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Paperback. Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal--typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745603315
- ISBN
- 9780745603315
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Condition: New
€ 26.51
€ 26.51
Paperback. An authoritative overview of the theoretical and methodological problems of the study of professions. Develops a systematic ideal type for professionalism based on fundamental concepts of the sociology of work. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSC; JHBL; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745614465
- ISBN
- 9780745614465
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Condition: New
€ 26.10
€ 26.10
Hardcover. This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In assembling an international collection of quality VFR-related research the editors present the profiles, characteristics, opportunities and behaviours of VFR travel for the benefit of researchers, industry practitioners and educators. Editor(s): Backer, Elisa; King, Brian. Series: Aspects of Tourism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845415181
- ISBN
- 9781845415181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.76
€ 161.76
Hardcover. A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Editor(s): Anstett, Elisabeth; Dreyfus, Jean-Marc. Series Editor(s): Anstett, Elisabeth. Series: Human Remains and Violence. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HDW; JFFE; JKVF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719097560
- ISBN
- 9780719097560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.10
€ 164.10
Paperback. The traditional image of the family as a life-long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private life are changing rapidly, and people are embarking on new lifestyles based on cohabitation, separation and same-sex partnerships. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622149
- ISBN
- 9780745622149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.76
€ 22.76
The traditional image of the family as a life--long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private life are changing rapidly, and people are embarking on new lifestyles based on cohabitation, separation and same--sex partnerships. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622132
- ISBN
- 9780745622132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.71
€ 73.71
paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719038273
- ISBN
- 9780719038273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.21
€ 26.21
Paperback. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief are part of our common understanding of bereavement. This book is suitable for those with an interest in bereavement or the five stages of grief. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415463997
- ISBN
- 9780415463997
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.83
€ 41.99
€ 41.83
Paperback. Explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s. This title describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFSJ; JHBL; JPS; KCF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231115612
- ISBN
- 9780231115612
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
€ 38.99
€ 28.12
Paperback. With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political order. Series: What is Sociology?. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745691619
- ISBN
- 9780745691619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.79
€ 21.79
Hardcover. With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political order. Series: What is Sociology?. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745691602
- ISBN
- 9780745691602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.55
€ 57.55
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447300922
- ISBN
- 9781447300922
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.79
€ 35.99
€ 33.79
Hardback. The book aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to live, love, form a family without sex, without children, without a shared home, without a partner, without a working husband, without a heterosexual orientation or without a "biological" sexual body. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447300939
- ISBN
- 9781447300939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.80
€ 93.80
Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 offers a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of serfdom's codification until its abolition following the Crimean War. Series: Blackwell History of Russia. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405134576
- ISBN
- 9781405134576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.23
€ 144.23
Paperback. This study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; GTB; JHBD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618156
- ISBN
- 9780748618156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.05
€ 37.05
Paperback. The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction examines the uncanny properties of the maternal function in psychoanalysis, technology, and literature in order to show that the event of birth is radically unthinkable and often becomes expressed through uncontrollable repetitions that exceed the bounds of any subject. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823240562
- ISBN
- 9780823240562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.23
€ 45.99
€ 40.23
Paperback. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and concern over whether college is worth it, this is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful expose of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it." Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JNKS; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088023
- ISBN
- 9780674088023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.74
€ 27.99
€ 23.74
Paperback. Examines how alternative social worlds and projects generate new possibilities of life in the context of ordinary and extraordinary acts of neglect and surveillance Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 table, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPFK; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350842
- ISBN
- 9780822350842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. Despite increased economic opportunities for women, sexual commerce has not only thrived in the Western world, it has diversified along technological, spatial, and social lines. This work paints a picture of the state of global sexual commerce and its relationship to a burgeoning consumer culture. Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender & Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 halftones, 6 maps, 6 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFMX; JHBL; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044583
- ISBN
- 9780226044583
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.58
€ 36.99
€ 28.58
Paperback. This book addresses fundamental questions about marriage in moral and political philosophy. It examines promise, commitment, care, and contract to argue that marriage is not morally transformative. It argues that marriage discriminates against other forms of caring relationships and that, legally, restrictions on entry should be minimized. Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHBK; LNMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199774135
- ISBN
- 9780199774135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.13
€ 47.13
Paperback. Editor(s): Pike, Elizabeth C. J.; Beames, Simon. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JHBS; WSE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415532679
- ISBN
- 9780415532679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.99
€ 60.99
Paperback. Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, Looking for Bosnia is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to extreme political violence in the context of the Bosnian war. Series Editor(s): Lawler, Peter; Guittet, Emmanuel-Pierre. Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; HPQ; JHBC; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719076152
- ISBN
- 9780719076152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.34
€ 31.34
Paperback. Explores how members of Guanajuato's Santa Fe Cooperative, Mexico's cooperatively owned silver mine, give meaning to their labor in an era of globalization and neoliberalism. This work analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio in their understanding of work, kinship, and morality. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHBL; KCF; KNAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231132398
- ISBN
- 9780231132398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.75
€ 41.99
€ 29.75
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSP31; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 253 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442215504
- ISBN
- 9781442215504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.63
€ 71.63