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Paperback. "This book illuminates the origins of the great European witch hunts by placing early witch trials in the comparative light of other criminal proceedings in Basel, Lucerne and Nuremberg. The study reveals that the increasingly harsh treatment was paralleled by mounting judicial severity in general, as well as by a keen interest in social control"-- Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HRAC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541058
- ISBN
- 9781349541058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 184.36
€ 184.36
The Changing Faces of Childhood Cancer. Clinical and Cultural Visions ...
Baines, Joanna; Johnstone, Emm Barnes
Paperback. This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer. The establishment of the NHS and better training for paediatricians, meant children were given access to experimental chemotherapy, sending cure rates soaring. Children with cancer were thrust into the spotlight as individuals' stories of hope hit the headlines. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; MBX; MQC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541850
- ISBN
- 9781349541850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541874
- ISBN
- 9781349541874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. A new history of the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands which uses fresh evidence to challenge existing myths and misconceptions. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541898
- ISBN
- 9781349541898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.84
€ 66.84
Paperback. King Rene is little known beyond France, yet, through his controversial daughter Margaret of Anjou, he affected events in England during the Wars of the Roses. Rene's court rivalled Burgundy in its rich artistic culture and his claim to the kingdom of Naples started a process that led to enormous changes in the power structure of Southern Europe." Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542017
- ISBN
- 9781349542017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. This new study examines the way that political theatre has re-emerged strongly since 1995, to articulate changed issues, alignments and definitions of politics and power in Britain. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; HBJD1; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542048
- ISBN
- 9781349542048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Paperback. This book disputes the notion that information management is a recent phenomenon. It traces its origins to the period 1945-1951, when the post-war Labour government moved from an idealistic commitment to open communication towards the pragmatic relationship with the media with which we are now familiar. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542147
- ISBN
- 9781349542147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.69
€ 66.69
Paperback. This book questions the way that modern science and technology are considered able to liberate society from the erratic forces of nature. Modern science is implicated in a gamble on a technological society that will replace the natural world with a 'better' one. The author questions the rationality of this gamble and its implications for our lives. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542222
- ISBN
- 9781349542222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.33
€ 66.33
Paperback. This book argues that thinking is bounded by neither the brain nor the skin of an organism. Cognitive systems function through integration of neural and bodily functions with the functions of representational vehicles. The integrationist position offers a fresh contribution to the emerging embodied and embedded approach to the study of mind. Editor(s): Protevi, John. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPCF5; HPK; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542284
- ISBN
- 9781349542284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Paperback. The book examines Heidegger's appropriation and critique of Aristotle's aesthetics and metaphysics in order to determine the meaning and possibility of post-metaphysical reflection on art. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542307
- ISBN
- 9781349542307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.17
€ 67.17
paperback. This book explores the cross-cultural reception of Derrida's work, specifically how that work in all its diversity, has come to be identified with the word deconstruction. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- SKU
- V9781349542369
- ISBN
- 9781349542369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.97
€ 65.97
Paperback. An acute and searching account of a linked sequence of authors and literary episodes that centrally challenges and troubles much that is familiar about the history of Romantic writing in Britain. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542383
- ISBN
- 9781349542383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HPCF; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542512
- ISBN
- 9781349542512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Paperback. Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542604
- ISBN
- 9781349542604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.30
€ 63.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542628
- ISBN
- 9781349542628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Paperback. This book examines the representation, or "novelizations" of literary critical theory (structuralism, poststructuralism, postmodernism) in contemporary fiction, and traces an alternative history of the "theory wars" in the pages of contemporary fiction. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF; HPCF7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542741
- ISBN
- 9781349542741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Paperback. "Cultural Creativity" is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families, and their social networks and how this can be recovered form surviving textual evidence. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349543281
- ISBN
- 9781349543281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. Focusing on a burgeoning area of interest, this new study illustrates relations between legal and theatrical discourses in a range of plays. Editor(s): Jordan, C.; Cunningham, K. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSBD; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349543342
- ISBN
- 9781349543342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.68
€ 128.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBJD1; HBJF; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349543441
- ISBN
- 9781349543441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Drawing extensively on the author's archival research, this is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its 'gitanos', who, despite their elevation by Spaniards and non-Spaniards alike to culturally iconic status, have until now remained invisible to history in the English-speaking world. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349543465
- ISBN
- 9781349543465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 140.06
€ 140.06