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paperback. Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HRC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- SKU
- V9781349535637
- ISBN
- 9781349535637
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Paperback. In the first book in their series on Marxism and Education, Rikowski and Green use Marxist theory to examine the dialectic between race and power in education. The series is aimed at educationalists - teachers, researchers, policy-makers or administrators, as well as activists who consider the Marxist tradition a valuable and important resource. Editor(s): Green, A.; Rikowski, Glenn; Raduntz, Helen (University of South Australia). Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JN; JPQB; PGC; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535651
- ISBN
- 9781349535651
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€ 54.99€ 44.14
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The Child in the World/the World in the Child. Education and the Confi...
. Ed(S): Bloch, Marianne N.; Kennedy, D.; Lig...
Paperback. The contributors look at universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, but actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks. Editor(s): Bloch, Marianne N.; Kennedy, D.; Lightfoot, Theodora; Weyenberg, Dar. Series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBK; JNA; JPQB; RBGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535675
- ISBN
- 9781349535675
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€ 54.99€ 44.09
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Paperback. This is the first scholarly study of soldiers and guerrillas demobilized after the civil war in Mozambique (1979-1992). The book examines former soldiers' - from both sides - return to civilian life, and how their identity as veterans plays out in the political sphere. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFC; JHB; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535712
- ISBN
- 9781349535712
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€ 62.12
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Paperback. The book is an exploration of the creative crossings between the liberative stream of the eschatology of Edward Schillebeeckx and the stylistic strategies of 'Third Cinema', political cinema dedicated to the representation of Third World liberation. Num Pages: 243 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HRAM; HRCC7; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535767
- ISBN
- 9781349535767
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€ 62.54
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Paperback. The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men. Editor(s): Rieker, Martina; Ali, K. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535866
- ISBN
- 9781349535866
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535996
- ISBN
- 9781349535996
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€ 54.99€ 44.11
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536252
- ISBN
- 9781349536252
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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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536276
- ISBN
- 9781349536276
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€ 138.78
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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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536351
- ISBN
- 9781349536351
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€ 61.92
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536375
- ISBN
- 9781349536375
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536498
- ISBN
- 9781349536498
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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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536528
- ISBN
- 9781349536528
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€ 54.99€ 43.41
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536580
- ISBN
- 9781349536580
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The Uses of Institutions. The U.S., Japan, and Governance in East Asia...
. Ed(S): Ikenberry, G. John; Inoguchi, Takash...
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536627
- ISBN
- 9781349536627
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€ 62.54
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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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536641
- ISBN
- 9781349536641
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€ 129.13
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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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536689
- ISBN
- 9781349536689
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€ 61.98
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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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536726
- ISBN
- 9781349536726
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€ 62.15
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Paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536795
- ISBN
- 9781349536795
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€ 61.47
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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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536870
- ISBN
- 9781349536870
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€ 61.44
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