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Hardcover. Do you want to acquire the knowledge and skills to give you greater influence in political situations at work? Perhaps you want to make sense of the political behaviour you see around you. Or maybe you want to acquire a set of effective tools to help you work more productively in a political workplace. If so, this book is for you. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMJ; KJMV2; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230595415
ISBN
9780230595415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.76

Paperback. Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia, this collection - now available in paperback - presents empirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internet to reveal both how media structure public spheres and how people use media to participate in the public sphere. Editor(s): Butsch, Richard. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHMC; JPV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594494
ISBN
9780230594494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.84

Paperback. This book compares the state of knowledge on men and masculinities in 14 countries across Europe, examining the effects of social change, Europeanization, globalization and new post-socialist configurations of Europe for men. Special attention is given to home and work, social exclusion, violence, and health. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594470
ISBN
9780230594470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardcover. This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594456
ISBN
9780230594456
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.00

Hardcover. This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBK; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594432
ISBN
9780230594432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.56

Hardcover. Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radical perspective. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KJMV2; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230584648
ISBN
9780230584648
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.00

Hardcover. This book offers a critique of the dominant conceptualization of heritage found in policy, which tends to privilege the white, middle and upper classes. Using Britain as an illustration, Waterton explores how and why recent policies continue to lean towards the predictable melding of cultural diversity with tendencies of assimilation. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFCX; JHBA; JPB; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581883
ISBN
9780230581883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.67

Hardcover. This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMGD; DSBH; HBTZ1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581876
ISBN
9780230581876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.95

Hardcover. The first book to compare and contrast the rise of mass circulation press in Britain and America. It provides insights into the origins of tabloid journalism and explores a range of cross-cultural and literary issues, tracing the history of key newspapers and the careers of influential journalists such as Bennett, Russell, Harmsworth and Pulitzer. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581869
ISBN
9780230581869
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.00

Hardcover. This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters and social standing. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVK; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581852
ISBN
9780230581852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.70

Hardcover. This volume presents a unique examination of Western-led police reform efforts by theoretically linking neoliberal globalization, police reform and development. The authors present seven country case studies based on this theoretical and conceptual approach and assess the prospects for successful police reform in a global context. Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JKSW1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581029
ISBN
9780230581029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.64

Hardcover. An explanation of variations in the discourses and electoral success of 25 extreme right parties across 17 European political systems. The book shows how the European extreme right is mapped by the positions of parties and voters on two ideological dimensions, and how the match between these determines electoral success. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JPFQ; JPHF; JPLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581012
ISBN
9780230581012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.90

Hardcover. This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need. Num Pages: 455 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSR; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 822.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580992
ISBN
9780230580992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.28

Hardcover. This book explores what it means to be a twin and to what extent twins can shape or 'escape' their identities as twins. It investigates how social expectations about twins shape twins' lives and how twins utilize their bodies, space and talk to actively display and perform their own identities. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 230 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580930
ISBN
9780230580930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardcover. Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' ofone hundredsuicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580923
ISBN
9780230580923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardcover. Globalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory. This book argues that we must understand that both the modern state and globalisation are based on a cartographic reality of space. In consequence, claims that globalization represents a spatial challenge to state territory are deeply problematic. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTP; JFFS; JHBA; JPA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580831
ISBN
9780230580831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.06

Hardcover. A fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. Historical and Cultural Contexts. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. 264 pages, 11 figures, 6 black & white tables, 10 charts. A fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBL. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580824
ISBN
9780230580824
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.04

Hardcover. Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political cultures. It traces the trajectory of talk about agency reform in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and identifies the national styles of speaking that mediated the agency idea. Series: Public Sector Organizations. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1DNS; 1MBF; JPP; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580725
ISBN
9780230580725
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.12

Hardcover. This is an in-depth analysis of dramatization as method in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. It provides an account of the value of this method for the study of the political with particular emphasis on the relationship between politics and art. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580718
ISBN
9780230580718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.15

Hardcover. The first volume of its kind to analyze the impact that theories and practices of imaging have had on a variety of fields. It draws on an impressive range of philosophical approaches, from analytic, to pragmatic, to phenomenological - concluding that imaging is developing a social and cultural impact comparable to language. Editor(s): Selinger, Evan. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; JMM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580657
ISBN
9780230580657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.00

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