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Paperback. Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender and heroism in war films are used to justify ideological positions, shape the understanding of the military conflicts, support political agendas and institutions, and influence collective memory. Editor(s): Kazecki, Jakub. Num Pages: 286 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 443.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473342
- ISBN
- 9781349473342
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€ 62.26
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Paperback. The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFR; HBAH; HBTB; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473205
- ISBN
- 9781349473205
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€ 61.51
€ 61.51
Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture
. Ed(S): Padva, Gilad; Buchweitz, Nurit
Paperback. In this thought-provoking book, renowned peace negotiator Ross argues that the Bush administrations problems stem from its inability to use the tools of statecraft--diplomatic, economic, and military--to advance the nations interests around the world. Editor(s): Padva, Gilad; Buchweitz, Nurit. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473090
- ISBN
- 9781349473090
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€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Paperback. Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender studies. By linking the styles of the genre to processes of serial production, consumption, and discussion, Schaschek questions the dominant assumptions about pornography and the stability of the genre. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472864
- ISBN
- 9781349472864
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
paperback. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472628
- ISBN
- 9781349472628
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. In today's multimedia environment, visuals are essential and expected parts of storytelling. However, the visual communication research field is fragmented into several sub-areas, making study difficult. Fahmy, Bock, and Wanta note trends and discuss the challenges of conducting analysis of images across print, broadcast, and online media. Num Pages: 202 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472567
- ISBN
- 9781349472567
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€ 117.95
€ 117.95
paperback. Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349472505
- ISBN
- 9781349472505
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€ 61.31
€ 61.31
Paperback. Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Portugal, this book provides compelling new insights into how European Employment Strategy (EES) can influence the domestic employment policy of European Union member states. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JPA; JPP; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472482
- ISBN
- 9781349472482
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€ 61.44
€ 61.44
Paperback. A comprehensive discussion of how countries embrace branding as a crucial element in their pursuit of soft power and why certain nation-branding efforts succeed while others fail through the example of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Num Pages: 223 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSR; JHB; JPA; JPB; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472369
- ISBN
- 9781349472369
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€ 54.99€ 42.96
€ 54.99
€ 42.96
Paperback. Social Media and the Politics of Reportage explores the journalistic challenges, issues and opportunities that have risen as a result of social media increasingly being used as a form of crisis reporting within the field of global journalism, with a focus on the protests during the 'Arab Spring'. Editor(s): Bebawi, Saba; Bossio, Diana. Num Pages: 153 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JPA; KJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 207.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472307
- ISBN
- 9781349472307
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€ 72.37
€ 72.37
Paperback. Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB; JFC; JFD; JFSR; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472208
- ISBN
- 9781349472208
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity. Taken together, these two identity positions, manliness and monsterliness, offer a window into the workings of current American society. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; APFN; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472048
- ISBN
- 9781349472048
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€ 62.54
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Paperback. This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New York, the nation's largest public urban university. Editor(s): Kim, R.; Gambs, Deborah S. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JHB; JHBC; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471980
- ISBN
- 9781349471980
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€ 62.54
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Paperback. Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commercial, institutional and public spectacle that intersect with scenic stages of the national landscape, Tenneriello examines how spectacle is entrenched in the formation of national identity. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 421.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471959
- ISBN
- 9781349471959
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€ 54.99€ 43.69
€ 54.99
€ 43.69
Paperback. Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history, from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest. Num Pages: 307 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; JFF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 41. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471836
- ISBN
- 9781349471836
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€ 129.19
€ 129.19
Paperback. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471706
- ISBN
- 9781349471706
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€ 61.72
€ 61.72
Paperback. Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HBTB; JFC; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471669
- ISBN
- 9781349471669
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€ 61.84
€ 61.84
paperback. This book offers an innovative framework for understanding the role of civil society in regional and global policymaking. Using political economy analysis, Gerard demonstrates that ASEAN's people-oriented agenda builds legitimacy, while sidelining its detractors. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JPHV; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349471546
- ISBN
- 9781349471546
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€ 61.28
€ 61.28
Business Groups and Transnational Capitalism in Central America
Bull, Benedicte; Castellacci, Fulvio; Kasahar...
Paperback. This book investigates Central America's political economy seen through the lens of its powerful business groups. It provides unique insight into their strategies when confronted with a globalized economy, their impact on development of the isthmus, and how they shape the political and economic institutions governing local varieties of capitalism. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JP; KCL; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471522
- ISBN
- 9781349471522
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€ 61.47
€ 61.47
Paperback. This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471461
- ISBN
- 9781349471461
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€ 61.90
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Paperback. Political Performance in Syria, charts the history of a theatre that has sought the expansion of civil society and imagined alternate political realities. In doing so, the manuscript situates the current use of performance and theatre by artists of the Syrian Revolution within a long history of political contestation. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471416
- ISBN
- 9781349471416
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€ 66.84
€ 66.84
The Politics of Immigration in Multi-Level States. Governance and Poli...
. Ed(S): Hepburn, E; Zapata-Barrero, R
Paperback. This book develops an exploratory theory of immigration in multilevel states addressing two themes: governance and political parties. It examines not only how, and by whom, immigration policy is decided and implemented at different levels, but also how it has become a key-issue of party competition across multilevel states. Editor(s): Hepburn, E; Zapata-Barrero, R. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471218
- ISBN
- 9781349471218
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€ 44.57
€ 44.57
Paperback. Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner have been partners in life and work for more than 40 years. Over those years they have been comedic pioneers in television, sound recording, film, theater, and animation. This book explores the ways they have used and expanded notions of queer to make their unique impact on American culture. Num Pages: 202 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AS; JFC; JFF; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471119
- ISBN
- 9781349471119
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€ 117.82
€ 117.82
Paperback. Series: Islam and Nationalism. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JFSL; JPP; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349470860
- ISBN
- 9781349470860
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€ 117.93
€ 117.93