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Paperback. This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With multicultural incorporation as an option, the authors explore the potential impact of the politics of identity in societies with social democratic welfare states committed to redistributive politics. Editor(s): Kivisto, P.; Wahlbeck, Osten. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JKS; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
373
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349347698
ISBN
9781349347698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Paperback. This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis.It develops both theoretical and conceptual arguments around the obesity debate, as well as taking a more practical focus in terms of implications for the health professions to outline an agenda for a 'critical weight studies'." Editor(s): Rich, E.; Aphramor, Lucy. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JN; JPQB; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349308248
ISBN
9781349308248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Focusing on the legal ramifications of Sharia law in the context of rapidly changing Western liberal democracies, Debating Sharia approaches the issue from a variety of methodological perspectives. Editor(s): Korteweg, Anna; Selby, Jennifer. Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JHBK; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. .
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442642621
ISBN
9781442642621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.61

Hardcover. It is an institution that seems almost hopelessly out of date, a social relic of bygone times. The very word "debutante" evokes images of prim, poised beauty, expensive gowns, and sumptuous balls, all of which seem anachronistic in these post-women's liberation times. This work reveals, debdom in America is alive and well and ever evolving. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 224 pages, 61 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700613175
ISBN
9780700613175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.48

Hardback. Social theory and research has long faced the limitations of its conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new thoughts and empirical studies for transcending those limitations. Editor(s): Go, Julian. Series: Political Power and Social Theory. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Number of pages
300
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
New ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781907269
ISBN
9781781907269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.00

Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies. Num Pages: 46 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 2. Weight in Grams: 97.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400760783
ISBN
9789400760783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.39

Hardback. * A robust examination of the role of citizenship * Provides a critique of Blairite and Thatcherite approaches to public, market and private domains * Argues that the public domain is essential to a civilised society . Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629094
ISBN
9780745629094
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.28

Paperback. Editor(s): Jacobsen, Michael Hviid. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 colour photos. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 174 x 27. Weight in Grams: 724.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776745950
ISBN
9788776745950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Looks into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces. This book explores the role of travel in contemporary lives, from university travel-abroad programs to package tours and family vacations. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759107243
ISBN
9780759107243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.67

Paperback. Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSP; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349348879
ISBN
9781349348879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.72

Paperback. Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. It explores innovative rites for important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Series: Life Passages S. Num Pages: 393 pages, 6 figures, 7 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: HRLF; JFC; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 520. Re-Inventing Rites of Passage. Series: Life Passages S. 393 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 6 line illustrations. Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. It explores innovative rites for important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HRLF; JFC; JHBT; JHMC. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 26. Weight: 552.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
393
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236752
ISBN
9780520236752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.66

hardcover. Alienated and violent children and adolescents, desperate and exhausted parents: the destructive effects of unchecked defiant behaviour are obvious. This book examines defiance as an expression of the child's worry for a malfunctioning family and trace a symbolic experiential approach. Num Pages: 236 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMC; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583910047
ISBN
9781583910047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.43

Num Pages: 320 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; JPW; LAQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801446900
ISBN
9780801446900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.12

Paperback. Covers the history of the USA's role in the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the challenge by the President of the American Political Science Association in 2000, who urged scholars to discover how "well-structured institutions could enable the world to have a new birth of freedom". Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JPRB; LBBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268025519
ISBN
9780268025519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Who are the real parents of a child? What are the relationships and responsibilities between a child, the woman who carried it to term, and the egg donor? This book charts the response of the law to modern reproductive technology as it transforms our image of the family and is itself transformed by the tide of social forces. Num Pages: 287 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; LNDA; LNM; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814719176
ISBN
9780814719176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.67

Paperback. A candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to agonizing rituals of cruelty demonstrated at systemic, transnational, religious, familial, and even sexual spheres of human relations. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JFF; JHB; JHBA; JHM; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349483754
ISBN
9781349483754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

Hardcover. A candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to agonizing rituals of cruelty demonstrated at systemic, transnational, religious, familial, and even sexual spheres of human relations. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFFP; JHBK5; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137393982
ISBN
9781137393982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.85

Paperback. Moving interviews with 100 students at the two institutions highlight how American higher education reinforces the same inequities it has been aiming to transcend. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JHB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405742
ISBN
9781421405742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.19

Hardback. Editor(s): Hofacker, Dirk; Hess, Moritz; Konig, Stefanie. Num Pages: 385 pages, 46 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP31; JHBL; JPQB; KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137566966
ISBN
9781137566966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.88

Hardback. This book contains accessible, thought-provoking essays on the practical and ethical implications of Deleuze's philosophy for various contemporary social issues. Contributions provide practical suggestions for using Deleuze's thought in social research, and offer new insights into the potential of Deleuze's philosophy for social thought and action. Editor(s): Hickey-Moody, Anna; Malins, Peta. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230506923
ISBN
9780230506923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.00

Paperback. Editor(s): Rothe, J. Peter; Carroll, Linda J.; Ozegovic, Dejan. Num Pages: 321 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 177 x 17. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629489131
ISBN
9781629489131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 167.22
€ 115.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK; JHBK5; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 485.
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619020689
ISBN
9781619020689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 9.93

Paperback. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this work shows how aspects of job quality are related, and how changes in the quality of work life stem from technological change and transformations in the politico-economic environment. This book concludes by discussing what individuals, firms, unions, and governments can do to counter declining job quality. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 line illus. 36 tables. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691134413
ISBN
9780691134413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.77
€ 51.34

Hardcover. Tells about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. This title draws on experiences from a set of anthropological experiments that investigated how and whether the human and biological sciences could be brought into a mutually enriching relationship. Num Pages: 136 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226036885
ISBN
9780226036885
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.22
€ 78.69

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