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Paperback. Social changes including an increase in dual-earner families, declining fertility, and growing problems of work-life 'balance' are underway as more women, particularly mothers, enter and remain in paid employment. The authors explore this in a number of European countries (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Portugal). Editor(s): Crompton, R.; Lewis, S.; Lyonette, Clare. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHBK; JHBL; JKSN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541270
- ISBN
- 9781349541270
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The conception of welfare services has changed to consider the more specialized needs of individual users or consumers.This bookexamines the contradictions and complexities of contemporary individualized welfare services, with special reference to service groups who are deeply dependent on service delivery for their quality of life" Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBA; JKS; JPP; JPQB; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541935
- ISBN
- 9781349541935
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€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Paperback. Dominance, identity and resistance are key themes in this examination of language in global, virtual and local settings. It focuses on world languages, linguistic rights and minority protection. Case studies explore the social strategies employed by migrants speaking non-indigenous tongues and the effect of religion in sensitive political contexts. Editor(s): Nic Craith, Mairead. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFC; JFF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541997
- ISBN
- 9781349541997
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€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Following Bull's structure, it considers key concepts, major institutions and alternative approaches to order, and reasserts the enduring insight of Bull's work, whilst responding to major developments in the theory and practice in international relations. Editor(s): Little, R. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542208
- ISBN
- 9781349542208
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€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; JPA; JPS; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542536
- ISBN
- 9781349542536
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Reconsiders citizenship and social movement theorizing in the light of vulnerability, drawing on a case study of disability politics in the UK. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JKSN; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349543526
- ISBN
- 9781349543526
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Combining a sociological approach with a social network perspective to examine the substance use of teenagers in the context of the social networks in which they are embedded, the author proposes a new chain reaction explanation for teenagers' substance use., based on peer selection, the patterning of peer ties, and peer influences. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- SKU
- V9781349543540
- ISBN
- 9781349543540
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century. Through architecture, fiction, theory, film and experiments with everyday life, Sargisson explores contemporary hopes and fears about the future. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JHBA; JPA; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349543588
- ISBN
- 9781349543588
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€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. This book addresses key transformation in citizenship politics in the EU member states from the perspective of their Europeanization. Editor(s): Bertossi, Christophe. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL; JHB; JPA; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349544127
- ISBN
- 9781349544127
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€ 126.97
€ 126.97
Paperback. Ethno-national and religious identity and violence dominate modern politics, from Northern Ireland to terrorism in Sri Lanka, the former Yugoslavia or Afghanistan and Iraq. This book shows that social theory should be a major tool in helping explain national, religious and identity problems. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349545742
- ISBN
- 9781349545742
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book addresses the intersection between power, politics and the emotions, arguing that emotions are central to our understanding of the social and political world. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBA; JMS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349545780
- ISBN
- 9781349545780
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This study explores a range of dynamics in state-society relations which are crucial to an understanding of the contemporary world: processes of state formation, collapse and restructuring, all strongly influenced by globalization in its various respects. Particular attention is given to externally orchestrated state restructuring. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349545803
- ISBN
- 9781349545803
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book revisits Cox and Harrod's conception of 'unprotected workers' through theoretical reflection and empirical explorations of the rise of millennialism, prostitution and the sex industry, the politics of migration, the interstices of class and gender, and trade union politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JHBL; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349545933
- ISBN
- 9781349545933
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€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Paperback. Editor(s): Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JPA; JPP; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546145
- ISBN
- 9781349546145
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€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. The book examines the rise of the amalgam of economic and political ideas we know as neo-liberalism and how these became the defining orthodoxy of our times. It investigates the inexorable global spread of market economies and how neo-liberal agendas are accommodated or hijacked in collisions with authoritarian states and populist oligarchies. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JPA; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546183
- ISBN
- 9781349546183
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€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Duvell, Franck. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546244
- ISBN
- 9781349546244
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. From a cross-disciplinary and conceptual perspective this book discusses the political solutions of constitutional patriotism, republicanism and liberal nationalism to cultural conflict. It places these debates in the context of real national traditions, where all civic language inevitably also reflects 'culture'. Editor(s): Mouritsen, P. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546282
- ISBN
- 9781349546282
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€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Paperback. The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child resulted in even greater global awareness of the significance of children's rights and perspectives. The contributors to this book explore the extent to which children's interests are finding expression in different societies in Western Europe. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546398
- ISBN
- 9781349546398
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Using an innovative, action research approach, Vickers explores the lives of women who work full time while caring for a child with significant chronic illness or disability. She demonstrates that such women can be disconnected from those around them, unsupported and overwhelmed with responsibility at home and work. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBK; JHBL; JKS; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546510
- ISBN
- 9781349546510
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Community safety is a narrowly defined concept that allows states to ignore arguably more serious threats caused by pro-market policies and the actions of major corporations. This book redresses the idea of what constitutes a social harm and outlines a new policy agenda. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; JKVQ2; JPP; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- SKU
- V9781349546886
- ISBN
- 9781349546886
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€ 66.29
€ 66.29
paperback. Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JHB; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546909
- ISBN
- 9781349546909
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€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. Online Matchmaking examines the joys, fears, and disappointments of hooking up with people in cyberspace. Unlike many other books in the field, this collection includes studies by experts from a range of disciplines including Communications, Cultural Studies, Health, Journalism, Psychology, Rhetoric, and Sociology. Editor(s): Whitty, Mike; Baker, A.; Inman, James. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSJ; JHB; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546978
- ISBN
- 9781349546978
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€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. The BSE epidemic, GM foods, avian flu, the growth of supermarkets and the crisis in obesity have shaken consumer trust in food. Uncovering surprising differences between countries, Trust in Food examines this and challenges the idea of the consumer as a sovereign individual, demonstrating how consumption is institutionalized within society. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHBL; JPQB; KN; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349547395
- ISBN
- 9781349547395
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The book examines the social and cultural context of new genetic knowledge associated with breast cancer. It looks at how this knowledge and technologies are used and received in two contrasting social arenas - cancer genetic clinics and a breast cancer research charity. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; MBS; MFN; MJCL; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349547548
- ISBN
- 9781349547548
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93