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Paperback. Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 314 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465286
- ISBN
- 9781349465286
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€ 183.17
€ 183.17
Paperback. The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities. Editor(s): De Donno, Fabrizio; Gilson, Simon A. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 341 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465262
- ISBN
- 9781349465262
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€ 127.40
€ 127.40
Paperback. An investigation of the postsecular in International Relations and how an increasingly postsecular international politics is contributing to the emergence of new patterns of authority, legitimacy and power in the international system. Editor(s): Mavelli, Luca. Series: Culture and Religion in International Relations. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAM; JPA; JPS; JPSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465187
- ISBN
- 9781349465187
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€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. In light of the decline of trade union membership and the role TU are expected to play in industrial relations, this book explores the consequences of government action and the economic policies on TU membership, investigating the forms of political action undertaken by TU and reviewing the conditions under which these actions succeed or fail. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; KCF; KJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465033
- ISBN
- 9781349465033
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€ 126.73
€ 126.73
Paperback. Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 284 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465019
- ISBN
- 9781349465019
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€ 66.17
€ 66.17
The Borderlands of South Sudan. Authority and Identity in Contemporary...
. Ed(S): Vaughan, C.; Vries, L. De; de Vries,...
paperback. Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011. Editor(s): Vaughan, C.; Vries, L. de; De Vries, Lotje; Schomerus, Mareike. Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 258 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HBJH; HBTQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349464982
- ISBN
- 9781349464982
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
paperback. The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume sets out the history of the relationship between neurology and music, putting the advances of our era into context. Editor(s): Kennaway, James. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTB; MJN; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349464470
- ISBN
- 9781349464470
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€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread. Num Pages: 268 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464395
- ISBN
- 9781349464395
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€ 126.85
€ 126.85
Paperback. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464319
- ISBN
- 9781349464319
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€ 149.11
€ 149.11
Paperback. Espinoza's work illuminates how education was the site of ideological and political struggle in Peru during its early years as an independent state. Spanning 100 years and discussing both urban and rural education, it shows how school funding, curricula, and governance became part of the cultural process of state-building in Peru. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 295 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JFC; JNB; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464043
- ISBN
- 9781349464043
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€ 53.99€ 42.71
€ 53.99
€ 42.71
Paperback. "This book is a result of a cooperative research and competence-building program, Peacebuilding in Sudan: Micro-Macro Issues, carried out by the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway, in partnership with Sudanese universities." Num Pages: 269 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; HRAM; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463978
- ISBN
- 9781349463978
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€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Paperback. The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463954
- ISBN
- 9781349463954
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€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; JHBS; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463930
- ISBN
- 9781349463930
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€ 66.12
€ 66.12
The Ethics of Animal Re-Creation and Modification. Reviving, Rewilding...
. Ed(S): Oksanen, Markku; Siipi, Helena
Paperback. Would it be cool to see woolly mammoth alive one day? Disappeared species have always fascinated the human mind. A new discussion of using genomic technologies to reverse extinction and to help in conservation has been sparked. This volume studies the question philosophically. Editor(s): Oksanen, Markku; Siipi, Helena. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDA; PSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463831
- ISBN
- 9781349463831
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€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression
. Ed(S): Lightcap, Tracy; Pfiffner, James P.
paperback. Editor(s): Lightcap, Tracy; Pfiffner, James P. Num Pages: 218 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349463701
- ISBN
- 9781349463701
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€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Knepper criticizes existing efforts in the philosophy of religion for being out of step with, and therefore useless to, the academic study of religion, then forwards a new program for philosophy of religion that is in step with, and therefore useful to, the academic study of religion. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPJ; HPK; HRAB; HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463565
- ISBN
- 9781349463565
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€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Paperback. Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These debates also call into question assumptions about the decline of religion in modern industrial societies. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRCC9; HRCM; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463541
- ISBN
- 9781349463541
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. What kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJH; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463466
- ISBN
- 9781349463466
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463343
- ISBN
- 9781349463343
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Condition: New
€ 65.54
€ 65.54
Paperback. Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Micha? Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that guided the thinking of their student Tadeusz Kowalik. The chapters of this volume examine how the ideas of Luxemburg, Lange, Kalecki and Kowalik can illuminate our understanding of the crisis in twenty-first century capitalism. Editor(s): Bellofiore, Riccardo; Karwowski, Ewa; Toporowski, J. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought Series. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; KCA; KCP; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463220
- ISBN
- 9781349463220
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Condition: New
€ 126.92
€ 126.92