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Hardcover. Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral. This groundbreaking collection by Alison Jaggar brings gender to the centre of philosophical debates about global justice. Editor(s): Jaggar, Alison M. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780745663760
- ISBN
- 9780745663760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.44
€ 69.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Benedek, Wolfgang; Benoit-Rohmer, Florence; Karl, Wolfram; Nowak, Manfred. Num Pages: 467 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH; LB; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Intersentia
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780681030
- ISBN
- 9781780681030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.89
€ 90.89
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620970751
- ISBN
- 9781620970751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.86
€ 36.99
€ 32.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780801444180
- ISBN
- 9780801444180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.87
€ 81.87
Hardback. Illustrates the sophistication and effectiveness of Martin Luther King, Jr, one of America's best-known advocates for peace and justice, and the organizations he led. This book also look into the surprising emergence of the sit-in protests that sparked the social struggles of the 1960s. Editor(s): Carson, Clayborne; Armstrong, Tenisha; Carson, Susan; Clay, Adrienne; Taylor, Kieran. Num Pages: 703 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 183 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1665.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 703
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242395
- ISBN
- 9780520242395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.50€ 55.51
€ 72.50
€ 55.51
paperback. Focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. This book identifies and explains the criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKV; JPV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781593453343
- ISBN
- 9781593453343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.49
€ 58.49
Paperback. Argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. Series Editor(s): Lawler, Peter; Guittet, Emmanuel-Pierre. Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719063930
- ISBN
- 9780719063930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.98
€ 31.98
Paperback. Through an examination of the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicine in Central America, this book considers whether health is a human right or a commodity, and whether human rights advocacy is an antidote to the advance of neoliberal social policy or the very vehicle through which it now advances. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; JPVH; KCLT; LNR; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785617
- ISBN
- 9780804785617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.49
€ 29.99
€ 26.49
Hardback. Addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. This book shows how 'a woman's place' in late-nineteenth-century Japan was characterized by contradictions and unexpected consequences, by new opportunities and new constraints. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056053
- ISBN
- 9780674056053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 36.51
€ 44.99
€ 36.51
paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 6 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; JH; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Human Rights Watch United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564322609
- ISBN
- 9781564322609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.92
€ 11.99
€ 11.92
Hardback. In this text, the authors take on the corporate educators, media monopolies and oil companies. They show how corporate-produced curricula, films and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence and compassion in order to sell the public on policies. Series: Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742516342
- ISBN
- 9780742516342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.81
€ 183.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Midlo Hall, Gwendolyn. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGHA; JFSL3; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679065
- ISBN
- 9780816679065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.83
€ 29.99
€ 26.83
Paperback. In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. This book traces the trajectory of the suffrage story against backdrop of changing attitudes to politics, citizenship and gender, and the resultant tensions over such issues as slavery and abolitionism, sexuality and religion, and class and politics. Num Pages: 318 pages, all halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780814719015
- ISBN
- 9780814719015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Offensive street speech - racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened - is common in our society. This title argues that racist and sexist speech creates, reproduces, and reinforces systems of hierarchy in public places. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH2; LAB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126104
- ISBN
- 9780691126104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.25
€ 45.99
€ 32.25
Hardcover. Editor(s): Blade, William A. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: GBA; GBCR; JPVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 179 x 22. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590334843
- ISBN
- 9781590334843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.54€ 61.15
€ 80.54
€ 61.15
Hardback. Aims to facilitate and support national and international efforts to empower women in the Middle East and North Africa. This study presents a comparative evaluation of women's rights in 17 selected countries and territories through a set of numerical scores, analytical narrative reports, and vital statistics. Series: Freedom in the World. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742549913
- ISBN
- 9780742549913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.18
€ 166.18
Hardcover. Explores the range of ways in which the poor mobilise to claim their rights and demand accountability, and the strategies they use towards the state, the private sector, international institutions and within civil society itself. Editor(s): Newell, Peter; Wheeler, Joanna. Series: Claiming Citizenship. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781842775547
- ISBN
- 9781842775547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.47
€ 89.47
Hardback. A biography of Carl Schurz, a German who took part in the 1848 revolution. He then went to America, where his ethnic connections enabled him to enter politics. He eventually became Secretary of the Interior. This book sheds light on the problems of immigration and the retention of ethnic identity. Series: North's Civil War. Num Pages: 386 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- V9780823218547
- ISBN
- 9780823218547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.59
€ 105.59
Paperback. Citizens are political simpletons - that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. This title brings together the political scientists, who offer insights into the political thinking of the public, the causes of party polarization, and the paradoxical relationship between turnout and democratic representation. Editor(s): Sniderman, Paul M.; Highton, Benjamin. Num Pages: 416 pages, 28 line illus. 53 tables. BIC Classification: JPHV; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691151113
- ISBN
- 9780691151113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 38.06
€ 53.99
€ 38.06
Hardback. Num Pages: 345 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; JPVH; LNTM1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 263 x 23. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634849333
- ISBN
- 9781634849333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 245.10€ 183.25
€ 245.10
€ 183.25
Hardback. Explores the strategies behind some of the most innovative human rights campaigns and exciting human rights victories of recent years. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804774505
- ISBN
- 9780804774505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.16
€ 129.16
Paperback. Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this book offers advice for the practitioner on how to translate abstract rights theory into their everyday practice. It will be a useful source of guidance and advice for professionals working across the human services. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFM; JKSN; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843104865
- ISBN
- 9781843104865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.48
€ 33.48
Paperback. Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? This book highlights campaigns to persuade the human rights movement to move beyond traditional concerns and embrace pressing new ones. Its analytic framework and case studies reveal critical strategies and conflicts involved in the struggle for new rights. Editor(s): Bob, Clifford. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221299
- ISBN
- 9780812221299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.74
€ 33.99
€ 30.74
Paperback. This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject. Pettit develops an argument as to what it is that makes someone free in that basic sense; and then goes on to derive the implications of the approach for issues of freedom in political theory. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3. BIC Classification: JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620947
- ISBN
- 9780745620947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.73
€ 23.73