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Hardcover. People believe in a great many things; and yet most of us know almost nothing about why other people believe what they do, or indeed about how it feels to believe it. This book presents an objective method for understanding and comparing belief systems - irrespective of whether the investigator happens to agree with them. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346360
- ISBN
- 9781137346360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346810
- ISBN
- 9781137346810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87
Paperback. Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is known about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is a pioneering study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3H; HBJH; HBLC; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347213
- ISBN
- 9781137347213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.29
€ 72.29
Hardcover. Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century. Editor(s): Ruger, Jan; Wachsmann, Nikolaus. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 black & white halftones, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 708.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347787
- ISBN
- 9781137347787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.90
€ 140.90
Hardcover. This book develops a unique theory of change by drawing on American philosophy and contemporary feminist thought. Via a select history of ancient Greek and Pragmatist philosophies of change, Fischer argues for a reconstruction of transformation that is inclusive of women's experiences and thought. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347879
- ISBN
- 9781137347879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
In Defense of Intuitions: A New Rationalist Manifesto
Chapman, Andrew, Ellis, Addison, Hanna, Rober...
Hardcover. A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347930
- ISBN
- 9781137347930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.60
€ 68.60
Hardcover. Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348944
- ISBN
- 9781137348944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
The Home Front in Britain. Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences Sin...
Lomas, Janis. Ed(S): Andrews, Maggie; Smoke, ...
Hardback. The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war, challenging prevalent myths of how working and domestic life was shifted by national conflict. Editor(s): Andrews, Maggie; Smoke, Richard. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348982
- ISBN
- 9781137348982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Hardcover. This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This magisterial overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350039
- ISBN
- 9781137350039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.52
€ 161.52
Hardcover. How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of the twenty-first century. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW; HBTZ; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350763
- ISBN
- 9781137350763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses in independent Ireland to the continuation of this British military connection. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBW; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350855
- ISBN
- 9781137350855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramsey's genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the impact he had on Wittgenstein's later philosophical insights. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HPCF5; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351074
- ISBN
- 9781137351074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.05
€ 139.05
Hardcover. Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at the core of becoming a combatant, but the evasion from exile at the core of being a noncombatant. Editor(s): Gertz, Nolen; Brooks, Dr. Thom. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351210
- ISBN
- 9781137351210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. This important collection of essays addresses the question of why scholars can no longer do without class in religious studies and theology, and what we can learn from a renewed engagement with the topic. This volume discusses what new discourses regarding notions of gender, ethnicity, and race might add to developments on notions of class. Editor(s): Rieger, Joerg. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRCM; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351371
- ISBN
- 9781137351371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
Hardcover. By setting the Irish religious conflict in a wide comparative perspective, this book offers fresh insights into the causes of religious conflicts, and potential means of resolving them. The collection mounts a challenge to views of 'Irish exceptionalism' and points to significant historical and contemporary commonalities across the Western world. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBTB; HRAM2; HRAM9; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351890
- ISBN
- 9781137351890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.92
€ 67.92
Hardcover. This book argues that the rising tide of anti-colonialism after the 1930s should be considered a turning point not just in harnessing a new mood or feeling of unity, but primarily as one that viewed empire, racism, and economic degradation as part of a system that fundamentally required the application of strategy to their destruction. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352019
- ISBN
- 9781137352019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; 2ADS; 3JH; DSB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352798
- ISBN
- 9781137352798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.35
€ 68.35
Hardcover. (Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Ranciere, Latour and Zizek. Editor(s): Habjan, Jernej; Whyte, Jessica. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352828
- ISBN
- 9781137352828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea. Editor(s): Amirell, Stefan Eklof; Muller, Leos. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352859
- ISBN
- 9781137352859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.77
€ 149.77
Paperback. The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work questions how peace was made and whether it has endured. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; GTJ; HBJK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 403.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353573
- ISBN
- 9781137353573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16