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Hardcover. This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBK; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594432
- ISBN
- 9780230594432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardcover. This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594456
- ISBN
- 9780230594456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.81
€ 64.81
Hardcover. This book uses new imagery - the metaphor of sugar - to highlight how race, class, and gender are produced, used, experienced, and 'digested' in our human and institutional bodies. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600935
- ISBN
- 9780230600935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Paperback. In this compelling narrative Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world. In her travels around the world, Piontelli has studied the role of twins, especially throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific rim, observing different cultural perspectives and how differing societies treat them. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605978
- ISBN
- 9780230605978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.63
€ 63.63
Hardcover. This work explores matrophobia - the fear not of one's mother or of motherhood but of becoming one's mother - in past and present white feminist analyses of motherhood and mothering. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608634
- ISBN
- 9780230608634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. As many can attest, the prevalence of sexual imagery has increased in modern society over the past half century. In this timely new study, Kenneth Kammeyer traces the historical development of sexual imagery in America and society's preoccupation with it, all within a firm theoretical and sociological framework Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; JFD; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609426
- ISBN
- 9780230609426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.63
€ 64.63
Hardcover. This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society. Issues addressed include: sexuality and the curriculum, theories of the family, critiques of postmodernism, socialist feminism, and activist tactics/strategies for organizing in K-12 settings. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JNA; JNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410. Sexuality and Schooling. Series: Marxism and Education. 268 pages. This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society. Issues addressed include: sexuality and the curriculum, theories of the family, critiques of postmodernism, socialist feminism, and activist tactics/strategies for organizing in K-12 settings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JNA; JNH. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616080
- ISBN
- 9780230616080
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Condition: New
€ 50.85€ 45.42
€ 50.85
€ 45.42
Hardcover. The authors argue that women gamers, too often ignored as gamers, are in many respects leading the way in this trend towards design, cultural production, new learning communities, and the combination of technical proficiency with emotional and social intelligence. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; UGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623415
- ISBN
- 9780230623415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.85€ 45.42
€ 50.85
€ 45.42
Num Pages: 191 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 149. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231031509
- ISBN
- 9780231031509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.27
€ 122.27
Num Pages: 428 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231038737
- ISBN
- 9780231038737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.30
€ 126.30
Num Pages: 643 pages, Illustrations, maps,plans. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 643
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231060806
- ISBN
- 9780231060806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.98
€ 184.98
Paperback. Assembles papers from leading academics and professionals on the subject of the recent trend toward qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to best capture the context and complexity of social work practice. Editor(s): Sherman, Edmund; Reid, William J. Num Pages: 520 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JHBC; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080330
- ISBN
- 9780231080330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 85.26
€ 85.26
Paperback. Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the world. Contributors look beyond each society's "official" institutions to explore expressions of love, offering new perspectives on arranged marriages and polygamy and reexaminging as well the other side of the equation: rejection and grief. Editor(s): Jankowiak, William R. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JHM; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231096874
- ISBN
- 9780231096874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.48
€ 46.48
Paperback. This book is one of the most successful examples in the Africanist literature of placing structures in time. It presents a detailed description of the politics of production in Maale during 1975 against a completed past of Imperial Ethiopian history and an uncertain future of revolutionary socialism. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; JHBL; JHM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231100472
- ISBN
- 9780231100472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.55
€ 51.55
Paperback. Through the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS, this text explores the ways in which HIV affects personal, family and work relationships. It draws on the experinces of black and white, heterosexual and gay, women and men with or without symtoms who show how they work through everyday life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JHBK; JHBL; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231101219
- ISBN
- 9780231101219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.08
€ 49.08
This introductory textbook on research methods in social work places emphasis on research as a natural corollary to practice. The text takes readers step-by-step through the process of developing a practical agenda for such projects. Num Pages: 446 pages, 2 halftones, 0 color illus., 3 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JHBC; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1271.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 446
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231108126
- ISBN
- 9780231108126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 104.79
€ 104.79
Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being
. Ed(S): Walton, Elaine; Sandau-Beckler, Patr...
Paperback. With contributions ranging from academic and professional theorists and policy developers to independent social workers, this book explores the development of family-centred services, the processes by which they are implemented, problems in the field, and prospects for the future. Editor(s): Walton, Elaine; Sandau-Beckler, Patricia; Mannes, Marc. Num Pages: 488 pages, 6 line cuts. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231112833
- ISBN
- 9780231112833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.21
€ 66.21
The first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the broader issues of social movements, politics, and law. Editor(s): Bernstein, Mary; Reimann, Renate. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSK; JHBK; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231116909
- ISBN
- 9780231116909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 150.99
€ 150.99
Paperback. The first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the broader issues of social movements, politics, and law. Editor(s): Bernstein, Mary; Reimann, Renate. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSK; JHBK; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231116916
- ISBN
- 9780231116916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.65
€ 52.65
Paperback. In cities across the US, grass-roots organizations are working to revitalize popular participation in disenfranchised communities by bringing ordinary people into public life. This book examines the techniques used to achieve these goals. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBA; JKS; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126731
- ISBN
- 9780231126731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.84
€ 49.84
In 1986, the author decided to resist the steady march of fast food and all that it represents when he organized a protest against the building of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome. This book is an expression of the organization's goal of engendering social reform through the transformation of our attitudes about food and eating. Editor(s): Petrini, Carlo. Translator(s): McCuaig, William. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 176 pages, 5 photos. BIC Classification: JHBS; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128445
- ISBN
- 9780231128445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.89
€ 70.89
Paperback. An unorthodox defense of the multiculture. This book examines and defends multiculturalism within the context of the post-9/11 "politics of security." It adapts the concept of melancholia from its Freudian origins and applies it not to individual grief but to the social pathology of neoimperialist politics. Series: Wellek Library Lectures S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL4; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134552
- ISBN
- 9780231134552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.03
€ 26.99
€ 23.03
Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 illus.; 4 tables. BIC Classification: JHB; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231141260
- ISBN
- 9780231141260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 109.29
€ 109.29
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. Editor(s): Calhoun, Craig. Series: A Columbia / SSRC Book. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151122
- ISBN
- 9780231151122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.35
€ 84.35