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Anthropology

Paperback. "This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, it defines new comprehensive approaches to human security as preventative and empowering to individuals, and it provides conceptual frameworks and methodological tools for enhancing the processes of communicating peace"-- Editor(s): Korostelina, Karina V. Num Pages: 295 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHB; JHBA; JHM; JKV; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342785
ISBN
9781349342785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development of the literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, and Russell Leong, among others, this book captures the effects of international politics and globalization on Chinese American diasporic consciousness. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBG; HBJK; JF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342648
ISBN
9781349342648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.56

Paperback. Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, American history, and American national purpose. To prove such a contention, the book blends literary, rhetorical, and cultural methods of analysis. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBW; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342587
ISBN
9781349342587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975-2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, and sexual oppression in the US-Mexico borderland and beyond. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; JFC; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342563
ISBN
9781349342563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.62

Paperback. This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342549
ISBN
9781349342549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Gives long overdue attention to O'Neill's one-acts, offering a variety of lenses through which to better understand his one-act plays and entire oeuvre. Editor(s): Carson, B. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFSR; JHMC; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342358
ISBN
9781349342358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.15

Paperback. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JFSJ; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342198
ISBN
9781349342198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. "This book is a collection of grounded accounts by feminist popular educators reflecting critically on processes of collective learning and self- and social transformation in various geopolitical settings. Engaging contemporary feminist political issues and theory, contributors explore emerging pedagogical practices"-- Editor(s): Walters, S.; Manicom, Linzi. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHM; JHMC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342174
ISBN
9781349342174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. "In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as "other," different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book is devoted to analyzing a single film, and each chapter focuses on one philosopher and one particular aesthetic question"-- Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AP; DS; HRH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349342150
ISBN
9781349342150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies, media theory, and Derrida's work, the "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary and mediatized presence that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.

Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341849
ISBN
9781349341849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341825
ISBN
9781349341825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341801
ISBN
9781349341801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. "This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit. Wainwright looks at the importance of chess as a literary device and examines the structural analogy drawn between the game and linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure"-- Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341634
ISBN
9781349341634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies. Editor(s): Van Dyke, Carolynn. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341610
ISBN
9781349341610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsettling stories. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341597
ISBN
9781349341597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHM; JHMC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341511
ISBN
9781349341511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341375
ISBN
9781349341375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHM; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341146
ISBN
9781349341146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341108
ISBN
9781349341108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.83

Paperback. Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341061
ISBN
9781349341061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

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