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Hardback. This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108318
- ISBN
- 9780230108318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Hardback. This book walks community activists through the rationale for assuming local responsibility for academic performance, outlines steps needed to drive that change, and suggests curricular direction and school policy requirements. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108325
- ISBN
- 9780230108325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.22
€ 54.99
€ 44.22
Hardback. This timely collection features an impressive assembly of the nation's leading intellectuals, addressing some of the most urgent issues facing higher education in the United States today. Editor(s): Carvalho, Edward J.; Downing, David B. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108349
- ISBN
- 9780230108349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.53
€ 54.99
€ 44.53
Hardback. This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent. Editor(s): Grace, Nancy M.; Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108400
- ISBN
- 9780230108400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardback. This new book will provide an extensive analysis of the role of the Federal Reserve in contributing to the crisis through its low interest-rate policy during 2002-2006, and in dealing with the crisis under Bernanke with his aggressive and innovative policies implemented in the wake of the Lehman collapse in September 2008. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JPQB; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108462
- ISBN
- 9780230108462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardback. The authors select sermons by Martin Luther King Jr. and Jeremiah Wright to as a framework to examine the meaning of God in America as part of the formational religio-political narrative of the country. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109568
- ISBN
- 9780230109568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Hardback. In Accountability in American Higher Education prominent academics, entrepreneurs, and journalists assess the obstacles to, and potential opportunities for, accountability in higher education in America. Providing analysis that can be used to engage institutions of higher education in the difficult but necessary conversation of accountability. Editor(s): Carey, Kevin; Schneider, Mark. Series: Education Policy. Num Pages: 363 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 363
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110311
- ISBN
- 9780230110311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.92
€ 54.99
€ 44.92
Hardback. The essays in this collection use the interpretative lens to interrogate the meanings of Meyer's books, making a compelling case for the cultural relevance of Twilight and providing insights on how we can "read" popular culture to our best advantage. Editor(s): Anatol, Giselle Liza. Num Pages: 255 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; DSY; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110670
- ISBN
- 9780230110670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.12
€ 63.12
hardcover. Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe. Num Pages: 213 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110946
- ISBN
- 9780230110946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardback. Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from America's addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by renowned experts, this book uses first-hand accounts to explore this vast influence Editor(s): Stern, Sarah N. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 1KBB; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112087
- ISBN
- 9780230112087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. This important look at CAP combines historical research and analysis with the author's first-hand experience with the organization, providing the first historical narrative of a consequential player in the Black Power Movement. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- PALGRAVE MD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112155
- ISBN
- 9780230112155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardback. This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father's Law (2008). Editor(s): Craven, Professor Alice Mikal; Dow, William. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112810
- ISBN
- 9780230112810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Paperback. This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy since his death in 2005. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANB; DD; DSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113015
- ISBN
- 9780230113015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.11
€ 54.99
€ 44.11
Hardcover. Hecht examines the relationship between Jewish assimilation and the changing face of the American musical though the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; AVGM; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113275
- ISBN
- 9780230113275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.06
€ 54.99
€ 44.06
Hardcover. Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASDL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114081
- ISBN
- 9780230114081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.81€ 77.18
€ 89.81
€ 77.18
Hardback. Boggs explores the evolution of concentrated corporate and military power through American history and its impact on our democracy. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPF; JPH; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115743
- ISBN
- 9780230115743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.22
€ 63.22
Hardback. This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115934
- ISBN
- 9780230115934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.00
€ 63.00
Hardback. This book argues that, given the existence of a discrete Malay archipelago security complex, it is a fallacy for the United States to approach this region primarily through the prism of global counter-terrorism Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116832
- ISBN
- 9780230116832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardback. Documents and analyzes the implementation of the American strategy of consumerism during the 1940s and 1950s, and its ongoing ramifications. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFDV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116948
- ISBN
- 9780230116948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardback. The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116962
- ISBN
- 9780230116962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84