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Hardcover. This collection of essays stages the first sustained conversation between the great protestant theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and radical theology. Editor(s): Re Manning, Dr. Russell. Series: Radical Theologies. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380838
- ISBN
- 9781137380838
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRKP; HRQX2; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380876
- ISBN
- 9781137380876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.51
€ 117.51
Hardback. This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBTB; HRCC93; JFSP1; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 405.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380937
- ISBN
- 9781137380937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England's legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, or unexplained death. Against the background of the coroner's role in historic England, this book explains how sudden death was investigated by magistrates in Scotland. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; 1DBKS; 1DBKWN; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381064
- ISBN
- 9781137381064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardcover. In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel. Their analyses are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ethnography and demography to political science, gender studies, theology, and the law. Editor(s): Berlinerblau, Jacques; Fainberg, Sarah; Nou, Aurora. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1FBH; 1KBB; HRAM; HRAX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381156
- ISBN
- 9781137381156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity in travel narratives, Harney explores this already internationalized world of late-medieval and early-modern Europe. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381378
- ISBN
- 9781137381378
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381781
- ISBN
- 9781137381781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.26
€ 140.26
Hardcover. Researchers, activists, and educators draw inspiration from the radical thought of Lorenzo Milani to invite readers to explore the intricacies, logistics, ethics and pedagogy of conflict and peace as played out in a number of domains, including religion, education, gender, sexuality, democracy, art, sociology and philosophy. Editor(s): Borg, Carmel; Grech, Michael. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; HRAM; JFSR; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382108
- ISBN
- 9781137382108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.39€ 47.45
€ 53.39
€ 47.45
Hardcover. Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382689
- ISBN
- 9781137382689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HRAM; JFF; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382757
- ISBN
- 9781137382757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Constituent power of the people is a core concept of modern politics but what does this concept actually mean? This book addresses this question, sketching how constituent power of the people has been conceived since the early modern revolutions. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTR; HBTV; JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382993
- ISBN
- 9781137382993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Beginning in the nineteenth century, native women preachers served and led nascent Protestant churches in much of Southern India, evolving their own mission theology and practices. This volume examines the impact of Telugu socio-political dynamics, such as caste, gender, and empire, on the theology and practices of the Telugu Biblewomen. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 221 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCX7; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383082
- ISBN
- 9781137383082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. In Kerala, Vakkom Moulavi motivated Muslims to embrace modernity, especially modern education, in order to reap maximum benefit. In this process, he initiated numerous religious reforms. However, he held fairly ambivalent attitudes towards individualism, materialism and secularization, defending Islam against the attacks of Christian missionaries. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRHP; HRHT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383136
- ISBN
- 9781137383136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HPCF3; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383273
- ISBN
- 9781137383273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This original study examines Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTE; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383341
- ISBN
- 9781137383341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure. Using case studies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, she develops a better understanding of the underlying causes and conditions necessary for terrorism and insurgency to occur. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JPS; JPV; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383709
- ISBN
- 9781137383709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of exploitative processes that transferred resources to a small group of beneficiaries, including British imperial agents and indigenous elites who went on to control the Sudanese state at independence. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 277 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383860
- ISBN
- 9781137383860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States. Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; HRCC7; JFFE1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384027
- ISBN
- 9781137384027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Ruprecht hopes to show that Quatremere's true importance emerges only if we situate him in his own times, one generation after Winckelmann, in a very different, and a far more revolutionary and secularizing cultural moment. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACG; HBG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384072
- ISBN
- 9781137384072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Hardcover. Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZX; HBTB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384430
- ISBN
- 9781137384430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.02
€ 150.02