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Hardback. This ambitious book considers social scientific topics such as identity, community, sexual difference, self, and ecology from a microbial perspective. Harnessing research and evidence from earth systems science and microbiology, and particularly focusing on symbiosis and symbiogenesis, the book argues for the development of a microontology of life. Num Pages: 214 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202139
- ISBN
- 9780230202139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, youth gangs, prostitutes, hoods, and hustlers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 317
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202023
- ISBN
- 9780230202023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Hardback. Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHBK; KJWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201590
- ISBN
- 9780230201590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardback. Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility towards the United States is a predominant feature. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120822
- ISBN
- 9780230120822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFCA; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120594
- ISBN
- 9780230120594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. This book explores the regulation of intimate relationships today. Using historical and contemporary legal-political sources, the author investigates the changing meanings and effects of conjugality. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; LAM; LNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120051
- ISBN
- 9780230120051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardback. By placing the social dimension of labour at the base of the discourse of life, this book engages with the work of key intellectual figures and reconstructs a critical genealogy of the notion of biopolitics from the point of view of twentieth and twenty-first century Italy. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHB; JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115033
- ISBN
- 9780230115033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Hardback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JHB; JNB; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114166
- ISBN
- 9780230114166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 47.17
€ 52.70
€ 47.17
Hardcover. Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112575
- ISBN
- 9780230112575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardback. Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure. Editor(s): Norton, Matthew. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111714
- ISBN
- 9780230111714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardback. This study maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Sean Heuston combines interdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, with close reading, and in so doing argues provocatively for the intersection of modern poetry studies and contemporary ethnographic theory. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111677
- ISBN
- 9780230111677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardback. This volume analyzes intergenerational solidarity from diverse interdisciplinary angles within the social sciences. It provides analytical tools to advance research and documents how societies are adjusting to major changes that affect the core of the social fabric. Editor(s): Cruz-Saco, Maria Amparo; Zelenev, Sergei. Num Pages: 243 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110748
- ISBN
- 9780230110748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.61
€ 127.61
Hardback. This book combines fine-grained ethnography with conceptual and analytical work to examine Islamic discourses and practices and their articulation within mass media. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HRH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109827
- ISBN
- 9780230109827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardback. This book analyzes the main competing grand theories in the social sciences, including developmentalism, dependency analysis, Marxism, institutionalism, rational choice, Freudianism, environmentalism, sociobiology, neurosciences, and transitions to democracy. Editor(s): Wiarda, Howard J. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103924
- ISBN
- 9780230103924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardback. In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100299
- ISBN
- 9780230100299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardback. In a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the relationship between sociology and cultural studies, Gregor McLennan lucidly guides us from central philosophical questions in the social sciences to new interpretations of such urgent contemporary questions as Eurocentrism, multiculturalism, and reflexivity. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008854
- ISBN
- 9780230008854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.57
€ 127.57
Hardback. This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalization. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008021
- ISBN
- 9780230008021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardback. Memory, Trauma and World Politics focuses on the effect that the memory of traumatic episodes (especially war and genocide) has on shaping contemporary political identities. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book is an incisive treatment of the ways in which the study of social memory can inform global politics analysis. Editor(s): Bell, Duncan S. A. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006560
- ISBN
- 9780230006560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardback. Exploring the globalization of reproductive labour, this book expands a traditional focus on domestic workers and presents an important analysis of the international migration of professional nurses and religious care workers. The study covers a range of countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBL; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230005341
- ISBN
- 9780230005341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.23
€ 150.23
Hardback. The Ethics of Territorial Borders develops a distinctive line of argument, drawing on political theory and geography as well as international relations. Unusually, this book argues for the ethical significance of borders themselves, pointing to their role in human diversity and the enduring appeal of territorial division. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; JPA; JPS; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002524
- ISBN
- 9780230002524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Hardback. Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to alleviate pressing social ills too often derail, and how effective, efficient and broadly acceptable solutions to social problems can be found. Editor(s): Verweij, Marco; Thompson, Michael. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002302
- ISBN
- 9780230002302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardback. From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology studies and political science. It examines 'evidence', regulation and governance processes, and diverse stakeholders in innovating the technologies that shape health care. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; MBG; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001718
- ISBN
- 9780230001718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardback. This book examines how young people understand and live politics, using innovative research methods. It treats age, class, gender and ethnicity as political 'lived experiences'. It concludes that young people are alienated, rather than apathetic, and that their interests and concerns are rarely addressed within mainstream political institutions. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSP2; JHMC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001312
- ISBN
- 9780230001312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415604437
- ISBN
- 9780415604437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.95
€ 71.95