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Society & culture: general

paperback. This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2012
SKU
V9781349325078
ISBN
9781349325078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHBK; JKSN; JPQB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 355.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325092
ISBN
9781349325092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book offers a ground-breaking analysis of how women's movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe. Presenting the findings of a large scale, multi-disciplinary cross-national feminist research project, FEMCIT, it develops an expanded, multi-dimensional understanding of citizenship as practice and experience. Editor(s): Sumer, Sevil; Halsaa, Beatrice; Roseneil, Sasha. Series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFK; JFSJ; JHB; JPA; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325115
ISBN
9781349325115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Paperback. This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges existing cultural norms which equate ageing with bodily decline and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to explore alternatives for developing a culturally valued mature subjectivity through the practice of dance. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 355.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325153
ISBN
9781349325153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Paperback. Does empathy help us to be moral? The author argues that empathy is often instrumental to meeting the demands of morality as defined by various ethical theories. This multi-faceted work links psychological research on empathy with ethical theory and contemporary trends in moral education. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFSJ; JMG; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325214
ISBN
9781349325214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction.The bookincludes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day." Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325313
ISBN
9781349325313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.20

Paperback. " A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is constructed, represented and communicated in cultural texts, and how it is experienced in different social contexts and environments."-- Editor(s): Keightley, Emily. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325375
ISBN
9781349325375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work identities are managed." Editor(s): Simpson, R.; Lewis, P.; Hopfl, H.; Slutskaya, Natasha. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; JMJ; KJU; KJWB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325511
ISBN
9781349325511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.38

Paperback. "This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field"-- Editor(s): Lee, V. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; APFN; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325597
ISBN
9781349325597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

paperback. "Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"-- Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2011
SKU
V9781349325610
ISBN
9781349325610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.41

Paperback. This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325634
ISBN
9781349325634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Paperback. A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325658
ISBN
9781349325658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. "An engaging assessment of the theoretical debates on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The contributions to this volume bring together sophisticated theoretical frameworks and extensive empirical research. Pluralistic in its approach, the volume emphasizes the role of conceptual diversity for better explaining the EU's CSDP"-- Editor(s): Kurowska, Xymena; Breuer, Fabian. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325795
ISBN
9781349325795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. State borders regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples' chances to travel, work, and study across the globe. This book looks at how global mobility is defined by borders in 2011 in comparison to the 1970s. The authors trace the transformation of OECD-state borders in recent decades and show how borders have become ever more selective. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JPA; JPB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325818
ISBN
9781349325818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Paperback. Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt. Editor(s): Mukherji, S.; Schramm, J.; Batsaki, Yota. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325856
ISBN
9781349325856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book offers a critical account of historical books about Britain written for children, including realist novels, non-fiction, fantasy and alternative histories. It also investigates the literary, ideological and philosophical challenges involved in writing about the past, especially for an audience whose knowledge of history is often limited. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325870
ISBN
9781349325870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.37

Paperback. Locating a shared interest in the philosophy of "art for art's sake" in aestheticism and modernismo, this study examines the changing role of art and artist during the turn-of-the-century period, offering a consideration of the multiple dichotomies of art and life, aesthetics and economics, production and consumption, and center and periphery. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325894
ISBN
9781349325894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.88

Paperback. " Examining the impact of digital media on surveillance, power and people's capacity for action, this book explores how people act, and are acted upon, in an increasingly connected world"-- Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JPA; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326013
ISBN
9781349326013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. An exposition and analysis of the development of propaganda, focusing on how the development of radio transformed the delivery and impact of propaganda and led to the use of radio to incite hatred and violence. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; AV; HBTB; HBW; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326099
ISBN
9781349326099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples fromSir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James andRudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma." Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326150
ISBN
9781349326150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey. His analysis includesdetailed case studies of the films Muriel's Wedding, Little Voice, Cars, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Sunshine Cleaning and Up." Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFD; APFN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326174
ISBN
9781349326174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.84

paperback. "European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book explores new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights."-- Editor(s): Dijstelbloem, H.; Meijer, A. Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JPQB; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2011
SKU
V9781349326259
ISBN
9781349326259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods. Editor(s): Heath, S.; Walker, C. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JHB; JHBC; JHBK; JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326273
ISBN
9781349326273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

Paperback. The politics of multiculturalismfaces challenges in Western democratic states.Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as separate and distinct, this bookexplores how tofacecurrent challenges to multiculturalism without reifying culture, group and identity." Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL; JHB; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326310
ISBN
9781349326310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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