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paperback. The toughness model proposed in this book incorporates psychological research and neuroscience to explain how a variety of toughening activities - ranging from confronting mental and physical challenges to meditation - sustain our brains and bodies, and ultimately build our mental and psychological capacities degenerated by stress and by aging. Num Pages: 380 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMC; JMJ; JMM; JMS; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- SKU
- V9781349498031
- ISBN
- 9781349498031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.49
€ 121.49
Paperback. * A fascinating look at the Day of the Dead - Mexico's version of All Souls' Day - when Mexicans clean, decorate, and maintain vigil over relatives' graves. * Dispels myths about the rituals, which have been misconstrued as morbid or morose. Num Pages: 232 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405152488
- ISBN
- 9781405152488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.76
€ 40.99
€ 40.76
Hardback. Essay collection from the Global Labour Column Editor(s): Pons-Vignon, Nicolas; Nkosi, Mbuso. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745336169
- ISBN
- 9780745336169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.75€ 83.84
€ 100.75
€ 83.84
Hardback. Series: Studies in Economic Transition. Num Pages: 334 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBTB; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137518491
- ISBN
- 9781137518491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.91
€ 143.91
Hardback. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects from federally funded institutions. This book analyzes the ways in which religious discourse is used to articulate repatriation claims. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926612
- ISBN
- 9780813926612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.70
€ 77.70
Hardback. Series: Sexuality Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909881
- ISBN
- 9781439909881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.08
€ 101.08
Hardback. Series: Columbia History of Urban Life. Num Pages: 512 pages, 300 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; JFFB; JFSG; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 225 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231178341
- ISBN
- 9780231178341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.93€ 101.57
€ 133.93
€ 101.57
Paperback. Georg Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. This title features Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel's last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. Translator(s): Andrews, John A. Y.; Levine, Donald N. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226273303
- ISBN
- 9780226273303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.00
€ 31.99
€ 25.00
Paperback. Gay parenting is a topic on which almost everyone has an opinion but almost nobody has any facts. Here at last is a book based on a thorough review of the literature as well as interviews with a pioneering group of men who in the 1980s chose to become fathers outside the boundaries of a heterosexual union-through foster care, adoption, and other kinship relationships. Num Pages: 153 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231117975
- ISBN
- 9780231117975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.89
€ 36.89
Paperback. Editor(s): Noon, M.; Ogbonna, Emmanuel. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBL; KJMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349421060
- ISBN
- 9781349421060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.56
€ 121.56
Hardback. Editor(s): Giddens, Anthony; Turner, Jonathan. Num Pages: 436 pages, 12 line diagrams. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804713979
- ISBN
- 9780804713979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.28
€ 170.28
Paperback. A study of economics and its purpose. It examines our modern economic system - its use of resources and impact on how we live - questioning whether they reflect what we truly care about. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCA; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099225614
- ISBN
- 9780099225614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.32
€ 13.99
€ 10.32
Paperback. This work offers a fresh perspective to the study of 'Europe' by placing the discussion of 'What is Europe?' and 'What is it to be European?', in a wider context of the study of modernity through a collection of nine case studies. Editor(s): Ichijo, Atsuko. Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; HBJD; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349337071
- ISBN
- 9781349337071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Num Pages: 371 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Blue Dome Press United States
- Number of pages
- 371
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935295082
- ISBN
- 9781935295082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.58
€ 20.99
€ 15.58
Paperback. The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decline, and capitalism is in crisis. Series: Social Movements and Transformation. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC; JFF; JFSL; JHB; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288632
- ISBN
- 9781349288632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.11
€ 37.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JHBD; PSAK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket Octavo
- SKU
- V9780801425691
- ISBN
- 9780801425691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Based on findings from a decade's worth of research, Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare provides original reflections on the everyday realities of families and front-line service providers involved with the system. Editor(s): Cameron, Gary; Fine, Marshall; Maiter, Sarah; Frensch, Karen; Freymond, Nancy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442646667
- ISBN
- 9781442646667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.41
€ 74.41
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Monsoon Books Singapore
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789810586928
- ISBN
- 9789810586928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.10
€ 10.99
€ 10.10
Hardcover. Examines unmarried women migrant workers working in silk, one of China's oldest and most symbolically charged industries. Through extensive interviews and a wide-ranging interpretation of the secondary literature, this text brings an interdisciplinary approach to its study of power and identity. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333918197
- ISBN
- 9780333918197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Paperback. Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics beyond their local or national origin and offers the first systematic sociological treatment of this important phenomenon. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSR; JHB; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349502790
- ISBN
- 9781349502790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.83
€ 62.83
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439906866
- ISBN
- 9781439906866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. This book explores the symbolic side of globalization, development and aging, offering a special look into how temporality, technology, normativity, and empiricism structure the symbolic side of globalization and influence dominant images of the aging process. Editor(s): Arxer, Steven L.; Murphy, John W. Series: International Perspectives on Aging. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSP31; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489990754
- ISBN
- 9781489990754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.31
€ 121.31
Hardback. This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to key new areas in the contemporary study of work. While traditional accounts of work have tended to focus upon male manual workers in factories, recent developments have shifted the notions of what counts as work, what work is, and where it takes place. Num Pages: 368 pages, 46. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 173 x 30. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622224
- ISBN
- 9780745622224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.69
€ 78.69
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPH; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545121
- ISBN
- 9781137545121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.72
€ 68.72