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Hardcover. Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from 'traditional' Chinese values impacts on their child-rearing methods. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; JFSL3; JHBK; JMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026606
- ISBN
- 9781137026606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. This book examines the evolving relationship between the nation-state, citizenship and the education of citizens, exploring the impact European integration had on national policies towards educating its citizens and citizenship. Series: Education, Economy and Society. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSP2; JHB; JNF; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137019561
- ISBN
- 9781137019561
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Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Remembering 9/11 recalls the afterlife of the tragedy and the shock that led many to ask 'why do they hate us so much?' Engaging with the different voices that attempted to make sense of the trauma, Seidler traces the narratives of fear, loss and vulnerability and the ways in which they evolved into feelings of rage and retribution. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017680
- ISBN
- 9781137017680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. By presenting a series of intricate analyses of educational phenomena through the theoretical lenses offered by Immanuel Wallerstein and Istvan Meszaros, the book engages readers and helps them to critically analyze their own participation in the global economy, as citizens, policy-makers, and academics or teachers. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHBA; JNA; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014818
- ISBN
- 9781137014818
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.71
€ 53.37
€ 46.71
Paperback. Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007278
- ISBN
- 9781137007278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardcover. Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate life. It provides a rich and human perspective on how bodies, emotions and connections to others are key in maintaining intimate relationships. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JMF; VFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003867
- ISBN
- 9781137003867
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in which Muslim homophobia contributes to this dialectic. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSK; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002952
- ISBN
- 9781137002952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume answers these research questions through nine country case studies from the Global North and the Global South. Editor(s): Ibrahim, Solava; Tiwari, Meera. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHBC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001443
- ISBN
- 9781137001443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
hardcover. Service learning is the generation of knowledge that is of benefit to the community as a whole. This book contributes a discussion of how service learning functions as a critical cornerstone of outreach scholarship. Editor(s): Kenny, Maureen E.; Simon, Lou Anna K. (Michigan State University, USA); Kiley-Brabeck, Karen; Lerner, Richard M. Series: International Series in Outreach Scholarship. Num Pages: 452 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 829.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792375777
- ISBN
- 9780792375777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.86
€ 136.86
Hardback. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that it is possible to do meaningful, significant, and sophisticated analysis in social science when the variables under consideration are, given present knowledge, incapable of measurement. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792373360
- ISBN
- 9780792373360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.94
€ 133.94
Hardback. Examines the controversies concerning the measured effects of Catholic schooling on educational attainment, academic achievement, and other tangible outcomes. This book focuses on effects of Catholic schooling on test scores, homework, labor market outcomes, religiosity, public school achievement, and outcomes such as alcohol and substance abuse. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792372455
- ISBN
- 9780792372455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.79
€ 130.79
Hardback. Information on future mortality trends is essential for population forecasts, public health policy, actuarial studies, and many other purposes. This volume contains contributions to the theory and practice of forecasting mortality in the relatively favourable circumstances in developed countries of Western Europe. Editor(s): Tabeau, Ewa; Berg Jeths, Anneke van den; Heathcote, C.R. Series: European Studies of Population. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1QFH; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792368335
- ISBN
- 9780792368335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.59
€ 200.59
Hardback. Presents an analysis of the field of child well-being indicators. This book also presents a context for children's well-being, as well as a set of five "new" domains and some 49 indicators that are recommended for measuring and monitoring children's well-being. Series: Social Indicators Research Series. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367895
- ISBN
- 9780792367895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.23
€ 131.23
Hardback. This work portrays a comparison of changes in family formation and fertility behaviour between Belgium and The Netherlands, which aims to give us more insight in the question of whether there is one common transition process. Editor(s): Beer, Joop de; Deven, F. Series: European Studies of Population. Num Pages: 141 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 1DDN; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 141
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364610
- ISBN
- 9780792364610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.70
€ 130.70
Hardback. Contains presentations of population experts at the 1999 European Population Conference, which convened in The Hague (The Netherlands) from 30 August to 3 September. Editor(s): Kaa, D. J. van de; Leridon, Henri; Gesano, Giuseppe; Okolski, Marek. Series: European Studies of Population. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358381
- ISBN
- 9780792358381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.83
€ 131.83
Hardback. Suitable for scientists, researchers and students in demography and applied demography, statistics, economy, social geography and urban and regional planning and science studies, this title uncovers the contributions to the description and theory of the demographic transition in the publications of the early innovators of population forecasting. Series: European Studies of Population. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JH; 3JJ; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792355373
- ISBN
- 9780792355373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.80
€ 195.80
Paperback. Seeks to enable language and education practitioners, researchers, and lay readers to get a sense of the range of issues being pursued in language and education research and the array of methods employed to do so. This work is organized in four parts, focusing on language and education in relation to society, variation, culture, and interaction. Editor(s): Hornberger, Nancy H.; Corson, P. (The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada). Series: Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBG; JHBC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792349358
- ISBN
- 9780792349358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.27
€ 68.27
Paperback. Examines diverse aspects of second language education, ranging from a focus on the basic contributions of linguistic theory and research to our understanding of second language learning and teaching on the one hand, to a series of reviews of innovative language education practices in selected regions of the world on the other. Editor(s): Tucker, G. Richard; Corson, P. (The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada). Series: Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBG; JHBC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792349310
- ISBN
- 9780792349310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
The European Family. The Family Question in the European Community.
. Ed(S): Commaille, Jacques; Singly, F. de
hardcover. Will the European Union have its single family - a European family - as it will have a single currency? This book addresses this question. It is intended for specialists working in the social sciences, for social and government policy-makers in the fields of family and social policy, and for those interested in European integration. Editor(s): Commaille, Jacques; Singly, F. de. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792347576
- ISBN
- 9780792347576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.20
€ 135.20
Hardback. Examines diverse aspects of second language education, ranging from a focus on the basic contributions of linguistic theory and research to our understanding of second language learning and teaching, to a series of reviews of innovative language education practices in selected regions of the world. Editor(s): Tucker, G. Richard; Corson, David. Series: Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; JHBC; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1310.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Second Language Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792346401
- ISBN
- 9780792346401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.62
€ 72.62