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Paperback. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 202 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114180
- ISBN
- 9780230114180
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Condition: New
€ 128.91
€ 128.91
Paperback. Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond. Editor(s): Nabavi, Negin. Num Pages: 201 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114692
- ISBN
- 9780230114692
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KLSH; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114838
- ISBN
- 9780230114838
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€ 52.51€ 47.01
€ 52.51
€ 47.01
Hardcover. An analysis of how since the end of te 19th-century advertising agencies and their housework product clients utilized a remarkably consistent depiction of housewives and housework, illustrating that that although Second Wave feminism successfully called into question the housewife stereotype, homemaking has remained an American feminine ideal. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFDV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114890
- ISBN
- 9780230114890
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Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Hardcover. This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low crime to a high-crime society, treating six different types of misdeed as representative of phases in the evolution of crime to argue that lawbreaking must be explained by connecting all types of offenses to their social and economic contexts. Num Pages: 243 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JKV; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114906
- ISBN
- 9780230114906
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Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Hardcover. Examines how the difference between monogenist and polygenist accounts of the origin of the human race was reflected in, and helped to shape, Scottish Enlightenment accounts of society's progress through historical stages. Reveals how concepts of race and the role of women were treated by historians, philosophers, and other thinkers. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114913
- ISBN
- 9780230114913
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Condition: New
€ 151.58
€ 151.58
Spirits without Borders: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational ...
Fjelstad, Karen, Hien, Nguyen Thi
Hardcover. Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 229 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HRLK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 208 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114937
- ISBN
- 9780230114937
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Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Paperback. The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the 'theories' of philosopher Michel Foucault Num Pages: 257 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114944
- ISBN
- 9780230114944
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Condition: New
€ 101.01
€ 101.01
The Establishment Responds. Power, Politics, and Protest Since 1945.
. Ed(S): Fahlenbrach, Kathrin; Klimke, Martin...
Paperback. This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of dissent. Editor(s): Fahlenbrach, Kathrin; Klimke, Martin; Scharloth, Joachim; Wong, Laura. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 261 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBLW3; HBTB; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114999
- ISBN
- 9780230114999
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Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Analyses the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of 'order and progress', and how they shaped their lives rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. This study is intended for scholars, students, and general audiences interested in additional views of colonialism, modernization, and diversified economies. Num Pages: 274 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLSG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115897
- ISBN
- 9780230115897
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Condition: New
€ 68.36
€ 68.36
Hardcover. Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative look at one piece of the historically significant Sokoto Caliphate. Num Pages: 196 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115903
- ISBN
- 9780230115903
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Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Hardcover. This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular. Editor(s): Hellegers, Desiree. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBTD; JFFB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116573
- ISBN
- 9780230116573
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Condition: New
€ 67.81
€ 67.81
Hardcover. The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as they can be determined, have been distorted, obscured, or suppressed for seventy years. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116603
- ISBN
- 9780230116603
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Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Hardcover. Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological knowledge. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 284 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JJC; HRCX7; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116726
- ISBN
- 9780230116726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.79
€ 67.79
Hardcover. Situating theatre in crucial moments in history and philosophy, Bennet reads four of the most influential plays through their contemporary epistemological debates between rationalism and empiricism. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DD; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116801
- ISBN
- 9780230116801
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 46.93
€ 52.51
€ 46.93
Hardcover. Randall Heskett uses both historical criticism and a form-critical approach to analyze and assess Lamentation and Restoration of Destroyed Cities as oral traditions of ancient Israelite prophetic genres. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCF1; HRCG3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116856
- ISBN
- 9780230116856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; 3JH; AN; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116863
- ISBN
- 9780230116863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogica...
Marcy Jane Jane Knopf-Newman
Hardcover. Explores how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching about Palestine. It argues that as the relationship between Zionist education and the Israel lobby continues to be strong, it is necessary to correct the misrepresentations that infiltrate Western culture. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 1KBB; HBJF1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116887
- ISBN
- 9780230116887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 47.57
€ 52.51
€ 47.57
Hardcover. American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and quality of life, the book suggests alternative policy agendas, religious and philosophical discourses, cultural framing and modes of daily living Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HRAM2; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117723
- ISBN
- 9780230117723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. This book analyzes the development of indigenous religious, commercial, and political institutions among the Oromo mainly during the relatively peaceful two centuries in its history, from 1704 to 1882. The largest ethnic group in East Africa, the Oromo promoted peace, cultural assimilation, and ethnic integration. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117747
- ISBN
- 9780230117747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.15
€ 129.15