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Paperback. A fascinating history of sex and relationships. Breach of Promise was an archaic legal action brought about by a jilted lover (male or female) when their former intended broke off their engagement. This is the first ever non-academic book on the topic and reveals a fascinating romantic and legal underworld from the 1790s - 1960s. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783030361
ISBN
9781783030361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.11

Hardback. A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety. Series Editor(s): Lawler, Peter; Guittet, Emmanuel-Pierre. Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Num Pages: 208 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JHB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784993139
ISBN
9781784993139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.48

Hardback. The authors examine tensions within the Poplars housing development in Paris less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before. Translator(s): Rogers, Juliette. Series: Anthropology of Europe. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFSL1; JHB; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 288 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332289
ISBN
9781785332289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.88

Hardback. This compelling study is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 10 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DS; JFSJ; JFSK; JHBK; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845451127
ISBN
9781845451127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.60

Hardcover. Offers a study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America. This book looks at the career of physician Alexis Carrel, as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: JHBD; PSAK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845451721
ISBN
9781845451721
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.37

Hardback. Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in relevant contexts, this volume raises the issue of the rehabilitation of vision and contextualizes vision in the contemporary debate on the construction of local knowledge versus the hegemony of the socio-technical network. It gives practical examples that are useful to undergraduate students. Editor(s): Grasseni, Cristina. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 42 ills, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845452100
ISBN
9781845452100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.77

Hardback. Focusing on organization, resistance and political culture, this collection covers topics ranging from socialism to anarchism, from the formation of the liberal state in the 19th century to the Civil War, and from women in the work place to the fate of the unions under Franco. Editor(s): Piqueras, Jose A.; Sanz Rozalen, Vicent. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBTB; JHBL; KCF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845452964
ISBN
9781845452964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.66

Hardback. Follows the daily lives of rural women in the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, where maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive, from a range of castes and communities. This book develops an approach to access to care that focuses on various aspects. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHBF; JHBZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845453107
ISBN
9781845453107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.82

Hardcover. Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. This book shows that research on apprenticeship and learning on the shop floor is associated with migration patterns, family economy and household strategies, gender perspectives, urban identities and general educational and pedagogical contexts. Editor(s): Munck, Professor Bert de; Kaplan, Steven Laurence; Soly, Hugo. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 figs, 14 tables, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: HBTK; JHBL; JNRV; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845453411
ISBN
9781845453411
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.17

Hardback. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death: the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, which by the turn of the century had affected every aspect of sociality and pervaded villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 444 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; JHB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845454814
ISBN
9781845454814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.09

Hardback. Economic sociology is a vibrant area of research investigating how social structures, power allocations and cultural understandings shape the production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. This title intends to apply the economic sociology perspective to issues of work broadly defined. Series: Research in the Sociology of Work. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHBL; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 40. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848553682
ISBN
9781848553682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 219.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, 49 b/w & 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: AVC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837625684
ISBN
9783837625684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 58 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 115 x 6. Weight in Grams: 70.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Aarhus University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9788771243536
ISBN
9788771243536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.87

hardcover. She combines one-on-one interviews with detailed observations of how song provides a window into Amish cultural beliefs, values, and norms. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages, 48, 47 black & white line drawings, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HRCR; JFSR; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781421414652
ISBN
9781421414652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.35

Hardback. In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509506309
ISBN
9781509506309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.03

Paperback. People have begun to expect more from their jobs than Dilbertesque monotony. Bringing Your Soul to Work links ideas about the soul directly to the realities of the workplace, offering a path for growth and positive change in sync with the job a person already has. Num Pages: 260 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJU; KJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 93 x 61 x 6. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781576751114
ISBN
9781576751114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.19

Paperback. Editor(s): Craig, Cheryl J.; Deretchin, Louise F. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 460 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBC; JNKH; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578867172
ISBN
9781578867172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 88.31

Hardback. Examines client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. This title concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers. Series: Religion and Politics Series. Num Pages: 242 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLM; JHBL; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589011113
ISBN
9781589011113
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.61

Paperback. The Charitable Choice provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act - buttressed by President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative of 2000 - encouraged religious organizations, including congregations, to bid on government contracts to provide social services. This title looks at the evidence for and against faith-based initiatives. Series: Public Management and Change Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRLM; JHBL; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589011328
ISBN
9781589011328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.66

Hardback. Series: Military Life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Government Institutes Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781605907000
ISBN
9781605907000
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.44

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