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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Debates the question of whether family preservation or adoption serves the best interests of abused and neglected children. Arguing the merits of keeping families together whenever possible, this title examines the background, theory, and effectiveness of family preservation programs. Series: Controversies in Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JFM; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878407873
- ISBN
- 9780878407873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.50
€ 42.50
The recent reawakening of the debate about migration in the new millennium has evoked intense emotion, particularly in the United States and Europe. Global Crossings cuts through the jungle of myth, falsehood, and misrepresentation that dominates the debate, clarifying the causes and consequences of human migration. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JHB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Independent Institute,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781598131338
- ISBN
- 9781598131338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.81
€ 27.99
€ 26.81
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319297149
- ISBN
- 9783319297149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.39€ 42.16
€ 118.39
€ 42.16
Hardback. Explores the emergence of a credit card market in post-Soviet Russia during the formative period from 1988 to 2007. This book demonstrates how networks that combine individuals and organizations help to build markets for mass consumption. It chronicles both the creation of a credit card market and the making of a mass consumer. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 tables, 13 figures. BIC Classification: JH; KFFL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758383
- ISBN
- 9780804758383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.98
€ 91.98
Hardback. Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health.. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKB; JHBK; MBPK; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444. Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh. 252 pages, 25 ills. Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FKB; JHBK; MBPK; PSXM. Dimension: 162 x 233 x 16. Weight: 444.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857454881
- ISBN
- 9780857454881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.55
€ 151.55
Paperback. Examines the erotic underpinnings of transnational tourism. This title offers insights into the commingling of sex, intimacy, and market forces in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, two nations where tourism has had widespread effects. It reconceptualizes our understandings of informal economies, sex workers, and sexual tourism. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 Halftones. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KJD; JHBK5; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592137503
- ISBN
- 9781592137503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.60
€ 34.99
€ 31.60
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813564579
- ISBN
- 9780813564579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.87
€ 169.87
Hardback. Explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785331794
- ISBN
- 9781785331794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.37
€ 152.37
Paperback. How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? This book analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which theorists understand ideals of critical distance, forms of subjective experience, and the determinants of belief and practice. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 254 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114040
- ISBN
- 9780691114040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.94
€ 46.99
€ 32.94
Paperback. This book captures the excitement and difficulties of self-study of teacher education practices and places it at the forefront of approaches to practitioner inquiry. It presents the issues and ideas underpinning a pedagogy of teacher education in practice. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JNKH; JNU; YQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402087899
- ISBN
- 9781402087899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.46
€ 120.46
Hardback. Series: Hispanic Urban Studies. Num Pages: 54 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JP; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319551906
- ISBN
- 9783319551906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.72
€ 108.72
Hardback. This is the first book to examine the study of sexuality from a demographic perspective. The focus is on analyzing sexuality as its own demographic topic, rather than as a variable in studies of sexually transmitted infection or other health-related topics. Editor(s): Baumle, Amanda K. Series: International Handbooks of Population. Num Pages: 435 pages, 46 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1008.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 435
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400755116
- ISBN
- 9789400755116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 400.11
€ 400.11
Hardcover. Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women lawyers rarely challenge discriminatory behaviour. This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, and by exploring lawyers' use of legal discourse in an Internet community, Baumle examines whether the law can in fact serve as a useful tool to challenge inequality. Num Pages: 207 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ1; JH; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613256
- ISBN
- 9780230613256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349502714
- ISBN
- 9781349502714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
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
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Paperback. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 347 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JPQB; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349334063
- ISBN
- 9781349334063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 maps, Maps|Graphs|Tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JHB; KCN; RNFY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784992743
- ISBN
- 9781784992743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.02
€ 147.02
Hardback. Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life. This book provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition. Series: Information Science and Knowledge Management. Num Pages: 85 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GL; JHM; JNT; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 85
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642114960
- ISBN
- 9783642114960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.84
€ 120.84
Paperback. Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life. This book provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition. Series: Information Science and Knowledge Management. Num Pages: 85 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GL; JHM; JNT; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 5. Weight in Grams: 177.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 85
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642263385
- ISBN
- 9783642263385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Paperback. Series: Language Policy. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CJA; JH; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048160068
- ISBN
- 9789048160068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13