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Cultural studies
Paperback. Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of mechanisms of make-believe, from celebrity culture to avatar-obsessed game players, and digital culture. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335183
- ISBN
- 9781349335183
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€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. Thiscollection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporaryEurope, developingnew insights into debates about the care crisis, gender equality, the division of work and the reconciliation of care and work." Editor(s): Dahl, H; Keranen, M; Kovalainen, A. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFSJ; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335268
- ISBN
- 9781349335268
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€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and that the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the most legitimate, is of vital importance for understanding the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JKV; JKVM; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335367
- ISBN
- 9781349335367
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€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335558
- ISBN
- 9781349335558
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€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted. Editor(s): Fricker, Karen; Gluhovic, Milija. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; DS; HBJD; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335596
- ISBN
- 9781349335596
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€ 149.27
€ 149.27
Paperback. Viewing the rise of China from Japan's perspective, the author elucidates Japanese policy responses and their implications for regional institution building. It fills a gap in knowledge about the development of East Asian regional institutions and Sino-Japanese relationships. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JPA; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335749
- ISBN
- 9781349335749
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€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JFSJ; JHBK; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335961
- ISBN
- 9781349335961
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€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. Drawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts. Editor(s): Phillips, A.; Wilson, K.; Hemmings, Clare; Madhok, Sumi. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JFFK; JFSJ; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336128
- ISBN
- 9781349336128
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€ 71.73
€ 71.73
Paperback. The book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey, and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel with the Europeanization process, which has boosted the rhetoric of the Alliance of Civilizations in a way that culturalized what is social and political. Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFC; JFSL; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336166
- ISBN
- 9781349336166
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€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral, The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. Thebook demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the problems and opportunities of living according to this philosophy." Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HPX; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336722
- ISBN
- 9781349336722
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€ 54.75
€ 54.75
Paperback. An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, museum studies, architecture, and popular music studies. Editor(s): Roberts, L. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; JFSR; JHM; JHMC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336807
- ISBN
- 9781349336807
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Condition: New
€ 39.05
€ 39.05
Paperback. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349337194
- ISBN
- 9781349337194
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Based on the empirical analysis of the effectiveness of four provincial centres for the diffusion of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism for emission reductions, Miriam Schroder scrutinizes the strengths and weaknesses of hybrid actors' performance on the local Chinese carbon market." Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JPA; JPS; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349337217
- ISBN
- 9781349337217
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JPB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349337590
- ISBN
- 9781349337590
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. An original, comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book develops a positive-critique of biopolitical experience." Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338054
- ISBN
- 9781349338054
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
paperback. Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy. Editor(s): Elmarsafy, Ziad. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349338177
- ISBN
- 9781349338177
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338214
- ISBN
- 9781349338214
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€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted by media texts. She provides a detailed analysis of publicly displayed consumer magazine covers and engages with big questions about the public, power and identity in mediated consumer culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; KJS; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338290
- ISBN
- 9781349338290
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Condition: New
€ 65.72
€ 65.72
Paperback. This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars. Editor(s): Gregory, R.; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338337
- ISBN
- 9781349338337
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relation to cultural, political and economic changes in the Arab World, including nation-state building, the formation of national identity and international relations in post-colonial context. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHBS; JPA; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338849
- ISBN
- 9781349338849
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Condition: New
€ 65.72
€ 65.72