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Theological Reflections on "Gangnam Style": A Racial, Sexual, and Cult...
Cheah, Joseph, Kim, Grace Ji-Sun
Hardcover. As we listen to Psy's music are we laughing at him or with him? This book responds to this question from historical and theological perspectives and tackles the pressing issues concerning racial stereotypes, imposed masculinity, and imitating another in order to ridicule him/her. Series: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 107 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRLB; JFCA; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373472
- ISBN
- 9781137373472
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Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. Fully revised and up-to-date chapters set out a philosophical and practical explanation of what technological literacy is, how we think when we employ it, how we teach it, how we learn it, and how we use it. Editor(s): Dakers, John R. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPK; JFCA; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373465
- ISBN
- 9781137373465
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Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Hardcover. The Rationalism of Georg Lukacs is a collection of essays and engaging scholarship which uncovers new dimensions of the philosopher's work. The relevance of Lukacs's ideas should be seen in the light of a sharp decline in critical thought as well the continued need to rehabilitate a thinker that was representative of a rational radical perspective. Series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372819
- ISBN
- 9781137372819
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Black Theology as Mass Movement is a call to current and future theologians to stretch the boundaries of Black Liberation Theology from what has become primarily an academic subfield into a full fledge liberation movement beyond the walls of the academy. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372796
- ISBN
- 9781137372796
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Condition: New
€ 128.45
€ 128.45
Hardback. The Settler Colonial Present explores the ways in which settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination informs the global present. It presents an argument regarding its extraordinary resilience and diffusion and reflects on the need to imagine its decolonisation. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 347.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372468
- ISBN
- 9781137372468
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Condition: New
€ 117.03
€ 117.03
Hardcover. This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372390
- ISBN
- 9781137372390
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Condition: New
€ 67.80
€ 67.80
Hardcover. This investigation of Kierkegaard as a political thinker with regard to the Danish context, and to his place in the history of political thought, deals with the more direct discussion of politics in Kierkegaard, and the ways in which political ideas are embedded in his literary, aesthetic, ethical, philosophical ,and religious thought. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372314
- ISBN
- 9781137372314
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Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Hardcover. This collection of essays articulates theoretical and philosophical arguments, and advances practical applications, as to why animals ought to matter to social work, in and of themselves. It serves as a persuasive corrective to the current invisibility of animals in contemporary social work practice and thought. Editor(s): Ryan, Thomas. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372284
- ISBN
- 9781137372284
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Condition: New
€ 129.05
€ 129.05
Hardcover. Religion and social action is both empowering and limiting for women. This study shows the Guadalupanas' awareness of themselves as agents for change and their difficulties in understanding and maintaining their limited gendered roles within church and community. Num Pages: 214 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRCC7; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372192
- ISBN
- 9781137372192
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Drawing on legal and literary sources, this work revises and expands understandings of female honesty, worth and credit by exploring how women from the middling and lower ranks of society fashioned positive identities as mothers, housewives, domestic managers, retailers and neighbours between 1550 and 1700. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372093
- ISBN
- 9781137372093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371744
- ISBN
- 9781137371744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson's work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson's major histories in Germany tests the limits of intellectual transfer through translation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DFG; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371713
- ISBN
- 9781137371713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.96
€ 67.96
Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happine...
. Ed(S): Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria; Fulkerson, Ma...
Hardback. 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: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371706
- ISBN
- 9781137371706
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Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Hardcover. This book is a timely revival of the social and political importance of meaningful work, which explores a philosophy of work based upon the value of meaningfulness and argues for the institution of a new politics of meaningfulness. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBL; KJWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137370570
- ISBN
- 9781137370570
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Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. The interest of this book lies at the very center of a recent deployment of homosexual liberation on a larger scale. The reader will be able to understand how each of the traditions studied articulates its own regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality in general, and homosexuality. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM; JFSJ; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137369888
- ISBN
- 9781137369888
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Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Hardcover. This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer. Editor(s): McGrath, William J.; Applegate, Celia; Frontz, Stephanie; Marchand, Suzanne L. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 271 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137369475
- ISBN
- 9781137369475
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book examines French motivations behind the decolonisation of Tunisia and Morocco and the intra-Western Alliance relationships. It argues that changing French policy towards decolonisation brought about the unexpectedly quick process of independence of dependencies in the post-WWII era. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBM; 1HBT; 3JJP; HBJD; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137368942
- ISBN
- 9781137368942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.40
€ 68.40
Hardcover. Charles Hodge engaged the leading thinkers of his day to defend the human ability to know God. This involved him in affirming the importance of both orthodoxy and piety in the life of a Christian. His work involved expanding on the insights of the Westminster Confession of Faith as it applied to the theory of salvation and the role of Christ. Num Pages: 151 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137368669
- ISBN
- 9781137368669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Using the work of Wittgenstein, John Heaton challenges the notion of theoretical expertise on the mind, arguing for a new understanding of therapy as an attempt by patients to express themselves in an effort to see and say what has not been said or seen, and accept that the world is not as fixed as they are constituting it. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137367686
- ISBN
- 9781137367686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Hardcover. Often the liberal movement has been viewed through the lens of its later German nationalism. This presents only one facet of a wide-ranging, all-encompassing project to regenerate the Habsburg Monarchy. By analysing its various nuances, this volume provides a new, more positive interpretation of Austro-German liberalism. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; HBJ; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 174 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366917
- ISBN
- 9781137366917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.19
€ 130.19