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Paperback. De-stigmatization of sex work encourages efforts toward legal changes to create safe communities for all. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120059
ISBN
9781772120059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.90

Hardback. In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JHB; JHMC; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147871
ISBN
9780691147871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.53

Paperback. In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159652
ISBN
9780691159652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.33

Hardback. Num Pages: 329 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
329
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
SKU
KEX0201953
ISBN
9780231064804
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The field of science and technology studies has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. This book offers a collection of essays by leading scholars, showing how scientific knowledge embeds, and is embedded, in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Editor(s): Jasanoff, Sheila. Series: International Library of Sociology. Num Pages: 332 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415403290
ISBN
9780415403290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Paperback. In Queering Bathrooms, Sheila L. Cavanagh explores how public toilets demarcate the masculine and the feminine and condition ideas of gender and sexuality. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442610736
ISBN
9781442610736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.81

In Queering Bathrooms, Sheila L. Cavanagh explores how public toilets demarcate the masculine and the feminine and condition ideas of gender and sexuality. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442641549
ISBN
9781442641549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 102.15

paperback. The politics of parental leave policies addresses how and why, and by whom, particular policies are created and subsequently developed in particular countries. It examines the factors that bring about variations in leave policy, covering fifteen countries in Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Kamerman, Sheila B.; Moss, Peter. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JHBL; KCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847429032
ISBN
9781847429032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.02

Hardcover. The politics of parental leave policies addresses how and why, and by whom, particular policies are created and subsequently developed in particular countries. It examines the factors that bring about variations in leave policy, covering fifteen countries in Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Kamerman, Sheila B.; Moss, Peter. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 22. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
First
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847420671
ISBN
9781847420671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.96

Paperback. Offers a study of the Progressive movement, its reformers, their ideology, and the social circumstances they tried to change. This book contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072697
ISBN
9780252072697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.87

hardcover. The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how participants in the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes reflect their personal identities. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL; JHBL; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804752152
ISBN
9780804752152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.45

Hardcover. A compelling inquiry into the remaking of gender and sexuality in post-Mubarak Egypt Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 150. .
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774167478
ISBN
9789774167478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.82

Paperback. From pregnant virgins to desperate housewives, from fearless activists to religious firebrands, this title takes a fresh look at the sexual history of the Arab region and gives us an insight into everyday lives in a part of the world that is changing in front of our very eyes. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099526384
ISBN
9780099526384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.81

paperback. Razack's powerful critique of the Canadian settler state and its legal system speaks to many of today's most pressing issues of social justice. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFJ; JFSL9; JHBZ; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442628915
ISBN
9781442628915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.27

paperback. Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's gripping and riveting true story of the hospital doctors who struggled to survive and maintain life in a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; JFFC; JFFH; JHBZ; JKSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782393757
ISBN
9781782393757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. Series: Counterpoints Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education. Num Pages: 194 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JHB; JNA; JNF; JNKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820474311
ISBN
9780820474311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.17

Paperback. An explanation of what happens to us when we die. The author, a surgeon with more than 30 years' experience, describes in detail the processes which take place in the body and sets out to strip away many illusions about death. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ; PD; PSX; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099476412
ISBN
9780099476412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.81

Hardback. This encyclopedia contains over 300 entries alphabetically arranged for straightforward use by scholars and general readers alike. Thompson, assisted by a network of contributors and consultants, provides a comprehensive and systematic collection of designated entries that describe, in detail, important diversity and social justice themes. Num Pages: 816 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: GBC; JFS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 291 x 223 x 58. Weight in Grams: 2751.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
816
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442216044
ISBN
9781442216044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 384.86

Paperback. This volume illustrates the racial and ethnic variance in the United States and probes the issues that affect the various ethnic and racial groups, such as immigration and migration, health, crime and language. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHBD; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761991281
ISBN
9780761991281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801475870
ISBN
9780801475870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.95

Paperback. Applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book is suitable for students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work. Series: Gender Lens Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759101524
ISBN
9780759101524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.34

Paperback. A brief, affordable book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affects the concept of family today. Series: Contemporary Family Perspectives (CFP). Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781412998017
ISBN
9781412998017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 89.47

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 100 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 5HC; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 190 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stackpole Books United States
Edition
50th anniversary ed
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811705066
ISBN
9780811705066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.51

Hardcover. Editor(s): Shrivastava, Amresh; Kimbrell, Megan; Lester, David, PhD. Num Pages: 180 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 185 x 17. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619427754
ISBN
9781619427754
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 227.79
€ 152.62

Hardback. The chapters situate the cross-cutting power of the life-course in specific global historical contexts, so as to examine how reproductive cultures are influenced by demographic change, new technologies, migration and diaspora. Studies shed light on of the diverse ways in which nature, biology, kinship and gender have been understood. Editor(s): Pooley, Sian; Qureshi, Kaveri. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 276 pages, 11 figures. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785331503
ISBN
9781785331503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.51

Hardback. Editor(s): Plotkin, Sidney. Series: Anthem Companions to Sociology. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783082797
ISBN
9781783082797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.37

Hardcover.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Wayne State Univ Pr
Number of pages
543
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
1st ed
SKU
KEX0212656
ISBN
9780814319338
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 tables, 4 maps, 15 charts. BIC Classification: HBTV; HBW; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453175
ISBN
9780801453175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 tables, 4 maps, 15 charts. BIC Classification: HBTV; HBW; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801479625
ISBN
9780801479625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.06

Paperback. Siegfried Kracauer was one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. This book brings together Kracauer's essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933 as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung, as well as an essay that appeared in the Magazine of Art after the eminent emigre's exile to America. Num Pages: 160 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: AJ; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 163 x 6. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Diaphanes AG
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037346914
ISBN
9783037346914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.07

Hardback. Demonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Num Pages: 328 pages, 39, 18 black and white, 21 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFSJ; JHBK5; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 243 x 31. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010353
ISBN
9781847010353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 23 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 3. Weight in Grams: 78.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark
Number of pages
23
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9788790199807
ISBN
9788790199807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.99
€ 7.80

Hardback. Since the late 1960s, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. This book locates transnational adoption within a broad context of Western life, especially values concerning family, children and meaningful relatedness, and explores the many ambiguities and paradoxes that the practice entails. Num Pages: 260 pages, 6 ills, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845451844
ISBN
9781845451844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.07

Hardback. Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Wadauer, Sigrid; Buchner, Thomas; Mejstrik, Alexander. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 456 pages, 30 illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 758.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782385509
ISBN
9781782385509
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.54

Paperback. Editor(s): Tosse, Sigvart. Num Pages: 211 pages, references. BIC Classification: 1DN; JHBC; JNP; JNRV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 11. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Tapir Academic Press Norway
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9788251915465
ISBN
9788251915465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Autonomedia
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570270598
ISBN
9781570270598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.61

Hardcover. Where is sociology in contemporary media studies? How do sociological questions and arguments shape media analysis? These are the questions addressed in this timely collection on media sociology. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780745670553
ISBN
9780745670553
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.30

Paperback. Where is sociology in contemporary media studies? How do sociological questions and arguments shape media analysis? These are the questions addressed in this timely collection on media sociology. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745670560
ISBN
9780745670560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.19

Paperback. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 203 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFG; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
203
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814751343
ISBN
9780814751343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.05

Paperback. Discusses the nature and significance of Hitchens's contribution to the world of ideas and public debate Editor(s): Cottee, Simon; Cushman, Thomas; Hitchens, Christopher. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814716878
ISBN
9780814716878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.02