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Hardcover. This book analyzes the justification of preventive war in contemporary asymmetrical international relations. It focuses on the most crucial aspect of prevention: uncertainty. It builds a new framework where the role of luck-whether military, political, moral, or normative-is a corrective to the traditional approaches of the just war tradition. Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 287 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018946
- ISBN
- 9781137018946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. This study, now in paperback, argues that female networks of conversation, correspondence and patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018472
- ISBN
- 9781137018472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.21
€ 127.21
Hardcover. This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 221 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHMC; JMRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017871
- ISBN
- 9781137017871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.82
€ 116.82
Hardcover. Contributors to this volume outline how societal actors have been closely involved in European integration from the founding of the EU to the Maastricht Treaty. Based on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss the participation of political parties, business groups and civil society organizations in European polity-building and policy-making. Editor(s): Kaiser, Wolfram; Meyer, Jan-Henrik. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFE; 3JJP; JPA; JPL; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017642
- ISBN
- 9781137017642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Communicating Popular Science addresses the role of science popularization and explains how science writing works can do better at promoting public discussions about science-related issues. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017574
- ISBN
- 9781137017574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.51
€ 138.51
Hardcover. This book, for the first time, brings Niklas Luhmann's work into dialogue with other theoretical positions, including Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze, gender studies, bioethics, translation, ANT, eco-theories and complexity theory. Editor(s): Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137015280
- ISBN
- 9781137015280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Paperback. Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBAH; HBLL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137015235
- ISBN
- 9781137015235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Paperback. An authoritative, state-of-the-art collection that brings together key experts to provide an overview of the field. This new paperback edition includes 3 new chapters on human resources and health, end-of-life care and complementary and alternative medicine as well as thorough updates to the introduction and conclusion. Editor(s): Kuhlmann, Ellen; Annandale, Ellen. Num Pages: 560 pages, 24 black & white tables, 9 figures, 11 black & white illustrations, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: JFSJ; MBP; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 856.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 558
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137015143
- ISBN
- 9781137015143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 108.25
€ 108.25
Hardcover. Seamon explores the historical, theological, and societal dynamics of religious intermarriage as a way to introduce scholars to the myriad of factors that have contributed and will continue to contribute to the complete transformation of religion and Christianity in the twenty-first century. Series: Christianities of the World. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAF; HRCX6; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014849
- ISBN
- 9781137014849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. A new and original approach to studies on gender-based violence and violence against women, focusing on men and their role in prevention. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ1; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014733
- ISBN
- 9781137014733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Colbert's America argues that, in contrast to the anti-intellectualism, the sensationalism, and the punditry that tend to govern most mass media today, Stephen Colbert's program offers his audience the opportunity to understand the context through which most news is reported and to be critical of it. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014726
- ISBN
- 9781137014726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Hardcover. Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014641
- ISBN
- 9781137014641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. An exploration of the development of FDR's views in the years before he became president. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 217 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014535
- ISBN
- 9781137014535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014115
- ISBN
- 9781137014115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.77
€ 160.77
Hardcover. The term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe. However, in many emerging countries, the housing crisis is about urban poverty, unplanned settlements, overcrowded slums and homelessness. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFB; KCL; KCX; KFFL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan 2013-02-07
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014023
- ISBN
- 9781137014023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. This book analyzes the cosmopolitan lives of British Asian Muslim women. Drawing on interview and online data, the book debunks stereotypical assumptions and explores the multiple and meaningful links that British Asian Muslim women establish within and outside their communities. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137013866
- ISBN
- 9781137013866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. This study looks at the ongoing efforts of the Alternative Global Movement and World Social Forum to reconcile contests over political organization among three of the most prominent groups on the contemporary left - social and liberal democratic NGOs, anti-authoritarian (anarchist) social movements, and political parties. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE; JPA; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137013323
- ISBN
- 9781137013323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Social Democracy has long been prominent in Nordic politics through the dominant parties and ideological hegemony of the centre-left. This book explores the growth of social democracy and the policy dilemmas that social democrats face today. It breaks new ground by relating recent literature on social democracy in Europe to Scandinavia. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; JPA; JPB; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137013262
- ISBN
- 9781137013262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.77
€ 160.77
Hardcover. How do Europeans engage in military strategy? Through detailed comparisons of operational planning and exploring the framework of the EU, NATO and the UN, this book sheds light on the instrumental nature of military force, the health of civil-military relations in Europe and the difficulty of making effective strategy in a multinational environment Series: The European Union in International Affairs. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137012593
- ISBN
- 9781137012593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. Analysing the relationship between EU unity and effectiveness in multilateral negotiations on food standards, climate change and health, this book develops a new model that simplifies earlier work on 'actorness' as well as combining insights from institutionalist, intergovernmentalist and constructivist theories. Series: The European Union in International Affairs. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137012548
- ISBN
- 9781137012548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11