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Relative Strangers: Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception
C. SmartCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life...
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Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions
G. SmithCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and cl...
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Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume exam...
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Fiqh al-Aqalliyy?t: History, Development, and Progress
S. HassanCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establis...
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The Lost Leaders: How Corporate America Loses Women Leaders
R. HeppnerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The Lost Leaders presents the personal stories of women who achieved success in corporate leadership, but have chosen to abandon their careers, pro...
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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance
Timothy JenkinsCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on cognitive dissonance seeks to answer this questi...
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Critical Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...
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Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, addresses f...
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Ecocriticism and Women Writers: Environmentalist Poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith
J. KostkowskaCurrent price €128.69Original price €142.99Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of mult...
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Critical Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...
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Shaping Chinas Global Imagination: Branding Nations at the World Expo
J. WangCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A comprehensive discussion of how countries embrace branding as a crucial element in their pursuit of soft power and why certain nation-branding ef...
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The Political Economy of South Asian Diaspora: Patterns of Socio-Economic Influence
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99The South Asian diaspora is a diverse group who settled in different parts of the world, often concentrated in developed countries. This volume exp...
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The Transnational Governance of Violence and Crime: Non-State Actors in Security
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Building upon a range of case studies that range from civil war to maritime security and cyber crime, the contributors analyse how non-state actors...
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Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life: Smart Utopia?
Y. StrengersCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and ...
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Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City
C. KihatoCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kih...
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Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks
R. TsagarousianouCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, ...
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Childhood and Biopolitics: Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures
N. LeeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human e...
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The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The Formation and Diffusion of a Saintly Cult, c. 300-c. 800
J. ArnoldCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, ...
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Understanding Sex and Relationship Education, Youth and Class: A Youth Work-Led Approach
S. ElleyCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book sets out an original Youth Work-based SRE programme and explores how a range of socioeconomic, cultural and sexual norms, values and atti...
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Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International
B. DohertyCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a ...
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Emigration Nations: Policies and Ideologies of Emigrant Engagement
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to e...
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Geopolitical Change, Grand Strategy and European Security: The EU-NATO Conundrum
L. SimonCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Examining the interplay between geopolitics, the strategic priorities of Europe's most powerful nations, Britain, Germany and France, and the evolu...
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Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This volume scrutinizes new developments in contemporary mobility and migration politics and shows that they are based on a mix of traditional coer...
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Global Sport-for-Development: Critical Perspectives
Daryl AdairCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, prob...
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