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Hardcover. Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023827
- ISBN
- 9781137023827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption. Providing a unique international coverage, it reveals the limits of current anti-corruption strategies and explores the involvement of western democratic states in corruption. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVC; JKVF; JKVM; KJR; LBBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023858
- ISBN
- 9781137023858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process, and, most importantly, provides ideas and insights into building audience-centered and audience-powered conversations about the arts. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023919
- ISBN
- 9781137023919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardcover. Rethinking the Future of Europe has brought together three contrasting collections of contributions: the incrementalist perspective concerning the step by step development of Europe, the more radical reform/restructuring approach to the future of Europe, and a view of Europe from the outside. Editor(s): Kakabadse, Andrew. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137024008
- ISBN
- 9781137024008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. Performing Governance sets out a new framework to assess the performance of partnerships and examines what these actually deliver. This is applied to three areas of New Labour's welfare policy; child safeguarding, urban regeneration and the modernisation of health and social care. This book contributes to understanding governance under New Labour. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKS; JPP; KJC; KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137024039
- ISBN
- 9781137024039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. O'Hagan explores the phenomenon of filicide, a deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. Examining over 120 cases of filicide in the UK, this book identifies relationship and family patterns in which situations may rapidly deteriorate, and children may become the ultimate weapon in disputes between partners. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 figures, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JKSB1; JKSN; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137024312
- ISBN
- 9781137024312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. The current construct of intellectual disability is based on the assumption that both IQ and adaptive behaviour can be measured accurately. Intellectual Disability explains how and why this is not fit for purpose and that it is actually neither necessary nor reasonable to have a single construct of intellectual disability. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMRN; JNC; JNFN; JNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025579
- ISBN
- 9781137025579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from 'traditional' Chinese values impacts on their child-rearing methods. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; JFSL3; JHBK; JMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026606
- ISBN
- 9781137026606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026637
- ISBN
- 9781137026637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Mills, Sarah. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027726
- ISBN
- 9781137027726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardcover. Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBTQ; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137028624
- ISBN
- 9781137028624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Examining the interplay between geopolitics, the strategic priorities of Europe's most powerful nations, Britain, Germany and France, and the evolution of NATO and CSDP, this book unveils the mechanics of the tension between conflict and cooperation that lies at the heart of European security politics. Series: The European Union in International Affairs. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; 1QFN; JPSL; JPSN; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029126
- ISBN
- 9781137029126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 figures, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSV; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029454
- ISBN
- 9781137029454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. A pioneering study of American Jewish involvement in the fight against racial injustice in South Africa. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; JFSR1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137029713
- ISBN
- 9781137029713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. Informed by ethnographic research with children, Davies offers new sociological insights into children's personal relationships, as well as closely examining methodological approaches to researching with children and researching relationships. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBK; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030061
- ISBN
- 9781137030061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Ironic Freedom asserts that freedom from governmental interference may make people vulnerable to other sources of coercion; these affects vary by gender, race, and class. Increasing negative freedoms may reinforce existing asymmetrical power relationships within society. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030955
- ISBN
- 9781137030955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure psychosocial and psychopolitical life. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031273
- ISBN
- 9781137031273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.83
€ 46.83
Hardcover. By positioning the late Edward Said's political interventions as a public intellectual on behalf of Palestinian populations living under Israeli occupation as a form of intellectual resistance, Abraham moves to consider forms of physical resistance, seeking to better understand the motivations of those who choose to turn their bodies into weapons. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; JFC; JNM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031945
- ISBN
- 9781137031945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Hardcover. What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security, and asks whether we might expect the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human community. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JWA; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032263
- ISBN
- 9781137032263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday lives. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white tables, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFN; JFFP; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033307
- ISBN
- 9781137033307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65