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Paperback. Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones. Editor(s): Robbins, T.; Gonzalez, J. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349495740
ISBN
9781349495740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's Th e Hel p . Editor(s): Garcia, Claire Oberon; Young, Vershawn Ashanti; Pimentel, Charise. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349495955
ISBN
9781349495955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.25

Paperback. A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison fiction, non-fiction, and other drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty years." Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496075
ISBN
9781349496075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.52

Paperback. There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction, and change in age-dissimilar relationships and romantic love. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBK; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496099
ISBN
9781349496099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTQ; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496174
ISBN
9781349496174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.86

Paperback. The book explores migration and queerness as they relate to ethnic/racial identity constructions, immigration processes and legal status, the formation of trans/national and trans/cultural partnerships, and friendships. It explores the roles that religious identities/values/worldviews play in the fortification/critique of queer migrant identities. Editor(s): Goh, Joseph N. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496297
ISBN
9781349496297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. Editor(s): Beem, Charles; Taylor, M. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496426
ISBN
9781349496426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AP; HBTB; HBWQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496624
ISBN
9781349496624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Wood, S.; He, Baogang; Leifer, Michael. Series: Asia Today. Num Pages: 282 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPS; JPSD; JPSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496648
ISBN
9781349496648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale. Editor(s): Pyta, Wolfram; Havemann, Nils. Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFD; JHB; JHBS; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496952
ISBN
9781349496952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JKV; JKVP; JKVQ2; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349497157
ISBN
9781349497157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 137.91

paperback. Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Bronte, Austen and Rossetti." Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349497416
ISBN
9781349497416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; DSA; HBJD; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349497638
ISBN
9781349497638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFC; JFSJ; JHM; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349497652
ISBN
9781349497652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in each case. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349497690
ISBN
9781349497690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Paperback. Editor(s): Roffe, Jonathan. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPS; JFC; PSTS; RN; TQ. 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
V9781349497751
ISBN
9781349497751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each? Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFR; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349497898
ISBN
9781349497898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. This book focuses on Baldwin's experiences as a gifted black writer who fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual relationships. Baldwin's God is a 'mysteriously impersonal' force he calls love- 'something . . . like a fire, like the wind, something which can change you.' Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRAX; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349497911
ISBN
9781349497911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP; JHB; JHBK; JHBL; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349497997
ISBN
9781349497997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. Editor(s): Amberson, Deborah; Past, Elena M. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DS; HBJD; HP; JFC; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349498017
ISBN
9781349498017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 46.69

Paperback. Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has been made (in)visible and (ir)relevant in contemporary Western culture. Editor(s): Silva, K; Mendes, K. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349498055
ISBN
9781349498055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.30

Paperback. Editor(s): Drinot, Paulo. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349498116
ISBN
9781349498116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Paperback. Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Swansea University, 2013. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY; JFC; JFD; KJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349498376
ISBN
9781349498376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HBJD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349498536
ISBN
9781349498536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

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