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The Americas
Hardcover. This book provides a study of the American anti-imperialist movement during its most active years of opposition to US foreign policy, from 1898 to 1909. It re-evaluates the movement's motives and operations throughout these years by evaluating the way in which Americans conceived the idea of 'liberty.' Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002563
- ISBN
- 9781137002563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-incarceration: A Nonviolen...
Mikulich, Alex, Cassidy, Laurie, Pfeil, Marga...
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002860
- ISBN
- 9781137002860
Hardback
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€ 66.70
€ 66.70
The Politics of Sex Trafficking: A Moral Geography (Critical Criminolo...
O'Brien, Erin, Hayes, Sharon, Carpenter, Beli...
Hardcover. This book offers a unique insight into the moral politics behind human trafficking policy in Australia and the USA, including rare interviews with key political actors, and a critical account of Congressional and Parliamentary hearings. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; HPQ; JFMX; JKVM; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003386
- ISBN
- 9781137003386
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Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. This book explores the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the first two decades following World War II, uncovering the ways scientific and cultural discourses of 'race' continued to circulate in the early period of contemporary globalization through the lens on UNESCO. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003836
- ISBN
- 9781137003836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. America and Rogue States narrates and analyzes the US relationship with the main nuclear-threatening, terrorist-sponsoring outcast states during the last two decades. Series: American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006394
- ISBN
- 9781137006394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the country's transitions to a democratic political system and a free-market economy. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJPR; 3JM; APF; JP; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008060
- ISBN
- 9781137008060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Paperback. Explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the US beginning with Jose Marti and concluding with Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Diaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations. Editor(s): Perez Rosario, Vanessa. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 254 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008077
- ISBN
- 9781137008077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008473
- ISBN
- 9781137008473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Through fifty-two interviews with New York City parents in gentrifying neighborhoods, this book examines the school choice process to determine how, through the compounding effect of these parents' many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying neighborhood is able to transform into an integrated school. Series: Education Policy. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008992
- ISBN
- 9781137008992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 47.20
€ 53.40
€ 47.20
Hardcover. Amacio Mazzaropi's work is a unique instance in Brazilian culture - as an artist not connected with the subsidized film industry, he developed a singular voice and represents a segment of the population usually either ignored or viewed with contempt by the established, experimental filmmakers. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; APF; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009180
- ISBN
- 9781137009180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. This book argues that the right-wing revolution in the US has created deepening inequality and will lead to economic catastrophe. The author makes the case that over the past three decades the rich have confiscated wealth and income from the poor and middle class to a far greater extent than many realize. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCLF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009371
- ISBN
- 9781137009371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.68
€ 47.68
Hardcover. The is this the book-length work addressing the development of academic freedom and the procedures designed to protect it from the 1915 founding of the AAUP and the AAC to their endorsement of the key document in the history of professorial rights and responsibilities, the 1940 Statement of Principles of Academic Freedom and Tenure. Series: Higher Education and Society. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNA; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009531
- ISBN
- 9781137009531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 47.16
€ 53.40
€ 47.16
Hardcover. This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomble and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009999
- ISBN
- 9781137009999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137010285
- ISBN
- 9781137010285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. An exploration of the development of FDR's views in the years before he became president. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 217 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014535
- ISBN
- 9781137014535
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Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Seamon explores the historical, theological, and societal dynamics of religious intermarriage as a way to introduce scholars to the myriad of factors that have contributed and will continue to contribute to the complete transformation of religion and Christianity in the twenty-first century. Series: Christianities of the World. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAF; HRCX6; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014849
- ISBN
- 9781137014849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century E...
K?Rner, Axel, Smith, Adam I. P.
Hardcover. A wide-ranging collection looking at how the United States has historically been perceived in Europe and Latin America. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 1KL; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018977
- ISBN
- 9781137018977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. While serving as an introduction to ecumenical liberal Protestantism and the social gospel over the course of the twentieth-century this book also highlights certain totalitarian as well as more fundamental conservative tendencies within those movements. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; HRAM2; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137019899
- ISBN
- 9781137019899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Paperback. America and Rogue States narrates and analyzes the US relationship with the main nuclear-threatening, terrorist-sponsoring outcast states during the last two decades. Series: American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137019998
- ISBN
- 9781137019998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardcover. Examining twenty-first century relations between the US and China, Shepperd investigates three well publicised crises between these states, highlighting how social interests relating to identity and emotional needs were key dynamics driving these interactions and their transformation. Series: Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137020086
- ISBN
- 9781137020086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way that foreshadows the concerns of our own celebrity-obsessed consumer culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; APFA; JFCA; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137020246
- ISBN
- 9781137020246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. The book explains the interaction of dream and landscape on America's urban borderlands. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSF; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137020796
- ISBN
- 9781137020796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. This work explores the wide-ranging educational activism of conservative Protestant fundamentalists in the 1920s. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; HRAM3; HRLP; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137021014
- ISBN
- 9781137021014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. This book traces the Eisenhower administration's enthusiastic pursuit of the profoundly destabilizing technology of nuclear weapons, and its significance for the course of the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JPS; JWK; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022387
- ISBN
- 9781137022387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41