Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. With an international line-up of contributors, this bookexamines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today." Editor(s): Long, Curator of Charleston Museum J, Ind; Spracklen, K. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSL; JHBS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314270
- ISBN
- 9781349314270
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€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Social Movements, Public Spheres and the European Politics of the Envi...
Hein-Anton Van Der Heijden
Paperback. This book analyzes how the European environmental movement has influenced the problem definitions and solution strategies of European policy issues, examiningbiodiversity, GMOs, Trans-European Transport Networks, and climate change." Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314256
- ISBN
- 9781349314256
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. In recentyears controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in representing the past illuminate issues which are central to all literary narrative." Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBAH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314133
- ISBN
- 9781349314133
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€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPP; JPS; KCP; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313860
- ISBN
- 9781349313860
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century
. Ed(S): Shaw, T.; Cornelissen, Scarlett; Che...
Paperback. Editor(s): Shaw, T.; Cornelissen, Scarlett; Cheru, Fantu. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFFS; JPA; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313846
- ISBN
- 9781349313846
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. "Intense globalization, rapidly changing workplaces and family patterns have renewed the international interest in quality of life. This book examines different institutional arrangements, work-place conditions and gendered work and care that affect the conditions for achieving quality of work and life in European countries"-- Editor(s): Van der Lippe, Tanja; Den Dulk, Laura; Back-Wiklund, Margareta. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JHB; JHBL; JKSN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313785
- ISBN
- 9781349313785
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Ecocriticism is one of the most vibrant fields of cultural study today, and environmental issues are controversial and topical. This volume captures the excitement of green reading, reflects on its relationship to the modern academy, and provides practical guidance for dealing with global scale, interdisciplinarity, apathy and scepticism. Editor(s): Garrard, Greg. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313709
- ISBN
- 9781349313709
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€ 94.59
€ 94.59
Paperback. An examination ofhow female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the virago, tribade-prostitute, fiamma and gynaecological explanations." Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; JFSJ; MMJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313686
- ISBN
- 9781349313686
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AP; AS; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313648
- ISBN
- 9781349313648
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€ 47.47
€ 47.47
Paperback. Dealing withthe historical and thematic intersections of Christianity and critical theory, this collection brings together a diversity of specialist scholars in the area. Building on recent discourses in theology as well as their knowledge of hermeneutic and critical traditions, they examine major themes in contemporary critical theory." Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; HRC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313600
- ISBN
- 9781349313600
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examineshow she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form." Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313587
- ISBN
- 9781349313587
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. This book is a concise and engaging analysis of contemporary literature viewed through the critical lens of cosmopolitan theory. It covers a wide spectrum of issues including globalisation, cosmopolitanism, nationhood, identity, philosophical nomadism, posthumanism, climate change, devolution and love. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349313556
- ISBN
- 9781349313556
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Sian Lincoln considers the use, role and significance of private spaces in the lives of young people. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, she explores the place of 'the private' in youth cultural discourses, both historically and contemporarily, that until now have remained largely absent in youth cultural research. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSP; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313327
- ISBN
- 9781349313327
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313167
- ISBN
- 9781349313167
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349312399
- ISBN
- 9781349312399
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€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349312092
- ISBN
- 9781349312092
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds tothe body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World WarI to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity." Editor(s): Rau, Petra. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311989
- ISBN
- 9781349311989
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; HPK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311965
- ISBN
- 9781349311965
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HPQ; JFSJ; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311514
- ISBN
- 9781349311514
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€ 160.92
€ 160.92
paperback. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; AV; JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- SKU
- V9781349311491
- ISBN
- 9781349311491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62