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Paperback. Addresses the alienation of practitioners from positivist and quantitative research showing how research can be compatible with how practitioners collect and understand data. The book draws on research approaches that take account of subjectivity and employ participative methods. Series: Practical Social Work Series. Num Pages: 157 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBC; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 225.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 157
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1992nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333544341
- ISBN
- 9780333544341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.62
€ 50.62
Hardcover. A unique, accessible and enlightening analysis of the massive effects of the global demographic rollercoaster and what it will mean for the world economy, ageing societies, baby-boomers and their families and jobs, investments and business, and the economic power map of the world. Num Pages: 348 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470822913
- ISBN
- 9780470822913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.92
€ 35.99
€ 28.92
Paperback. The critically acclaimed account of Caitlin Doughty's first year working on the funerary frontlines Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DN; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782111054
- ISBN
- 9781782111054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.58
€ 14.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 452 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 452
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226000695
- ISBN
- 9780226000695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.19
€ 50.19
Paperback. Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Series: Polity Conversations Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745653815
- ISBN
- 9780745653815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.02
€ 24.02
Paperback. A compelling clarion call for a cultural shift that will enable us all to live more balanced lives Shortlisted for the FT McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015 Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBK; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780748702
- ISBN
- 9781780748702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.09
€ 17.99
€ 14.09
Hardback. Investigates the interactional procedures used by children and young people as disputes arise in varying contexts of their everyday life. This book offers an ethnomethodological focus that bring a fine-grained analysis and understanding to disputes and related interactional matters. Editor(s): Danby, Susan; Theobald, Maryanne. Series Editor(s): Bass, Loretta. Series: Sociological Studies of Children & Youth. Num Pages: 565 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 323 x 38. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 565
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780528762
- ISBN
- 9781780528762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.78
€ 185.78
Hardback. This volume seeks to directly address the problems and pitfalls that often accompany researching children and youth in today's society. This volume addresses participatory and feminist ethnographic approaches, digital mining, children's agency, and navigating IRBs. Themes of space, location, and identity run throughout this volume. Editor(s): Castro, Ingrid E.; Swauger, Melissa L.; Harger, Brent. Series: Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781787140998
- ISBN
- 9781787140998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.53€ 72.46
€ 113.53
€ 72.46
Hardback. Challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labour, is inherently a social and political good Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBL; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350965
- ISBN
- 9780822350965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.92
€ 119.92
Paperback. Charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of 'diaspora'. This book provides introductions to selected key diasporas - from the Russian-Jewish diaspora to the Iranian diaspora in the West. Editor(s): Knott, Kim; McLoughlin, Sean. Num Pages: 294 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JHB; RGC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842779484
- ISBN
- 9781842779484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.93
€ 51.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBTK; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 286 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Levellers Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Paperback edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937146955
- ISBN
- 9781937146955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.53
€ 20.99
€ 19.53
Paperback. Suitable for the advanced undergraduate who gropes for her sense of society, and for the graduate student who must develop his own analytical skills, this title looks at social action, religion, law, bureaucracy, charisma, the city, and the political community. Editor(s): Roth, Guenther; Wittich, Claus. Num Pages: 1712 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 122. Weight in Grams: 2544.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1475
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520280021
- ISBN
- 9780520280021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 87.79€ 69.86
€ 87.79
€ 69.86
Hardback. In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms a 'katastroph of the sensible'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652665
- ISBN
- 9780745652665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Paperback. This study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; GTB; JHBD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618156
- ISBN
- 9780748618156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.90
€ 42.99
€ 38.90
Paperback. An explanation of what happens to us when we die. The author, a surgeon with more than 30 years' experience, describes in detail the processes which take place in the body and sets out to strip away many illusions about death. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ; PD; PSX; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099476412
- ISBN
- 9780099476412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways. With Latinos recently surpassing African Americans as the largest minority group in the US, attention has been focused on the important implications of immigration for the character and role of race in US life, including patterns of racial inequality and racial identity. Series: Immigration and Society. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745647920
- ISBN
- 9780745647920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.50
€ 23.50
Paperback. What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States? This book recounts the stories of children and parents in eighty-one families to show what happens when a restrictive immigration system emphasizes deportation over legalization. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283404
- ISBN
- 9780520283404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.00
€ 33.99
€ 25.00
Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRE; JFSJ1; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 295 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804799546
- ISBN
- 9780804799546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.97
€ 86.97
Paperback. Praise for the First Edition : "The book makes a valuable contribution by synthesizing current research and identifying areas for future investigation for each aspect of the survey process. " - Journal of the American Statistical Association "Overall, the high quality of the text material is matched by the quality of writing.. Series: Wiley Series in Survey Methodology. Num Pages: 488 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 26. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 488
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470465462
- ISBN
- 9780470465462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.98
€ 123.98
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415522366
- ISBN
- 9780415522366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.04
€ 54.04
Paperback. Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFS; JHB; KCL; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662596
- ISBN
- 9780745662596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.98
€ 23.98
Paperback. Here, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermasa s long--awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative Action. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- Volume 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745603865
- ISBN
- 9780745603865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.60
€ 27.60
Paperback. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Num Pages: 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1002. The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight: 1006.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520075375
- ISBN
- 9780520075375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 32.12
€ 43.99
€ 32.12
Paperback. Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences. This book is an accessible introduction to understanding these challenges and helping children and their families to develop a shared language and understanding of one another. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843102588
- ISBN
- 9781843102588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.98
€ 34.98