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Latin America
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil: From Racial Democ...
Alexandre Emboaba da Costa
Hardcover. This book examines Black Brazilian political struggle in a moment characterized by the intermingling of post-racial ideologies and multicultural policies in the Americas. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386335
- ISBN
- 9781137386335
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€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this volume paints a picture of the ever-changing context of Mexican intellectualism. Editor(s): Castillo, Debra A.; Day, Stuart A. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADSL; 3JJP; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392282
- ISBN
- 9781137392282
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€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international law has constructed to mark, judge, understand, and repair the horror. Series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSU; JHB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394149
- ISBN
- 9781137394149
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization. Translator(s): Rosenberg, Andrea. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH; JFFH2; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394989
- ISBN
- 9781137394989
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the emergence of left-wing politics in two of the largest South American nations: Argentina and Brazil. It looks in particular at the transformation of democracy seen as "point of arrival" into democracy seen as an unending struggle for greater equality. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSB; JPFF; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395016
- ISBN
- 9781137395016
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. The Future BRICS provides in depth quantitative and qualitative questions and answers about the future of the BRICS Forum as a synergistic economic alliance and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing international debate about the economic future and sustainability of the emerging markets in general. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FKA; 1FPC; 1HFMS; 1KLSB; KCL; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396433
- ISBN
- 9781137396433
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model. Num Pages: 222 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399205
- ISBN
- 9781137399205
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Through a paired comparison of two moments of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina, focusing on the role of different actors involved, this text maps out a multi-layered sequence of events leading up to mass mobilization. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 1KLSA; 3JMC; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409768
- ISBN
- 9781137409768
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Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how transcultural practices can enhance the use and maintenance of indigenous and minority languages. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; CFB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412423
- ISBN
- 9781137412423
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 2AB; 2ADS; AV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433329
- ISBN
- 9781137433329
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This timely and interdisciplinary volume analyzes the many impacts of and contrasting responses to the Argentine political, economic, and social crises of 2001-02. Chapters offer original theoretical models and examine the relationship between political, cultural, economic, and societal spheres. Editor(s): Wylde, Christopher; Ozarow, Daniel; Levey, Cara. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 265 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; JFC; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434258
- ISBN
- 9781137434258
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. An analysis of the new physical presence of Chinese companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean, the associated challenges that they face, and how they are impacting the region and its relationship with the PRC. Series: The Political Economy of East Asia. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KL; JPB; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439765
- ISBN
- 9781137439765
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. The book examines the 'Pink Tide' of leftist governments in Latin America struggling against neoliberal hegemony from a critical International Political Economy perspective. Focusing particularly on Venezuela and Brazil, it evaluates the transformative and emancipatory potentials of their political projects domestically, regionally and globally. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPFF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444677
- ISBN
- 9781137444677
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Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40
Hardcover. Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones. Editor(s): Robbins, Timothy R.; Gonzalez, Jose Eduardo. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444707
- ISBN
- 9781137444707
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. Labor Relations in New Democracies explores how democratization has changed the material and political fortunes of workers in the new democracies of Europe, Latin America, and East Asia. It also examines how workers have responded to their newly found environment. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FP; 1KL; JPS; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137445636
- ISBN
- 9781137445636
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Condition: New
€ 38.21
€ 38.21
Hardback. Series: Euro-Asian Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNN; 1DVUA; 1FCZ; 1KLSB; JPS; KCM; KCN; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447852
- ISBN
- 9781137447852
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Institutions and Small Settler Economies provides a comprehensive improvement in our understanding of institutional contributions to economic growth. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSU; 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJ; KCG; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137448286
- ISBN
- 9781137448286
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Paperback. Drawing from her years of activism and anthropological scholarship, influential thinker Marta Lama offers invaluable insight into the theoretical and political tensions that have shaped Mexican feminism and the world at large. This important book covers topics such as the political development of the feminist movement and affirmative action. Translator(s): Pluecker, John. Series: Theory in the World. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3J; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 234.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137449863
- ISBN
- 9781137449863
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Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Hardcover. This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in each case. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 1KLSR; JPB; JPH; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453549
- ISBN
- 9781137453549
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Chapters establish a productive dialog between Peru and social science theory, focusing on insituional weakness and exclusion (economic, social, gendered, racial). Editor(s): Drinot, Paulo. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455253
- ISBN
- 9781137455253
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and denounce crimes against human, ethnic, cultural and economic rights. Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict. Num Pages: 222 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JMC; HRAM2; JFFE; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461834
- ISBN
- 9781137461834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardback. Editor(s): Grivoyannis, Elias C. Num Pages: 331 pages, 138 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462961
- ISBN
- 9781137462961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.66
€ 161.66
Hardcover. Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; KCB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465269
- ISBN
- 9781137465269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.18
€ 141.18
Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry
Castellanos, Sara G.; Del Angel, Gustavo A.; ...
Hardback. Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KC; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465283
- ISBN
- 9781137465283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.36
€ 127.36