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Hardcover. A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public debates on Romanian migrants and the Roma minority in Italy and Spain. Series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JHMC; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433916
- ISBN
- 9781137433916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardback. In Psychosocial aspects of niqab wearing Nina Bosankic explores the various motives which lead young women living in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina to adopt the niqab (full face veil). She uses a grounded theory approach to examine this decision which is often viewed as controversial from both within and outside Islam. Num Pages: 118 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHBT; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431608
- ISBN
- 9781137431608
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Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Hardback. How are ethnographic knowledge and anthropological theory created out of field experiences? Spanning Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, and Scotland, and Ireland, Stewart and Strathern show how fieldwork in apparently different areas can lead to unexpected comparisons and discoveries of similarities in human cross-cultural patterns of behavior. Num Pages: 107 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 107
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430977
- ISBN
- 9781137430977
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Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 302 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JHBC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430762
- ISBN
- 9781137430762
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Condition: New
€ 117.03
€ 117.03
hardcover. This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory in Hispanic America. It shows that theories need active involvement from scholars in the receiving field in order to travel. Num Pages: 137 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 137
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430021
- ISBN
- 9781137430021
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Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardcover. Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429698
- ISBN
- 9781137429698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Inglis explores the meanings of life as told by one-hundred ordinary people living around Ireland. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFC; JFFM; JFS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429124
- ISBN
- 9781137429124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardback. This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres. Editor(s): Casey, Emma; Taylor, Yvette. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 247 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFFT; JHBK; KCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429070
- ISBN
- 9781137429070
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Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. When addressed in its full reactive potential, gender has a tendency to unfix the reassuring certainties of education and academia. Gender pedagogy unfolds as an account of teaching gender learning that is rooted in Derrida's concept of the 'trace', reflecting the unfixing properties of gender and even shaking up academic knowledge production. Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Num Pages: 153 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JHBA; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428486
- ISBN
- 9781137428486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.13
€ 77.13
Paperback. 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 institutionalisation and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalisation. Editor(s): Berger, Stefan. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428127
- ISBN
- 9781137428127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization
. Ed(S): Lang, Thilo; Henn, Sebastian; Sgibne...
Hardback. This book presents a multifaceted perspective on regional development and corresponding processes of adaptation and response, focusing on the concepts of polarization and peripheralization. It discusses theoretical and empirical foundations and presents several compelling case studies from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Lang, Thilo; Henn, Sebastian; Sgibnev, Wladimir; Ehrlich, Kornelia. Series: New Geographies of Europe. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JFFJ; JHBD; RGC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415073
- ISBN
- 9781137415073
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Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how transcultural practices can enhance the use and maintenance of indigenous and minority languages. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; CFB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412423
- ISBN
- 9781137412423
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Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Hardback. Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schonberg, Germany. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FMP; JFFN; JFSJ; JHBL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410436
- ISBN
- 9781137410436
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Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with interactions among meaning, embodiment, and subjectivity. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRKT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409591
- ISBN
- 9781137409591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.34
€ 127.34
Hardback. Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.S. military's effort to account for culture and increase its cultural capacity over the last decade. Contributors to this work consider some of the key challenges, lessons learned, and the limits of such efforts. Editor(s): Albro, Robert; Ivey, Bill. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPS; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409416
- ISBN
- 9781137409416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Transforming Culture: Creating and Sustaining Effective Organizations
Briody, Elizabeth K., Trotter, Robert T., Mee...
Paperback. Transforming Culture offers a discussion and exploration of American work culture that can serve as a guide for organizational-culture change through the description and explanation of a model for change used at GM. The book describes the model, discusses culture-change tools that were derived from it and descriptions of how the tools work. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; KJT; KJU; KND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408198
- ISBN
- 9781137408198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Hardback. By taking on a long-term perspective, a large geographical scope and moving beyond the homogeneous treatment of single people, this book fleshes out the particularities of urban singles and allows for a better understanding of the attitudes and values underlying this lifestyle in the European past. Editor(s): de Groot, Julie; Devos, Isabelle; Schmidt, Ariadne. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3J; HBJD; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406392
- ISBN
- 9781137406392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.58
€ 116.58
Hardback. Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a range of issues from social media and file-sharing to romance on the Internet, this book presents new theoretical directions for digital leisure. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHBS; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405869
- ISBN
- 9781137405869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions of commerciality and sporting identity, tackling the sport's controversial handling of the shift into 'the commercial age'. It is essential reading on combining sporting heritage and commercial progress. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; KNSP; WSB; WSPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405432
- ISBN
- 9781137405432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. "Soft" Counterinsurgency reviews the promises and achievements of Human Terrain Teams, the small groups of social scientists that were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan. Num Pages: 118 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; HBWS5; JHBC; JWA; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404800
- ISBN
- 9781137404800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94