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Paperback. War is always defined in relation to something else: peace, society, civilisation, friendship or love. What is the relationship between war and its 'other'? Are they opposites or versions of one another? This book surveys four hundred years of thinking about the definition of war, from Hobbes and Clausewitz to Badiou and i ek." Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; HBW; HPQ; HPS; JFCX; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349359073
- ISBN
- 9781349359073
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Condition: New
€ 65.54
€ 65.54
Paperback. Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBL; JKV; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358694
- ISBN
- 9781349358694
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Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory. Num Pages: 401 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBTB; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 401
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358670
- ISBN
- 9781349358670
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Condition: New
€ 194.48
€ 194.48
Paperback. Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries. Editor(s): Cox, C.; Luddy, Maria. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358540
- ISBN
- 9781349358540
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. This book is a scholarly examination of the relationship between sacramental controversy and dramatic production in sixteenth-century England. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358489
- ISBN
- 9781349358489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. How has 9/11 and the declaration of the 'global war on terror' changed our conceptions of politics? How has it affected our understanding of democracy, personal freedom and government accountability?In answering these and otherquestions, the authors engage in a comprehensive and critical analysis of politics in the age of terrorism." Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358373
- ISBN
- 9781349358373
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Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. Shows that Husserl's Phenomenology and its key concept, subjectivity, is based on a concrete anthropological structure, such as self-affection and the bodily experience of the other. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358311
- ISBN
- 9781349358311
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358298
- ISBN
- 9781349358298
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Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Paperback. 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, N; Vice, S. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358250
- ISBN
- 9781349358250
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Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. This book presents a critical analysis of contemporary arguments for objectivity in ethics. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358236
- ISBN
- 9781349358236
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. This book shows that, far from incorporating everything into an all-consuming necessity, Hegel's philosophy requires the novelty of unexpected contingencies to maintain its systematic pretensions. John Burbidge explores how Hegel applied this approach to chemistry, biology, psychology and history, and proposes implications on contemporary science. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358212
- ISBN
- 9781349358212
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. This book examines financial and administrative reform in Britain, 1779-88, growing out of failure in the War of American Independence. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; KCP; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357963
- ISBN
- 9781349357963
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Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.Taking place amid the struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, the formation of Portugal also depended on the growing European influence felt throughout the peninsula during these centuries." Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357864
- ISBN
- 9781349357864
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Condition: New
€ 194.08
€ 194.08
paperback. This book surveys more than 200 plays about the First World War that were written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 1909 and 1998. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSBH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357802
- ISBN
- 9781349357802
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a perceptible two-party system in British politics. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HRAX; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- SKU
- V9781349357611
- ISBN
- 9781349357611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. This volume presents the fully annotated text of James Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae" (1791), with an extensive editor's introduction, and an appendix that includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to "Vindiciae Gallicae" in the late summer of 1791." Editor(s): Garratt, Edmund. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- A Critical ed
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357598
- ISBN
- 9781349357598
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. This book discusses the relationship between children and sexuality in the past in a series of case studies extending from the Greeks to the Great War. Editor(s): Rousseau, G. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 389 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBG; HBTB; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 389
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357444
- ISBN
- 9781349357444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Paperback. The author offers a new assessment of the influence of the Vienna Circle on language study, and considers its relevance to the debate in present-day linguistics about the relative merits of 'intuitive' and 'real life' sources of data. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357185
- ISBN
- 9781349357185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Paperback. Series: International Political Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357161
- ISBN
- 9781349357161
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A study of homoerotic life on board ships in the Royal Navy in the age of fighting sail. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBW; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357031
- ISBN
- 9781349357031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81