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Paperback. This book explores the complex questions facing funding agencies and foundations as they grapple to understand and define gender equity in education. It covers different approaches funders use to define gender equity, target limited resources, and create collaborative relationships that will ultimately make schools equitable and engaging for all. Editor(s): Ginsberg, Alice E.; Gasman, Marybeth. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JNK; JPA; JPQB; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349535996
ISBN
9781349535996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 47.15

Paperback. The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West. It emphasizes the Ottoman Mediterranean, by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries. Editor(s): Stanivukovic, Goran V. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 311 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 401.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536252
ISBN
9781349536252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536276
ISBN
9781349536276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 148.84

Paperback. In a series of paradigmatic readings of Rene Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status." Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSA; HBJK; JFC; JHM; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536351
ISBN
9781349536351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Paperback. This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536375
ISBN
9781349536375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book uses political process theory to examine three cultural movements around Christopher Columbus. The author examines the religious, ethnic and anti-colonial movements most successful at rewriting national origin myth, demonstrating the political process model while telling the story of how a powerless public mobilized to rewrite its past. Num Pages: 278 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JFSL; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536498
ISBN
9781349536498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory. Morris examines Otherness as experienced by Jewish intellectuals who grapple with anti-Semitism within the halls of academia. She claims that academia breeds uncertainty and chaos. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JMAF; JNK; JPQB; RBGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536528
ISBN
9781349536528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 46.40

Paperback. This book looks at the relationship of literary criticism to the social construction of race in Brazil. Isfahani-Hammond considers Gilberto Freyre's model of master/slave synthesis and examines what "multiculturalism" means after the turn of the century. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 205 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFSL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536580
ISBN
9781349536580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book explores the ways that institutions play a role - or fail to - in Japanese and American approaches to regional governance in East Asia. It uses recent studies on the logic and dynamics of institutions to determine the logic of order within the East Asia region. The central focus is on bilateral and multilateral regional institutions. Editor(s): Ikenberry, G. John; Inoguchi, Takashi. Num Pages: 254 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPP; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536627
ISBN
9781349536627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This study examines certain key elements of the "making" or "inventing" of Lima as Peru's viceregal capital. Through analysis of seventeenth-century ceremonies of state and local religious rituals, this book asserts that colonial Lima was culturally diverse and its rich population more integrated than historiography would suggest. Series: Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536641
ISBN
9781349536641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.49

Paperback. After its succes de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert's Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary's journey abroad and asks why the novel was given such import in foreign literatures." Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536689
ISBN
9781349536689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJH; JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536726
ISBN
9781349536726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536795
ISBN
9781349536795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536870
ISBN
9781349536870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

paperback. This book is a penetrating study of the long conflict between China and Japan. Drawing upon history, geopolitics and geoeconomics, this volume examines these important Asian powers at the bilateral, regional, and global levels. Contributors examine issues including oil feuds, the Taiwan factor, and implications for U.S. interests in Asia Pacific. Editor(s): Hsiung, James C. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536955
ISBN
9781349536955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. An in-depth look at the AIDS crisis in Russia and Eurasia. Editor(s): Twigg, Judyth L. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFF; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536986
ISBN
9781349536986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Paperback. This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary times. The contributors propose a new, global understanding of commerce and culture, to reconfigure how we understand the way great cultures interact, and present a new constellation of diplomacy, literature, and geopolitics. Editor(s): Katz, Nathan; Chakravarti, Ranabir; Sinha, Braj M.; Weil, Shalva. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRA; HRAX; JFC; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537006
ISBN
9781349537006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JFC; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537082
ISBN
9781349537082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to the present. He brings together a unique and diverse collection of poets, including an innovative section on hip hop performance. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537143
ISBN
9781349537143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537167
ISBN
9781349537167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. The first extensive study of gay and lesbian historical fiction, this book demonstrates how the highly popular sub-genre helps us understand gay and lesbian history. It shows not only why the sub-genre should be taken more seriously by historians but also how it implicitly works to ameliorate divisions between Christianity and homosexuality. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537242
ISBN
9781349537242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. This book explores the regulation of intimate relationships today. It uses fascinating and at times salacious material as well as historical and contemporary legal-political sources. Addressing questions ranging from whether a virgin can be a party to adultery, to whether a man can be a wife each chapter deals with changing themes of conjugality. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537266
ISBN
9781349537266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Paperback. This book is a documentary survey of Hong Kong history, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, from the perspective of the Maryknoll Sisters, as recorded in their diaries written during that period. It is a priceless collection of first-hand materials on the social history of Hong Kong. Editor(s): Chu, C. Num Pages: 252 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBTB; HRAX; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537280
ISBN
9781349537280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537303
ISBN
9781349537303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

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