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Hardcover. An exploration of the little-known yet historically important emigration of British army officers to the Australian colonies in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The book looks at the significant impact they made at a time of great colonial expansion, particularly in new south Wales with its transition from a convict colony to a free society. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252301
- ISBN
- 9780230252301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Paperback. "Philosophical logic has been, and continues to be, a driving force behind much progress and development in philosophy more broadly. This collection by up-and-coming philosophical logicians deals with a broad range of topics, including, for example, proof-theory, probability, context-sensitivity, dialetheism and dynamic semantics"-- Editor(s): Restall, Greg; Russell, Gillian. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPL; HPM; PBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251748
- ISBN
- 9780230251748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. Philosophical logic has been, and continues to be, a driving force behind much progress and development in philosophy more broadly. This collection by up-and-coming philosophical logicians deals with a broad range of topics, including, for example, proof-theory, probability, context-sensitivity, dialetheism and dynamic semantics. Editor(s): Restall, Greg; Russell, Gillian. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPL; HPM; PBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251731
- ISBN
- 9780230251731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer and a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good and bad in religion, religious experience and neuroscience, pain and suffering, death and life after death, and includes interesting autobiographical revelations. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRLK; HRQC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251670
- ISBN
- 9780230251670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer and a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good and bad in religion, religious experience and neuroscience, pain and suffering, death and life after death, and includes interesting autobiographical revelations. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 208 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251663
- ISBN
- 9780230251663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251625
- ISBN
- 9780230251625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPK; HPN; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251618
- ISBN
- 9780230251618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Critical Turning Points in the Middle East: 1915 - 2015
Al-Rodhan, Nayef R.F., Herd, Graeme, Watanabe...
Hardcover. This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for the region's natural resources. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPSL; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251502
- ISBN
- 9780230251502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Paperback. Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in cities under attack, the book vividly describes family life under the most extreme conditions. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 265 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251496
- ISBN
- 9780230251496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.09
€ 72.09
Hardcover. Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and expectations around genomics. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; MBX; PDX; PSAK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250321
- ISBN
- 9780230250321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man -denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 1MBFQ; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250178
- ISBN
- 9780230250178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping out of the contours for a speculative and pragmatic production of subjectivity. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249806
- ISBN
- 9780230249806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. An investigatation of the influence of psychology and early phenomenology on the origins of analytic philosophy. This book is also of value for those interested in judgement, proposition, psychologism, logical realism, the problem of error, Gestalt theories, and tropes. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249783
- ISBN
- 9780230249783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. A Frightening Love radically rethinks God and evil. It rejects theodicy and its impersonal conception of reason and morality. Faith survives evil through a miraculous love that resists philosophical rationalization. Authors criticised include Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, Marilyn McCord Adams, Peter van Inwagen, John Haldane, William Hasker. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249752
- ISBN
- 9780230249752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions: Perspectiv...
Kirk, John, Contrepois, Sylvie, Jefferys, Ste...
Hardcover. This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the way to a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work helps shape new identities. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249547
- ISBN
- 9780230249547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach. Editor(s): Townson, Nigel. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248885
- ISBN
- 9780230248885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Paperback. The Children's Crusade was possibly the most extraordinary event in the history of the crusades. The first modern study in English of this popular crusade sheds new light on its history and offers new perspectives on its supposedly dismal outcome. Its richly re-imagined history and mythistory is explored from the thirteenth century to present day. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HBWC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248878
- ISBN
- 9780230248878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.75
€ 71.75
Hardcover. An analysis of the German Question's influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic intercourse between the Allies regarding the treatment of the German Question brought forward the elements of intervention and coexistence which formed the basis for a relatively peaceful postwar international order. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTW; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248120
- ISBN
- 9780230248120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. A new approach to reading Frege's notations that adheres to the modern view that terms and well-formed formulas are any disjoint syntactic categories. On this new approach, we can at last read Frege's notations in their original form revealing striking new solutions to many of the outstanding problems of interpreting his philosophy. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230247741
- ISBN
- 9780230247741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Focusing on the Science of Logic, this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer brings into play a form of negativity that challenges the optimism inherent in modernity and Hegelian dialectics alike. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470. The Sway of the Negative. Series: Renewing Philosophy. 280 pages. Focusing on the Science of Logic, this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer brings into play a form of negativity that challenges the optimism inherent in modernity and Hegelian dialectics alike. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPCF3. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230247543
- ISBN
- 9780230247543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13