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Paperback. The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453610
- ISBN
- 9781349453610
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Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; JFSJ. 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
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454655
- ISBN
- 9781349454655
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Condition: New
€ 65.52
€ 65.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454723
- ISBN
- 9781349454723
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; HBJK; HBTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454808
- ISBN
- 9781349454808
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Condition: New
€ 137.55
€ 137.55
Paperback. Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts. Editor(s): Arrighi, Gillian; Emeljanow, Victor. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 260 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; JFC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454822
- ISBN
- 9781349454822
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.20
€ 53.36
€ 46.20
Paperback. This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the reactions of organized Muslims at local, national, and transnational levels to the on-going debates on their integration into society and the structures of state-church relations. Editor(s): Kortmann, Matthias; Rosenow-Williams, Kerstin. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454860
- ISBN
- 9781349454860
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. An edited collection whose contributors analyze the relationship between writing, learning, and video games/videogaming, these essays consist of academic essays from writing and rhetoric teacher-scholars, who theorize, and contextualize how computer/video games enrich writing practices within and beyond the classroom and the teaching of writing. Editor(s): Colby, Richard; Johnson, Mathew. Series: Digital Education and Learning. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB; JHM; JNKD; JNMT; VFX. 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
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455621
- ISBN
- 9781349455621
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.37
€ 53.36
€ 46.37
paperback. Providing a thorough and novel account of US and Japanese foreign policymaking toward regional institution-building in post-Cold War Asia, this study serves as the first comparative analysis of these two major actors in this realm of regional cooperation and demonstrates not only how but also when state identity shapes a state's foreign policy. Series: Asia Today. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS; JPSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455645
- ISBN
- 9781349455645
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455881
- ISBN
- 9781349455881
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Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. Neoliberalism, Media and the Political examines the condition of media and journalism in neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is simultaneously hostile to politics, the book presents a critical theoretical argument supported by empirical illustrations from New Zealand, Ireland, the UK and the US. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455966
- ISBN
- 9781349455966
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians' playing, creativity, and careers. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFC; JFSR; JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456000
- ISBN
- 9781349456000
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JFC; JHM; JNM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456024
- ISBN
- 9781349456024
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 45.81
€ 53.36
€ 45.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL; JHB; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456062
- ISBN
- 9781349456062
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Condition: New
€ 137.75
€ 137.75
Migrant, Roma and Post-Colonial Youth in Education Across Europe
. Ed(S): Szalai, Julia; Schiff, Claire
Paperback. Editor(s): Szalai, Julia; Schiff, Claire. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JFSL; JN; JPS. 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
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456109
- ISBN
- 9781349456109
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian considers how people keep cool, from Metro Manila to other mega-cities in Southeast Asia. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JHBL; KCN; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456185
- ISBN
- 9781349456185
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Condition: New
€ 126.97
€ 126.97
Paperback. Providing a unique collection of perspectives on the persistence of documentary as a vital and dynamic media form within a digital world, New Documentary Ecologies traces this form through new opportunities of creating media, new platforms of distribution and new ways for audiences to engage with the real. Editor(s): Nash, Dr. Kate; Summerhayes, Catherine. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; APF; APFR; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456666
- ISBN
- 9781349456666
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Condition: New
€ 148.93
€ 148.93
Paperback. While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a dominated "Persian hegemony," the systematic neglect of ethnic groups by both the Islamic Republic and its predecessor regime has resulted in the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHB; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456765
- ISBN
- 9781349456765
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Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
paperback. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSP; JHBA; JHBK; JN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349457229
- ISBN
- 9781349457229
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Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. This book takes Jamie Oliver's campaign for better school meals as a starting point for thinking about morally charged concerns relating to young people's nutrition, health and well-being, parenting, and public health 'crises' such as obesity. The authors show how these debates are always about the moral project of the self. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JFSR; JHBK; JNK; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457243
- ISBN
- 9781349457243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice. Perspectives are drawn from both young people and professionals in the care and youth justice systems. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JKS; JKSN; JKV; JKVQ2; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457380
- ISBN
- 9781349457380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.72
€ 65.72