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Hardcover. Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306036
- ISBN
- 9781137306036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.60
€ 116.60
What Works in Therapeutic Prisons: Evaluating Psychological Change in ...
Brown, Jennifer, Miller, Sarah, Northey, Sara...
Paperback. Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive coverage of this research to date, following the progress of individual prisoners' through therapy and highlighting the key essentials for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal behaviour. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMS; JKVP1; JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306203
- ISBN
- 9781137306203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Paperback. In the twenty-first century, Africa has become an important source of US energy imports and the world's natural resources. It has also become the epicentre of the world's deadly health epidemic, HIV/AIDS, and one of the battlegrounds in the fight against terrorism. Africa is now a major player in global affairs. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306371
- ISBN
- 9781137306371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. In this intriguing guide, North American utopian communities are explored by Friesen and Friesen with a view to a new social system for the Twenty-first century. The authors assert that the formation of a utopian society is both possible and feasible and give examples of how to create one of our own. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306401
- ISBN
- 9781137306401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. This book is a critical study of the concept of sovereignty and its relationship to responsibility. It establishes a clear distinction between empirical and normative definitions of sovereignty and examines the implications of these concepts in relation to intervention, international law, and the world state. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPSD; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306807
- ISBN
- 9781137306807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the processes in which peacebuilding actors engage and interact with one another. The focus on cultural actors reveals the contested nature of local agency and its potential to challenge institutional policies. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVC; 1DVWYB; 1HFMS; 1QFE; JPS; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307187
- ISBN
- 9781137307187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the UK. Through policy and discourse analysis the author explains why, despite the differing contexts and migration histories, German and British policy responses to the issue are now on a convergent path. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; JFFN; JPB; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307538
- ISBN
- 9781137307538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Security in Translation proposes an innovative way to capture the evolution, spread and local transformation of threat images in world affairs. Reworking traditional securitization theory, this book develops a coherent new framework for analysis that makes securitization theory applicable to empirical studies. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 209 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307569
- ISBN
- 9781137307569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVP1; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307859
- ISBN
- 9781137307859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. This study is about new media, the crisis of democracy and political renewal. It asks: What is the political? How can we understand politics in a network age? Can we talk sensibly about generational change? Analysing four international case studies, this book gives an optimistic assessment of how digital media supports new forms of politics Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308252
- ISBN
- 9781137308252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians' playing, creativity, and careers. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVA; JFFH1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308566
- ISBN
- 9781137308566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This project looks at the work of the faculty in Indonesia's National Islamic Institutes to address, respond, and prevent the success of radical Islamic discourse and institution of Shari'a law in the school system. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRHP; JNA; JNF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308573
- ISBN
- 9781137308573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.71
€ 53.37
€ 46.71
Hardcover. When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and the social sciences. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JFM; JHBA; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308795
- ISBN
- 9781137308795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian considers how people keep cool, from Metro Manila to other mega-cities in Southeast Asia. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTF; JFF; RNFY; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308825
- ISBN
- 9781137308825
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.20
€ 128.20
Hardcover. Focusing on the phenomena of the Surveillance School, Taylor examines the increased presence of surveillance technologies and practices which identify, verify, categorise and track pupils, exploring the impact that invasive and continual monitoring is having upon school children. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 140 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMG; JFSP1; JKSB1; JKV; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308856
- ISBN
- 9781137308856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Hardcover. Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin, by negating the Leninist-Stalinist theory of dialectical materialism and tracing Marx's political philosophy to the Classical Humanism of Aristotle, overthrows the stultifying entrapment of Stalinist Bolshevism and contributes to the revitalization of Marx's method. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTK; HBTV; HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309259
- ISBN
- 9781137309259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child sponsorship practice and necessary tensions experienced by some organisations as they seek to maximise impact. Editor(s): Watson, Brad; Clarke, Matthew. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSB1; JKSR; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309594
- ISBN
- 9781137309594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Hardcover. This book explores the use of mobile devices for teaching and learning language and literacies, investigating the ways in which these technologies open up new educational possibilities. Pegrum builds up a rich picture of contemporary mobile learning and outlines of likely future developments. Series: New Language Learning and Teaching Environments. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CJA; JNV. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309792
- ISBN
- 9781137309792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Paperback. By engaging in an ethnography of the social text of German, European and US monetary affairs, this book introduces a new analytical framework that will enable practitioners and academics, particularly within sociology, economics, political economy, and political science, to gain a clear understanding of the role of culture in central banking. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 128 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310163
- ISBN
- 9781137310163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardcover. This collection examines Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and the crucial role played by the media in struggles for recognition. It brings together debates on controversial aspects of Honneth's work and a set of intriguing empirical studies including with slum-dwelling adolescents, leprosy patients and women exposed to child labor exploitation Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310422
- ISBN
- 9781137310422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65