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Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach
. Ed(S): Boss, Pauline; Doherty, W. J.; Laros...
hardcover. This book traces the development of various family theories and methods within the context of the social values, technological changes, and political events of the twentieth century. Multicultural dimensions are emphasized throughout. Editor(s): Boss, Pauline; Doherty, W. J.; LaRossa, Ralph; Schumm, Walter R. (Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA); Steinmetz, Suzanne. Num Pages: 774 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 41. Weight in Grams: 3720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Kluwer Boston Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 774
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1993rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780306442643
- ISBN
- 9780306442643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 299.54
€ 299.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 249 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 297.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306429613
- ISBN
- 9780306429613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Hardcover. Editor(s): Steinmetz, Suzanne. Num Pages: 291 pages, Illustrations, 1plan. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publish Dublin, Ireland
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306427923
- ISBN
- 9780306427923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.90
€ 72.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306420436
- ISBN
- 9780306420436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. The authors argue that women gamers, too often ignored as gamers, are in many respects leading the way in this trend towards design, cultural production, new learning communities, and the combination of technical proficiency with emotional and social intelligence. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; UGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623415
- ISBN
- 9780230623415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.24
€ 53.36
€ 47.24
Hardcover. This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society. Issues addressed include: sexuality and the curriculum, theories of the family, critiques of postmodernism, socialist feminism, and activist tactics/strategies for organizing in K-12 settings. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JNA; JNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410. Sexuality and Schooling. Series: Marxism and Education. 268 pages. This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society. Issues addressed include: sexuality and the curriculum, theories of the family, critiques of postmodernism, socialist feminism, and activist tactics/strategies for organizing in K-12 settings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JNA; JNH. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616080
- ISBN
- 9780230616080
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.24
€ 53.36
€ 47.24
Hardcover. As many can attest, the prevalence of sexual imagery has increased in modern society over the past half century. In this timely new study, Kenneth Kammeyer traces the historical development of sexual imagery in America and society's preoccupation with it, all within a firm theoretical and sociological framework Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; JFD; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609426
- ISBN
- 9780230609426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. This work explores matrophobia - the fear not of one's mother or of motherhood but of becoming one's mother - in past and present white feminist analyses of motherhood and mothering. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608634
- ISBN
- 9780230608634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. In this compelling narrative Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world. In her travels around the world, Piontelli has studied the role of twins, especially throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific rim, observing different cultural perspectives and how differing societies treat them. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605978
- ISBN
- 9780230605978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Hardcover. This book uses new imagery - the metaphor of sugar - to highlight how race, class, and gender are produced, used, experienced, and 'digested' in our human and institutional bodies. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600935
- ISBN
- 9780230600935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594456
- ISBN
- 9780230594456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBK; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594432
- ISBN
- 9780230594432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. This book offers a critique of the dominant conceptualization of heritage found in policy, which tends to privilege the white, middle and upper classes. Using Britain as an illustration, Waterton explores how and why recent policies continue to lean towards the predictable melding of cultural diversity with tendencies of assimilation. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFCX; JHBA; JPB; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230581883
- ISBN
- 9780230581883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' ofone hundredsuicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580923
- ISBN
- 9780230580923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Globalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory. This book argues that we must understand that both the modern state and globalisation are based on a cartographic reality of space. In consequence, claims that globalization represents a spatial challenge to state territory are deeply problematic. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTP; JFFS; JHBA; JPA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580831
- ISBN
- 9780230580831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Work and Identity: Historical and Cultural Contexts (Identity Studies ...
Wall, Christine, Kirk, John
Hardcover. A fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. Historical and Cultural Contexts. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. 264 pages, 11 figures, 6 black & white tables, 10 charts. A fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBL. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580824
- ISBN
- 9780230580824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. An account of the nature and value of the family within a liberal society. It defines 'family', and assesses the right to have a family, whether the family promotes injustice, and what future there is for the family in the face of significant changes. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFR; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580596
- ISBN
- 9780230580596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book explores the nature of intimacy by revealing how the influence of individual, interpersonal and wider social factors create variations in self-disclosure, intimacy games and relationship habits. It describes how the dynamics of power and control in relationships give rise either to mutual satisfaction or to the unraveling of intimacy. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMH; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579569
- ISBN
- 9780230579569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single or mixed gender classes? Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMA; JFSP2; JHBK5; JNF; MBNH4; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579439
- ISBN
- 9780230579439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579309
- ISBN
- 9780230579309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38