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Hardcover. Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and policy emerge from Victorian cultural attitudes. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374226
- ISBN
- 9781137374226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
paperback. Analysis that links the phenomenon of homelessness to wider debates about the changing social and economic environment remains relatively underdeveloped. This important book brings together contemporary debates and empirical research in order to explore the nature, experience and impact of social change in the context of risks and uncertainties. Num Pages: 316 pages, 2ill.17tabs. BIC Classification: JFFB; JFSC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 148. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9781861341501
- ISBN
- 9781861341501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.78
€ 38.99
€ 37.78
Hardcover. Editor(s): Kutais, B. G. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: GBCR; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560727019
- ISBN
- 9781560727019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.60€ 103.54
€ 136.60
€ 103.54
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190261092
- ISBN
- 9780190261092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
paperback. This text provides an overview of types of home-based work, arguing that homeworking replicates wider divisions in the labour force. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages, the pay and conditions, and the family situations for women homeworkers. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803988743
- ISBN
- 9780803988743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.79
€ 75.79
Paperback. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; JHMP; PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 111 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141018133
- ISBN
- 9780141018133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This book explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that shapes the twenty-first century - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 489.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784703936
- ISBN
- 9781784703936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.59
€ 15.99
€ 12.59
Paperback. Translator(s): Sainsbury, M. Series: Nature of Human Society. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226169637
- ISBN
- 9780226169637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.42
€ 48.99
€ 38.42
Paperback. A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday life. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786630605
- ISBN
- 9781786630605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.25
€ 21.99
€ 19.25
Paperback. Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This study examines this question. Translator(s): Bing, Peter. Num Pages: 360 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518. The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. 360 pages, Ill. Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This study examines this question. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JHM. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 23. Weight: 510. Translator(s): Bing, Peter.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520058750
- ISBN
- 9780520058750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.99
€ 41.99
€ 29.99
Hardcover. Revealing seven errors in the way we view the human species, this volume explores the homo novus -- an alternative view of what it is to be human. Leaders in the field present and discuss converging evidence supporting the homo novus, from various disciplines. Editor(s): Frey, Ulrich; Stormer, Charlotte; Willfuhr, Kai. Series: The Frontiers Collection. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; JHM; JMR; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642121418
- ISBN
- 9783642121418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.70
€ 84.70
Hardcover. This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in which Muslim homophobia contributes to this dialectic. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSK; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002952
- ISBN
- 9781137002952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; A; JFC; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816629251
- ISBN
- 9780816629251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.43
€ 29.43
Paperback. This text analyzes the notion of "honour". Drawing on information about Western ideas of honour from diverse sources and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society - the Bedouin - the author argues that honour must be understood as a right, basically a right to respect. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226774084
- ISBN
- 9780226774084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.88
€ 31.99
€ 24.88
Paperback. This book examines violence against women in the name of honor in Iraqi Kurdistan, taking an intersectional perspective. It reveals the links between destructive, state-sanctioned honor discourse and notions of manhood as they are shaped by a resistance culture dedicated to the struggle against ethnic oppression. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JKV; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349474370
- ISBN
- 9781349474370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.34
€ 126.34
Paperback. Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal order. The book examines the roots and evolution of honor-based violence, as well as the ongoing struggle to eradicate it worldwide. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JKV; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342280
- ISBN
- 9781349342280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Series: Religion and American Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 22 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRK; HRLP1; JF; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231145022
- ISBN
- 9780231145022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.88€ 86.64
€ 111.88
€ 86.64
Hardback. This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. Num Pages: 300 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1; JHMC; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785330810
- ISBN
- 9781785330810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.09
€ 163.09
Paperback. The first book to understand the new sexual culture on its own terms, with vivid real-life stories of young men and women as they navigate the newest sexual revolution Num Pages: 225 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBK5; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 225
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814799697
- ISBN
- 9780814799697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Using newspapers, municipal documents, government investigations, organizational records, oral histories, and photographic evidence, this book relates the experience of working-class women - as community members, activists, pleasure seekers, and consumers of social services - to the process of urban development. Num Pages: 328 pages, 23 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820327723
- ISBN
- 9780820327723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.64
€ 46.64
Paperback. This book explores the role of horizontal inequalities--inequalities that exist between ethnic, religious or racial groups--as a source of violent conflict. Editor(s): Stewart, F. Series: Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JHB; JPS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349354627
- ISBN
- 9781349354627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785920318
- ISBN
- 9781785920318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.40
€ 29.40
Paperback. "Horse of Karbala" is a study of Muharram rituals and interfaith relations in three locations in India: Ladakh, Darjeeling, and Hyderabad." Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRAC; HRH; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349619825
- ISBN
- 9781349619825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. "Hosay Trinidad contributes substantially to the anthropology of contemporary identity politics as well as to the study of 'boundaries' which has come to play a key role in important new lines of scholarship across the social sciences."-Anthropos Num Pages: 320 pages, 31 illus. BIC Classification: 1KJW; GT; JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218251
- ISBN
- 9780812218251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99