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Hardcover. This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education curriculum and the roles that black teachers played in crafting social education curricula. Num Pages: 242 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JHB; JNA; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007544
- ISBN
- 9781137007544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.82€ 45.13
€ 50.82
€ 45.13
Paperback. Editor(s): Vandenhole, Wouter; Desmet, Ellen; Reynaert, Didier; Lembrechts, Sara. Num Pages: 452 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBK; JHM; JKSN; JNLA; JPVH; LBBR; LNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 174. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138084490
- ISBN
- 9781138084490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.19
€ 58.19
Hardcover. This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230342330
- ISBN
- 9780230342330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Hardback. This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation. Num Pages: 302 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JHBD; JPVR; YQN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223950
- ISBN
- 9780230223950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.02
€ 123.02
Paperback. This study demonstrates how the recent reforms in Jamaican legislation have failed to close the discrepancies between social laws reflecting a nuclear family structure and the needs of a culture where serial mating, out-of-wedlock births and absentee paternity is common. Num Pages: 250 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; JHBK; LNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Austin & Winfield,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781880921913
- ISBN
- 9781880921913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.94
€ 77.94
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bennett, Jill; Kennedy, Rosanne. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHBA; JMH; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- SKU
- V9781403901156
- ISBN
- 9781403901156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447306283
- ISBN
- 9781447306283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.77
€ 91.77
Paperback. This volume is an ambitious study of efforts by twentieth-century states to reshape-either through social policy or brute force-their societies and populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746304
- ISBN
- 9780804746304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.95
€ 46.99
€ 41.95
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446582
- ISBN
- 9781349446582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.19
€ 63.19
paperback. Deals with obstacles in the mourning process as experienced in individual cases and in large groups, in life-threatening situations. This book describes the therapeutic tools that the author employed to achieve healthy outcomes. It focuses on various defenses, their function and importance, and on the difficulty of relinquishing them. Num Pages: 282 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780765705075
- ISBN
- 9780765705075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.94
€ 77.94
The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences
. Ed(S): Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre; Bar-Yose...
Hardback. Using cemetery data, scientists have identified a demographic process linked to the shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural economies. The shift is called Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT), and this book fully explores NDT on a global scale. Editor(s): Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre; Bar-Yosef, O. Num Pages: 553 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2110.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 553
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402085383
- ISBN
- 9781402085383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 323.51
€ 323.51
Paperback. Those who like to think Texas is special believe that Christmas there is bigger, better, and more treasured than anywhere else. This collection, first published in 1983, grew out of that conviction. Editor(s): Roach, Joyce Gibson. Num Pages: 96 pages, 36 b&w illustrations, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 5HC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652894
- ISBN
- 9780875652894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.96
€ 13.99
€ 12.96
Paperback. Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book also includes chapters that offer a broad and diverse look at social science and critical theory. Editor(s): Dahms, Harry F. Series Editor(s): Dahms, Harry F. Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Num Pages: 401 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 401
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781901540
- ISBN
- 9781781901540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.16
€ 55.16
Paperback. The book explores the relationship between embodiment and the production of the key structures which frame agency to map out potential for social change. It uses modalities of ageing embodiment in the context of sport participation in later life, specifically Master athletics, including barriers, opportunities and physiological dimensions. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSP; JFSP31; JHB; JHBK; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355198
- ISBN
- 9781349355198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Paperback. The internet is changing the rules of the game of love. In a world where anything is possible, a potential date - whether it be a one-night stand or the start of a more lasting relationship - can be just a click away. Anyone looking for love online can throw off their inhibitions and can say what they have never dared to before. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK5; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651842
- ISBN
- 9780745651842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.12
€ 22.12
Paperback. This book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers. It looks at time spent in the group, issues of cohesion, identification, affiliation, membership and the post demobilization experience of return, and resettlement. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; GTJ; JHB; JPS; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349317622
- ISBN
- 9781349317622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.71
€ 64.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JNA; JNF; JNM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349501373
- ISBN
- 9781349501373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.14
€ 63.14
Hardcover. Editor(s): McCartin, Joseph A.; Dubofsky, Melvyn. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295653
- ISBN
- 9780312295653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.29
€ 186.29
Hardcover. Asymmetric Demography and the Global Economy contributes to our understanding of why the demographic transition matters to domestic macroeconomics and global capital movements. Editor(s): Fanelli, Jose Maria. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; KCB; KCG; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486455
- ISBN
- 9781137486455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.71
€ 122.71
Hardback. In focusing on China's social survey movement, this title analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices - census, sociological investigation, and ethnography - was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267862
- ISBN
- 9780520267862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.15€ 64.45
€ 84.15
€ 64.45
Hardcover. This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social life in the digital world, its main focus is on the political economy and in particular the extent to which the paradigms of capitalism and socialism can be mapped as postcapitalism onto this new world. Num Pages: 93 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHB; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137312396
- ISBN
- 9781137312396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.61
€ 73.61
Hardback. This innovative new text provides a sophisticated theoretical and practical understanding of research design in the social sciences. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849205009
- ISBN
- 9781849205009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.67
€ 176.67
Hardcover. This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single or mixed gender classes? Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMA; JFSP2; JHBK5; JNF; MBNH4; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579439
- ISBN
- 9780230579439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
Hardcover. Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from psychological and biomedical perspectives. Importantly, Hope in Health explores how hope manifests and is sustained in various arenas of health, medicine and healthcare. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; JHB; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361935
- ISBN
- 9780230361935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43