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Society & culture: general
The Field of Eurocracy. Mapping EU Actors and Professionals.
. Ed(S): Georgakakis, Didier; Rowell, Jay
Paperback. Editor(s): Georgakakis, Didier; Rowell, Jay. Series: European Administrative Governance. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JPA; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451562
- ISBN
- 9781349451562
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; JFSP; JHBK; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451500
- ISBN
- 9781349451500
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Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group Gujarati Indians born and brought up in two different countries. In a rapidly globalizing world, this comparative ethnographic study explores how the context in which we are brought up shapes our most intimate attachments and family lives." Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451487
- ISBN
- 9781349451487
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Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Paperback. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451456
- ISBN
- 9781349451456
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Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Paperback. 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: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBTB; JFC; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451432
- ISBN
- 9781349451432
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. Editor(s): Atasoy, Yildiz. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451319
- ISBN
- 9781349451319
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Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
paperback. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; GTJ; JFC; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349451296
- ISBN
- 9781349451296
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. Using the frameworks of systems theory, modernization, and the world system, New Age Globalization presents a composite multilevel, multidirectional picture of globalization informed by eight different but interdependent subsystems. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCA; KCB; KCG; KCL; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451159
- ISBN
- 9781349451159
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. This collection addresses key issues in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism regarding debates on the production of knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. Contributors explore the history of liberation politics as well as academic and political reaction through formulas of accommodation that re-centre the West. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HRAX; JFSL; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450985
- ISBN
- 9781349450985
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Paperback. This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of mobile internet technologies which have become ubiquitous in everyday life. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSP; JFSR; JHBK; JNV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450947
- ISBN
- 9781349450947
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking, among others. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; APFR; AS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450787
- ISBN
- 9781349450787
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This unique study explores the relationship between informal financial systems, illegal migration and human smuggling. Focusing on Chinese illegal immigrants working in the US, it examines the motivation and patterns of the use of illegal fund transfer systems, providing a revealing insight into the workings of Chinese underground banks. Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JKV; JKVM; JPQB; KFFH; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450626
- ISBN
- 9781349450626
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Condition: New
€ 65.48
€ 65.48
The Anthropology of Elites. Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Di...
. Ed(S): Abbink, J; Salverda, T
Paperback. Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites. Editor(s): Abbink, J; Salverda, T. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSR; JHBL; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450602
- ISBN
- 9781349450602
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Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. 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; JFC; JFD; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450565
- ISBN
- 9781349450565
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Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Bremen University. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFR; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450503
- ISBN
- 9781349450503
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Condition: New
€ 65.45
€ 65.45
Paperback. This book examines the encounters between leading 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers: Frege and Husserl, Carnap and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Ayer, the Royaumont colloquium, and Derrida with Searle. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPC; HPCF5; HPL; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450459
- ISBN
- 9781349450459
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Condition: New
€ 160.26
€ 160.26
Paperback. Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFC; JFD; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450435
- ISBN
- 9781349450435
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Condition: New
€ 65.33
€ 65.33
Paperback. The book brings civilizational politics back to the studies of international relations and foreign policy through a study of the multiple meanings of international relations and related terms in East Asia and the intrinsic relation of international relations to individual choices of scholarly identity. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450169
- ISBN
- 9781349450169
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. This collection argues that although constitutionalism has traditionally been the primary mechanism for facilitating the mutual accommodation of sub-state and state national societies in plurinational states. Series: St Antony's. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JF; JPA; JPB; JPS; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450039
- ISBN
- 9781349450039
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Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing offers a new critical approach to E. M. Forster's legacy. It examines key themes in Forster's work (homosexuality, humanism, modernism, liberalism) and their relevance to post-imperial and postcolonial novels by important contemporary writers. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450015
- ISBN
- 9781349450015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00