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The Americas

Hardcover. This book details the relationship between private property and government. As private property is important to both individual welfare and the public interest, the book provides an intellectual framework for the analysis and resolution of contemporary property rights disputes. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPH; JPR; LNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137376619
ISBN
9781137376619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

hardcover. How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137376787
ISBN
9781137376787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.43

Paperback. How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137376794
ISBN
9781137376794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardback. This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; MBX; MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137377012
ISBN
9781137377012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.27

Hardcover. American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of sociology and the decline of the science ideal as well as the challenges sociology faces in the new environment for universities. Series: Sociology Transformed. Num Pages: 145 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX; JHB; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 337.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137377166
ISBN
9781137377166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Hardcover. This book sets out an integrated systems model which utilizes a public health approach and 'whole of society' philosophy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. It guides those engaged in policy, practice and planning concerning gender based violence and child abuse towards a more systemic approach to tackling these problems. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; JFFE1; JFFE2; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137377654
ISBN
9781137377654
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFSJ2; JFSK2; JHBK5; JHBS; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137379634
ISBN
9781137379634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137379863
ISBN
9781137379863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardcover. British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and J.B. Priestley. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; DSBH; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380753
ISBN
9781137380753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Hardback. The proliferation of social media has altered the way that people interact with each other - leveling the channels of communication to allow an individual to be "friends" with a sitting president. In a world where a citizen can message Barack Obama directly, this book addresses the new channels of communication in politics, and what they offer. Num Pages: 225 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JPA; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380852
ISBN
9781137380852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardcover. In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel. Their analyses are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ethnography and demography to political science, gender studies, theology, and the law. Editor(s): Berlinerblau, Jacques; Fainberg, Sarah; Nou, Aurora. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1FBH; 1KBB; HRAM; HRAX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381156
ISBN
9781137381156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardcover. The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon. Series: International Relations and Development Series. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; KCM; RNF; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381842
ISBN
9781137381842
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal forces and state actions brought about the region's one thousand two hundred institutions of higher learning in 15 western states. Editor(s): Goodchild, Lester F. Series: Higher Education and Society. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381941
ISBN
9781137381941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 48.35

Hardcover. EPUB Num Pages: 188 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; ASD; AVGH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137382818
ISBN
9781137382818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Hardback. The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy. Written from the standpoint of democratic theory, and from a progressive point of view, the book explores different facets of American democratic culture and its various deficits - deficits that can lead to the crippling of democratic politics. Series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137382870
ISBN
9781137382870
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Hardback. Num Pages: 383 pages, 46 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JWJ; KCP; KFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137382894
ISBN
9781137382894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.21

Hardcover. The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States. Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; HRCC7; JFFE1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137384027
ISBN
9781137384027
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.21

Hardcover. The book analyzes how the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush used force in response to incidents of international terrorism - providing comparison between each of the administrations as they grappled with the evolving nature and role of terrorism in the United States and abroad. Num Pages: 286 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPQ; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137384041
ISBN
9781137384041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Paperback. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137385475
ISBN
9781137385475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.35

Hardcover. This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, into a broader, transnational dialogue. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 202 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADPB; AFC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137386144
ISBN
9781137386144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. This book examines Black Brazilian political struggle in a moment characterized by the intermingling of post-racial ideologies and multicultural policies in the Americas. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137386335
ISBN
9781137386335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137386892
ISBN
9781137386892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. How has the American Empire sustained global influence where many others have failed? An overlooked element is capabilities of new communications technologies, and their ability to convey ideological messages while neutralizing dissent through entertainment and spectacle, have allowed the US to retain cultural power on a global scale. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137387264
ISBN
9781137387264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.40

Hardcover. Immigrants and minorities in Europe and America have responded in diverse ways to security legislation introduced since 9/11 that targets them, labeling them as threats. This book identifies how different groups have responded and explains why, synthesizing findings in the fields of securitization, migrant integration, and migrant mobilization. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFFN; JPQB; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137388049
ISBN
9781137388049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

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