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Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina (Studies of the Am...
Jose Antonio Sanchez Roman
Hardcover. This book provides a historical narrative of the Argentine tax system in the twentieth century. It argues that the failure to build permanent trust between the state and the civil society and the unraveling of confidence within Argentine society itself account for the collapse of the progressive tax system. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBT; JPA; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341265
- ISBN
- 9780230341265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art criticism, One Family's Shoah suggests a new way of writing cultural history. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 238 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341159
- ISBN
- 9780230341159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. An eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal answers one of the primary callings of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCR; JFSR; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341104
- ISBN
- 9780230341104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This book explores the gender politics of the reign of Mary I of England from her coronation to her funeral and examines the ways in which the queen and her supporters used language, royal ceremonies, and images to bolster her right to rule and define her image as queen. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DD; 3JB; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341043
- ISBN
- 9780230341043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBAH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341012
- ISBN
- 9780230341012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing on accounts from doctors and other specialists, it primarily focuses on the experiences of patients and explores themes of uncertainty, timing, identity, coping, and quality of life. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340916
- ISBN
- 9780230340916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. Through her detailed study of Mayy Ziyadah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2CSR; 3JJC; DSBH; DSK; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340862
- ISBN
- 9780230340862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics: Negotiating Transitive Space...
Leblanc, John Randolph, Medine, Carolyn M. Jo...
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340848
- ISBN
- 9780230340848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were charged with destroying anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi partisans. Paolo Pezzino not only reconstructs the events, but deals with the "forgetting" of the massacre. Translator(s): Giovanni Mazhar, Noor. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 209 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340787
- ISBN
- 9780230340787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. This book stems from a concern to assist pastoral counsellors in developing a therapeutic alliance with African-American women. It focuses on the social construct of the African-American matriarch, which can easily misinform the counsellor and cause emotional jeopardy for African-American women who attempt to live up to its expectations. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCV3; HRCX4; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340657
- ISBN
- 9780230340657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation and monetary illiquidity, and the Bank of North America. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBTQ; JHMC; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340466
- ISBN
- 9780230340466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. The Fatigue of the Shari'a places on a continuum two kinds of debates: debates in the Islamic tradition about the end of access to divine guidance and debates in modern scholarship in Islamic legal studies about the end of the Shari'a. The resulting continuum covers what access to divine guidance means and how it relates to Shari'a. Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History. Num Pages: 221 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRHT; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340367
- ISBN
- 9780230340367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QMP; AN; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340329
- ISBN
- 9780230340329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.00
€ 53.36
€ 47.00
The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race an...
Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton
Hardcover. This book explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations created from these social interactions. It examines the centrality of gender and social identity in the formation of non-western people in the British Empire. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMZ; HBJH; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340183
- ISBN
- 9780230340183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340169
- ISBN
- 9780230340169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. Taking its cue from the renewed interest in theology among Marxist and politically radical philosophers or thinkers, this study inquires into the reasons for this interest in theology focusing on the British literary theorist Terry Eagleton and the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek, as two contemporary prominent Marxist thinkers. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; HRLB; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340114
- ISBN
- 9780230340114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Hardcover. This book studies the development of the Catholic Church in China since the country opened itself to the world and began normal diplomatic relations with the United States in 1979. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; 3JM; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340091
- ISBN
- 9780230340091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, American history, and American national purpose. To prove such a contention, the book blends literary, rhetorical, and cultural methods of analysis. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; HBWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340022
- ISBN
- 9780230340022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 210 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339866
- ISBN
- 9780230339866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Overturning the 20th century's prevalent view of the Macedonians, Damianopoulos uses three domains of evidence - historical documentation, cognitive self-descriptor reports, and sociocultural features - to demonstrate that the Macedonians are a unique, non-Slav, non-Greek, ethnic identity. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYM; 3JH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339859
- ISBN
- 9780230339859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99