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The Americas

Hardcover. The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism. Num Pages: 198 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112704
ISBN
9780230112704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.08

Paperback. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112551
ISBN
9780230112551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.64

Hardcover. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112513
ISBN
9780230112513
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.36

Hardcover. Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonstrates that the quasi-religious commission of self-empowerment accounts for the explosive growth of commission-based sales in the developing world. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHMC; KJE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112490
ISBN
9780230112490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.15

Hardcover. Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity group. It uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112476
ISBN
9780230112476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.39

Hardcover. Using five personal narratives and in contrast to both the traditional and multicultural narratives, this book suggest cross-cultural transformation has been at the core of America since the first moments of contact. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112063
ISBN
9780230112063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.08

Hardcover. A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial historiography to take a groundbreaking approach and examines the profound impacts of the structure of the international tobacco trade on local life. Series: The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111899
ISBN
9780230111899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.26

Paperback. This book offers a step forward in finding out how the new decentralized institutional arrangements affect local economic development. In particular, it analyzes how local governments can use their increasing powers and responsibilities to improve productivity and quality of life in their territories. Editor(s): De la Cruz, Rafael; Palgrave Macmillan; Mannheim, Carlos Pineda; Poschl, Caroline; Inter-American Development Bank. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111769
ISBN
9780230111769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.70

Hardcover. This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111660
ISBN
9780230111660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardcover. Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111448
ISBN
9780230111448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 44.27

Hardcover. This book argues that the declining nature of traditional forms of civic participation over the last half century are the result of the evolution of larger institutional, social, and historical forces that have favored the self-interest motivation at the expense of civic duty Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPF; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111349
ISBN
9780230111349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.15

Hardcover. Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110908
ISBN
9780230110908
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.12

Hardcover. Arguing that our laws are skewed to benefit entrenched homeowners, at the expense of newcomers and lower-income households, this book advocates both for libertarian ideals and for social justice - an unusual and revealing combination. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPRB; LNKW; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110502
ISBN
9780230110502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.28

Hardcover. This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger to unearth surprising convergences between such seemingly disparate circles. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110465
ISBN
9780230110465
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.92

Hardcover. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110458
ISBN
9780230110458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.48

Hardcover. Providing a description of the responses taken by the federal government to issues revolving around criminal justice, each chapter focuses on a different problem and shows what different presidents have said, what policies were proposed and/or passed by Congress, and any cases heard by the Supreme Court on the issue. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 245 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110151
ISBN
9780230110151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.54

Hardcover. Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLS; JPWL; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110144
ISBN
9780230110144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.46

Hardcover. While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the course of the US space program over the last 45 years. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; PDX; PDZ; PG; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110106
ISBN
9780230110106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.54

Hardcover. This book explores the role of emotion and affect in recent Latin American cinema (1990s-2000s) in the context of larger public debates about past traumas and current anxieties. To address this topic, it examines some of the most significant trends in contemporary Latin American filmmaking. Num Pages: 228 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLCM; 1KLSA; 1KLSB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109551
ISBN
9780230109551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.34

Hardcover. State Power and Democracy is the first book to show that the Bush police state didn't commence when Bush was inaugurated. It proves, instead, that the seeds of an American police state can be traced all the way back to the founding of the republic. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109353
ISBN
9780230109353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.70

Paperback. Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the "new Argentine cinema" phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including recent award-winners at all of the major festivals. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JMC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109018
ISBN
9780230109018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.25

Hardcover. Since the 1980's, Marilena Chaui's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chaui's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context. Translator(s): Conde, Maite. Series: Theory in the World. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; GTE; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Ed.
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109001
ISBN
9780230109001
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.70

Hardcover. Public Universities and the Public Sphere argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. Part of the solution, Smith argues in this timely work, to both crises lies in understanding and building on the connection. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNAM; JNMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108783
ISBN
9780230108783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 43.94

Hardcover. Jane Flax argues that a reciprocal relationship exists between unconscious processes and race/gender domination and that unless we attend to these unconscious processes, no adequate remedy for the malignant consequences of our current race/gender practices and relations can be devised. Flax supports her arguments using a variety of sources. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108660
ISBN
9780230108660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.67

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