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Hardcover. Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, science and religion in the process of sexual change. Editor(s): Hekma, Gert; Giami, Alain. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137321459
- ISBN
- 9781137321459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
hardcover. The Wolfenden Report of 1957 has long been recognized as a landmark in moves towards gay law reform. Less well known are the testimonials and statements of witnesses before the Wolfenden Committee, which provide the most complete and extensive array of perspectives we have on how homosexuality was understood in mid-twentieth century Britain. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 660.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137321497
- ISBN
- 9781137321497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.90
€ 68.90
Hardback. Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of pioneers in the field and applying them to the constantly changing electronic landscape of today. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HBTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322005
- ISBN
- 9781137322005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322388
- ISBN
- 9781137322388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardcover. This book reviews the period from the unification of Italy to the fascist era through significant Neapolitan performers such as Gilda Mignonette and Enrico Caruso. It traces the transformation of a popular tradition written in dialect into a popular tradition, written in Italian, that contributed to the production of "American" identity. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBBEY; AVGN; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322418
- ISBN
- 9781137322418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws charts how auto racing was shaped by class tensions between the millionaires who invented it, the public who resented their seizure of the public roads, and the working class drivers who viewed the sport as a vocation, not a leisured pursuit. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322500
- ISBN
- 9781137322500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. The book shows how teachers struggled to liberate their country's education system from the legacy of dictatorship, combining a general evaluation of the phenomenon with intimate glances at the people who drove it forward. By vindicating the importance of democratic professionals it illuminates the Spanish transition to democracy from a new angle. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323736
- ISBN
- 9781137323736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical political philosophy. Editor(s): Yaffe, Martin D.; Ruderman, Richard S. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HPS; JPA; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324382
- ISBN
- 9781137324382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.88
€ 129.88
Hardcover. Thinking about Religion examines cutting-edge breakthroughs from across the sciences concluding that religion persists because the mind is primed for faith, ready to grasp and fiercely defend beliefs that make sense but defy logic. Series Editor(s): Wielenberg, Erik J.; Nagasawa, Yujin. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324740
- ISBN
- 9781137324740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction. Series: Avant-Gardes in Performance. Num Pages: 274 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ANF; ANH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324788
- ISBN
- 9781137324788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.53€ 47.00
€ 53.53
€ 47.00
Communicating Awe: Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration (Palgrave ...
Meyers, Oren, Neiger, Motti, Zandberg, Eyal
Hardcover. Offering a cross-media exploration of Israeli media on Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of Israel's most sacred national rituals, over the past six decades, this fascinating book investigates the way in which variables such as medium, structure of ownership, genre and targeted audiences shape the collective recollection of traumatic memories. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBTZ1; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325235
- ISBN
- 9781137325235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardback. This book examines transformation of political and religious spheres in Iran from the start of the Qajar period to the dramatic post-election crisis of 2009. It challenges dominant scholarly assumptions about the influence of Shi'ism in Iranian culture and the role of religious elites. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBTV; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325853
- ISBN
- 9781137325853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.91
€ 128.91
Hardback. As thinkers in the market for knowledge and agents aspiring to morally responsible action, we are inevitably subject to luck. This book presents a comprehensive new theory of luck in light of a critical appraisal of the literature's leading accounts, then brings this new theory to bear on issues in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of action. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326096
- ISBN
- 9781137326096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Hardcover. Of the two kinds of philosophical questions - epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them. Num Pages: 130 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326270
- ISBN
- 9781137326270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food. Editor(s): Klein, Jakob A.; Murcott, Anne. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV; JFFT; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326409
- ISBN
- 9781137326409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Grau reconsiders the relationship between "logos" and "mythos" as a precondition to opening theological hermeneutics to discourse from other cultures and genres, other modes of telling and retelling. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRCG3; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326850
- ISBN
- 9781137326850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.27
€ 149.27
Hardcover. In the 17th century, the elite household (kapi) became the focal point of Ottoman elite politics and socialization. It was a cultural melting pot, bringing together individuals of varied backgrounds through empire-wide patronage networks. This book investigates the layers of kapi power, through the example of Seyhulislam Feyzullah Efendielite. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326898
- ISBN
- 9781137326898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3J; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327796
- ISBN
- 9781137327796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Sacred Violence: Political Religion in a Secular Age (Rethinking Polit...
Jones, David Martin, Smith, M.L.R
Hardcover. Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328076
- ISBN
- 9781137328076
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Bankhurst examines how news regarding the violent struggle to control the borderlands of British North America between 1740 and 1760 resonated among communities in Ireland with familial links to the colonies. This work considers how intense Irish press coverage and American fundraising drives in Ireland produced empathy among Ulster Presbyterians. Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328199
- ISBN
- 9781137328199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.29
€ 94.29