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Hardback. Across Europe the protection of 'social cohesion' has become an important political objective. This book draws attention to the connection between the cohesive society and the active society. It explores France, Germany and the United Kingdom and challenges the claim that the active conduct of problematic populations can save society from collapse. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 1DFG; JFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137338839
- ISBN
- 9781137338839
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature. Num Pages: 274 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342454
- ISBN
- 9781137342454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international, diplomatic, and domestic levels. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HRAM2; HRCC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342973
- ISBN
- 9781137342973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343833
- ISBN
- 9781137343833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; ASZB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343895
- ISBN
- 9781137343895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Drawing on empirical research amongst both Muslim schools' students and parents, this timely book examines the question of 'self-segregation' and Muslims in light of key policy developments around 'race', faith and citizenship. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSR2; JNF; JNLR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347756
- ISBN
- 9781137347756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Hardcover. Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348944
- ISBN
- 9781137348944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
The Home Front in Britain. Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences Sin...
Lomas, Janis. Ed(S): Andrews, Maggie; Smoke, ...
Hardback. The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war, challenging prevalent myths of how working and domestic life was shifted by national conflict. Editor(s): Andrews, Maggie; Smoke, Richard. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348982
- ISBN
- 9781137348982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses in independent Ireland to the continuation of this British military connection. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBW; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350855
- ISBN
- 9781137350855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JPA; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350954
- ISBN
- 9781137350954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.43
€ 149.43
Hardcover. This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramsey's genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the impact he had on Wittgenstein's later philosophical insights. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HPCF5; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351074
- ISBN
- 9781137351074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.02
€ 139.02
Hardcover. By setting the Irish religious conflict in a wide comparative perspective, this book offers fresh insights into the causes of religious conflicts, and potential means of resolving them. The collection mounts a challenge to views of 'Irish exceptionalism' and points to significant historical and contemporary commonalities across the Western world. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBTB; HRAM2; HRAM9; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351890
- ISBN
- 9781137351890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
hardcover. This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficulty with Alzheimer's. With both scholarly insight and personal reflection, this volume will deepen our understanding of Murdoch's complex life and work. Editor(s): Meyers, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 130 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; DN; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352415
- ISBN
- 9781137352415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 116 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DST; JFC; JFD; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353412
- ISBN
- 9781137353412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Hardcover. A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSK; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137354969
- ISBN
- 9781137354969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBL; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355027
- ISBN
- 9781137355027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.04
€ 161.04
Hardcover. In this comparative study of young people's educational careers in England and Germany, individual factors, social class, school and country characteristics are shown jointly to shape these careers through mutually reinforcing processes. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is combined with interview analysis to explore generative mechanisms. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DFG; JNF; JNLC; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355492
- ISBN
- 9781137355492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Hardcover. The post-September 11th British anti-war movement brought together Muslim activists, organizations and leftist groups in opposition to the 'War on Terror'. This book offers an analysis of the political conditions through which Muslim and leftist engagement emerges within this movement, highlighting the decisive leadership played by Muslim women. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMC; JFSJ1; JFSR2; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355645
- ISBN
- 9781137355645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. Social and legal representations of female poisoners during the mid-nineteenth century in England, and the social and moral panics about women's access to arsenic. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137359292
- ISBN
- 9781137359292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Risk and Trading on London's Alternative Investment Market
Board, John; Dufour, Alfonso; Hartavi, Yusuf;...
Hardback. This book analyses the comparative risks involved in the alternative investment market, the market of growing companies, and the 'main market', the market for more established companies. Num Pages: 111 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 307.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137361295
- ISBN
- 9781137361295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01