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Hardcover. This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contributions examine the question of whether architecture - and thus materiality as a whole - has agency. The book also proposes a theoretical and methodological approach on how to research architecture's agency. Editor(s): Muller, Anna-Lisa; Reichmann, Werner. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMA; JHB; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461124
- ISBN
- 9781137461124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.15
€ 139.15
Hardcover. The personal anecdotes and candid reflections on the lives and work of these important critical scholars, and their predictions on the future of the field, make this book a valuable resource for scholars and students of communication, media studies, political economy, political science, and those interested in critical theoretical approaches. Editor(s): Lent, John A.; Amazeen, Michelle A. Series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463401
- ISBN
- 9781137463401
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Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe. Editor(s): Triandafyllidou, Anna; Isaakyan, Irina; Schiavone, Giuseppe. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467102
- ISBN
- 9781137467102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film-makers, social scientists and other creative individuals, out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power. Editor(s): Yalcintas, Altug. Num Pages: 134 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JFFE; JHB; JPW; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473622
- ISBN
- 9781137473622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Hardcover. In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers. Replacing digital labour and prosumption within an American context and the wider political economy, this volume presents a critical account of the forces which shape contemporary subjects, networks, and labour practices. Editor(s): Fraysse, Olivier; O'Neil, Mathieu. Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 243 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473899
- ISBN
- 9781137473899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardcover. Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and losers of post-socialist transition. Editor(s): Morris, Jeremy; Polese, Abel; Trotter, David. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 491 x 189 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483065
- ISBN
- 9781137483065
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Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardcover. As death rates continue to rise, this collection brings together scholars engaged in policy associated with death to analyse the challenges these trends present. Examining a range of issues including inheritance, palliative care, euthanasia, funeral costs and marginalised deaths, this unique volumes portrays how death factors in social policy. Editor(s): Foster, Liam; Woodthorpe, Kate. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 figures, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFME; JHBZ; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484895
- ISBN
- 9781137484895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles. Inspired by the eminent Glasgow-based sociologist, John Eldridge, it re-engages with the concept and shows how it can be applied to analyzing society today. Editor(s): Dawson, Matt; Fowler, Bridget; Smith, Andrew; Miller, David Leslie; Rampton, David. Num Pages: 277 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493637
- ISBN
- 9781137493637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions. Editor(s): Adkins, Lisa; Dever, Maryanne. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 black & white tables, 1 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495532
- ISBN
- 9781137495532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.63
€ 149.63
Hardcover. This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people. The collection bridges empirical research with social theory to problematize and analyse the precariat. Editor(s): Della Porta, Donatella; Hanninen, Sakari; Silvasti, Tiina. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFA; JFSC; JHBA; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137509338
- ISBN
- 9781137509338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.33
€ 161.33
Hardcover. This volume draws together both theoretical and empirical contributions reflecting on, and developing, the growing scholarship being produced at the intersection of 'queer' and 'criminology'. The contributions each highlight how such scholarship is essential to achieving greater social and criminal justice for LGBTIQ communities. Editor(s): Dwyer, Angela; Crofts, Thomas. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSK; JHBA; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137513335
- ISBN
- 9781137513335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87
Hardcover. This book explores the dynamics of excessive violence, using a broad range of interdisciplinary case studies. It highlights that excessive violence depends on various contingencies and is not always the outcome of rational decision making. The contributors also analyse the discursive framing of acts of excessive violence. Editor(s): Ziegler, Daniel J.; Gerster, Marco; Kramer, Steffen; Oliver, M. Num Pages: 263 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHB; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137514424
- ISBN
- 9781137514424
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they require and reproduce? How are new understandings of governance produced in practice, by scientists and policy makers and by the publics with whom they engage? Editor(s): Voss, Jan-Peter. Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy. Num Pages: 312 pages, 3 black & white tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: HPK; JHBA; JPA; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137514493
- ISBN
- 9781137514493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.5-generation' migrants with similar 'roots' (the Philippines), traversing different 'routes' (receiving countries). By shedding light on the diversified paths of their migratory lives, it revisits the relationships between mobility, sociality and identity. Editor(s): Nagasaka, Itaru; Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFFN; JFSL1; JFSP1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137515131
- ISBN
- 9781137515131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.02
€ 139.02
Hardcover. Editor(s): Nixon, Kari; Servitje, Lorenzo. Num Pages: 317 pages, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB; MBS; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137521408
- ISBN
- 9781137521408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.62
€ 205.62
Hardcover. Based on historic and ethnographic approaches, this volume examines how the ideological images of Asian women are produced, circulated, appropriated, and pluralized. Contributors analyze the interactions between the politicized formation of ideological representations and the everyday practices of women who resist and re-contextualize these images. Editor(s): Ijichi, Noriko; Kato, Atsufumi; Sakurada, Ryoko. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137531513
- ISBN
- 9781137531513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists, provide an insight into the historical development behind such issues as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use. Series: St Antony's. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; JPP; JPQB; JPS; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 453.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346431
- ISBN
- 9781349346431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.51
€ 138.51
Paperback. Editor(s): Rojek, Chris; Shaw, Susan M.; Veal, A. Num Pages: 590 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GM; JHBS; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 31. Weight in Grams: 902.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403902795
- ISBN
- 9781403902795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.62
€ 130.62
Hardcover. Editor(s): Clark, Ed; Michailova, Snejina. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403904287
- ISBN
- 9781403904287
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Hardcover. Editor(s): Houlbrook, Matt; Cocks, H. G. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3J; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403912893
- ISBN
- 9781403912893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Hardcover. Editor(s): Houston, Diane M. Series: Future of Work. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403920621
- ISBN
- 9781403920621
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Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Hardcover. Editor(s): Richardson, Diane; McLaughlin, Janice; Casey, Mark E. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSK; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403945310
- ISBN
- 9781403945310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.49
€ 127.49
Hardcover. Editor(s): Howard, Cosmo. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977700
- ISBN
- 9781403977700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Editor(s): Rubin, Miri; Gowing, Laura; Hunter, Michael. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403991478
- ISBN
- 9781403991478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76