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Hardcover. This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present. Editor(s): Cyrino, Monica S. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; APFA; APFN; JFC; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013 ed.
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299598
- ISBN
- 9781137299598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299567
- ISBN
- 9781137299567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.85
€ 53.37
€ 46.85
Hardcover. Through ethnographical cases, this book examines the ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, states, moralities, and local/state authorities, creating opportunities for agency. Alternative spaces designate in-between spaces rather than oppositional structures and are both inside and outside their constituent elements. Editor(s): Dahl, Jens. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JFSS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299536
- ISBN
- 9781137299536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Defying the general belief that American citizenship is in decline, Sanford claims that Generation X is actually taking positions of civic leadership and authority as Baby Boomers retire. By exploring traditional instruments of social capital, civic culture and political science, she attempts to make us understand this maligned generation better. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299277
- ISBN
- 9781137299277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. How do state institutions reform themselves in the face of outside pressures? This study undertakes an in-depth analysis of the institutional and human rights reform process within the Turkish National Police, which faces pressure from the EU as part of Turkey's EU membership process, and examines the challenges and consequences of the process. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JKSW1; JPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298096
- ISBN
- 9781137298096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. By exploring of the construct of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature, Greven discovers that far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone, striving to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298089
- ISBN
- 9781137298089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Huw Macartney considers the politics of depoliticisation in response to the Euro-zone debt crisis, and the limits to depoliticisation as indicated by recent resistance movements. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHV; JPS; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298003
- ISBN
- 9781137298003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardcover. The Government of Reading describes the genealogy of dyslexia and the positioning dyslexia as an event in the history of reading rather than as an event in the history of medicine or psychology. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137297921
- ISBN
- 9781137297921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. Geir Honneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Peninsula, the most heavily militarized area of the world during the Cold War, now set to become Europe's next big oil playground. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; CF; JFSF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137297310
- ISBN
- 9781137297310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. Calhoun examines the centuries-old paradigm of just war theory to determine whether modern 'just war' rationalizations constitute sound justifications or pro-military propaganda. Her work reveals how the practice of modern war contradicts the most basic values and principles of modern Western democracies. Series: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JPA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294623
- ISBN
- 9781137294623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294067
- ISBN
- 9781137294067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Hogselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote - and oppose- the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War. Num Pages: 294 pages, 30 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; JPS; KCLT; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293718
- ISBN
- 9781137293718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 160.44
€ 160.44
Hardcover. Brendan Howe examines ongoing challenges to and new initiatives for the promotion and protection of human security in East Asia. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; GTF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293640
- ISBN
- 9781137293640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. The book examines Lucretius' conception of the philosophic life, and the reaction to the human and political implications of the discovery of nature. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137292315
- ISBN
- 9781137292315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. Learning from the successes and failures of others is a necessity in the field of public sector innovation. This book develops guidelines for policymakers, practitioners and policy analysts to understand what drives policy success and to transfer innovations from a source case to a target case with a view to assisting effective policy design. Num Pages: 116 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPP; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137291011
- ISBN
- 9781137291011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. This book introduces the political thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist working on empire, population migration and colonial policy, and uses it as a platform which to examine the global challenges faced by the U.S. hegemonic world order today, or what is often described as the Western liberal order. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290502
- ISBN
- 9781137290502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict: Politics, Cu...
Daccache, Jenny George, Valeriano, Brandon
Hardcover. Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290472
- ISBN
- 9781137290472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290403
- ISBN
- 9781137290403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies ...
Silk, P. Daniel, Spalek, Basia, O´rawe, Mary
Hardcover. Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies of 'Success' seeks to present the voices of police and community members who have been involved in engagement and partnership projects designed to prevent ideological violence whether that of paramilitaries, Al-Qa'ida inspired terrorists, or organized crime. Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKV; JPWF; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290373
- ISBN
- 9781137290373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. A long neglected concept in the field of international relations and political theory, hospitality provides a new framework for analysing many of the challenges in world politics today, from the search for peaceable relations between states to asylum and refugee crises. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA; JPSN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289995
- ISBN
- 9781137289995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11