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Paperback. An accessible yet thorough look at how historians and social scientists have thought and written about the history of the present-day European Union, and the main themes of their research and debates. Essential reading for historians of Europe and social scientists of the European Union alike. Editor(s): Kaiser, Wolfram; Varsori, Antonio. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; HBAH; HBJD; JPSN2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232709
- ISBN
- 9780230232709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Leading scholars in the field offer new ways of looking at Wittgenstein's papers as well as clear, comprehensive and original philosophical interpretations of them. The volume includes two texts by Wittgenstein previously unpublished in English. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232662
- ISBN
- 9780230232662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece 1940-1949 (New Perspe...
Featherstone, Kevin, Papadimitriou, Dimitris,...
Hardcover. A new study of the international and local politics surrounding the Muslim minority of Western Thrace (Greece) in the 1940s, based on previously unseen archival material. Addresses the minority's complex identity, its relations with other communities in the area, the international diplomacy of WWII and strategic considerations of the Cold War. Series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVT; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; JFSR2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232518
- ISBN
- 9780230232518
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Policing in England and Wales, 1918-39: The Fed, Flying Squads and For...
Laybourn, Keith, Taylor, David
Hardcover. An examination of the modernization of the English and Welsh police during the interwar years, focusing upon the increasing professionalization of the police, the Federation, forensic work and the growth of traffic policing. The authors challenge the established viewpoint by arguing that this period saw significant changes in policing. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232457
- ISBN
- 9780230232457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232044
- ISBN
- 9780230232044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231955
- ISBN
- 9780230231955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; RNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231832
- ISBN
- 9780230231832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. An examination of why and how Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East, and why Italian efforts ultimately failed. Offering fresh insights into Fascist Italy's foreign and colonial policies, this book makes an important contribution to the complex history of relations between Europe and the Arab world. Num Pages: 269 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FB; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231603
- ISBN
- 9780230231603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. An exploration of how the theme of Anti-Americanism was employed by influential sections of the West German media to oppose the modernisation of the Federal Republic of Germany during the 'long 1950s'. In the public battle over the future direction of Germany, America stood as a symbol of social, political and economic corruption. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231559
- ISBN
- 9780230231559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deployment of the concept of nihilism within the discourses of philosophical and aesthetic modernism and considers the similarities and differences between modernist and postmodernist approaches to nihilism. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231047
- ISBN
- 9780230231047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardcover. Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deployment of the concept of nihilism within the discourses of philosophical and aesthetic modernism and considers the similarities and differences between modernist and postmodernist approaches to nihilism. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 209 x 16. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231030
- ISBN
- 9780230231030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230972
- ISBN
- 9780230230972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPFQ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230835
- ISBN
- 9780230230835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of action and agency. Each one has already made important contributions to the philosophy of action and cognate areas. The chapters reflect their research and make a significant contribution to some debate in the field. Editor(s): Aguilar, Jesus; Buckareff, Andrei; Frankish, Keith. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230606
- ISBN
- 9780230230606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardcover. Glen O'Hara draws a compelling picture of Second World War Britain by investigating relations between people and government: the electorate's rising expectations and demands for universally-available social services, the increasing complexity of the new solutions to these needs, and mounting frustration with both among both governors and governed. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230569
- ISBN
- 9780230230569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.03
€ 68.03
Paperback. In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry thought and comes to some surprising conclusions. Editor(s): Beaney, Michael. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230514
- ISBN
- 9780230230514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
Hardcover. Duncan Pritchard offers students not only a new exploration of topics central to current epistemological debate, but also a new way of doing epistemology. This advanced textbook covers such key topics as virtue epistemology, anti-luck epistemology, epistemological disjunctivism and attributer contextualism. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230484
- ISBN
- 9780230230484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230477
- ISBN
- 9780230230477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. This fascinating book, now available in paperback, examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings -- including key works such as including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island - in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; HB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2006 ed.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230323
- ISBN
- 9780230230323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Paperback. Thomas Linehan offers a fresh perspective on late Victorian and Edwardian socialism by examining the socialist revival of these years from the standpoint of modernism. In so doing, he explores the modernist mission as extending beyond the concerns of the literary and artistic avant-garde to incorporate political and social movements. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230118
- ISBN
- 9780230230118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95