Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Paperback. Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341061
- ISBN
- 9781349341061
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€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBTD; HBTQ; JFC; JHM; RGL. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340989
- ISBN
- 9781349340989
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€ 62.82
€ 62.82
paperback. Posits that dreams are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models and offer unique insight into cultural psychologies. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; JHMC; JMAF; JMB; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349340873
- ISBN
- 9781349340873
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Since the 1970s the public commitment to social solidarity between citizens through comprehensive provision of welfare has been eroded by the imperatives of international markets. In this volume the problems posed to public intervention are analyzed. The contributors compare and evaluate how different countries have dealt with these challenges. Editor(s): Connelly, James; Hayward, J. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKS; JPA; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340750
- ISBN
- 9781349340750
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€ 61.61
€ 61.61
Paperback. Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in these two periods, exemplifying the emergence of the multiple normalities and the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340637
- ISBN
- 9781349340637
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€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Paperback. This book challenges the popular view that established ideologies no longer make sense in today's globalizing world. Considered from a broad historical perspective, major ideological traditions have not become destabilized and incoherent by globalization, but remain meaningful political beliefs that shape the globalization debate. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JPA; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340613
- ISBN
- 9781349340613
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics The Methods of Ethics . With a rather shocking conclusion that 'none of us can match Sidgwick', Mariko Nakano-Okuno lucidly analyzes Henry Sidgwick's impacts on contemporary ethics." Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; HRAB; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340491
- ISBN
- 9781349340491
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JKV; JP; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 325.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340477
- ISBN
- 9781349340477
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€ 118.15
€ 118.15
Childbearing, Women's Employment and Work-Life Balance Policies in Con...
Fratczak, Ewa. Ed(S): Olah, Livia Sz.
Paperback. This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities. Editor(s): Olah, Livia Sz. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JHBL; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340279
- ISBN
- 9781349340279
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€ 61.51
€ 61.51
Paperback. Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging pushes debates about citizenship and feminist politics in new directions, challenging us to think 'beyond citizenship', and to engage in feminist re-theorizations of the experience and politics of belonging. Editor(s): Roseneil, Sasha. Series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFS; JFSJ; JHB; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340255
- ISBN
- 9781349340255
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€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Paperback. Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSP; JFSR; JHBK; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340231
- ISBN
- 9781349340231
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€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Paperback. This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia, examining the nature of disciplines and their specialties and posing sociological questions about the formation of intellectual fields and their social relations. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JHBC; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340217
- ISBN
- 9781349340217
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. "Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property"-- Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JFCX; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340194
- ISBN
- 9781349340194
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€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; JFD; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339952
- ISBN
- 9781349339952
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€ 149.13
€ 149.13
Paperback. Michal Nahman traces different kinds of 'extraction': the practices of human egg harvesting in different national contexts; the political economic consequences of such extraction for the women involved and the ways in which this has consequences for nationalism and race or 'Israeli extraction'. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HPQ; JFFN; JFSJ; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339877
- ISBN
- 9781349339877
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€ 61.44
€ 61.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Oxford Department of International Development; Bourdillon, Michael; Boyden, Jo. Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Num Pages: 350 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFF; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 493.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339822
- ISBN
- 9781349339822
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€ 119.43
€ 119.43
Paperback. This volumehighlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises.It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates." Series: Gender, Development and Social Change. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSJ; JHB; JPA; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339754
- ISBN
- 9781349339754
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€ 62.54
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Paperback. What comes next for a former leader in a democracy - a Prime Minister or President obliged to leave office because they have lost an election, come to the end of their constitutionally-fixed term, lost the backing of their party, or chosen to leave? This book analyses the role and political influence of former leaders in Western democratic states. Editor(s): Theakston, Kevin; Vries, J.De; De Vries, Jouke. Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPB; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339716
- ISBN
- 9781349339716
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€ 62.54
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Paperback. "This book argues that it is the fluidity of women's identities that enables them to bridge the gender divides and roles ascribed to them by society and culture with those that they have chosen for themselves whilst retaining a sense of their self"-- Editor(s): Afshar, Haleh. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JFSJ; JFSL; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339501
- ISBN
- 9781349339501
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
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Paperback. In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that century and why some considered themselves part of the new national self-image. Editor(s): Storm, H. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JHM; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339402
- ISBN
- 9781349339402
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54