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Hardcover. With essays from Mailer's wife and editor, this scholarly volume establishes the writer's literary maturity and dissects the modes of cultural critique employed in his later novels. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st edition,
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100244
- ISBN
- 9780230100244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state. Editor(s): Staudt, Kathleen; Fragoso, Julia E. Monarrez; Fuentes, Cesar M. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; JFSG; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310. The Paso Del Norte Metropolitan Region. 272 pages, Illustrations, maps. Editor(s): Staudt, Kathleen; Fragoso, Julia E. Monarrez; Fuentes, Cesar M. The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; JFSG; JPVH1. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 14. Weight: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100329
- ISBN
- 9780230100329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book is a study of the relations between the US and Spain, particularly during the period from 1943 to 1945, when the Roosevelt Administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to challenge the Pro-Franco Regime, culminating in the Battle of Wolfram and the embargo of petroleum products. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102170
- ISBN
- 9780230102170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and filmic discourse. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; 1MBN; APF; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102644
- ISBN
- 9780230102644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. One major party in American politics, the Democrats, has consciously identified itself with underdogs. This book analyzes the relationship between the party and the main political ideology of its base: liberalism. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPFK; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102743
- ISBN
- 9780230102743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102903
- ISBN
- 9780230102903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Making the Invisible Visible: Understanding Leadership Contributions o...
Thatchenkery, Tojo, Sugiyama, Keimei
Hardcover. Making the Invisible Visible is a study of Asian Americans in the workplace and provides a framework through which to transform the same qualities that are contributing to this invisibility phenomenon into a positive leadership approach that provides a counterweight to balance the showmanship approach to leadership. Num Pages: 212 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388. Understanding Leadership Contributions of Asian Minorities in the Workplace. 212 pages, Illustrations. Making the Invisible Visible is a study of Asian Americans in the workplace and provides a framework through which to transform the same qualities that are contributing to this invisibility phenomenon into a positive leadership approach that provides a counterweight to balance the showmanship approach to leadership. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; KJMB. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103061
- ISBN
- 9780230103061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.47
€ 149.47
Hardcover. This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents. Num Pages: 566 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBTB; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 35. Weight in Grams: 986.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 566
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103092
- ISBN
- 9780230103092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.43
€ 103.43
Hardcover. In this monumental contribution to Hoover scholarship, eminent historian Gary Dean Best chronicles the post-presidential decades of this important historical figure, and the achievements of a distinguished career that extended far beyond Herbert Hoover's presidency. Num Pages: 550 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103108
- ISBN
- 9780230103108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.13
€ 87.13
Paperback. A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress. Num Pages: 249 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342. The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. 256 pages, illustrations. A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103306
- ISBN
- 9780230103306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Hardcover. The historic election of Barack Obama, the first African-American president is analyzed from the perspective of racial relations. To trace the effect of time, Liu links Obama's multiracial winning coalition to the two-party system and the profound impact of racial changes since 1965. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300. How He Won. 178 pages, illustrations. The historic election of Barack Obama, the first African-American president is analyzed from the perspective of racial relations. To trace the effect of time, Liu links Obama's multiracial winning coalition to the two-party system and the profound impact of racial changes since 1965. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 14. Weight: 300.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103511
- ISBN
- 9780230103511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardcover. This book addresses how Saturday Night Live's confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production, contributing to some of the biggest hits in Hollywood history. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103580
- ISBN
- 9780230103580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
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
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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
€ 52.90€ 47.77
€ 52.90
€ 47.77
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
€ 52.90€ 47.15
€ 52.90
€ 47.15
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
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
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
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
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
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
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
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
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
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
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
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
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
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
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
€ 55.78
€ 55.78
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
€ 52.90€ 47.33
€ 52.90
€ 47.33