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Hardback. Giving the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics, this book deconstructs the child trafficking paradigm, contrasts it with 'real histories of child and youth labour and mobility, and seeks to explain it by going 'inside the anti-trafficking field. Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Num Pages: 178 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSP1; JKV; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478177
- ISBN
- 9781137478177
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Condition: New
€ 183.03
€ 183.03
Hardback. This study is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. It discusses UK policy on the creative economy, the rise of intermediaries between policy-making and the marketplace, and the playing out in the delivery of business advice services to creative microbusinesses. Num Pages: 142 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; JFC; JFD; KJP; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478870
- ISBN
- 9781137478870
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Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBL; JN; KCF; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479068
- ISBN
- 9781137479068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardcover. Rebel Friendships explores the ties between people connected through affinity and efforts aimed at social change. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFP; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479310
- ISBN
- 9781137479310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Defining Crime: A Critique of the Concept and Its Implication
Lynch, Michael J., Stretesky, Paul B., Long, ...
Hardcover. Defining Crime explores the limitations of the legal definition of crime, how that politically based definition has shaped criminological research, and why criminologists must redefine crime to include scientific objectivity. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JKV; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479341
- ISBN
- 9781137479341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Using policy analysis and case study approaches, Private Universities in Latin America examines the significant amounts of research and innovation being made available from private universities in Latin America. Editor(s): Gregorutti, Gustavo; Delgado, Jorge Enrique. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 32 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JNF; JNK; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479372
- ISBN
- 9781137479372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.31
€ 53.36
€ 47.31
Hardcover. Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and documents its debilitating effects on Chinese adolescents' social, moral, and civic development. Series: Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479402
- ISBN
- 9781137479402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Russia's Coercive Diplomacy: Energy, Cyber, and Maritime Policy as New...
Valeriano, Brandon, Maness, Ryan
Hardcover. Russia's place in the world as a powerful regional actor can no longer be denied; the question that remains concerns what this means in terms of foreign policy and domestic stability for the actors involved in the situation, as Russia comes to grips with its newfound sources of might. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 figures, 42 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPQB; JPS; KNB; KNDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479433
- ISBN
- 9781137479433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.03
€ 183.03
Hardback. This edited volume presents a critique of citizenship as exclusively and even originally a European or 'Western' institution. It explores the ways in which we may begin to think differently about citizenship as political subjectivity. Series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBA; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479495
- ISBN
- 9781137479495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.07
€ 139.07
Hardcover. This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479525
- ISBN
- 9781137479525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.17
€ 77.17
Paperback. This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society's culture, and reveals how the individual actualizes and sustains an integrated and stable self while navigating the sometimes treacherous waters of everyday institutional life. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFSC; JHB; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479600
- ISBN
- 9781137479600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.90
€ 82.90
Hardcover. Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479617
- ISBN
- 9781137479617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
hardcover. This book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on feelings of belonging and we-ness as important structuring forces that guide and restrict students' school choices. Num Pages: 108 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JNFR; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480064
- ISBN
- 9781137480064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.50€ 55.40
€ 65.50
€ 55.40
Hardcover. This is a critical study of the public diplomacy activities of China and Taiwan in Central America. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPCW; 1KLC; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480095
- ISBN
- 9781137480095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. Num Pages: 345 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNK; JNM; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480194
- ISBN
- 9781137480194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 156 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPL; JFD; JPWQ; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480347
- ISBN
- 9781137480347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. Today, there is new appeal in the analysis of ethnicity, not merely as innate and fixed identities or fragmented and lost identities, but rather as wounded and then creatively reclaimed. Kearney discusses international examples of cultural wounding and healing and presents two close readings of emerging ethnicities in Australia and Brazil. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1MBF; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480569
- ISBN
- 9781137480569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFSL; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480644
- ISBN
- 9781137480644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
hardcover. This book explores the significance of riots and public disturbances caused by marginalized youth with a migrant background in France and the Netherlands, and how their demands for recognition, justice and equal opportunities are voiced in uncivil, yet politically meaningful ways. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480958
- ISBN
- 9781137480958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Community Resilience, Universities and Engaged Research for Today's Wo...
. Ed(S): Madsen, Wendy; Costigan, Lynette; Mc...
Hardback. The increasing development of partnerships between universities and communities allows the research of academics to become engaged with those around them. This book highlights several case studies from a range of disciplines, such as psychology, social work and education to explore how these mutually beneficial relationships function. Editor(s): Madsen, Wendy; Costigan, Lynette; McNicol, Sarah; Turner, Roland. Num Pages: 111 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481047
- ISBN
- 9781137481047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90