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Paperback. Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it offers an alternative way of reading the military history of the last 250 years. Editor(s): Collins, B.; Arielli, Nir. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBW. 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
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340125
- ISBN
- 9781349340125
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Tracing the emergence of 'Religious Internationals' as a distinctive new phenomenon in world history, this book transforms our understanding of the role of religion in our modern world. Through in-depth studies comparing the experiences of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, leading experts shed new light on 'global civil society'. Editor(s): Green, A.; Viaene, Vincent. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HRAX; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340064
- ISBN
- 9781349340064
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Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
paperback. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 258 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349340040
- ISBN
- 9781349340040
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Michal Nahman traces different kinds of 'extraction': the practices of human egg harvesting in different national contexts; the political economic consequences of such extraction for the women involved and the ways in which this has consequences for nationalism and race or 'Israeli extraction'. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HPQ; JFFN; JFSJ; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339877
- ISBN
- 9781349339877
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Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 349
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339778
- ISBN
- 9781349339778
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Clear disparities exist between notions of representative democracy and political practice in Britain. Alternative models of democracy, however, have their own incongruities in trying to marry representation and democracy. This book analyses the mismatches in democratic theories and between theory and practice in British representative democracy. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. 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
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339693
- ISBN
- 9781349339693
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Paperback. This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBB; HPCA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339655
- ISBN
- 9781349339655
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Condition: New
€ 149.11
€ 149.11
Paperback. A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be?" Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; HPS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339631
- ISBN
- 9781349339631
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that century and why some considered themselves part of the new national self-image. Editor(s): Storm, H. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JHM; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339402
- ISBN
- 9781349339402
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HPC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339327
- ISBN
- 9781349339327
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Condition: New
€ 33.92
€ 33.92
Paperback. Series: Comparative Studies of Political Agendas. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHB; JPB; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339242
- ISBN
- 9781349339242
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and conceptual analysis of corruption which demonstrates a persistent oscillation between restrictive 'public office' and expansive 'degenerative' connotations of corruption from classical Antiquity to 1800. Series: Political Corruption and Governance. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPP. 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
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339129
- ISBN
- 9781349339129
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JFCX; JHBA; JMS; PDX. 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
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339082
- ISBN
- 9781349339082
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Condition: New
€ 65.72
€ 65.72
Paperback. The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world. Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPL; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339068
- ISBN
- 9781349339068
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Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFF; CFG; CFGR; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338702
- ISBN
- 9781349338702
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Condition: New
€ 126.88
€ 126.88
A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and th...
Crowson, Nick; Mouhot, Jean-Francois
paperback. " Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and influenced. "-- Num Pages: 399 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 273 x 27. Weight in Grams: 566.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 399
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349338597
- ISBN
- 9781349338597
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Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Paperback. Between 1789 and 1848, clerks modified their occupational practices, responding to political scrutiny and state-administration reforms. Ralph Kingston examines the lives and influence of bureaucrats inside and outside the office as they helped define nineteenth-century bourgeois social capital, ideals of emulation, honour, and masculinity. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338511
- ISBN
- 9781349338511
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJK; HBL; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338474
- ISBN
- 9781349338474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338450
- ISBN
- 9781349338450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.47
€ 47.47
Paperback. This volume is derived from a series of lectures sponsored by the National Maritime Museum and held at the Institute of Historical Research. Editor(s): Taylor, Miles. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338412
- ISBN
- 9781349338412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76