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Paperback. This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JKS; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349337538
ISBN
9781349337538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new perspectives on the history and different concepts of children's rights in a contextualized and localized manner. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHB; JHBA; JHBK; JN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349337552
ISBN
9781349337552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349337590
ISBN
9781349337590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Paperback. This book critically analyzes and theorizes trust dynamics in children's lives and how they impact upon children's participation, citizenship and well-being, drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that examines trust in various institutional and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Warming, Hanne. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSP; JHBK; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349337668
ISBN
9781349337668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.70

Paperback. With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and topological dimensions of the expectations, ethics and evidence that surround the innovation of PrEP. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHB; JPQB; MBS; MQW. 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
V9781349337705
ISBN
9781349337705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.74

Paperback. Editor(s): Kiwan, D. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338092
ISBN
9781349338092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts. Editor(s): Dworkin, A. Gary. Num Pages: 676 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JNF; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
676
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338498
ISBN
9781349338498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 130.64

paperback. What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea and what is at stake in its ongoing production? Drawing on ethnographic research, interviews and media and policy texts, this book traces the remaking of addiction in contemporary Western societies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPQB; MBS; MMH; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349338887
ISBN
9781349338887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Paperback. Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing. This book explores how the increasing proliferation of holistic health methods are intimately connected with changing configurations of selfhood, gender and class. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPQB; MBNH9; MBS; MQC; MX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349339228
ISBN
9781349339228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.98

Paperback. Editor(s): Oxford Department of International Development; Bourdillon, Michael; Boyden, Jo. Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Num Pages: 350 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFF; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 493.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349339822
ISBN
9781349339822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

Paperback. This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities. Editor(s): Olah, Livia Sz. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JHBL; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349340279
ISBN
9781349340279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. Since the 1970s the public commitment to social solidarity between citizens through comprehensive provision of welfare has been eroded by the imperatives of international markets. In this volume the problems posed to public intervention are analyzed. The contributors compare and evaluate how different countries have dealt with these challenges. Editor(s): Connelly, James; Hayward, J. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKS; JPA; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349340750
ISBN
9781349340750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. Aims to inform students, scholars, and educators about the complex processes and factors that promote or impede education's potential to enhance individual advancement within the socioeconomic structure of a late-industrialized country within the context of modern capitalism. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HBJD; JHB; JN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341221
ISBN
9781349341221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 46.37

Paperback. This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and different types of social and political conflict in Europe and North America. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JPA; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342228
ISBN
9781349342228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Cultural and spiritual resources are arguably essential to achievement of educational goals, both as economic and political initiatives and as human rights. Thisbookaddresses questions surrounding education and inter-cultural understanding in a broad global framework." Editor(s): Mundy, Karen; Zha, Qiang. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JPQB. 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
321
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342723
ISBN
9781349342723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 46.88

paperback. Editor(s): Schuetze, Hans G.; Bruneau, William; Grosjean, Garnet. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342761
ISBN
9781349342761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.15

Paperback. Written for practitioners and practitioners-in-training of education development, this book reviews education issues in developing countries and provides in-depth case studies from Egypt, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNK; JPA; JPP; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342822
ISBN
9781349342822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age in the UK and places issues and debates in an international context. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; JNB; JNF; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342969
ISBN
9781349342969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 46.52

Paperback. Editor(s): Louis, Karen Seashore; Velzen, Boudewijn van. Series: Education Policy. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JPP; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343003
ISBN
9781349343003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 46.45

Paperback. New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 assesses New Labour's policy towards secondary education in Britain. It shows that, in many respects, New Labour education policy was a continuation of the policies pursued by the education ministers of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNB; JNF; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343188
ISBN
9781349343188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 45.73

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