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Hardback. A useful resource for anybody interested in contemporary thinking on happiness, Philosophy and Happiness encompasses a variety of philosophical traditions and draws from empirical work in psychology and economics to answer some of the oldest, and most pressing, questions about what contributes to individual well-being and life satisfaction. Editor(s): Bortolotti, Lisa. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ; JMQ; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224292
- ISBN
- 9780230224292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224322
- ISBN
- 9780230224322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardback. The author draws on lesser known archival materials, including Marx's notebooks on women and patriarchy and technology to offer a new interpretation of Marx's concept of alienation as this concept develops in his later works. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224407
- ISBN
- 9780230224407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, identifying underlying causes in globalization, migration policies and gender inequality. It questions whether European responses- from policy makers or civil society are adequate. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTS; JFF; JFMX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229099
- ISBN
- 9780230229099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardback. An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic avant-garde but a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural phenomena. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229570
- ISBN
- 9780230229570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Hardback. 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: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230828
- ISBN
- 9780230230828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Modernism is fundamentally determined by its relationship to its own notions of style: oscillating between the poles of 'pure' style and 'purely' style, this traces the stylistic self-conceptualization of modernism from Schopenhauer and Flaubert in the 1850s, through Nietzsche and the symbolists in the 1880s, to the high modernists of the 1920s. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230965
- ISBN
- 9780230230965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231412
- ISBN
- 9780230231412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HBG; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232341
- ISBN
- 9780230232341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. The author presents a new philosophical theory according to which we need intuitions and emotions in order to have objective moral knowledge, which is called affectual intuitionism. Affectual Intuitionism combines ethical intuitionism with a cognitive theory of emotions. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232679
- ISBN
- 9780230232679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Hardback. 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; 3JJP; HBAH; HBJD; JPSN2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232693
- ISBN
- 9780230232693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.61
€ 67.61
Hardback. Accessible and wide-ranging, this introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Action guides the reader through the major views and arguments. The topics addressed include the nature of intentional action and its explanation, the nature of reasons, the role of desire and intention in action, the nature of autonomy and the possibility of group agents. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232808
- ISBN
- 9780230232808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.21
€ 127.21
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232815
- ISBN
- 9780230232815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 125.49
€ 125.49
Hardback. Philosophy of Religion provides an engaging analysis of the current state of play in philosophy of religion, focusing on several central issues in the field. It is inclusive in its approach and designed for students, but it will also be useful to scholars and others seeking such an evaluation and interpretation of this field. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232907
- ISBN
- 9780230232907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. Philosophy of Religion provides an engaging analysis of the current state of play in philosophy of religion, focusing on several central issues in the field. It is inclusive in its approach and designed for students, but it will also be useful to scholars and others seeking such an evaluation and interpretation of this field. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232914
- ISBN
- 9780230232914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.49
€ 78.49
Hardback. This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation arguments, and Frankfurt's famous argument against the 'Principle of Alternate Possibilities. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232921
- ISBN
- 9780230232921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardback. Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first synthesis of historical, philosophical and sociological insights needed to address this question in a thoughtful and creative manner. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM3; JFMG; JHB; PDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233423
- ISBN
- 9780230233423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234062
- ISBN
- 9780230234062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237100
- ISBN
- 9780230237100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.57
€ 32.57
Hardcover. This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The book argues that a new relational imaginary can revolutionize the way settler peoples think about and relate to indigenous difference. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFFP; JFSL1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237421
- ISBN
- 9780230237421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25