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Hardback. Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Despite asserting that he was not a literary critic, Deleuze provides exhilarating and original interactions with texts. This study offers in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and the writers who fascinated him, demonstrating the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517530
- ISBN
- 9780230517530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Num Pages: 790 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1194.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 790
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517813
- ISBN
- 9780230517813
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Condition: New
€ 198.88
€ 198.88
Hardback. This book takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators. Engaging with five key performances, the book reflects on the emotional and intellectual impacts of politically inflected performance on spectators, critics and theorists. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 219 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HPQ; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230518018
- ISBN
- 9780230518018
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
The New German Jewry and the European Context. The Return of the Europ...
Y.Michal . Ed(S): Bodemann
Hardback. Departing from the recent critical literature on the emergence of a new German Jewry, this volume proposes a new perspective on the post-1980s phenomenon of re-emerging Jewish culture in Germany as a case study for wider developments in Europe and the international context. Editor(s): Bodemann, Y.Michal. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HRJ; JFSR; JPA; JPSN2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521070
- ISBN
- 9780230521070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it adds an important transatlantic dimension to media scholarship, while demonstrating the crucial and varied ways in which media have helped build an Anglo-American 'special relationship'. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521254
- ISBN
- 9780230521254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.04
€ 68.04
Hardback. These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons. Editor(s): Sandis, Constantine. Num Pages: 442 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 33. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 442
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522022
- ISBN
- 9780230522022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.47
€ 129.47
Hardback. This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links eliminative materialism and speculative realism. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPCF5; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522046
- ISBN
- 9780230522046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.34
€ 161.34
The Chinese in Britain, 1800- Present. Economy, Transnationalism, Iden...
Benton, Gregor; Gomez, Edmund Terence
Hardback. This study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing that transnational studies reinforce essentialist conceptions of identity and cultural authenticity in diasporic communities, and thus frustrate the promotion of ethnic co-existence and social cohesion in multi-ethnic societies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 485 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 797.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 485
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522299
- ISBN
- 9780230522299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.03
€ 130.03
Hardback. An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to our understanding of the kind of system that has been established in the world's largest country after a period of far-reaching change. Editor(s): White, Stephen. Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW3; JFC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524859
- ISBN
- 9780230524859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. This anthology focuses on the extraordinary contributions Wittgenstein made to several areas in the philosophy of psychology. Daniele Moyal-Sharrock translates papers by eminent French Wittgensteinians, and brings them together with more familiar specialists on Wittgenstein's philosophical psychology, revealing a surprising degree of consensus. Editor(s): Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele. Num Pages: 353 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527485
- ISBN
- 9780230527485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.56
€ 128.56
Hardback. This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAB; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535312
- ISBN
- 9780230535312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardback. This first comparative study of the philosophers and literary critics, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, focuses on the two thinkers' conceptions of experience and form, investigating parallels between Bakhtin's theories of responsibility, dialogue, and the novel, and Benjamin's theories of translation, montage, allegory, and the aura. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535350
- ISBN
- 9780230535350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardback. The morality of sex, violence and money is at the centre of much human life. While the first two have been subject to intensive historical and philosophical investigation, the latter has largely been neglected. The authors provide the first comprehensive introduction to the morality of money. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535435
- ISBN
- 9780230535435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.44
€ 128.44
Paperback. Grouped under four headings: the Framework, Transcendental, Epistemic, and Therapeutic readings, this collection of papers is devoted to Ludwig Wittgenstein's "On Certainty". Editor(s): Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele; Brenner, William H. Num Pages: 347 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535527
- ISBN
- 9780230535527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Paperback. This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty, clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal of scepticism. As an introduction and commentary on Wittgenstein's final major philosophical work, Moyal-Sharrock's book will prove an indispensable guide to the student, scholar and general reader. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535534
- ISBN
- 9780230535534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.97
€ 126.97
Hardcover. In this significant intervention into the academic and institutional debate on European cultural identity, Monica Sassatelli examines the identity-building intentions and effects of the European Capital of Culture programme, and also looks at the work of the Council of Europe and the recent European Landscape Convention. Num Pages: 247 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JFFS; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537422
- ISBN
- 9780230537422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Paperback. Jeffrey Haynes adopts a chronological and conceptual approach to introduce students to the central themes and theoretical perspectives in the study of religion and development in the developing world, focusing on key themes including environmental sustainability, health and education. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HRA; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542464
- ISBN
- 9780230542464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.03
€ 138.03
Hardback. Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later recalled as causes of the American Revolution. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC91. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542976
- ISBN
- 9780230542976
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.36
€ 151.36
Hardback. This is the first comprehensive account of the diversity and complexity of censorship practices in Italy under the Fascist dictatorship. Through archival material it shows how practices of censorship were used to effect regime change, to measure and to shape public opinion, behaviour and attitudes in the twenty years of Mussolini's dictatorship. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JFMD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230543089
- ISBN
- 9780230543089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians. Editor(s): Forrest, Alan I.; Hagemann, Karen; Rendall, Jane. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545342
- ISBN
- 9780230545342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03