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Hardcover. Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; DSC; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341326
- ISBN
- 9780230341326
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Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Paperback. An eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal answers one of the primary callings of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCR; JFSR; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341104
- ISBN
- 9780230341104
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€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Captures the social, political, and medical discrimination experienced by people with AIDS in the US, which has resulted from our culture's construction of the disease as a plague. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340718
- ISBN
- 9780230340718
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€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. This book stems from a concern to assist pastoral counsellors in developing a therapeutic alliance with African-American women. It focuses on the social construct of the African-American matriarch, which can easily misinform the counsellor and cause emotional jeopardy for African-American women who attempt to live up to its expectations. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCV3; HRCX4; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340657
- ISBN
- 9780230340657
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€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Queer Commodities is the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340497
- ISBN
- 9780230340497
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Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Hardcover. Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340459
- ISBN
- 9780230340459
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€ 54.99€ 44.14
€ 54.99
€ 44.14
Paperback. This is the first book to thoroughly examine Al Jazeera English and its coverage methods, its effects on its audience, and its place in the world of mediated geopolitics. Editor(s): Seib, Philip. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340213
- ISBN
- 9780230340213
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€ 58.38€ 50.23
€ 58.38
€ 50.23
Paperback. The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; 1KBB; JFFS; JFSL; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 228 x 6. Weight in Grams: 326.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340039
- ISBN
- 9780230340039
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Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Hardcover. This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975-2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, and sexual oppression in the US-Mexico borderland and beyond. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340008
- ISBN
- 9780230340008
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Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness. Editor(s): Zinn, Gesa; Stanley, Maureen Tobin. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 10. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339996
- ISBN
- 9780230339996
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Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Hardcover. This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and different types of social and political conflict in Europe and North America. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339446
- ISBN
- 9780230339446
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Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. This book analyzes the political transformations in black women's socially engaged community-based political work in England in the late twentieth century. It situates these shifts alongside Britain's political economy and against the discourse and deployment of blackness as a political imaginary in which to engage in struggles for social justice. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339170
- ISBN
- 9780230339170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Paperback. Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems a local or limited basis and scale them up to expand their impact in a more widespread, deeper, and efficient way.The editors address this issue with a comprehensive collection of original papers written by leading scholars. Series: Social Entrepreneurship Series. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; KJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338371
- ISBN
- 9780230338371
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Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Paperback. Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots, local media. Editor(s): Fuller, Linda K. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338326
- ISBN
- 9780230338326
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Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Hardcover. The primary aim of this volume is to synthesize the two fields of disability studies and biblical studies. It illustrates how academic or critical biblical scholarship has shown that many texts involving disability in the Bible is much more nuanced than a casual reading or isolated proof texting may indicate. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRLC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338296
- ISBN
- 9780230338296
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Condition: New
€ 149.93
€ 149.93
Culture, Education, and Community: Expressions of the Postcolonial Ima...
Lavia, J., Mahlomaholo, S.
Hardcover. Provides a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. Takes the imagination of the postcolonial as its focus, acknowledging that it is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation. Editor(s): Lavia, Jennifer; Mahlomaholo, Sechaba. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 286 pages, 1 figures, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBTR; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338258
- ISBN
- 9780230338258
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.33
€ 54.99
€ 44.33
Hardcover. Aims to inform students, scholars, and educators about the complex processes and factors that promote or impede education's potential to enhance individual advancement within the socioeconomic structure of a late-industrialized country within the context of modern capitalism. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFFM; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338227
- ISBN
- 9780230338227
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.33
€ 54.99
€ 44.33
Hardcover. Examines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; APFA; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338180
- ISBN
- 9780230338180
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Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace (Palgrave...
El-Nawawy, Mohammed, Khamis, Sahar
Paperback. This book analyzes the discourses and deliberations in the discussion forums of three of the most visited Islamic websites and investigates the extent to which they have provided a venue for Muslims to freely engage in discussion among themselves and with non-Muslims about political, economic, religious and social issues. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSR2; JPVH2; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338159
- ISBN
- 9780230338159
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Condition: New
€ 118.57
€ 118.57
Hardcover. What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed conflict can be interpreted through a feminist politics of location, attentive to the frictions and flows within transnational circuits of exchange. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337541
- ISBN
- 9780230337541
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Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. "This book is adapted from the German manuscript 'Die Rote Linie. Eine Geschichte der Veterinèar- und Siedlungsgrenze in Namibia (1890er-1960er Jahre),' completed in 2009 and published in 2012 by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Switzerland Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBTD; HBTQ; JFC; JHM; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337480
- ISBN
- 9780230337480
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Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
Hardcover. This book challenges the popular view that established ideologies no longer make sense in today's globalizing world. Considered from a broad historical perspective, major ideological traditions have not become destabilized and incoherent by globalization, but remain meaningful political beliefs that shape the globalization debate. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPB; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230336940
- ISBN
- 9780230336940
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Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Paperback. This book offers a fresh look at sustainable consumption, exploring how grassroots community action can spread ideas in society. It presents a 'New Economics' approach based on alternative measures of wealth and value, examining how these are put into practice through local organic food systems, low-impact eco-housing, and complementary currencies. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; RNU; THX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321755
- ISBN
- 9780230321755
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Condition: New
€ 118.54
€ 118.54
Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism (Consumption an...
Bostrom, Magnus, Klintman, Mikael, Boström, ...
Paperback. As conscientious consumers, we have become overwhelmed with scares over food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other environmental and health-related risks. This book explores green and politically engaged consumersim, asking the question: does green labelling offer ways toward a greener and more democratic society? Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; RNP; RNT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321724
- ISBN
- 9780230321724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.46
€ 118.46