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Paperback. A reassessment of long-held paradigms about modern southern culture and politics and the relation of the South to political and cultural life of the United States. Editor(s): Smethurst, James; Rubin, Rachel; Green, Chris. Num Pages: 282 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623477
- ISBN
- 9780230623477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623453
- ISBN
- 9780230623453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface with what we, as educators, think we know about them. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNFN; JNFR; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623446
- ISBN
- 9780230623446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.03€ 80.59
€ 97.03
€ 80.59
Hardcover. The authors argue that women gamers, too often ignored as gamers, are in many respects leading the way in this trend towards design, cultural production, new learning communities, and the combination of technical proficiency with emotional and social intelligence. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA; UGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623415
- ISBN
- 9780230623415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.24
€ 53.36
€ 47.24
Hardcover. This book traces the Eisenhower administration's enthusiastic pursuit of the profoundly destabilizing technology of nuclear weapons, and its significance for the course of the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HBJK; HBLW3; HBW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623408
- ISBN
- 9780230623408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. Focusing on womanist and mestiza feminist thought, literary writings, and cultural representations, Unassimilable Feminisms offers a comparative theoretical model of identity formation. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623163
- ISBN
- 9780230623163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. Num Pages: 225 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623156
- ISBN
- 9780230623156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This book presents data on Ugandan khat within the context of international debates on the drug, and the proposed ban in 2009. By telling of the story of khat, the book will serve as a vehicle for the analysis of social change, development priorities and shifting ethnic identities in Uganda over the last 80 years. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBLW; JFFH1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623101
- ISBN
- 9780230623101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. For the first time since the 1980s, Lebanon is now constantly on the front page of the world's media. This book seeks to explain the contemporary situation in Lebanon and how it affects the region and the world. Editor(s): Rubin, Barry. Series: The Middle East in Focus. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; JPS; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406. Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis. Series: The Middle East in Focus. 256 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Rubin, Barry. For the first time since the 1980s, Lebanon is now constantly on the front page of the world's media. This book seeks to explain the contemporary situation in Lebanon and how it affects the region and the world. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; JPS; JPWS. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 19. Weight: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623064
- ISBN
- 9780230623064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. The book develops a new multidisciplinary model to understand elite press news in the twenty-first century. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 257 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622821
- ISBN
- 9780230622821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Treating Weapons Proliferation is a chilling exploration of the dynamics of weapons proliferation and nonproliferation. In an analogy with the disease of cancer, the book walks the reader through the history of the phenomenon with its growing complexities and changing dimensions. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPSF; JWMN; JWXF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622807
- ISBN
- 9780230622807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. From her perspective as a white feminist theologian, Karen Teel dialogues with five womanist thinkers to develop a Christian theology of the body that can compel Christians, especially U. S. Christians of European descent, to actively resist the sin of racism. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCM; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622777
- ISBN
- 9780230622777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. This book transforms our contemporary understanding of the recent political history of Central Africa. It charts the complex life and thought of Harry Nkumbula (ca. 1917-1983), the first openly nationalist African politician in Northern Rhodesia and, later, the leader of parliamentary opposition during Zambia's multi-party First Republic. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; BGH; HBJH; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622746
- ISBN
- 9780230622746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors, Minority Reports offers a theoretical defense of the use of identity categories in American studies by examining how early American literature not only responds to the social stratification of the nineteenth century but also challenges modern historical conceptions of this era. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622630
- ISBN
- 9780230622630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. The scope of the book is to trace the role and work of the deans of men over time and how the deans managed the rapidly growing culture of the American college campus in the twentieth century. Series: Higher Education and Society. Num Pages: 223 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JNA; JNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622586
- ISBN
- 9780230622586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.95
€ 53.36
€ 46.95
Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural Studies for a Posthuman ...
Lewis, Tyson E., Kahn, Richard
Hardcover. Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the authors engage in a surreal journey into the worlds of feral children, alien reptoids, and faery faiths in order to understand how social movements are renegotiating the boundaries of community. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNAM; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622548
- ISBN
- 9780230622548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.71
€ 53.36
€ 46.71
Paperback. This book provides a cutting edge analysis of the rise and expansion of the community engagement movement in general and the service-learning field in specific. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622517
- ISBN
- 9780230622517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 87.33€ 73.25
€ 87.33
€ 73.25
Hardcover. This book provides a cutting edge analysis of the rise and expansion of the community engagement movement in general and the service-learning field in specific. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622500
- ISBN
- 9780230622500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.74€ 87.80
€ 106.74
€ 87.80
Hardcover. This project examines Ida B. Wells's ethical interrogation of America's infatuation with terror. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 194 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622388
- ISBN
- 9780230622388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. This book examines the experiences of American and British students before, during, and after the process of admitting women to full, though not necessarily equal, standing in the academic world. Num Pages: 283 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNM; JNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622371
- ISBN
- 9780230622371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.74€ 89.00
€ 106.74
€ 89.00