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Hardcover. The Politics of the American Dream analyzes the role of the 'American Dream' in contemporary American political culture. Utilizing analytic political theory, Ghosh creates a unique picture of Dream Politics, and shows the effect on the landscape of American politics. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSC; JPA; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289049
- ISBN
- 9781137289049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Hardcover. In this interdisciplinary collection leading experts and scholars from criminology, psychology, law and history provide a compelling analysis of practices and beliefs that lead to violence against women, men and children in the name 'honour'. Editor(s): Gill, Aisha K.; Strange, Carolyn; Roberts, Karl Anton. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSR; JKS; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289544
- ISBN
- 9781137289544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict: Politics, Cu...
Daccache, Jenny George, Valeriano, Brandon
Hardcover. Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290472
- ISBN
- 9781137290472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294067
- ISBN
- 9781137294067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. Calhoun examines the centuries-old paradigm of just war theory to determine whether modern 'just war' rationalizations constitute sound justifications or pro-military propaganda. Her work reveals how the practice of modern war contradicts the most basic values and principles of modern Western democracies. Series: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JPA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294623
- ISBN
- 9781137294623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. Geir Honneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Peninsula, the most heavily militarized area of the world during the Cold War, now set to become Europe's next big oil playground. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; CF; JFSF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137297310
- ISBN
- 9781137297310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Paperback. By exploring of the construct of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature, Greven discovers that far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone, striving to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298089
- ISBN
- 9781137298089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Through ethnographical cases, this book examines the ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, states, moralities, and local/state authorities, creating opportunities for agency. Alternative spaces designate in-between spaces rather than oppositional structures and are both inside and outside their constituent elements. Editor(s): Dahl, Jens. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JFSS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299536
- ISBN
- 9781137299536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299567
- ISBN
- 9781137299567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.85
€ 53.36
€ 46.85
Hardcover. This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present. Editor(s): Cyrino, Monica S. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; APFA; APFN; JFC; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013 ed.
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299598
- ISBN
- 9781137299598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; HRA; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299727
- ISBN
- 9781137299727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. The authors trace out the development of capitalism and US imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when US imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decline, and capitalism is in crisis. Series: Social Movements and Transformation. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFF; JPFK; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300119
- ISBN
- 9781137300119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. This book seeks to re-define the role of fantasy in human life by overturning mainstream psychology's understanding of daydreams as being task-distracted mind wandering by proposing that all waking fantasies function to transform mood states into specific emotional reactions. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JFCA; JMQ; JMR; JMTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300768
- ISBN
- 9781137300768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This book explores how and why the EU and its member states define immigration policies. A comparison of EU negotiations on five EU immigration directives reveals interests of actors in EU integration and whether common policies aim at a restriction or expansion of immigration to the EU. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JPQB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302557
- ISBN
- 9781137302557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork in Kuwait and throughout the Arabian Peninsula, this book explores what cultural elites in the Arab Gulf region have to say about women's political and cultural rights and how their faith is or is not related to their politics. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBX; HRH; JFFK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137304735
- ISBN
- 9781137304735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges and their influences on political and cultural discourses in the Americas. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137305152
- ISBN
- 9781137305152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Paperback. Gender and Decolonization in the Congo focuses on women and questions of gender in its examination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the assassinated leader of the independent Congo. Num Pages: 247 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTR; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306388
- ISBN
- 9781137306388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Realism and the Audiovisual Media constitutes a major original contribution to contemporary scholarship on realism, one of the most fundamental concepts in audiovisual studies. Editor(s): Nagib, Lucia; Mello, Cecilia. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306739
- ISBN
- 9781137306739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Through the presentation of empirical work by contemporary queer theorists this book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and the ways in which they aim to further queer futurity. Editor(s): Jones, Angela. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ; JFSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308597
- ISBN
- 9781137308597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Native American Communities on Health and Disability: Borderland Dialo...
Lovern, Lavonna L., Locust, Carol
Hardcover. This volume offers a unique and real dialogue between Western/Academic and Native American/Indigenous voices on the concepts of disability and wellness. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHB; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308603
- ISBN
- 9781137308603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.11
€ 139.11
Hardcover. This book offers the first multi-case analysis of the politics of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU, including studies on Central Europe, the Balkans and Cyprus. Tesser explains the politics of minority return in a post-national Europe, with particular attention to the long-term aftermath of minority removal as a conflict resolution policy. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JHMP; JPSN2; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308764
- ISBN
- 9781137308764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Katherine Tonkiss offers a succinct account of constitutional patriotism theory, specifically arguing that it involves a commitment to free migration. She draws on qualitative research to explore the implications of this claim for the dynamics of post-national identity and belonging in local communities. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPFM; JPL; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309075
- ISBN
- 9781137309075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Jim Armstrong explores emerging approaches to the capacity development of developing nations. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; JKSR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 213 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310101
- ISBN
- 9781137310101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research. Num Pages: 161 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBF; MBS; MFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310712
- ISBN
- 9781137310712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29