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Hardcover. A fresh analysis of the study of American foreign relations history, this book shows the ways in which international education has shaped the US relationship with the world. Editor(s): Garlitz, Richard; Jarvinen, Lisa. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339453
- ISBN
- 9780230339453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. Bringing together some of the most important figures in the evolution of Critical Pedagogy, this book provides comprehensive analyses of issues related to the struggle against the forces of neoliberalism and the imperial-induced privatization, in education and all of social life through the radical democratizing forces of critical pedagogy. Editor(s): Macrine, Sheila. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339569
- ISBN
- 9780230339569
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 32.81
€ 40.99
€ 32.81
Hardcover. This book illuminates our understanding of what happens when different cultures meet. Twelve cultural historians explore the mechanism and inner dynamic of such encounters, and demonstrate that while they often occur on the wave of global forces and influences, they only acquire meaning locally, where culture inherently resides. Editor(s): Rozbicki, Michal Jan; Ndege, George O. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339972
- ISBN
- 9780230339972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons. Editor(s): Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Bartmanski, Dominik; Giesen, Bernhard. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 271 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340053
- ISBN
- 9780230340053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Cultural and spiritual resources are arguably essential to achievement of educational goals, both as economic and political initiatives and as human rights. This book addresses questions surrounding education and inter-cultural understanding in a broad global framework. Editor(s): Mundy, Karen; Zha, Qiang. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340107
- ISBN
- 9780230340107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.69
€ 53.36
€ 47.69
Hardcover. The fascination with the commercial value of research, coupled with the rise of neo-liberal 'new public management' in the public sector, has led to the rise of a managerial class in the university. These essays focus on the widespread use of business models and market principles that have undermined the autonomy of the professoriate. Editor(s): Schuetze, Hans G.; Bruneau, William; Grosjean, Garnet. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNK; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340121
- ISBN
- 9780230340121
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.36
€ 53.36
€ 47.36
Hardcover. This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, it defines new comprehensive approaches to human security as preventative and empowering to individuals, and it provides conceptual frameworks and methodological tools for enhancing the processes of communicating peace. Editor(s): Korostelina, Karina V. Num Pages: 295 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHBA; JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340138
- ISBN
- 9780230340138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. Provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education, exploring its manifestations through practices of teaching and research. Offers critical perspectives on the role of higher education institutions in terms of realizing civic missions, especially in current global market conditions. Editor(s): McIlrath, Lorraine; Lyons, Ann; Munck, Professor Ronaldo. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNAM; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340374
- ISBN
- 9780230340374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.43
€ 53.36
€ 47.43
Hardcover. Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes 'the standards movement' and 'new public management' or accountability in the public sector. Editor(s): Louis, Karen Seashore; Velzen, Boudewijn van. Series: Education Policy. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340411
- ISBN
- 9780230340411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.28
€ 53.36
€ 47.28
Hardcover. This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention-from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan-to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies. Editor(s): Chiang, Howard. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340626
- ISBN
- 9780230340626
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Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. A multidisciplinary collection of new research in the humanities and social sciences on the role of consumption and consumers in modern Latin American cultures. Editor(s): Sinclair, John; Pertierra, Anna Cristina. Num Pages: 235 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340732
- ISBN
- 9780230340732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. By identifying and illustrating aspects of American culture that are out of sync with the modest republicanism that gave rise to the United States in the late eighteenth century, the contributors to this volume expose the vulgarity and excess of American culture. Editor(s): Federici, Michael P.; Gamble, Richard M.; Mitchell, Mark T. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340770
- ISBN
- 9780230340770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism. Editor(s): Biltereyst, Daniel; Winkel, Roel Vande. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 332 pages, 11 black & white halftones, 1 maps, 3 black & white tables, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: APFA; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340817
- ISBN
- 9780230340817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Documents the many relationships and practices that depend on the suspension of knowledge or the generation, deployment, or recognition of ignorance. Editor(s): High, Casey; Kelly, Ann H.; Mair, Jonathan. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFP; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340824
- ISBN
- 9780230340824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between governance and civil society by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies based on the governance practice in China. Editor(s): Yu, Jianxing; Guo, Sujian. Num Pages: 253 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHB; JPA; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340961
- ISBN
- 9780230340961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. This volume brings together a number of essays that citizens, academics, election officials, policy makers, and other stakeholders can read to become better informed about procedures that used today to audit elections and election administration, and to learn more about new approaches to improve existing election audit procedures. Editor(s): Hall, Thad E.; Atkeson, Lonna Rae; Alvarez, R. Michael. Series: Elections, Voting, Technology. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341210
- ISBN
- 9780230341210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.16
€ 53.36
€ 47.16
Hardcover. Neoliberal policies have had an impact on educational systems globally. This book provides a detailed and critical analysis of neoliberal educational policies and reforms in Turkey by focusing on the Justice and Development Party's reform efforts over the last eight years. Editor(s): Akkaymak, Guliz; Inal, Kemal. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341289
- ISBN
- 9780230341289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.40
€ 53.36
€ 47.40
Hardcover. The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political intersections. Editor(s): Fay, Elizabeth; Von Morze, Leonard. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341401
- ISBN
- 9780230341401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and Australia. Editor(s): Hjort, Mette. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 281 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 1MBF; APFX; JNRV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341432
- ISBN
- 9780230341432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. This book examines the imposition of the western notion of childhood, deemed as universal, on other cultures and explores how local communities react to these impositions in various ways. Editor(s): Twum-Danso Imoh, Afua; Ame, Robert Kwame. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JFSP1; JKSB1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230342323
- ISBN
- 9780230342323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62