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Paperback. Num Pages: 429 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; JHB; JHBA; JN; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 429
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349412075
- ISBN
- 9781349412075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 183.68
€ 183.68
Paperback. "This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm" Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JFSL3; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- 27th Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061319822
- ISBN
- 9780061319822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.82
€ 22.82
Paperback. "Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and" Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFSL9; JHBA; JHMC; JMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780201050714
- ISBN
- 9780201050714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.62
€ 20.99
€ 17.62
Hardcover. The central concern of this ambitious study is to understand the impact of social change on people's lives - in the vital areas of economy, politics and civil society. Combining social science rationality with the understanding of emotions through works of imagination, John Girling investigates international economic, political and social problems. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230000193
- ISBN
- 9780230000193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. In this timely book, Marranci critically surveys the available theories on Islamic fundamentalism and extremism. Rejecting essentialism and cultural reductionism, the book suggests that identity and emotion play an essential role in the phenomenon that has been called fundamentalism. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JHB; JPWL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002555
- ISBN
- 9780230002555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. This book examines the role governments play in managing policy challenges such as religion, romance, gender relations, same-sex marriages and privacy protection in response to social changes in marriage. Elizabeth van Acker asks whether governments can or should intervene in this personal sphere. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003378
- ISBN
- 9780230003378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Paperback. This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production', his 'social formalist' alternative to structuralism and post-structuralism and his approach to 'the media'. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006706
- ISBN
- 9780230006706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Identity, Culture and...
Kendall, Gavin, Woodward, Ian, Skrbis, Zlatko
Hardcover. The dream of a cosmopolitical utopia has been around for thousands of years. Yet the promise of being locally situated while globally connected and mobile has never seemed more possible than today. Through a classical sociological approach, this book analyses the political, technological and cultural systems underlying cosmopolitanism. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JFFS; JHBA; JHMC; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008687
- ISBN
- 9780230008687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCP; KJB; KNXB2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008731
- ISBN
- 9780230008731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HPS; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013261
- ISBN
- 9780230013261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.47
€ 114.47
Hardcover. Companies and work have undergone significant change, and a new productive model has emerged. This book shows how the model works, showing its high degree of coherence in terms of the integration of functions within companies. This book creates a new and challenging theory of services, rooted in the concrete experience of workshops and offices. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJMV2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013636
- ISBN
- 9780230013636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This tells of twenty-four couples negotiating the emotional and practical journey of parenting their learning 'disabled' child. The author, a researcher, sociologist and mother of a learning disabled daughter, questions the weak inclusive education discourse and unpacks parents' narratives in relation to denial, disappointment and social exclusion. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230018808
- ISBN
- 9780230018808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Through a wide-ranging study of labour in the cultural industries, this book critically evaluates how various sociological traditions - including critical theory, governmentality and liberal-democratic approaches - have sought to theorize the creative cultural worker, in art, music, media and design-based occupations. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; KCF; KCP; KNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019218
- ISBN
- 9780230019218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.65
€ 138.65
Hardcover. An exploration of questions of nationality in Brazil and Argentina, at the time when the cities were flooded with impoverished European immigrants. The author argues that processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant groups have to be examined within the historical context of the host nations. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; JFC; JPA; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100190
- ISBN
- 9780230100190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104327
- ISBN
- 9780230104327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with headscarves as a case in point. Turkey's commitment to modernization depends heavily on secularism which involves, among other things, the westernization of women's appearance. Num Pages: 219 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JHB; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342. A Postcolonial Reading. 216 pages, Illustrations. This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with headscarves as a case in point. Turkey's commitment to modernization depends heavily on secularism which involves, among other things, the westernization of women's appearance. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JHB; JPA. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 16. Weight: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230106659
- ISBN
- 9780230106659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Using a variety of archival sources, Aaron Gilette traces the history of early 20th century developments in sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, offering a new way to look at the timely and perennial 'nature-nuture' debate and why key scientific discoveries have been thwarted, manipulated, and misunderstood over the last century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; JFMG; JHBA; PSAK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108455
- ISBN
- 9780230108455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Zaidi assesses the dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for transcendence in the human sciences; achieved by a comparative reading of current Muslim debate on secular knowledge and Western debate on the demise of metaphysics, drawing upon Hans Georg Gadamer and insights of inter-religious dialogue. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392. 234 pages, 0. Zaidi assesses the dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for transcendence in the human sciences; achieved by a comparative reading of current Muslim debate on secular knowledge and Western debate on the demise of metaphysics, drawing upon Hans Georg Gadamer and insights of inter-religious dialogue. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRH; JHBA. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110359
- ISBN
- 9780230110359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sci...
Alexander, Jeffrey C., Smith, Philip
Paperback. Editor(s): Norton, Matthew. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111721
- ISBN
- 9780230111721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Hardcover. Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcolonial methods and offers a new look on a 'forgotten' continent now the focus of ecological concern. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 202 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MTS; JFFS; JHB; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116870
- ISBN
- 9780230116870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49