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Hardcover. Providing a description of the responses taken by the federal government to issues revolving around criminal justice, each chapter focuses on a different problem and shows what different presidents have said, what policies were proposed and/or passed by Congress, and any cases heard by the Supreme Court on the issue. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 245 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110151
- ISBN
- 9780230110151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.54
€ 119.54
Hardcover. While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the course of the US space program over the last 45 years. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; PDX; PDZ; PG; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110106
- ISBN
- 9780230110106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardcover. State Power and Democracy is the first book to show that the Bush police state didn't commence when Bush was inaugurated. It proves, instead, that the seeds of an American police state can be traced all the way back to the founding of the republic. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109353
- ISBN
- 9780230109353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. Public Universities and the Public Sphere argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. Part of the solution, Smith argues in this timely work, to both crises lies in understanding and building on the connection. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNAM; JNMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108783
- ISBN
- 9780230108783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.94
€ 54.99
€ 43.94
Hardcover. Jane Flax argues that a reciprocal relationship exists between unconscious processes and race/gender domination and that unless we attend to these unconscious processes, no adequate remedy for the malignant consequences of our current race/gender practices and relations can be devised. Flax supports her arguments using a variety of sources. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108660
- ISBN
- 9780230108660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.67
€ 108.67
Paperback. China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea have struggled to navigate between the unsettling belligerence of North Korea and the often unilateral insistence of the United States on how to proceed. This book focuses on their strategic thinking and internal debates over four stages of the crisis. Series: Strategic Thought in Northeast Asia. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 1KBB; JPSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108479
- ISBN
- 9780230108479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. Editor(s): Grace, Nancy M.; Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108417
- ISBN
- 9780230108417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Hardcover. This book takes the political theory of intersectionality - the most cutting-edge approach to the politics of gender, race, sexual orientation, and class - and introduces it to the general public for the first time. Series: The Politics of Intersectionality. Num Pages: 223 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSP2; JPA; JPH; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108004
- ISBN
- 9780230108004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. The Hope of American School Reform tells the story of the origins of the reform in science and math education. The book is drawn, in part, on new research from previously untapped archival sources. The aim of this work is to contribute to our understanding of a major effort to reform school curricula. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNKC; JNKR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230107977
- ISBN
- 9780230107977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.27
€ 54.99
€ 44.27
Hardcover. Through Biblical themes and contemporary media culture, a pragmatic and responsible rethinking of America's idea of its own innocence. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HR; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230107809
- ISBN
- 9780230107809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.14
€ 52.14
Hardcover. In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230107168
- ISBN
- 9780230107168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. Drawing on his knowledge of the technical aspects of civil aviation, Alan P. Dobson's history of the international aviation system, from 1945 to the present day, stresses the hitherto unacknowledged role Franklin D. Roosevelt played in implementing the principles that came to govern the entire global aviation system. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; KNGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 207 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230106666
- ISBN
- 9780230106666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. An insider's account of the Postville case, this book gauges the raid's human, social, and economic impact, based on interaction with the main participants and interviews with local citizens and arrestees in the US and Guatemala. Num Pages: 268 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFN; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105850
- ISBN
- 9780230105850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.27
€ 63.27
Paperback. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360. A Social History, 1900-1920. 264 pages, illustrations. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105843
- ISBN
- 9780230105843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.87
€ 61.87
Hardcover. In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105836
- ISBN
- 9780230105836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Paperback. Using speeches, essays and interviews with some of the most compelling individuals in American history and the key conflicts they stood against, this book gives remarkable insight into wartime dissent in the U.S. from the revolutionary war to the war on terror. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104839
- ISBN
- 9780230104839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Hardcover. Arguing against the perception of poetry as an elite discourse, Shira Wolosky explores the ways that Dickinson, Whitman, Melville, and others shaped nineteenth-century American cultural debate. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402. Series: Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters. 266 pages, 0. Arguing against the perception of poetry as an elite discourse, Shira Wolosky explores the ways that Dickinson, Whitman, Melville, and others shaped nineteenth-century American cultural debate. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSC. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104310
- ISBN
- 9780230104310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Paperback. Extends Marxist analysis to include key concepts from the work of neo-Marxists Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. It looks in detail at racism in the U.K. and the U.S. and goes on to examine the differences between schooling and education, and their relationship to racism in those two countries and in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103801
- ISBN
- 9780230103801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.11
€ 54.99
€ 44.11
Hardcover. Extends Marxist analysis to include key concepts from the work of neo-Marxists Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. It looks in detail at racism in the U.K. and the U.S. and goes on to examine the differences between schooling and education, and their relationship to racism in those two countries and in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103795
- ISBN
- 9780230103795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.70
€ 54.99
€ 44.70
Hardcover. In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103764
- ISBN
- 9780230103764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54