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Hardcover. Companies and work have undergone significant change, and a new productive model has emerged. This book shows how the model works, showing its high degree of coherence in terms of the integration of functions within companies. This book creates a new and challenging theory of services, rooted in the concrete experience of workshops and offices. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJMV2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013636
- ISBN
- 9780230013636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail. Other countries' planners made the approach seem successful, however, the experiment eventually failed, doomed to disappoint given unrealistic expectations, lack of time and an overburdened government. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013476
- ISBN
- 9780230013476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. This study traces the resurgence of a conservative suffrage leadership, questions the inevitability of the narrow franchise granted to women in 1918, and suggests that something important was lost, especially to the Labour party and to feminism, when a broad vision of democracy and patriotism became a casualty of war, self-interest and jingoism. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013353
- ISBN
- 9780230013353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. Organizations acting on behalf of society are expected to act fairly, explaining themselves and their procedures. For the police, explanation is routine and repetitive. It's also very powerful. This book provides an unusual opportunity to see different speakers and writers explaining the same texts in their own words in British police stations. Num Pages: 377 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JKV; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013315
- ISBN
- 9780230013315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.22
€ 120.22
Hardcover. Talking Young Femininities explores the spontaneous talk of adolescent British girls from different socio-cultural backgrounds, examining the different discursive identities they negotiate in their talk, including the 'cool' private-school-girl, the 'tough' British Bangladeshi girl, and the 'sheltered' East End girl. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013285
- ISBN
- 9780230013285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently undermined a sense of self and agency. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013278
- ISBN
- 9780230013278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Hardcover. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HPS; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013261
- ISBN
- 9780230013261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.78
€ 106.78
Hardcover. This collection of essays and articles from Mark Nash, one of the former editors of Screen magazine, explores the classical period of Screen theory and film culture, as well as that of contemporary art. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008748
- ISBN
- 9780230008748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCP; KJB; KNXB2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008731
- ISBN
- 9780230008731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insight, a critique of queer theory and an empirical interrogation of the embodied, spatial and material intersection of class and sexuality. Series: Women's Studies at York Series. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSC; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008717
- ISBN
- 9780230008717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. This collection explores popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular culture, from Fanfic to Orange Parades; from boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary; from celebrity tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association. The essays examine local and global Irishness, focusing on how gender, sexuality and race shape Irish 'postmodernity'. Editor(s): Mulhall, Anne; Sullivan, Moynagh. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008700
- ISBN
- 9780230008700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.36
€ 129.36
The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Identity, Culture and...
Kendall, Gavin, Woodward, Ian, Skrbis, Zlatko
Hardcover. The dream of a cosmopolitical utopia has been around for thousands of years. Yet the promise of being locally situated while globally connected and mobile has never seemed more possible than today. Through a classical sociological approach, this book analyses the political, technological and cultural systems underlying cosmopolitanism. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JFFS; JHBA; JHMC; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008687
- ISBN
- 9780230008687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Hardcover. This lucid and original work argues for a new style of political leadership, one which pays deliberate and sophisticated attention to the emotional dynamics of the public. A case study of terrorism, as a highly emotional topic and as a key political issue in many liberal democracies, grounds the book's ideas in today's political landscape. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPHL; JPHV; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008397
- ISBN
- 9780230008397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. This study examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality and between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century, from Europe to America, it interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what is modern about homosexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; HRCC7; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008311
- ISBN
- 9780230008311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.87
€ 118.87
Hardcover. This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on recently published College de France lectures, it is useful to those concerned with Foucault's engagement with the 'psy-disciplines' and those interested in the practical application of Foucault's critical research methods. Series: Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008199
- ISBN
- 9780230008199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.30
€ 140.30
Hardcover. Paul Smith examines how the Senate has attempted, since 1958, to locate itself within the French (semi-) presidential system, how it asserts its place in relation to the President, Government and National Assembly and how it has sought, in recent years, to develop an autonomous and particular sense of identity. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008113
- ISBN
- 9780230008113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Schweiger outlines the changes in British and German European policies which have been characteristic of a process of normalization in both countries. Schweiger examines possible areas for cooperation between Britain and Germany on major European issues and the significance that such a working partnership could have within the enlarged EU. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; JPA; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008090
- ISBN
- 9780230008090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. Sexual Inversion was the first English medical textbook about homosexuality. It had a chequered publishing history, going through five editions between 1896 and 1915. This edition, with a long critical introduction, places the book in its intellectual and social contexts, and considers the historiography surrounding this important work. Editor(s): Crozier, Ivan. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMU; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008038
- ISBN
- 9780230008038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.08
€ 120.08
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
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
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
€ 62.43
€ 62.43