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Paperback. Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JHBL; JPFF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592131976
ISBN
9781592131976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.81

paperback. Describes the government's efforts to persuade retailers and clothing companies to participate in private monitoring programs. This work shows the different approaches to monitoring that firms have taken, and the variety of private monitors employed, from large accounting companies to local non-profits. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b/w illustrations, 8 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781592132560
ISBN
9781592132560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.65

Paperback. Details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. This title tells us how the great American thirst developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some of which, the author says, were "comic masterpieces of the legislator's art") sprang up to combat it. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBT; WBXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592132690
ISBN
9781592132690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.70

Paperback. Examines the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the world. This book provides multidimensional perspectives on the science and the politics of environmental and social justice, documenting the efforts of community and labour activists, government agencies, and others. Editor(s): Smith, Ted; Sonnenfeld, David; Pellow, David N. Num Pages: 376 pages, 37 b&w illustrations, 27 tables, 3 maps, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592133307
ISBN
9781592133307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134588
ISBN
9781592134588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.43

paperback. Taking a look at white supremacy, this work argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. This work shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. It also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to US culture. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Revised, Expanded ed.
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134946
ISBN
9781592134946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. Tells how collective memories of troubled pasts emerge in public discourse and how these memories shape the representation of events. This work explores relationships among political leaders, journalists, and citizens, and explores how competing frameworks of memory are synthesized or abandoned in response to power relationships and events. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JHMP; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5346 x 3564 x 407. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134977
ISBN
9781592134977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.65

Hardcover. How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals Series Editor(s): Arluke, Arnold; Sanders, Clinton R. Series: Animals, Culture, & Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHBL; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592136483
ISBN
9781592136483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.71

Paperback. The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America Num Pages: 286 pages, 30 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFG; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592136988
ISBN
9781592136988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.86

Paperback. Offering an introduction to and an overview of postwar social science in the United States, this title explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology's professional identity. It contends that from the late 1940s through the early 1960s leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592137145
ISBN
9781592137145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.65

Paperback. Writing over three decades and featuring many essays that have not been in wide circulation, the author draws from political science, cultural anthropology, sociology, and history to provide a configurative analysis of and long-term approach to the cultural diversity in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 376 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592138326
ISBN
9781592138326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.70

Hardcover. Public toilets provide an opportunity for interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology are formed in public spaces and inscribed through design across cultures. This collection also explores the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public toilets as gendered spaces. Editor(s): Gershenson, Olga; Penner, Barbara. Num Pages: 262 pages, 33 Halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 534. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592139392
ISBN
9781592139392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.23

Paperback. Public toilets provide an opportunity for interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology are formed in public spaces and inscribed through design across cultures. This collection also explores the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public toilets as gendered spaces. Editor(s): Gershenson, Olga; Penner, Barbara. Num Pages: 262 pages, 33 Halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592139408
ISBN
9781592139408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.76

Hardback. Explores the fresh paradigms of 'religious economics' and 'economies of religion' under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. This title examines and appraises some of the theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and social sciences. Editor(s): Obadia, Lionel; Wood, Donald C. Series Editor(s): Wood, Donald C. Series: Research in Economic Anthropology. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781780522289
ISBN
9781780522289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.46

Hardback. Considers how diverse types of communities influence organizations, as well as the associated benefit of developing an accounting for community processes in organizational theory. This title focuses on social proximity and networks that has characterized the work on communities. Editor(s): Marquis, Chris; Lounsbury, Michael; Greenwood, Royston. Series Editor(s): Lounsbury, Michael. Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Num Pages: 363 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
363
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780522845
ISBN
9781780522845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD; JFSL3; JHB; KNTX1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198312
ISBN
9781845198312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.68

Hardcover. Presents a series of papers focused on the complex dynamics of coalitions and the interorganizational relations within social movements. This volume includes a section, which focuses on strategic decision making in social movements, including with regard to strategic alliances. Editor(s): Coy, Patrick G. Series: Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. Num Pages: 372 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781846638923
ISBN
9781846638923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.54

Hardcover. There is abundant evidence of the quasi-total domination of the sociology and anthropology of tourism by academics from the English-speaking world. This title familiarises readers in the US, UK, Australia and the English speaking regions of Africa and Asia with such evolutionary thinking. Editor(s): Dann, Graham; Parrinello, Giuli Liebman. Series: Tourism Social Science Series. Num Pages: 484 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781846639883
ISBN
9781846639883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.55

Hardback. Broadly speaking, academic tourism research comes in two main shapes - why and how to. Both traditions seem unable to ever meet and their trajectory reminds of scissors agape. This title argues that tourism research finds itself in a serious scissors crisis. It reflects on how the crisis came about and looks at its effect on the real world. Editor(s): Aramberri, Julio (Drexel University). Series Editor(s): Jafari, Jafar. Series: Tourism Social Science Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 757.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848552388
ISBN
9781848552388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.80

Hardback. In this volume, childhood is conceived as a structural feature of society and comparable across time and cultures. Such perspectives have been relatively under-represented in the "New Sociology of Childhood," which has tended both to stress children's agency and to favour ethnographic methods of inquiry. Editor(s): Qvortrup, Jens. Series: Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848557321
ISBN
9781848557321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.19

Hardback. Addresses questions about how feminist scholars conceptualize gender and view it in relationship to other attributes of individuals and of social systems. This book strives for intersectional analyses broadening that approach beyond the gender, race and class paradigm to include sexuality, employing a variety of methodologies. Editor(s): Demos, Vasilikie P.; Segal, Marcia Texler. Series Editor(s): Demos, Vasilikie P. Series: Advances in Gender Research. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848557529
ISBN
9781848557529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.95

Hardback. Deals with Social Sources of Disparities in Health and Health Care. This title reviews basic material on the topic. It includes five articles, three focused on racial and ethnic factors in disparities and two on those factors and other social factors such as SES. Editor(s): Kronenfeld, Jennie. Series Editor(s): Kronenfeld, Jennie. Series: Research in the Sociology of Health Care. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848558342
ISBN
9781848558342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.19

Hardback. Places emphasis on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis. This also emphasises on the increasingly questionable possibility of shared knowledge at a time of increasing fragmentation of common frameworks, distraction from key issues, and dilution of the idea of objectivity. Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; RNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849506052
ISBN
9781849506052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.89

Hardback. It is time to consider changes in the field of comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to accommodate old and new trends as well as the transforming spatial scales in which political power and social theory are increasingly embedded. This title showcases articles that pursue similar themes. Editor(s): Davis, Diane E.; Go, Julian. Series: Political Power and Social Theory. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849506670
ISBN
9781849506670
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.61

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