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The Americas
Hardcover. An analysis of how since the end of te 19th-century advertising agencies and their housework product clients utilized a remarkably consistent depiction of housewives and housework, illustrating that that although Second Wave feminism successfully called into question the housewife stereotype, homemaking has remained an American feminine ideal. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFDV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114890
- ISBN
- 9780230114890
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Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Paperback. The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the 'theories' of philosopher Michel Foucault Num Pages: 257 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114944
- ISBN
- 9780230114944
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Condition: New
€ 93.41
€ 93.41
Hardcover. By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ANH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115071
- ISBN
- 9780230115071
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.27
€ 54.99
€ 44.27
Hardcover. An expanded translation of the groundbreaking book on Colombian cinema, this work addresses not only the inadequate distribution of criticism on Colombian cinema outside Latin America, but also employs an interdisciplinary focus that combines historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches to the country's culture. Translator(s): Chesak, Laura. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 564.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115170
- ISBN
- 9780230115170
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Condition: New
€ 63.15
€ 63.15
Hardcover. Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JFSJ1; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115187
- ISBN
- 9780230115187
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Condition: New
€ 118.71
€ 118.71
Hardcover. Translator(s): Gil-Montero, Michelle. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 199 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115798
- ISBN
- 9780230115798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. Analyses the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of 'order and progress', and how they shaped their lives rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. This study is intended for scholars, students, and general audiences interested in additional views of colonialism, modernization, and diversified economies. Num Pages: 274 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLSG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115897
- ISBN
- 9780230115897
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Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental Num Pages: 196 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115958
- ISBN
- 9780230115958
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.63
€ 54.99
€ 43.63
Hardcover. This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular. Editor(s): Hellegers, Desiree. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBTD; JFFB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116573
- ISBN
- 9780230116573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as they can be determined, have been distorted, obscured, or suppressed for seventy years. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116603
- ISBN
- 9780230116603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.87
€ 62.87
Hardcover. Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological knowledge. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 284 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JJC; HRCX7; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116726
- ISBN
- 9780230116726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Paperback. Draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they adopt different policies for common problems. It compares the United States with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on financing medical care, France on abortion policy, and Japan on immigration. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116764
- ISBN
- 9780230116764
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Condition: New
€ 57.39
€ 57.39
The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogica...
Marcy Jane Jane Knopf-Newman
Hardcover. Explores how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching about Palestine. It argues that as the relationship between Zionist education and the Israel lobby continues to be strong, it is necessary to correct the misrepresentations that infiltrate Western culture. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 1KBB; HBJF1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116887
- ISBN
- 9780230116887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.37
€ 54.99
€ 44.37
Hardcover. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the United States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116979
- ISBN
- 9780230116979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and quality of life, the book suggests alternative policy agendas, religious and philosophical discourses, cultural framing and modes of daily living Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HRAM2; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117723
- ISBN
- 9780230117723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; JFSL3; JNKS; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117808
- ISBN
- 9780230117808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.49
€ 119.49
Paperback. This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 249 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; JFSL3; JNKS; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117815
- ISBN
- 9780230117815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
Hardcover. Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117983
- ISBN
- 9780230117983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.09
€ 54.99
€ 44.09
Hardcover. Why and how did Japan Table Tennis Association President Goto Koji invite China to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971 (the Nagoya World's)? Against strong opposition at home and abroad, Goto Koji created a stage for Premier Zhou Enlai to launch Ping-Pong Diplomacy, which changed world history forever Num Pages: 244 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230118133
- ISBN
- 9780230118133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.33€ 75.90
€ 89.33
€ 75.90
Hardcover. A study of the major U.S. military interventions in unconventional war, this book looks at four wars that occurred while the U.S. was a superpower in the post-war WW II period and one in the Philippines in 1898. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JPA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119383
- ISBN
- 9780230119383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76