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Hardcover. Bringing together core selections from and analysis of material documenting the uneasy collaboration between Herbert and Eisenhower, this collection incisively uses primary sources to illuminate the 1952 Republican nomination fight, the second Hoover Commission, and other key episodes during the Eisenhower presidency. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334084
- ISBN
- 9781137334084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Seeing the critical phase in the construction of a Turkish historical imagination between 1860 to 1950 disregarding the political disruptions, this book demonstrates how history and historical imagery had been instrumental in the nation-building process. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334206
- ISBN
- 9781137334206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Interweaving feminist theological ideas, Asian spirituality, and the witnesses of World War II sex slaves, this book offers a new theology of body. It examines the multi-layered meaning of the broken body of Christ from Christological, sacramental, and ecclesiological perspectives, while exploring the centrality of body in theological discourse. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBWQ; HRCM; HRKN; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334503
- ISBN
- 9781137334503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. This book offers a close philosophical reading of King Lear and Timon of Athens which provides insights into the groundbreaking ontological discourse on poverty and money. Analysis of the discourse of poverty and the critique of money helps to read Shakespeare philosophically and opens new reflections on central questions of our own time. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137335357
- ISBN
- 9781137335357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.80
€ 67.80
Hardcover. Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These debates also call into question assumptions about the decline of religion in modern industrial societies. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 1 charts. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HRCC9; JHMC; KNAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336538
- ISBN
- 9781137336538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Knepper criticizes existing efforts in the philosophy of religion for being out of step with, and therefore useless to, the academic study of religion, then forwards a new program for philosophy of religion that is in step with, and therefore useful to, the academic study of religion. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPCF5; HRAB; HRAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336866
- ISBN
- 9781137336866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally. Editor(s): Bode, Katherine; Arthur, Paul Longley. Num Pages: 352 pages, 53 figures. BIC Classification: GPS; H. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336996
- ISBN
- 9781137336996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.16
€ 129.16
Hardcover. From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain why these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be, how they were justified by the race theory of the time, and how the "Croats of the Mosaic faith" were eventually rejected as racial aliens. Num Pages: 105 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 102
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339119
- ISBN
- 9781137339119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardcover. The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing dynamic between the queens and their male consorts. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339140
- ISBN
- 9781137339140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Hardcover. The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread. Num Pages: 268 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339201
- ISBN
- 9781137339201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.67
€ 128.67
NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space...
Krige, John, Callahan, Angelina Long, Maharaj...
Paperback. Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 370 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBTW; JPS; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340924
- ISBN
- 9781137340924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.12
€ 129.12
Hardcover. Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 284 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340955
- ISBN
- 9781137340955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardcover. Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 314 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342058
- ISBN
- 9781137342058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.32
€ 185.32
Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Col...
Bouchard, Norma, Ferme, Valerio
Hardcover. This book explores new ways that the Mediterranean has been discussed in Italian intellectual and artistic culture from the 1980s to the present. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343451
- ISBN
- 9781137343451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Hardcover. A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope's religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that the Roman Catholic poet was no Deist, 'closet' or otherwise. Num Pages: 79 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSK; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344779
- ISBN
- 9781137344779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. This book offers a new account of Plato's view of eros, or romantic love, by asserting that Socrates is critical of eros because of its connection to irrational religious beliefs. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPS; HRAB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345387
- ISBN
- 9781137345387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. Ezra Pound was an influential propagandist for British, Italian and ultimately German fascist movements. Using long-neglected manuscripts and cutting-edge approaches to fascism as a 'political religion', Feldman argues that Pound's case offers a revealing case study of a modernist author turned propagator of the 'fascist faith'. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; DSC; HBLW; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345509
- ISBN
- 9781137345509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Globalism, colonialism, and consumerism have caused unjust suffering (han), for the earth's exploited peoples and the exploited lands. To reverse this tragedy, we need to work for a safer, sustainable planet and renew our inspiration from God as the transforming Spirit who gives, sustains and empowers life to all. Num Pages: 112 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRCM; JFFT; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346681
- ISBN
- 9781137346681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establish a specific form of Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh al-aqalliyyat attempts to strike a balance between Muslim's religious commitments and their civic identity as citizens in Western liberal states. Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRHT; JFFS; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346698
- ISBN
- 9781137346698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.13
€ 162.13
Paperback. This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents. Num Pages: 560 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346735
- ISBN
- 9781137346735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 103.58
€ 103.58