social formalist' alternative to structuralism and post-structuralism and his approach to 'the media'. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006706
- ISBN
- 9780230006706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This volumes offers a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilite has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century. Incorporating insights of cultural and social historians, this collection approaches masculinities in a complex and interdisciplinary manner that will appeal to a wide range of readers. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006614
- ISBN
- 9780230006614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.07
€ 150.07
Hardcover. Drawing on critical social and political thought, the book explores the implications, arguing that late modern wars wars, often referred to as 'liberal', may be interpreted as perpetuating forms of exclusion and domination that render war a tool of control now articulated in global terms. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JWA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006577
- ISBN
- 9780230006577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.72
€ 116.72
Hardcover. The New Progressive Dilemma documents the international diffusion, ideological meaning and long-term political implications of the 'ideas' that informed the late twentieth-century revolution in thinking inside the British Labour Party - a revolution that had important antecedents in Australia. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1MBF; JPB; JPH; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006553
- ISBN
- 9780230006553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This study provides a comprehensive account of the situation of women refugees globally and explains how they differ from men. It looks at causes of refugee flows, international laws and conventions and their application, the policies and legislation of Western governments, and lived experiences of the refugees themselves. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006539
- ISBN
- 9780230006539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Lundberg critically examines the claim that party list-elected members of Britain's devolved assemblies, in Wales and Scotland, are somehow 'second-class' representatives. Although list-elected representatives in Britain have a different constituency role, these representatives add an important element of pluralism to Britain's politics. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPH; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006522
- ISBN
- 9780230006522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. How might theatre intervene in violent inter-ethnic conflicts? This book addresses this question through detailed case studies in the Balkans and the Middle East, showing how theatrical facilitations model ways that ethnic oppositions can move towards ethical relationships. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 235 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW3; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230005396
- ISBN
- 9780230005396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Mediating Madness examines how mediations of madness emerge, disappear and interleave, only to re-emerge at unexpected moments. Drawing on social and cultural histories of madness, history of art, and popular journalism, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary media representations of madness. Num Pages: 213 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFFH; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230005310
- ISBN
- 9780230005310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. In recent years historians of psychoanalysis have come to view Freud's case of Anna O. as a failure and have cast doubt on the very foundations of psychoanalysis itself. This new study challenges existing historical scholarship by providing an unparalleled review of the available evidence on the case and reaches new conclusions about its outcome. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230005303
- ISBN
- 9780230005303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Happiness is a private matter and individual pursuit; however, public policy does have an important role and can contribute much through various enabling means. This volume discusses the determinants of happiness and presents case studies of how public policy can help promote happiness. Editor(s): Ng, Yew-Kwang. Num Pages: 273 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKS; JPQB; KCC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230004979
- ISBN
- 9780230004979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Regional Perspectives on Globalization (International Political Econom...
Bowles, Paul, Veltmeyer, Henry, Cornelissen, ...
Hardcover. The authors provide new perspectives on how we should think about globalization, its impacts and forms of resistance and response. Twelve regional chapters, encompassing all of the major regions of the world, provide a global dialogue and reveal the varied meanings and effects of globalization. Editor(s): Petras, James; Bowles, Paul; Veltmeyer, Henry; Cornelissen, Scarlett; Tang, Kwong-Leung; Invernizzi, Noela. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230004665
- ISBN
- 9780230004665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category? Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial divisions that can become permanent and detrimental as well as being at odds with the social fluidity of modern societies. Preface by Jonathan Friedman. Editor(s): Rata, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003385
- ISBN
- 9780230003385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book examines the role governments play in managing policy challenges such as religion, romance, gender relations, same-sex marriages and privacy protection in response to social changes in marriage. Elizabeth van Acker asks whether governments can or should intervene in this personal sphere. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003378
- ISBN
- 9780230003378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16