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Hardcover. Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS. She argues that three major economic crises together with market globalisation have changed governments' perceptions of market competition, giving rise to a neo-liberal global phase. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; KCL; KCP; LNCH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482945
- ISBN
- 9781137482945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardback. The chapters in this volume represent diverse attempts to explain women's movements from rural areas, taking prevailing market conditions as well as gender relations into account. The analysis of the different working and living conditions in different parts of rural Europe reveals distinct obstacles but also prospects for young women. Editor(s): Wiest, Karin. Series: New Geographies of Europe. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JFSF; JFSJ1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483034
- ISBN
- 9781137483034
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Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 447.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483218
- ISBN
- 9781137483218
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Condition: New
€ 149.63
€ 149.63
Hardcover. Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations, even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into the transnational processes involved in producing educational inequalities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JNF; JNK; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 319. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483522
- ISBN
- 9781137483522
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
What's New about the "New" Immigration?: Traditions and Transformation...
Halter, Marilyn, Johnson, Marilynn S., Viens,...
Hardcover. Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period. Editor(s): Stachura, Peter D. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFN; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483867
- ISBN
- 9781137483867
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book explores the following: What is the art of power? What is the art of French power? How did Charles de Gaulle understand and assert power, establishing the Fifth Republic and breaking centuries of political instability? How well or poorly have his successors wielded the art of French power to define, defend, or enhance French interests? Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483935
- ISBN
- 9781137483935
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Chechens: Culture and Society is an ethnography that elaborates the lived experiences of Chechens, focusing primarily on relationships and socio-cultural norms within the context of the current conflict in the Chechen Republic. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUAC; JFFD; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483966
- ISBN
- 9781137483966
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Politics, Disability, and Education Reform in the South explores how race, gender, disability, and politics all came together to impact the career of one State Superintendent of Education in South Carolina who fought to improve educational conditions for African-Americans, women, and millworkers' children in South Carolina. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JNF; JNH; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484055
- ISBN
- 9781137484055
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.85
€ 53.36
€ 46.85
Paperback. This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russia-U.S. "Great Game" at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theatres on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level. Editor(s): Huchet, Jean-Francois; Balci, Bayram. Series: CERI Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; HBJF; JPB; JPF; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484086
- ISBN
- 9781137484086
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relationships with W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson, this book tracks racial identity in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484093
- ISBN
- 9781137484093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. (Ab)use of religion as a political means to an end: the achievement of nationalist political goals, analyzing 'how' through which mechanisms this phenomenon has been and still is practiced in South-Eastern Europe. Editor(s): Ognjenovic, Gorana; Jozelic, Jasna. Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; HRAM2; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484130
- ISBN
- 9781137484130
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JH; 3JJ; JHBK; JNAM; JNB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484147
- ISBN
- 9781137484147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardback. Stoller challenges the long-held view that knowing is a causal and linear act, arguing instead that the process of knowing is interdependent, transactional, and grounded in creative action. Series: The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Num Pages: 111 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JNF; JNKC; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 307.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484277
- ISBN
- 9781137484277
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.20
€ 53.36
€ 46.20
Hardcover. This book provides a critical perspective on people's response to disasters in the Philippines. It draws upon an array of case studies to discuss people's vulnerability, capacities and resilience in facing a wide range of different hazards. Series: Disaster Studies. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFFC; RNR; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484284
- ISBN
- 9781137484284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JFSL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484581
- ISBN
- 9781137484581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardback. An expanded version of a series of debates between the authors, this book examines the nature of corporate rights, especially with respect to religious liberty, in the context of the controversial Hobby Lobby case from the Supreme Court's 2013-14 term. Num Pages: 86 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; JP; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484673
- ISBN
- 9781137484673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Paperback. This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with headscarves as a case in point. Turkey's commitment to modernization depends heavily on secularism which involves, among other things, the westernization of women's appearance. Num Pages: 219 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JPA; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484734
- ISBN
- 9781137484734
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Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Hardcover. The Arab Spring as the initiator of far-reaching changes in the regional power constellation. Editor(s): Furtig, Henner. Series: The Modern Muslim World. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484741
- ISBN
- 9781137484741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork in Kuwait and throughout the Arabian Peninsula, this book explores what cultural elites in the Arab Gulf region have to say about women's political and cultural rights and how their faith is or is not related to their politics. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBX; HRH; JFFK; JFSR2; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484772
- ISBN
- 9781137484772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.51
€ 71.51
Hardback. What are the functions of optimism in modern societies? How is hope culturally transmitted? What values and attitudes does it reflect? This book explores how and why powerful institutions propagate 'cultures of optimism' in different domains, such as politics, work, the family, religion and psychotherapy. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484802
- ISBN
- 9781137484802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95