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Hardcover. History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HPCF3; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383273
- ISBN
- 9781137383273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.88
€ 67.88
Hardcover. In Kerala, Vakkom Moulavi motivated Muslims to embrace modernity, especially modern education, in order to reap maximum benefit. In this process, he initiated numerous religious reforms. However, he held fairly ambivalent attitudes towards individualism, materialism and secularization, defending Islam against the attacks of Christian missionaries. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRHP; HRHT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383136
- ISBN
- 9781137383136
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Condition: New
€ 67.17
€ 67.17
Hardcover. Beginning in the nineteenth century, native women preachers served and led nascent Protestant churches in much of Southern India, evolving their own mission theology and practices. This volume examines the impact of Telugu socio-political dynamics, such as caste, gender, and empire, on the theology and practices of the Telugu Biblewomen. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 221 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCX7; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383082
- ISBN
- 9781137383082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. Constituent power of the people is a core concept of modern politics but what does this concept actually mean? This book addresses this question, sketching how constituent power of the people has been conceived since the early modern revolutions. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTR; HBTV; JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382993
- ISBN
- 9781137382993
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Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HRAM; JFF; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382757
- ISBN
- 9781137382757
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382689
- ISBN
- 9781137382689
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Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardcover. Researchers, activists, and educators draw inspiration from the radical thought of Lorenzo Milani to invite readers to explore the intricacies, logistics, ethics and pedagogy of conflict and peace as played out in a number of domains, including religion, education, gender, sexuality, democracy, art, sociology and philosophy. Editor(s): Borg, Carmel; Grech, Michael. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; HRAM; JFSR; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382108
- ISBN
- 9781137382108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.31€ 47.87
€ 53.31
€ 47.87
Hardback. At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381781
- ISBN
- 9781137381781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.26
€ 140.26
Hardcover. The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity in travel narratives, Harney explores this already internationalized world of late-medieval and early-modern Europe. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381378
- ISBN
- 9781137381378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel. Their analyses are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ethnography and demography to political science, gender studies, theology, and the law. Editor(s): Berlinerblau, Jacques; Fainberg, Sarah; Nou, Aurora. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1FBH; 1KBB; HRAM; HRAX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381156
- ISBN
- 9781137381156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England's legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, or unexplained death. Against the background of the coroner's role in historic England, this book explains how sudden death was investigated by magistrates in Scotland. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; 1DBKS; 1DBKWN; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381064
- ISBN
- 9781137381064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardback. This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBTB; HRCC93; JFSP1; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 405.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380937
- ISBN
- 9781137380937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRKP; HRQX2; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380876
- ISBN
- 9781137380876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.51
€ 117.51
Hardcover. This collection of essays stages the first sustained conversation between the great protestant theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and radical theology. Editor(s): Re Manning, Dr. Russell. Series: Radical Theologies. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380838
- ISBN
- 9781137380838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67
Hardcover. Through the use of a poststructuralist perspective, Antony O'Loughlin challenges the most basic tenets of International Relations Theory and deploys Rawlsian ideas of public reason in conjunction with Kratochwil's conceptions of practical reason in order to put forward a theory that overcomes the challenges posed by poststructuralism. Series: International Political Theory. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380722
- ISBN
- 9781137380722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.79
€ 67.79
Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth, and Social Act...
Jung, Dietrich, Petersen, Marie Juul, Sparre,...
Hardcover. Examining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of successive modernities, sociology of religion, and poststructuralist approaches to modern subjectivity, as well as the results of extensive fieldwork in the Middle East, particularly Egypt and Jordan. Series: The Modern Muslim World. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JHB; JHBA; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380647
- ISBN
- 9781137380647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Paperback. Examining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of successive modernities, sociology of religion, and poststructuralist approaches to modern subjectivity, as well as the results of extensive fieldwork in the Middle East, particularly Egypt and Jordan. Series: The Modern Muslim World. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; JFFS; JHBA; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380630
- ISBN
- 9781137380630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Hardcover. Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new reading of the English East India Company 1660-1720. It shows how innovative works - covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid early modern struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 333 pages, 3 tables, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBTQ; KCZ; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 333
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380197
- ISBN
- 9781137380197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.64
€ 162.64
hardcover. Between 1740 and 1832, England witnessed what has been called its 'golden age of caricature', coinciding with intense rivalry and with war with France. This book shows how Georgian satirical prints reveal attitudes towards the French 'Other' that were far more complex, ambivalent, empathetic and multifaceted than has previously been recognised. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; AFH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380135
- ISBN
- 9781137380135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.80
€ 67.80
Hardcover. The Glubb Reports studies papers written by General Sir John Glubb, the long-serving British commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion. It covers issues such as the role of tribes and desert control, the impact of Palestine, the Arab Legion's role in the first Arab-Israeli war, the expansion of the Arab Legion, and Glubb's dismissal in 1956. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJF1; HBLW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380104
- ISBN
- 9781137380104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12