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Paperback. Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHB; JHBC; JHBK; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445943
- ISBN
- 9781349445943
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€ 65.94
€ 65.94
paperback. Although there has emerged a huge interest in the Muslim communities in Britain since 9/11 and 7/7, few academic studies have focused on the political processes within Muslim communities and the impacts these have on civic engagement. This book examines the political biographies and religious identities of British Muslims of Pakistani descent. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFSL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349446049
- ISBN
- 9781349446049
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€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Paperback. Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic 'Oriental' category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in Britain. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446063
- ISBN
- 9781349446063
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€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Paperback. When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at these issues. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JFSP; JHBK; JKSN; JPQB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446087
- ISBN
- 9781349446087
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Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ; JHBA; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446100
- ISBN
- 9781349446100
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Condition: New
€ 137.79
€ 137.79
Paperback. In this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics are added to the mix. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446186
- ISBN
- 9781349446186
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€ 66.13
€ 66.13
The Political Economy of Television Sports Rights (Palgrave Global Med...
Evens, T., Iosifidis, P., Smith, P.
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; JFD; JHBS; KCP; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446292
- ISBN
- 9781349446292
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The entrepreneurial university has been tasked with making an impact. This collection presents professional-personal reflections on research experience and interpretative accounts of navigating fieldwork and broader publics, politics and practices of (dis)engagement primarily through a feminist, queer and gender studies lens. Editor(s): Taylor, Y. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446391
- ISBN
- 9781349446391
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Condition: New
€ 126.18
€ 126.18
Paperback. While tracing the historical emergence of the cafe as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafes, cafe as surrogate office, and cafe as site of exchange for news and views. Editor(s): Tjora, Aksel; Scambler, Graham. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR; JHB; JHBS; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446438
- ISBN
- 9781349446438
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€ 137.52
€ 137.52
Paperback. This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms including fashion, the secret and money as exemplifications of this method. The volume concludes with a reassessment of Simmel's relevance today." Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPS; JHBA; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446490
- ISBN
- 9781349446490
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Editor(s): Kearney, J.; Donovan, C. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBA; JKV; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446513
- ISBN
- 9781349446513
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Condition: New
€ 65.74
€ 65.74
Paperback. This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe. Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JP; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446582
- ISBN
- 9781349446582
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Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. Communities throughout the world are increasingly diverse in their racial, ethnic and religious make up. Using examples drawn from over 50 countries in a variety of fields from economics to education, this book explores how governmental, economic and social institutions are adapting their policies to create more cohesive and peaceful societies. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JPA; JPB; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446612
- ISBN
- 9781349446612
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Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Lee, J.; Nedilsky, Lida V.; Cheung, S. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPP; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446780
- ISBN
- 9781349446780
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema. Editor(s): Sullivan, D.; Greenberg, Judith. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; JHBK; JMH; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446865
- ISBN
- 9781349446865
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€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Paperback. Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to encourage loyalty from current or former citizens living abroad. Using detailed case studies, this book sets out to explain this significant development, with an innovative new theoretical framework. Editor(s): Collyer, M. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446964
- ISBN
- 9781349446964
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Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. By 2010, 260 million citizens were living outside of their permanent hukou location, a major challenge to the constrictive Mao-era system of migration and settlement planning. Jason Young shows how these new forces have been received by the state and documents the process of change and the importance of China's hukou system. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JPP; RGC; RP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447084
- ISBN
- 9781349447084
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Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Paperback. Series: Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JKSN; JPA; JPS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447275
- ISBN
- 9781349447275
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Condition: New
€ 98.90
€ 98.90
Paperback. The rapid increase in adoption of modern 'connective' technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that the post-global moment offers African societies to develop and to relate, offering profound new insights into the processes of globalization. Editor(s): Bruijn, Mirjam de; Dijk, Ria van. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447497
- ISBN
- 9781349447497
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs, rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles. The fresh theoretical model it presents challenges existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447510
- ISBN
- 9781349447510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 115.84
€ 115.84