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Hardcover. Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado. Editor(s): Hosono, Akio; Magno Campos da Rocha, Carlos; Hongo, Yutaka. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; KCM; KNAC; RNF; TVF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 264 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431349
- ISBN
- 9781137431349
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Condition: New
€ 161.01
€ 161.01
Hardcover. This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries. Editor(s): Leonard, Adrian; Pretel, David. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432711
- ISBN
- 9781137432711
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Condition: New
€ 162.16
€ 162.16
Hardcover. This collection reflects on the international political economy of media and the valuable lessons to be learned from the media reforms currently taking place across South America. The contributors present a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the ongoing battle for media space in South America. Editor(s): Vivares, Ernesto; Martens, Cheryl; McChesney, Robert W. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFD; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434678
- ISBN
- 9781137434678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.43
€ 94.43
Hardcover. The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew. Editor(s): Willekens, Harry; Scheiwe, Kirsten; Nawrotzki, Kristen. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; JKSB1; JNB; JNF; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441973
- ISBN
- 9781137441973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.49
€ 194.49
Hardcover. Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace. Analyzing transatlantic literature and culture, the book refocuses our view of Ground Zero through the lenses of imperial power and cosmopolitan exchange. Editor(s): Miller, Kristine A. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443205
- ISBN
- 9781137443205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. The US-led war on drugs has failed: drugs remain purer, cheaper and more readily available than ever. Extreme levels of violence have also grown as drug traffickers and organized criminals compete for control of territory. This book points towards a number of crucial challenges, policy solutions and alternatives to the current drug strategies. Editor(s): Rosen, Jonathan D.; Brienen, Marten W. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH1; JKVG; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450982
- ISBN
- 9781137450982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
Hardcover. The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this meant for the Indigenous populations. This book shows that Indigenous communities tenaciously held land in the midst of dispossession, whilst becoming interconnected through their struggles to do so. Editor(s): Laidlaw, Zoe; Lester, Alan ((St Mary'S University College)). Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 1KB; 1MB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTQ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452351
- ISBN
- 9781137452351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.93
€ 128.93
Hardcover. In this volume, junior faculty of color and senior university administrators come together to present new challenges and frameworks for understanding diversity in the twenty-first century academy. Editor(s): Fryberg, Stephanie A.; Martinez, Ernesto Javier. Series: Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JNKH; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456052
- ISBN
- 9781137456052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.20
€ 150.20
Hardcover. Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context. Editor(s): Kemp, Gary; Janssen-Lauret, Frederique. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPC; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137472502
- ISBN
- 9781137472502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.61
€ 127.61
Hardcover. In this edited collection, the authors grapple with both the strengths and challenges that HBCUs face as the nation's demographics change, from their place in American society and growing diversity on HBCU campuses to class and elitism issues to study abroad and honors programs. Editor(s): Gasman, Marybeth; Commodore, Felicia. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480408
- ISBN
- 9781137480408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.32
€ 52.90
€ 47.32
Hardcover. This volume brings together a broad range of research on governors in the American states, examining governors as potentially powerful leaders who are subject to a range of constraints, as well as considering how individual governors may choose leadership paths that either enhance or detract from that power. Editor(s): Redlawsk, David P. Num Pages: 277 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488183
- ISBN
- 9781137488183
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Condition: New
€ 138.63
€ 138.63
Hardcover. This volume explores Brazil's perspectives on the global order. The authors demonstrate that even as Brazil seeks greater recognition on the world stage, it also brings important challenges to the US-led liberal international order. Editor(s): Stuenkel, Oliver; Taylor, Matthew M. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137491640
- ISBN
- 9781137491640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Roberto Bolano is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers of his generation. The first English-language volume on the Chilean author, essays address such topics as Borges's influence, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism and discuss works like 2666, The Savage Detectives, and Distant Star. Editor(s): Lopez-Calvo, Ignacio. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495174
- ISBN
- 9781137495174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented. Editor(s): Vertovec, Steven. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMS; 1HFMS; 1KBBEY; JFFN; JFFS; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495471
- ISBN
- 9781137495471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions. Editor(s): Adkins, Lisa; Dever, Maryanne. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 black & white tables, 1 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495532
- ISBN
- 9781137495532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.63
€ 149.63
Hardcover. Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been produced and/or distributed in the Hollywood studio system from its initial boom in the late 1970s to the present. Editor(s): Clayton, Wickham. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 figures, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137496461
- ISBN
- 9781137496461
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Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. Mental Maps in the Era of Detente and the End of the Cold War recreates the way in which the revolutionary changes of the last phase of the Cold War were perceived by fifteen of its leading figures in the West, East and developing world. Editor(s): Casey, Steven. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBLW; HBTW; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137500953
- ISBN
- 9781137500953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Hardcover. Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought is a collection of critical essays and responses for twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. Editor(s): Sifuentes-Jauregui, Ben; Miguel, Yolanda Martinez San; Belausteguigoitia, Marisa. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554291
- ISBN
- 9781137554291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.78
€ 150.78
Paperback. Through rap and hip hop, entertainers have provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of society. Examining the moral and social implications of Kanye West's art in the context of Western civilization's preconceived ideas, the contributors consider how West both challenges religious and moral norms and propagates them. Editor(s): Bailey, Julius. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVC; AVGR; AVH; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137574251
- ISBN
- 9781137574251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.73
€ 38.73
Paperback. Looks at why certain regions are successful in creating an innovative technology cluster and why aspiring communities and districts seek to learn from those examples and create an internationally successful region or sector. Editor(s): Hulsink, Willem; Dons, Hans. Series: Wageningen UR Frontis Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; KJH; KJMV6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402083389
- ISBN
- 9781402083389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 253.00
€ 253.00