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The Americas
Paperback. A comprehensive look at American foreign policy in regions of conflict throughout the world. Series: American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137266880
- ISBN
- 9781137266880
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€ 61.44
€ 61.44
Hardcover. How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how current power relations constituted by ethnic recognition, new social contacts, and cooperation with different institutions have shaped the current native youth in Amazonia. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; JFSL9; JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137265340
- ISBN
- 9781137265340
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€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; HBTQ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 642.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263216
- ISBN
- 9781137263216
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€ 151.23
€ 151.23
Hardcover. Dahlin takes an analytical approach to existing Constitutional scholarship and presents a limited number of landmark Supreme Court decisions in a way that makes this important material accessible to an undergraduate academic audience. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263056
- ISBN
- 9781137263056
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Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Hardcover. This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated. Num Pages: 235 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFFA; JPH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263025
- ISBN
- 9781137263025
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€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. This book examines why there are so few conservative political satirists today and explores the consequences of this imbalance. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137262837
- ISBN
- 9781137262837
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Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. Depicting NAFTA to be but a stepping stone rather than final product of regional economic integrative efforts, a chapter-specific 15-year assessment conveys the upsides and downsides of North America's Camelot moment. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; KCLT1; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034779
- ISBN
- 9781137034779
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Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Paperback. The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point in modern American culture. Authors Bruce Tucker and Priscilla L. Walton examine critical moments in the aftermath of 9/11 arguing that commentators abandoned complexity, seeking to reduce events to their simplest signification. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033499
- ISBN
- 9781137033499
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Condition: New
€ 61.36
€ 61.36
Paperback. Between 1890 and 1918, over 125 plays by 70 dramatists were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer. This book analyzes the issues dramatized in those plays which reveal Americans to have been 'dis/contented' citizens, conflicted by the demands of a dynamically changing nation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032966
- ISBN
- 9781137032966
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Condition: New
€ 61.72
€ 61.72
Hardcover. Mitra analyzes how race and class of immigrant Punjabi taxi drivers influence their settlement patterns in the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032843
- ISBN
- 9781137032843
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Condition: New
€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Hardcover. Highlights concerns about the impact of a falling standard of living in America as 40 million 'tradable jobs' are digitized and outsourced off shore. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFF; KCJ; KJC; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032294
- ISBN
- 9781137032294
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Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Paperback. Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032041
- ISBN
- 9781137032041
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 42.99
€ 54.99
€ 42.99
Hardcover. Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JHB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032034
- ISBN
- 9781137032034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.83
€ 54.99
€ 43.83
Hardcover. Sevan G. Terzian traces the changing civic justifications for science clubs, fairs, and talent searches for American youth from World War One to the Cold War. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 235 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JNLC; JNW; JPVH1; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031860
- ISBN
- 9781137031860
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.97
€ 54.99
€ 43.97
Paperback. Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics. Editor(s): Loss, Jacqueline; Prieto, Jose Manuel. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJ; 3JM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031341
- ISBN
- 9781137031341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Ch...
Rocha, Carolina, Seminet, Georgia
Hardcover. This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the consequences of political divisions. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KL; APFA; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030863
- ISBN
- 9781137030863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.11
€ 54.99
€ 44.11
Hardcover. Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030597
- ISBN
- 9781137030597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories, while also considering how authors' understandings of gender influence their depictions. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030054
- ISBN
- 9781137030054
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Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. This book examines the persistence of social violence and public insecurity in Honduras. Using a spatial perspective, the author looks at the Honduran state's security polices - known as Mano Dura - and the challenges authorities face. She points to the state's historical difficulty producing and ordering political territory and space. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027948
- ISBN
- 9781137027948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.07
€ 63.07
Paperback. Biocapitalism, an economic model built on making new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature/culture and human/nonhuman. This is the first book to examine its implications for education and how human capital understandings of education are co-evolving with biocapitalism. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 211 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027825
- ISBN
- 9781137027825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.27
€ 54.99
€ 43.27
Hardcover. Biocapitalism, an economic model built on making new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature/culture and human/nonhuman. This is the first book to examine its implications for education and how human capital understandings of education are co-evolving with biocapitalism. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 211 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027818
- ISBN
- 9781137027818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.53
€ 54.99
€ 44.53
Paperback. A lively, engaging social history of the extraordinary Puritan world that flowered into a vibrant civilization in seventeenth-century New England and then implanted itself into American history. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025623
- ISBN
- 9781137025623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. A lively, engaging social history of the extraordinary Puritan world that flowered into a vibrant civilization in seventeenth-century New England and then implanted itself into American history. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 511.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025616
- ISBN
- 9781137025616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.90
€ 62.90
Paperback. A fresh and fascinating look at the Space Age that demolishes the myth of the fearless, hot-shot astronaut. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025289
- ISBN
- 9781137025289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.90
€ 61.90