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Paperback. Adoptive, foster and stepmothers, like biological mothers, find their lives completely changed by motherhood although they are not always granted the rights and privileges accorded to those who give birth. Barbara Waterman explores the common experiences that are shared by all those who enter the motherhood portal. Num Pages: 272 pages, Bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JHBK; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843107248
- ISBN
- 9781843107248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.91
€ 40.99
€ 40.91
Paperback. Larson shows how the seemingly broad-based eugenics movement was in fact a series of distinct campaigns by small groups of determined individuals for legislation at the state level. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBD; JMU; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 175 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801855115
- ISBN
- 9780801855115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.30
€ 35.99
€ 30.30
Hardback. Editor(s): Harriss-White, Barbara. Series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia. Num Pages: 337 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 51 colour illustrations, 48 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFS; JHB; KCM; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer, India, Private Ltd India
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788132224303
- ISBN
- 9788132224303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.58
€ 130.58
Paperback. Written from foster mothers' perspectives, this book voices the often painful experiences of contemporary US foster mothers as they struggle to mother and care-work in the face of exploitative social relations with the state. Num Pages: 245 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814793473
- ISBN
- 9780814793473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 483.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften Germany
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531172033
- ISBN
- 9783531172033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.63
€ 90.63
Paperback. The first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways. Editor(s): Manalansan, Martin F.; Ku, Robert Ji-Song; Mannur, Anita. Num Pages: 453 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; GTB; JFCV; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 22. Weight in Grams: 832.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479869251
- ISBN
- 9781479869251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. This book will appeal to social science students and citizens interested in the role of social networks in information diffusion and yet it serves as a cautionary tale for communication practitioners and policymakers interested in leveraging social ties as an inexpensive method to spread information. Num Pages: 152 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHB; LNTJ; MBN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 171 x 10. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413242
- ISBN
- 9781421413242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.80
€ 35.80
Hardback. Series: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Num Pages: 518 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 917.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Algora Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 518
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875860657
- ISBN
- 9780875860657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 250.69
€ 250.69
Paperback. These interdisciplinary essays explore the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical and cultural manifestations. It examines the nature of community, the relation of individual and group identity to community norms and values and the possibilities for cross-cultural understanding. Editor(s): Alperson, Philip. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JFS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631219477
- ISBN
- 9780631219477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.95
€ 54.95
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APW; JHB; JMH; JMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641669
- ISBN
- 9780691641669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Paperback. Defining the demands and expectations that parents place upon their offspring from the very beginning, this book explains how even the youngest can adapt to a role that is expected of them. It demonstrates how parents can transfer problems from their own childhood into this new relationship. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JHBK; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780765701367
- ISBN
- 9780765701367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.40
€ 72.40
Paperback. More and more men and women in China are having sex before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance, leisure and free choice. Farrer explores this change by tracing the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai. Series: Chicago Visual Library-French Popular Lithographic Imagery. Num Pages: 412 pages, 10 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFSJ; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226238715
- ISBN
- 9780226238715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.58
€ 36.99
€ 28.58
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 243 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810019387
- ISBN
- 9783810019387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.74
€ 58.74
paperback. Any attempt by governments to stem the tide of early retirement will need to focus as much on employers' management of human resources as on the impacts of social policy. This report focuses on this previously neglected area: employers' policies and practice as a dynamic force in retirement decisions. Series: Transitions After 50 Series. Num Pages: 52 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 52
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345844
- ISBN
- 9781861345844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.60
€ 25.99
€ 25.60
Paperback. Intends to recognize both the external and internal contexts in which distressed families find themselves. With its hallmark Contextual Model of Family Stress (CMFS), this edition provides practitioners and researchers with a useful framework to understand and help distressed individuals, couples, and families. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781452270005
- ISBN
- 9781452270005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 98.23
€ 98.23
Hardback. This volume examines class, gender and work in Tiruppur, South India, where export of knitted garments has been led by a networked fraternity of owners as hinging on their "toil". This book asks how these self-made men drew from their agrarian past to turn Gounder toil into capital. Num Pages: 408 pages, 24 tables, 28 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JFSF; JHBL; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 29. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748735
- ISBN
- 9780804748735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.56
€ 76.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 10 black and white line illustrations, 18 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: JHB; JPW; KJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199757855
- ISBN
- 9780199757855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.76
€ 58.76
Paperback. A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences. Editor(s): Creager, Angela N. H.; Lunbeck, Elizabeth; Wise, M. Norton. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340683
- ISBN
- 9780822340683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Paperback / so. Series: Organisationskommunikation. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, bibliography. BIC Classification: CBWJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer vs United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783658075316
- ISBN
- 9783658075316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.36
€ 80.36
Hardback. Presents a framework for understanding the ways in which the salient identities of gender, class position, race, sexuality, and other demographic characteristics function simultaneously to produce the outcomes we observe in the lives of individuals as integral forces in the maintenance of family. Editor(s): Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B.; Dickerson, Bette J. Series Editor(s): Demos, Vasilikie P.; Segal, Marcia Texler. Series: Advances in Gender Research. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781905357
- ISBN
- 9781781905357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.87
€ 145.87
Hardback. Follows the daily lives of rural women in the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, where maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive, from a range of castes and communities. This book develops an approach to access to care that focuses on various aspects. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHBF; JHBZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453107
- ISBN
- 9781845453107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.82
€ 166.82
Paperback. A structural and hermeneutic analysis of civil-military relations in Haiti. The equilibrium theory of civil-military relations developed here postulates that the stability of a political system capable of preventing military intervention is the result of three sets of balanced relationships. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349130481
- ISBN
- 9781349130481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.12
€ 63.12
Paperback. Series: Adolescent Lives S. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 graphs, 22 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSP2; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016149
- ISBN
- 9780674016149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.74
€ 41.99
€ 34.74
hardcover. Including personal letters to Kurt Wolff from Hannah Arendt and Hermann Bloch, this text portrays a fertile mind's reckoning with pre-phenomenal being in a way that dances between the realms of the intellectual consideration and the surrender of will to the intoxication of lived experience. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: BG; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739103906
- ISBN
- 9780739103906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.43
€ 116.43