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Paperback. Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?' Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTJ; HPQ; HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349999866
- ISBN
- 9781349999866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardcover. Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?' Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263407
- ISBN
- 9781137263407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSR; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349333
- ISBN
- 9781349349333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 115.40
€ 115.40
paperback. Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives. Num Pages: 161 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JNM; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 217.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 161
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349482023
- ISBN
- 9781349482023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.15
€ 78.15
Paperback. This textbook presents an account of the philosophical position generally indentified as "Postpositivistic" that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. Series: Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research Series. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691227
- ISBN
- 9780847691227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.00
€ 40.99
€ 39.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226408378
- ISBN
- 9780226408378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.23
€ 27.99
€ 23.23
Hardback. By investigating the nexus of relationships between urban and rural factories in the Shanghai region of China, this book shines light on an overlooked part of China's massive industrial growth since the 1980s. Series: China in Transformation. Num Pages: 284 pages, 1 maps, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSF; JFSG; KCD; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340954
- ISBN
- 9780230340954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. Financing Higher Education Worldwide combines sophisticated economic explanations with sensitive political and cultural analyses of the financial pressures facing higher education throughout the world. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JNKG; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894589
- ISBN
- 9780801894589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.19
€ 38.99
€ 33.19
Paperback. BIC Classification: JPVH. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333470602
- ISBN
- 9780333470602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.57
€ 72.57
Hardcover. In this study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterized by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333740354
- ISBN
- 9780333740354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.85€ 81.99
€ 130.85
€ 81.99
Hardcover. Focuses on the politics, economics, sociology, and history of work and workers in Europe. This title places the labor markets, workplaces, jobs and workers of Europe in comparative perspective, and compares contemporary patterns and the history of European workers with other models of work worldwide. Editor(s): Brady, David. Series Editor(s): Keister, Lisa. Series: Research in the Sociology of Work. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1D; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1146.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780857249319
- ISBN
- 9780857249319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.46
€ 134.46
Hardback. Public space, both literally and figuratively, is foundationally important to political life. From Socratic lectures in the public forum, to Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring, public spaces have long played host to political discussion and protest. The book provides a direct assessment of the role that public space plays in political life. Editor(s): Boros, Diana; Glass, James M. Num Pages: 262 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383433
- ISBN
- 9781137383433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardback. Employing political philosophy to argue the need for social and public art projects to be a part of the everyday lives of Americans, Boros creates a new synthesis of philosophical ideas to support the political value of public art. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; AK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338791
- ISBN
- 9780230338791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardback. Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world. Editor(s): Berry, David M.; Dieter, Michael. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137437198
- ISBN
- 9781137437198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.20
€ 128.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JHBL; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349523863
- ISBN
- 9781349523863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.56
€ 126.56
Hardcover. This work provides an analysis of the development of female insurgency in France between 1789 and 1871, placing particular emphasis on the conflicts that took place from 1830 to 1851. The author aims to demonstrate that a tradition of women's protest evolved from the 1789 Revolution. Num Pages: 232 pages, tables, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JFFK; JPWF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1996th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333641743
- ISBN
- 9780333641743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.99
€ 193.99
Paperback. An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 206 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621657
- ISBN
- 9780230621657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 206 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600676
- ISBN
- 9780230600676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
hardcover. Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities. Critical psychiatry disagrees with this and proposes a more ethical foundation for practice. This book describes an original framework for renewing mental health services in alliance with people with mental health problems. Editor(s): Double, D. B. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSM; JMP; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2006th Edition
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001282
- ISBN
- 9780230001282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback. The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political movement and normalizing anti-minority violence. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book identifies the poetics and politics of fear and violence engendered within Hindu nationalism. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371907
- ISBN
- 9781349371907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.70
€ 116.70