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Hardcover. A collection of essays by leading philosophers on the work of John Cottingham, focussing on his work in moral philosophy, discussing themes from his contributions to the debate on partiality and impartiality, the role of the emotions in the good life and the meaning of the worthwhile life. Including a 'replies' chapter by John Cottingham. Editor(s): Athanassoulis, Nafsika; Vice, Samantha. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527560
- ISBN
- 9780230527560
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Condition: New
€ 67.81
€ 67.81
Hardcover. This volume sets up a dialogue between the 'historical' and the 'contemporary' Tocqueville. How does a contextualization of Tocqueville, or a focus on his embeddedness in nineteenth-century political culture, add to our understanding of his political thought? How has the use of his writings in political debate influenced the reception of his work? Editor(s): Geenens, Raf; Dijn, Annelien de. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPCF; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527461
- ISBN
- 9780230527461
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€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. This volume presents the first book-length study devoted to the discussion and relevance of the notion of 'ecology' within the frame-work and 'ontology' of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari from various positions within Cultural Studies and Sciences. Editor(s): Herzogenrath, Bernd. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 615.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527447
- ISBN
- 9780230527447
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Condition: New
€ 152.31
€ 152.31
Hardcover. A collection of scholarly papers on the techniques used by late antique philosophers to discover truth. Editor(s): Vassilopoulou, Panayiota; Clark, Stephen. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 568.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527423
- ISBN
- 9780230527423
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Condition: New
€ 129.72
€ 129.72
Hardcover. Through the eyes of a young American female radical socialist, living and working in Barcelona during the Catalan Revolution and the Spanish Civil War, the dreams, the nightmares and the realities of European politics in the age of dictatorship are fully brought to life. An autobiographical commentary written on the eve of World War Two. Editor(s): Hom, Gerd-Rainer. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP; JPFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527393
- ISBN
- 9780230527393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, with the development of newspapers and government sensibility to opinion, it also considers earlier panics about cross-dressing and witchcraft. Editor(s): Lemmings, David; Walker, Claire. Num Pages: 290 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFFP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527324
- ISBN
- 9780230527324
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Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardcover. Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance. Editor(s): Rousseau, Professor George S. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 389 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525269
- ISBN
- 9780230525269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.18
€ 130.18
Hardcover. This fascinating collection of essays is the first full-length scholarly study of the genesis and influence of Alan Peacock's intellectually radical 'Report of the Committee on Financing the BBC' (1986), which fundamentally altered the principles governing the development of broadcasting policy in the UK. Editor(s): O'Malley, Tom; Jones, Janet. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 495.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524743
- ISBN
- 9780230524743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.81
€ 67.81
Hardcover. This book is the first study of the role of British Ambassadors in shaping Anglo-American relations during the first generation of the 'special relationship'. As well as showing how ambassadors wielded influence in Washington and helped to formulate British foreign policy, it offers insights into the role of the embassy in modern diplomacy. Editor(s): Hopkins, Michael F.; Kelly, Saul; Young, John W. (Chair of International History, University of Nottingham). Num Pages: 251 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW3; JPSD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522169
- ISBN
- 9780230522169
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Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
Hardcover. In this volume, contributors from a range of perspectives - evolutionary psychology to anthropology, sociology to cognitive and motivational psychology - explore questions of what our attractiveness preferences are and why we find certain others physically attractive, offering a fresh perspective to understanding the perception of attractiveness. Editor(s): Swami, Viren; Furnham, Adrian F. Num Pages: 333 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521865
- ISBN
- 9780230521865
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Condition: New
€ 68.17
€ 68.17
Hardcover. This book explores the political and religious world of early Bourbon France, focusing on the search for stable accord that characterised its political and religious life. Chapters examine developments that shaped the Bourbon realm through the century: assertions of royal authority, rules of political negotiation, and the evolution of Devot piety. Editor(s): Forrestal, Alison; Nelson, Eric. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521391
- ISBN
- 9780230521391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.75
€ 67.75
Hardcover. France's liberation was expected to trigger a decisive break both with the Vichy regime and with the pre-war Third Republic. What happened was an untidy patchwork of unplanned continuities and false starts. This volume analyses the complex process of regime change, economic renewal, social transformation, and adjustment to a fast-evolving world. Editor(s): Knapp, Andrew. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521216
- ISBN
- 9780230521216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.61
€ 67.61
Paperback. 'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic. Editor(s): Berg, Maxine; Eger, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517790
- ISBN
- 9780230517790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
Hardcover. The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare. Editor(s): MacLeod, Jenny. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517400
- ISBN
- 9780230517400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67
Hardcover. Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history. Editor(s): Mills, James; Barton, Patricia. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; JKVG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230516519
- ISBN
- 9780230516519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.72
€ 128.72
Hardcover. The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance. The authors present eight new case studies of balancing and balancing failure in pre-modern and non-European international systems. Editor(s): Kaufman, Stuart J.; Little, Richard; Wohlforth, William C. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFS; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507104
- ISBN
- 9780230507104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.45
€ 128.45
Hardcover. This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It addresses the idea that the natural philosophers of the era forged their new sciences despite, rather than because of, the pervasive bible-centeredness of early modern thought. Editor(s): Killeen, Kevin; Forshaw, Peter J. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HRCG3; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507074
- ISBN
- 9780230507074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.24
€ 140.24
Hardcover. Kant denies that Reason is intuitive, but demands that we must 'make' Reason intuitive, particularly in matters of morality. This book analyzes and explores this central paradox within Kantian thought, with contributions from a range of different perspectives, including political philosophy, ethics, religion, science and aesthetics. Editor(s): Patellis, Ioli; Goudeli, Kyriaki; Kontos, Pavlos. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506893
- ISBN
- 9780230506893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.91
€ 128.91
Hardcover. Provides an examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. This book explores the themes in the social history of medicine, including midwifery, magic, gender, books, public health, poverty, the social organization of medical practice and colonialism, from the 15th to the mid-19th centuries. Editor(s): Jenner, Mark S. R.; Wallis, Patrick. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1FKA; 1KB; 3J; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506435
- ISBN
- 9780230506435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.73
€ 162.73
Hardcover. Vietnam precipitated a crisis in national self-confidence and a breakdown in political consensus out of which ideological perspectives - including neo-conservatism - emerged. This book offers perspectives on a defining event in 'the American Century', examining its historical and political significance and also its continuing cultural relevance. Editor(s): Ropert, Jon. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWS2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500426
- ISBN
- 9780230500426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12