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Hardcover. This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries. Series: Afro-Latin@ Diasporas. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRKT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485380
- ISBN
- 9781137485380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. In the 19th century, both Italy and the US were young countries pursuing liberal nationalism even as unity was threatened by a recalcitrant southern population. This nuanced analysis of abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, Lincoln and Cavour, and the nation's two civil wars provides powerful new insights into their histories. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485427
- ISBN
- 9781137485427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Hardback. This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility of the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power. Series: Religion and Global Migrations. Num Pages: 112 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; H; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 297.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485489
- ISBN
- 9781137485489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardback. Significantly updated and expanded, this indispensable resource offers students and scholars alike real advice in navigating the ever-changing academic landscape. Offering practical guidance on graduate school, dissertation-writing, job interviews, promotions, retirement, publications, conferences, and so much more, this is the essential resource. Editor(s): Hunt, Mary E.; Ali, Kecia. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485724
- ISBN
- 9781137485724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback. Significantly updated and expanded, this indispensable resource offers students and scholars alike real advice in navigating the ever-changing academic landscape. Offering practical guidance on graduate school, dissertation-writing, job interviews, promotions, retirement, publications, conferences, and so much more, this is the essential resource. Editor(s): Hunt, Mary E.; Ali, Kecia. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 9. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485731
- ISBN
- 9781137485731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. This book explores the historiography, ports, and peoples of the Persian Gulf over the past two centuries, offering a more inclusive history of the region than previously available. Restoring the history of minority communities which until now have been silenced, the book provides a corrective to the 'official story' put forward by modern states. Editor(s): Potter, Lawrence G. Num Pages: 404 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBX; HBJF1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485762
- ISBN
- 9781137485762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Hardcover. Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies, this book claims that the two philosophers share the common goal of making knowledge the most powerful affect. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486059
- ISBN
- 9781137486059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Showcasing French participation in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, this book shows the French army at the heart of revolutionary, social, and cultural change. Osman argues that efforts to transform the French army into a citizen army before 1789 prompted and helped shape the French Revolution. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JF; HBJD; HBJK; HBTV2; HBWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486233
- ISBN
- 9781137486233
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Contemporary critical theory has customarily been dominated by French and German thought. However, a new wave of Italian thinkers has broken ground for new theoretical inquiries. This book seeks to explain and defend the new wave of Italian critical though, providing context and substance behind the praxis of this emerging school. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486349
- ISBN
- 9781137486349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This book analyzes the ways in which US policy toward Iraq was dictated by America's broader Cold War strategy between 1958 and 1975 and shows where Iraq fits into the broader historiography of the Cold War in the Middle East. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 284 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; HBTW; JFSL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487117
- ISBN
- 9781137487117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.49
€ 162.49
Hardcover. Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; HPCF; HPJ; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487247
- ISBN
- 9781137487247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide - not euthanasia - are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFME; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487469
- ISBN
- 9781137487469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Hardback. Commemoration of war is done through sport on Anzac Day to remember Australia's war dead. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sporting tradition at Gallipoli in 1915, and how it has evolved from late Victorian and Edwardian ideas of masculinity extolling prowess on the sports field as fostering prowess on the battlefield. Series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics. Num Pages: 141 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBLX; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 141
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487599
- ISBN
- 9781137487599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology explores the space between epistemology and methodology, offering a systematic examination of the empirical foundations of interpretations in anthropology. Translator(s): Alou, Antoinette Tidjani. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HPK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488497
- ISBN
- 9781137488497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.09
€ 140.09
Hardcover. Recent years have seen the rise of anti-politics as a political phenomenon. Beyond this new rejection of the political class there has long existed a deeper challenge to the political itself. Identifying the work of Derrida as 'a politics' and that of Baudrillard as 'transpolitics' this book charts convergences and divergences in their approaches. Num Pages: 110 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488558
- ISBN
- 9781137488558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. This carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, international figures, and others to move beyond the narratives-both the German and American varieties-that have dominated the historical memory of German reunification. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 31. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488701
- ISBN
- 9781137488701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.08
€ 69.08
Hardcover. Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian, Jean Gerson (1363-1429), as a means of understanding his reputation for political neutrality, the role played by royal women in the French royal court, and the rise of the European witch hunts. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HRCM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488824
- ISBN
- 9781137488824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book explores the continuous British fascination with the American Civil War from the 1870s to the present. Analysing the War's place in British political discourse, military writing, intellectual life and popular culture, it traces the sources of Britons' appeal to the American conflict and their use of its representations at home and abroad. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489258
- ISBN
- 9781137489258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
To Kill a Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhami...
. Ed(S): Alloul, Houssine; Wibe, Soren; de Sm...
hardcover. Editor(s): Alloul, Houssine; Wibe, Soren; De Smaele, Hedwig; Eldem, Edhem; De Smaele, Henk. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF1; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2018
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489319
- ISBN
- 9781137489319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.14
€ 139.14
Hardback. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBL; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489494
- ISBN
- 9781137489494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20