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Paperback. The first scholarly collection devoted to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show, " dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; AS; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349377138
- ISBN
- 9781349377138
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Condition: New
€ 63.32
€ 63.32
Paperback. This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JHM; JHMC; PNN; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349380466
- ISBN
- 9781349380466
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Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
Paperback. Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons. It explores the previously under-researched perspectives of prison staff and prisoners on their lives and relationships. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMC; JKV; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349492749
- ISBN
- 9781349492749
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Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Paperback. Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JHB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495023
- ISBN
- 9781349495023
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Condition: New
€ 121.55
€ 121.55
Paperback. In Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park, Gurcan and Peker explore the events of May 31, 2013, when what began as a localized demonstration against the demolition of Gezi Park, a public park in Istanbul turned into a nationwide protest cycle with an unprecedented form and scale never before seen in Turkey's history." Series: Social Movements and Transformation. Num Pages: 211 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JHB; JHBL; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349500376
- ISBN
- 9781349500376
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Condition: New
€ 62.80
€ 62.80
Paperback. Editor(s): Beyen, Marnix; Deseure, Brecht. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBL; HBTB; JHB; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349500475
- ISBN
- 9781349500475
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Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; RGB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349501458
- ISBN
- 9781349501458
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Condition: New
€ 62.63
€ 62.63
Paperback. 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: JHB; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349502738
- ISBN
- 9781349502738
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Condition: New
€ 63.73
€ 63.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349516872
- ISBN
- 9781349516872
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Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Paperback. In the response to the crisis over representing experience, this book offers a new concept of experience, one suitable for social and cultural researchers who are trying to intervene in the socio-political conditions of today. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBC; JMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349518005
- ISBN
- 9781349518005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.06
€ 121.06
Paperback. Drawing on ethno-anthropological fieldwork, this book considers issues of identity and belonging in Europe from a consciously emic perspective. The book explores issuessuch asborders, migration, economic organization, heritage, and the politics and practice of developing cultural understanding." Num Pages: 236 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JHM; JHMC; RBG; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349520602
- ISBN
- 9781349520602
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Condition: New
€ 122.12
€ 122.12
Paperback. Marxism After Modernity is concerned with the ways in which Marxist theory has responded to the major social, economic and technological transformations of capitalism which have occurred in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; JFC; JHB; JHBA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349520640
- ISBN
- 9781349520640
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Condition: New
€ 63.18
€ 63.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 145 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 145
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349521944
- ISBN
- 9781349521944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.57
€ 120.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JHBL; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349523863
- ISBN
- 9781349523863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.97
€ 120.97
Paperback. An examination of what it means for various groups of Chinese to claim their "Chineseness." Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; DSA; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349532902
- ISBN
- 9781349532902
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Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
Paperback. A study of localism in policing in the U.S. in relation to national and international developments. Editor(s): McGoldrick, Sean; McArdle, Andrea. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBA; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533138
- ISBN
- 9781349533138
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Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
paperback. This collection addresses the politics of queer representation in multiple contexts. Articles cover the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness alongside work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities; a transgender Israeli pop star; and film mimicry in Kerala, India. Num Pages: 275 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535590
- ISBN
- 9781349535590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
Paperback. Japanese leaders and often the media too have substituted symbols for strategy in dealing with Asia. This comprehensive review of four periods over twenty years exposes the strategic gap in viewing individually and collectively China, Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, Russia, Central Asia, and regionalism. Editor(s): Togo, K.; Ferguson, J. Series: Strategic Thought in Northeast Asia. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536177
- ISBN
- 9781349536177
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Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
Paperback. This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJH; JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536726
- ISBN
- 9781349536726
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Condition: New
€ 63.67
€ 63.67
Paperback. White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black. Num Pages: 213 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349539369
- ISBN
- 9781349539369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.69
€ 37.69
Paperback. Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349543687
- ISBN
- 9781349543687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.47
€ 121.47
Paperback. Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork, providing an in-depth analysis of the daily life of superintendents in the lower Harlem area in New York City. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349562411
- ISBN
- 9781349562411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Cox, Pat; Kershaw, S.; Trotter, J. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHB; JHBK; JKSN; JKV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2000
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349655250
- ISBN
- 9781349655250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; GTF; JFF; JHB; JPQB; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349686360
- ISBN
- 9781349686360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43