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Hardcover. This book explores the processes of community, regeneration, relationality and affect in a small Welsh town after the closure of its iron and steel works - an industry at the heart of this community. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; JFSF; JFSJ; JHBL; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230247062
- ISBN
- 9780230247062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; media representations of human-animal relations; and the relation between animals and national identity. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFZ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230246591
- ISBN
- 9780230246591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. This book surveys central issues and paradigms in contemporary political sociology, urging a recommitment to certain concepts and traditions for guidance in thinking and acting in the world. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBA; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230246102
- ISBN
- 9780230246102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. This book examines the life stories of a diverse sample of gay men from nine major international cities. Through their relationship stories, old established patterns of gay life are compared with new, emerging patterns of fatherhood, friendship and parenting. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK2; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230244122
- ISBN
- 9780230244122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. The past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices of the activists themselves and capturing the relationship between work, social identity and class consciousness. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSV; JHBL; JPW; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230244115
- ISBN
- 9780230244115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Hardcover. University rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book is the first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, making an important contribution to our understanding of the rankings phenomenon. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBC; JNF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243248
- ISBN
- 9780230243248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic movement, charting both its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; JPSD; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241060
- ISBN
- 9780230241060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.33
€ 128.33
Hardcover. What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHBA; JPA; TB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362. 224 pages, Illustrations. What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHBA; JPA; TB. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241022
- ISBN
- 9780230241022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. A discussion of the case study method which develops an integrative framework for causal inference in small-n research. This framework is applied to research design tasks such as case selection and process tracing. The book presents the basics, state-of-the-art and arguments for improving the case study method and empirical small-n research. Series: ECPR Research Methods. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230240704
- ISBN
- 9780230240704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.01
€ 161.01
Paperback. Addressing the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should be regulated, this book explores the history of age of consent laws in the UK and provides a global comparative survey of age of consent laws and relevant international human rights law. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBK5; JKSB1; JMU; VFVC; VFVG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237186
- ISBN
- 9780230237186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.25
€ 127.25
Hardcover. Japan is often described as an inclusive society, and yet the media reports record highs in crime and suicide figures. This book examines criminal justice in Japan, and questions whether Japan really is facing social malaise, or if the media are simply creating a 'moral panic'. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JHB; JKS; JKVC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230235540
- ISBN
- 9780230235540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. The new edition of Doing Time brings this widely recognized book up-to-date and provides an accessible and informed discussion of current debates around prisons and penal policy. Drawing on a range of international material the book provides a critical sociological analysis of developments in imprisonment. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKVP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230235519
- ISBN
- 9780230235519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen to offer an original sociological approach to television and its contribution to moral culture of late modern societies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFDT; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234819
- ISBN
- 9780230234819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardcover. Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231948
- ISBN
- 9780230231948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Paperback. Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231634
- ISBN
- 9780230231634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPFQ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230835
- ISBN
- 9780230230835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Immigrants, Literature and National Integration explores new means of facilitating integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, and examining the relation between immigrant literature and integration, this book explores integration in an interdisciplinary fashion across both the humanities and social sciences. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230453
- ISBN
- 9780230230453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230286
- ISBN
- 9780230230286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. This book provides a guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture. Developing an approach based on the '7 Ps' of research, this text navigates a pathway through the research process that will be invaluable as a teaching tool and to experienced and inexperienced researchers alike. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230231
- ISBN
- 9780230230231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, contains readings of international postmodern dances, exploring the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity and reading dances 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual, able-bodied, male norm. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JHBA; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229792
- ISBN
- 9780230229792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. Exploring the changes in Japanese workplaces such as restructuring, incentive principles and the increasing use of contingent workers from the perspective of employees, this title provides new insights into the mindsets of the workers by contrasting survey and theoretical sources with excerpts from blogs published by Japanese people. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229389
- ISBN
- 9780230229389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Hardcover. This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. It argues that the development of 'ethnic economies' provides the material basis for alternative models of social integration, such as multiculturalism 'from below', which are critical of mainstream assimilationist thinking. Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JFSL; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424. Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. 256 pages, 26 black & white tables. This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. It argues that the development of 'ethnic economies' provides the material basis for alternative models of social integration, such as multiculturalism 'from below', which are critical of mainstream assimilationist thinking. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JFSL; JHBL. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229341
- ISBN
- 9780230229341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardcover. In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBS; WSJF1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229310
- ISBN
- 9780230229310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This book sets out a fresh interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, it applies a fresh framework to a range of contemporary inequalities. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFJ; JHBA; JPA; JPF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230227170
- ISBN
- 9780230227170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.54
€ 161.54