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Hardcover. Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism and Networking in the UAE investigates how women in an Arab Gulf country prove to play a key role in how civil society takes shape with and against one another through case studies on women in state-run organizations, Islamic organizations, and networks. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFSJ1; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609563
- ISBN
- 9780230609563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. "Transferred to digital printing in 2008"--T.p. verso. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 301.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609617
- ISBN
- 9780230609617
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardback. This collection gives voice to the peoples and groups impacted by globalization as they seek to negotiate their identities, language use, and territorial boundaries within a larger global context. Editor(s): Compton, Robert W.; Haley, Brian D.; Leung, Ho Hon; Hendley, Matthew. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609631
- ISBN
- 9780230609631
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Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. Rather than measure the actions of their subjects by reference to either universal rationality or cultural relativism, contributors in this volume describe ordinary people as they value human relationships and reason through the commonplace contradictions of their local way of life in a global age. Editor(s): Sykes, Karen. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609815
- ISBN
- 9780230609815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610712
- ISBN
- 9780230610712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.60
€ 53.37
€ 47.60
Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in Educational Research
Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle; Hunter, Cheryl A.. E...
Hardback. This book provides new ways of thinking about educational processes, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Ultimately, it aims at expanding knowledge itself - altering the centre by allowing the margins to inform it - allowing it to be extended to include those ways of knowing that have historically been unexplored or ignored. Editor(s): Ortloff, Debora Hinderliter. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610729
- ISBN
- 9780230610729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.52
€ 53.37
€ 47.52
Paperback. Can Latin America compete? Many argue that the macroeconomic and trade reforms of the 1990s merely put a handsome coat of paint over education, labour, judicial, and administrative reforms that remain incomplete. This book identifies ten factors that most influence the competitiveness of Latin American nations and will shape their economic futures. Editor(s): Haar, Jerry; Price, J. Num Pages: 309 pages, 42 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPS; KCB; KCL; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612143
- ISBN
- 9780230612143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. This book examines the unprecedented explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia and details how homosexuality has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612242
- ISBN
- 9780230612242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. The book examines the relationship between religion and state in a comparative perspective with special attention paid to Western and Middle-Eastern experiences. It examines the resurgence of 'fundamentalism' not only in developing nations but also in economically affluent 'post-modern' societies. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612303
- ISBN
- 9780230612303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardback. This book brings in an international perspective on a much debated area, namely teacher education. Through narrative research, the chapters in this collection provide a wide variety of stories of discovery, transformation and hope in teaching and learning to teach. Editor(s): Mattos, Andrea M. A. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612334
- ISBN
- 9780230612334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Hardback. This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNKC; JNKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612341
- ISBN
- 9780230612341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardback. This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the PRC after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s. Editor(s): Zhou, Minglang; Hill, Ann Maxwell. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 282 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612358
- ISBN
- 9780230612358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.75€ 88.43
€ 106.75
€ 88.43
Hardback. Contributors offer ideas, applications, and resources for helping leaders and educators tackle the challenges of building successful professional learning communities. This wide-ranging text will prove indispensable for any democratically accountable leader committed to organizational change through communities of practice. Num Pages: 254 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612389
- ISBN
- 9780230612389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.76
€ 53.37
€ 47.76
Hardback. In this book, Block critically examines the political and social critique now directed at the teaching profession, and to look at some ethical positions the teacher regularly and already takes in the course of her daily life in the classroom. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612396
- ISBN
- 9780230612396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Beyond Pedagogies of Exclusion in Diverse Childhood Contexts
. Ed(S): Swadener, Beth Blue; Grant, Carl A.;...
Hardback. Contributing authors share a deep commitment to naming ways in which social exclusion has diminished the educational and life chances of many students in our various sites of work and regions of the world -- and to moving the discourse and action beyond pedagogies of exclusion to a more visionary and inclusive praxis. Editor(s): Swadener, Beth Blue; Grant, Carl A.; Mitakidou, Soula; Tressou, Evangelia. Series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612846
- ISBN
- 9780230612846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.45
€ 53.37
€ 47.45
Hardback. In this book, Kelly examines inflections of change, loss and identity in relation to transmigration in order to discern the nature of a critical education framed by a concern for these conditions. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612921
- ISBN
- 9780230612921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.85
€ 53.37
€ 46.85
Hardback. This book considers European perceptions of their rivals throughout history from the Islamic civilization between the first Crusade in 1095 and the final Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 to the United States of America from independence in 1776 until the present and investigates Europe's capacity to lead the world. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613058
- ISBN
- 9780230613058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
hardcover. This volume explores broad conceptual questions raised by the 'discovery' of indigenous peoples as increasingly important global political actors - questions made all the more urgent by the sudden recognition that indigenous diplomacies are not at all new, but merely newly noticed. Editor(s): Beier, J. Marshall; Lackenbauer, P. Whitney. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613072
- ISBN
- 9780230613072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardback. Editor(s): Poblete, Juan. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 285 pages, 49 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 563.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613119
- ISBN
- 9780230613119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.93
€ 53.37
€ 47.93
Higher Education in Asia/Pacific: Quality and the Public Good
Bigalke, Terance W.; Neubauer, Deane E.
hardcover. Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This volume provides a framework to examine these challenges in the region and beyond. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JNF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613232
- ISBN
- 9780230613232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.48
€ 53.37
€ 47.48