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Society & culture: general
Paperback. What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis. Editor(s): Karhio, Anne; Armstrong, C. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319817
- ISBN
- 9781349319817
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Based on original and previously unseen written and sound archives and interviews with former and current radio producers and presenters, Public Issue Radio addresses the controversial question of the political leanings of current affairs programmes, and asks if Analysis became an early platform for both Thatcherite and Blairite ideas. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; AV; GTC; JFCX; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319879
- ISBN
- 9781349319879
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC; JFCX. 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
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319916
- ISBN
- 9781349319916
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€ 126.58
€ 126.58
Paperback. Crisis in the Global Mediasphere examines the evolution of contemporary global crises as an effect of mediation and cultural change. The book argues that a crisis consciousness has emerged through the interaction of crisis conditions and a more expansive human desire for pleasure. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; HBTB; JFD; JFFS; KN. 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
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319930
- ISBN
- 9781349319930
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319992
- ISBN
- 9781349319992
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€ 116.70
€ 116.70
paperback. "In association with the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London." Editor(s): Owens, W. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC. 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
- 241
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349320059
- ISBN
- 9781349320059
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Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
The History of Reading. Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950.
. Ed(S): Halsey, K.; Owens, W.
Paperback. 'Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?'This volumebrings together original research essays focusing on the history of reading in the British Isles, using evidence ranging from library records to Mass Observation surveystohighlight the social factors that influence a seemingly private, individual activity." Editor(s): Halsey, K.; Owens, W. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320110
- ISBN
- 9781349320110
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading globally, and indicates how future research might take up the challenge of recording and interpreting the practices of readers in an increasingly digitized society. Editor(s): Crone, Rosalind; Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320134
- ISBN
- 9781349320134
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. This book challenges some of the most basic assumptions underpinning the growing interest in religion, including: that religion is increasing and secularisation is decreasing andthat religion is the main component of identity for all minority ethnic people." Series: Migration, Minorities & Citizenship. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFSL; JHB; JPA. 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
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349320233
- ISBN
- 9781349320233
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day. Editor(s): Wells, C. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320295
- ISBN
- 9781349320295
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Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture." Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. 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
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320370
- ISBN
- 9781349320370
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
paperback. Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' transnationally. Series: Rethinking International Development Series. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JHB; JPA; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320516
- ISBN
- 9781349320516
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Condition: New
€ 65.42
€ 65.42
Paperback. "This compendium is the outcome of an international workshop titled South-South Cooperation: Africa on the centre stage, organized by the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, in February 2008"--Introd. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; JPP; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320561
- ISBN
- 9781349320561
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Tracingthe rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Cache, Asbjorn Gronstad revivesthe debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, andreframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms." Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; HPQ; JFD. 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
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320646
- ISBN
- 9781349320646
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€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. This book examines negotiations on migration in the Mediterranean. It argues that migration is a bargaining chip which countries in the South use to increase their leverage versus their counterparts in the North. This proposition opens up new understandings reframing relations of inequalities among states. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JPA; JPP; JPS; JPSN. 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
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320745
- ISBN
- 9781349320745
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. Jonathan Wheeldon offers a rare and unusually reflective insider account of the transformational challenges of the music industry, and the cultural industries in general, over the past 15 years. He also makes a potentially valuable contribution to loosening the industrial-political deadlock in the debate over copyright reform. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; CFGR; JFC; JFD; JP; KJ. 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
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320776
- ISBN
- 9781349320776
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTQ; JFSJ; MMJ. 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
- 241
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349321117
- ISBN
- 9781349321117
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Bronte sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontes and the mid-nineteenth century 'woman's novel', but also the situation of women in nineteenth century English law and the debates which moved around its prospective reform." Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321322
- ISBN
- 9781349321322
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. "Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and 'Aubade'), and two neglected but important themes (Larkin and the supernatural, Larkin and Flaubert)"-- Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321452
- ISBN
- 9781349321452
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Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes the politics of state building and the implications for contemporary statehood and the global order. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321483
- ISBN
- 9781349321483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20