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Geography
Hardback. Many Europeans think that town twinning has greatly contributed to integration in Europe after the Second World War. This book, based on observations and interviews with twinning practitioners in small towns, reveals the social and cultural processes that inform twinning as a transnational practice, its perspectives and its limits. Series: Europe in a Global Context. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFS; JFSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137021229
- ISBN
- 9781137021229
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality. Editor(s): Burrell, Kathy; Horschelmann, Kathrin. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; JFFN; JPFF; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137267283
- ISBN
- 9781137267283
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Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardcover. The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. These are the most notable attempts at building new eco-cities to both face up to the 'crises' of the modern world and to use the city as an engine for transition to a low-carbon economy. Num Pages: 145 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCN; KCU; RG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298751
- ISBN
- 9781137298751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.48
€ 63.48
Hardcover. This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia. By taking the political agency of migrants into account, it approaches the subject of borders as a genuine political and socially constructed phenomenon and transcends a state-centered perspective. Editor(s): Schwenken, Helen; Russ-Sattar, Sabine. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JPVH1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326621
- ISBN
- 9781137326621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardcover. This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and debates relevant to contemporary social science such as place and space, social stratification and power relations, production and consumption, individualism, dwelling and imagination. Editor(s): Benson, Michaela; Osbaldiston, Nick. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JFSL; JHBD; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328663
- ISBN
- 9781137328663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardback. This collection analyses various European rural locations through a relational lens, attending to key aspects and dimensions of the 'relational rurals' such as cooperation, contestation, solidarity and consensus. By observing rural settings in such terms, contributors are able to rethink European rurality from a distinctly relational perspective. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFS; JFSF; RGC; TTVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348883
- ISBN
- 9781137348883
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Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Hardcover. Soil degradation is real and global, even if the evidence is not so easy to glean. Degradation poses comparable risks to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and nonhuman animal extinctions. Few have noticed soil degradation as the problem it has become, except most indigenous peoples in their struggles for survival. Series: Environmental Politics and Theory. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBGB; RGB; RNA; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358219
- ISBN
- 9781137358219
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.32
€ 122.32
Hardcover. This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its legacy, the impacts of neoliberal urban policy in reshaping the city, public resistance to the new urban policy and highlights salient points to be drawn from the Irish experience of neoliberalism. Editor(s): MacLaran, Andrew; Kelly, Sinead. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFSG; JPFK; JPRB; RGL; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377043
- ISBN
- 9781137377043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.19
€ 123.19
Hardcover. This collection focuses on technology-driven changes in democracy and civic engagement in the design and development of the 'smart city', exploring new urban literacies and emergent social practices. Editor(s): Araya, Daniel. Num Pages: 288 pages, 43. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFSG; JPFK; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377197
- ISBN
- 9781137377197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.22
€ 144.22
Hardcover. What can 'assemblage' thinking contribute to the study of international relations theory? This study seeks to investigate how the various debates on assemblages in social theory can contribute to generating critical considerations on the connections and dissociation of political agency, physical world and international dynamics. Editor(s): Acuto, Michele. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPS; RGC; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383952
- ISBN
- 9781137383952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.58
€ 79.58
Hardcover. Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JFFS; JNKS; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388506
- ISBN
- 9781137388506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests: Alternative Ontologies for F...
Veijola, Soile, Germann Molz, Jennie, Pyyhtin...
Hardcover. This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying to manage sustainability or tidy up tourist situations, the authors embrace the messiness of human relations and argue for more creative, embodied and ethical ontologies of tourism and mobility. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; KNSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399496
- ISBN
- 9781137399496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization
. Ed(S): Lang, Thilo; Henn, Sebastian; Sgibne...
Hardback. This book presents a multifaceted perspective on regional development and corresponding processes of adaptation and response, focusing on the concepts of polarization and peripheralization. It discusses theoretical and empirical foundations and presents several compelling case studies from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Lang, Thilo; Henn, Sebastian; Sgibnev, Wladimir; Ehrlich, Kornelia. Series: New Geographies of Europe. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JFFJ; JHBD; RGC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415073
- ISBN
- 9781137415073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.51
€ 123.51
Hardback. Num Pages: 302 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JHBC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430762
- ISBN
- 9781137430762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.41
€ 112.41
Hardback. This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia. Num Pages: 209 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434227
- ISBN
- 9781137434227
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Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardback. Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities explores learning, health, mobility, and play as climate capabilities and produces new insights into the depth of climate change impact on social life. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; RGC; RNPG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436276
- ISBN
- 9781137436276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
hardcover. This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn examines the relations between human happiness and the infrastructure of the places they live. This thought-provoking book argues for the overlooked idea that we are happiest in smaller areas. Num Pages: 136 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHBD; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436320
- ISBN
- 9781137436320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.21
€ 111.21
Hardcover. Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTW; PDX; RGY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438720
- ISBN
- 9781137438720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.21
€ 65.21
Hardcover. 'Euro-commuters' have emerged as a new group of migrants since the onset of the economic crisis in the EU. These people work in one country but live in another. This book analyses the characteristics of these migrants, their motivations and how commuting influences their personal, family and social lives. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBK; JHBL; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137449450
- ISBN
- 9781137449450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Migration and Worker Fatalities Abroad (Mobility and Politics)
Ullah, Akm Ahsan, Hossain, Mallik, Islam, Kaz...
Hardcover. This book investigates the alarming of fatalities among migrant workers. The authors argue that migrant workers are often powerless and unprotected by national laws, unearthing new truths on migrant workers as significant economic players. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FM; JFFN; KCM; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137451170
- ISBN
- 9781137451170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964-...
Williamson, Adrian; Levitt, Annette Shandler
Hardback. In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; KC; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 395
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137460257
- ISBN
- 9781137460257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.39
€ 155.39
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; JFC; JHB; JPQB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475220
- ISBN
- 9781137475220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.73
€ 111.73
Hardback. The chapters in this volume represent diverse attempts to explain women's movements from rural areas, taking prevailing market conditions as well as gender relations into account. The analysis of the different working and living conditions in different parts of rural Europe reveals distinct obstacles but also prospects for young women. Editor(s): Wiest, Karin. Series: New Geographies of Europe. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFSF; JFSJ1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483034
- ISBN
- 9781137483034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Hardback. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 303 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; RGC; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487711
- ISBN
- 9781137487711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.27
€ 144.27