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Hardcover. A political and analytical biography, this book examines Yizhak Rabin's longtime leadership of the military and his political direction of the Jewish state, as well as his efforts to secure a peace with Egypt and with the Palestinians. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; BGH; HBJF1; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386588
- ISBN
- 9781137386588
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Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
Hardcover. The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision argues that we can read early Daoist texts as works of moral philosophy that speak to perennial concerns about the well-lived life in the context of the Way. Lee argues that we can interpret early Daoism as an ethics of attunement. Series: Content and Context in Theological Ethics. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRAB; HRAX; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137387028
- ISBN
- 9781137387028
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. The book examines Muslim-European interactions in the interwar period and provides original insights into the emergence of geopolitical and intellectual East-West networks that transcended national, cultural, and linguistic borders. Editor(s): Ryad, Umar. Series: The Modern Muslim World. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBLW; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137387035
- ISBN
- 9781137387035
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 150 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388391
- ISBN
- 9781137388391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.21
€ 139.21
Hardcover. Holocaust education is a rapidly evolving and controversial field. This book, which critically analyses the very latest research, adopts a global perspective and discusses a number of the most important debates which are emerging within it such as teaching the Holocaust without survivors and the role of digital technology in the classroom. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JFSR1; JNKH1; JNT; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388568
- ISBN
- 9781137388568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as the Danish cartoons controversy, to argue that the human right of free speech is by no means so secure that it can be taken for granted. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK; HRH; JFMD; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388599
- ISBN
- 9781137388599
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Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. This collection demonstrates a constructive potential in reimagining with doctrines, which unlocks them from centuries of patriarchal constraint. It opens the way for glimpsing divine action in the economy of salvation, while human struggles for justice are placed within a wider arena when discrete theological resources are deployed in this way. Editor(s): Kim, Grace Ji-Sun; Daggers, Jenny. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAM; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388674
- ISBN
- 9781137388674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally. Editor(s): Utriainen, Terhi; Salmesvuori, Paivi. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAF; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 221 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388681
- ISBN
- 9781137388681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Dialectics in Social Thought examines the work of thinkers who used dialectics in their attempts to understand the world. Among them are foundational thinkers such as Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche; seminal social critics of the last century such as Camus and Sartre; and current contributors like Badiou, Ranciere, and Zizek. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388896
- ISBN
- 9781137388896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389206
- ISBN
- 9781137389206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. How are emotions related to values? This book argues against a perceptual theory of emotions, which sees emotions as perception-like states that help us gain evaluative knowledge, and argues for a caring-based theory of emotions, which sees emotions as felt desires or desire satisfactions, both of which arise out of caring about something. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389794
- ISBN
- 9781137389794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Hardcover. Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389824
- ISBN
- 9781137389824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Hardcover. Defending a procedural conception of global justice that calls for the establishment of reasonably democratic arrangements within and beyond the state, this book argues for a justice-based understanding of social development and justifies why a democracy-promoting international development practice is a requirement of global justice. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389923
- ISBN
- 9781137389923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book uses ethnography as theological practice, yielding a theology constructed at the intersection of church, academy and everyday life. Drawing on the author's research in her Baptist church, the resulting 'ethnographic theology' produces creative theological insights, while also proposing fresh alternatives for Christian thought and action. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRCM; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390431
- ISBN
- 9781137390431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.46
€ 160.46
Hardcover. This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSK; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390905
- ISBN
- 9781137390905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Based on an exploration of both pre-Nazi and Nazi theory and practice, Pete Kakel challenges the dominant narrative of the murder of European Jewry, illuminating the Holocaust's decidedly imperial-colonial origins, context, and content in a book of interest to students, teachers, and lay readers, as well as specialist and non-specialist scholars. Num Pages: 113 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391674
- ISBN
- 9781137391674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391711
- ISBN
- 9781137391711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Hardcover. This is a study that examines United Nations' efforts against terrorism in the 1970s and how West Germany came to influence and lead them. It is also an account of several hostage and hijacking crises as well as a look at German domestic terrorism. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391964
- ISBN
- 9781137391964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgians were taught how to move and fight, but also how they spoke and sang to express masculinity and patriotism. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391995
- ISBN
- 9781137391995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Although marginal as a political force, anarchist ideas developed in Britain into a political tradition. This book explores this lost history, offering a new appraisal of the work of Kropotkin and Read, and examining the ways in which they endeavoured to articulate a politics fit for the particular challenges of Britain's modern history. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JPFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392602
- ISBN
- 9781137392602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80