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Hardback. Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a variety of historical and cultural backdrops. Editor(s): Foka, Anna; Liliequist, Jonas. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473301
- ISBN
- 9781137473301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.43
€ 116.43
Paperback. This book explores the varying reactions to the political turmoil in Asia in the late 1990s by looking at external pressures from global actors (the IMF and US security policy), popular protests, the nature of the opposition, and elite coalition formation/dissolution at the highest levels of government. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPHV; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349530762
- ISBN
- 9781349530762
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood. Editor(s): Gavin, A. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY; JFC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349345496
- ISBN
- 9781349345496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
paperback. Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349451678
- ISBN
- 9781349451678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349431915
- ISBN
- 9781349431915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349332267
- ISBN
- 9781349332267
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445905
- ISBN
- 9781349445905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardback. An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of British and North American programmes and practices. These include ER, Grey's Anatomy, The Wire, Who Do You Think You Are?, and Life on Mars. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230245983
- ISBN
- 9780230245983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSC; JFC; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349523320
- ISBN
- 9781349523320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Paperback. By investigating how laws, myths, national aspirations, and global relations have recast and, at times, distorted the key purposes of education, this pathbreaking book sheds light on the role of ignorance in shaping ideas, public opinion, and policy. Editor(s): Angulo, A. J. Num Pages: 376 pages, 3 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFC; JNB; JNM; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421419329
- ISBN
- 9781421419329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.28
€ 46.28
Paperback. This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body. Editor(s): Jafar, Afshan; Casanova, Erynn Masi de. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JFSJ; WJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556585
- ISBN
- 9781137556585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.62
€ 65.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349036851
- ISBN
- 9781349036851
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Condition: New
€ 49.10
€ 49.10
Paperback. Series: St Antony's. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JPA; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349520275
- ISBN
- 9781349520275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
An Archaeology of the Margins: Colonialism, Amazighity and Heritage Ma...
A. José Farrujia de La Rosa
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in archaeology/SpringerBriefs in Archaeological Heritage Management. Num Pages: 119 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 26 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 240 x 10. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461493952
- ISBN
- 9781461493952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.95
€ 77.95
Paperback. Anne Kane analyzes the intertwined cultural, political and social transformations that occur during historical events by focusing specifically on the case of the Irish Land War, a pivotal event in the formation of the modern Irish nation. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 298 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450449
- ISBN
- 9781137450449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. A multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua. Her work has challenged and expanded previous views in American Studies, composition studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, literary studies, critical pedagogy, and queer theory. Num Pages: 281 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC; JFC; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605930
- ISBN
- 9780230605930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
Hardback. This study discusses chiefs and the institution of chieftaincy generally in modern Ghana. It examines the public and secret rites and procedures for the installation and deposition of chiefs, the creation of stools and sacred burial rites. Num Pages: 624 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; HRKT; JFC; JFSL3; JFSL9; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 921.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Austin & Winfield,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572921214
- ISBN
- 9781572921214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
Paperback. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siecle, and sheds new light on the modern roots of tertiary-level English teaching." Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456307
- ISBN
- 9781349456307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.53
€ 65.53
Paperback. Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a second-tier city in China and uses sociological theory to understand the impact of global mobility on identity, community and belonging. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JFFN; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349345595
- ISBN
- 9781349345595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture." Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320370
- ISBN
- 9781349320370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94