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Paperback. Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species and to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty. Editor(s): Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria; Fulkerson, Mary McClintock; Carbine, Rosemary P. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372222
- ISBN
- 9781137372222
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardcover. Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understanding of how religious symbols and spatial studies interact. The essays consider the relevance of religion in the experience of space, a fundamental dimension of culture and human life. Editor(s): George, Mark K.; Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria. Series: Religion and Spatial Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMN; HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371331
- ISBN
- 9781137371331
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Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. This collection of essays by leading exponents of contemporary Buddhism and psychotherapy brings together appreciation and critical evaluation of Mindfulness, a phenomenon that has swept the mental health field over the last two decades. The sheer diversity and depth of expertise assembled here illuminate the current presentation of Mindfulness. Editor(s): Bazzano, Manu. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRE; JMC; JMS; VXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137370396
- ISBN
- 9781137370396
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Condition: New
€ 128.45
€ 128.45
Hardcover. This unique volume examines how and to what extent former victims of Stalinist terror from across the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were received, reintegrated and rehabilitated following the mass releases from prisons and labour camps which came in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953 and Khrushchev's reforms in the subsequent decade. Editor(s): McDermott, Kevin; Stibbe, Matthew. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137368911
- ISBN
- 9781137368911
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Condition: New
€ 67.17
€ 67.17
Hardcover. This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age. Editor(s): Smyth, Adam; Partington, Gillian. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137367655
- ISBN
- 9781137367655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. This collection of original articles, a sequel of sorts to the 2009 Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension (Palgrave Macmillan), is the first sustained reflection, by scholars with expertise in the faith traditions, on how the transhumanist agenda might impact the body. Editor(s): Mercer, Calvin R.; Maher, Derek F. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM; JFMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137365835
- ISBN
- 9781137365835
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1830. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion. Editor(s): Hagemann, Karen; Mettele, Gisela; Rendall, Jane. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 391 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363886
- ISBN
- 9781137363886
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Condition: New
€ 129.20
€ 129.20
Hardcover. This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras. Editor(s): Woodacre, Elena. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBG; HBLC1; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362827
- ISBN
- 9781137362827
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Condition: New
€ 151.22
€ 151.22
Hardcover. Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe as a political community this volume rethinks the European political project beyond the rigid opposition between universalism and particularism approaching Europe as a space of the exposure of differences to each other. Editor(s): Prozorov, Sergei; Lindberg, Susanna; Ojakangas, Mika. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPH; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137361813
- ISBN
- 9781137361813
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions from leading historians to explore its successes, challenges, and inevitable compromises as it pursued these initiatives during the Cold War. Editor(s): Goethem, Geert van; Waters, Robert Anthony,, Jr. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBLW3; HBTB; HBTK; HBTW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360212
- ISBN
- 9781137360212
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Condition: New
€ 139.43
€ 139.43
Hardcover. Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. This book argues that present-day infrastructure vulnerabilities resulted from choices of infrastructure builders in the past. Editor(s): Hogselius, Per; Hommels, Anique; Kaijser, Arne; Vleuten, Erik van der. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 634.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358721
- ISBN
- 9781137358721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.68
€ 68.68
Paperback. 'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. Media and the British Empire explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonized as well as the colonizers. Editor(s): Kaul, Chandrika. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBAH; HBTQ; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358318
- ISBN
- 9781137358318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.29
€ 128.29
Hardcover. Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood. Editor(s): Moruzi, Kristine; Smith, Michelle J. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356345
- ISBN
- 9781137356345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.05
€ 68.05
Hardcover. What if self-questioning could provoke an extreme attentiveness to a rich inner life? In pursuit of this question, a mixed group of highly fallible thinkers gather together in the north of England. Will they be able to respond to the actual events of their lives, and reinvent philosophy as a collective spiritual exercise? Editor(s): Goodchild, Philip. Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HRAB; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355768
- ISBN
- 9781137355768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.93
€ 66.93
Hardcover. Richard J. Bernstein, who has played a leading role in "the pragmatist turn" in contemporary philosophy, replies to twelve younger critics in a lively conversation about pragmatism's past, present, and future as a guiding paradigm for philosophy and related fields. Editor(s): Green, Judith M. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352699
- ISBN
- 9781137352699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Fusing the disciplines of health care, spiritual care, and social services, this book examines the relationship between chronic illness and spirituality. Contributors include professionals working in traditional, holistic and integrative clinical settings, as well as religious studies scholars and spiritual practitioners. Editor(s): Stoltzfus, Michael J.; Green, Rebecca; Schumm, Darla. Num Pages: 321 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRLP5; JKS; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351364
- ISBN
- 9781137351364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.75
€ 196.75
Paperback. This era witnessed the first full flowering of British women's writing. Drawing on the last 30 years of scholarship and textual recovery which have overturned the theory that women wrote only unambitious, domestic texts, this new paperback highlights that an English literary history that ignores women writers is not only incomplete, but inadequate. Editor(s): Labbe, Jacqueline M. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC; DSK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350398
- ISBN
- 9781137350398
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Condition: New
€ 56.99
€ 56.99
Hardcover. This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy. Editor(s): Kamusella, Tomasz; Nomachi, Motoki; Gibson, Catherine. Num Pages: 592 pages, 17 maps, 2 figures, 12 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AG; CFB; CFF; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 187 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348388
- ISBN
- 9781137348388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 320.63
€ 320.63
Hardcover. This collection of essays by array of international scholars addresses some aspects of the issues of religious stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination and offers solutions through discussions of method, terminology and definitions regarding interreligious relations, the political implications in the Middle East, and various case-studies. Editor(s): Svartvik, Jesper; Wiren, Jakob. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAF; HRAM1; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344601
- ISBN
- 9781137344601
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.29
€ 68.29
Hardcover. This Handbook contains twenty-six original and substantive papers examining a wide selection of philosophical methods. Drawing upon an international range of leading contributors, it will help shape future debates about how philosophy should be done. The papers will be of particular interest to researchers and high-level undergraduates. Editor(s): Daly, Christopher. Num Pages: 672 pages, 8 figures, 1 maps, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: GPS; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1228.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344540
- ISBN
- 9781137344540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 289.89
€ 289.89