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From Crisis to Coalition: The Conservative Party, 1997-2010
Dorey, Peter, Denham, Andrew, Garnett, Mark
Hardcover. In 2010 the Conservative Party returned to office after over a decade of largely ineffective opposition to New Labour. This book explains why it took so long to recover, and why the party was unable to win an overall majority despite the charismatic leadership of David Cameron. It covers all aspects of Conservative Party politics since 1997. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JPHF; JPLM; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542389
- ISBN
- 9780230542389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book identifies the pitfalls of applying precautionary strategies to high-stakes risks that have already become entrenched. Precaution must be applied on a precautionary basis, considering alternative paths to progress that maintain natural risk levels. This requires a radical rethinking of the way we define and achieve progress. Num Pages: 146 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPQD; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230538719
- ISBN
- 9780230538719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardcover. Exploring the current commercialization and innovation policies in higher education, this book examines the way it is being transformed to accommodate business methods. Series: Issues in Higher Education. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537873
- ISBN
- 9780230537873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche is an anthology that gathers together, for the first time, the political commentary and writings found throughout Nietzsche's corpus. Included is an historical introduction which demonstrates that Nietzsche was an observer of and responded to the political events which defined the Bismarckian era. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537736
- ISBN
- 9780230537736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche is an anthology that gathers together, for the first time, the political commentary and writings found throughout Nietzsche's corpus. Included is an historical introduction which demonstrates that Nietzsche was an observer of and responded to the political events which defined the Bismarckian era. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537729
- ISBN
- 9780230537729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.41
€ 128.41
Paperback. In this first anthology of major philosophical contributions on the nature and justifiability of violence over the last 100 years , three basic questions are scrutinized: 'What is violence?', 'Is violence always wrong?', and 'Can violence be justified?'. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562. A Philosophical Anthology. 392 pages, 0. In this first anthology of major philosophical contributions on the nature and justifiability of violence over the last 100 years , three basic questions are scrutinized: 'What is violence?', 'Is violence always wrong?', and 'Can violence be justified?'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFE. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537712
- ISBN
- 9780230537712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. In this first anthology of major philosophical contributions on the nature and justifiability of violence over the last 100 years , three basic questions are scrutinized: 'What is violence?', 'Is violence always wrong?', and 'Can violence be justified?'. Num Pages: 390 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537705
- ISBN
- 9780230537705
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.87
€ 128.87
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how the Thalidomide catastrophe of the 1960s and the BSE crisis of the 1990s led to regulatory regimes for pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs in Europe. However, the developmental paths of these regimes differ -- and so does the efficiency and legitimacy of regulatory policy-making. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPQB; KNDF; KNDP; LNTM2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537651
- ISBN
- 9780230537651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. The book investigates the role of popular liberal internationalism as a social movement in Britain using Gramscian and Foucauldian ideas of civil society. It addresses the use of force for peace through an examination of the impact of civil society actors in popular liberal internationalism between the world wars. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537637
- ISBN
- 9780230537637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; KNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537439
- ISBN
- 9780230537439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Designing Randomised Trials in Health, Education and the Social Scienc...
Torgerson, David J., Torgerson, Carole J.
Hardcover. The book focuses on the design of rigorous trials rather than their statistical underpinnings, with chapters on: pragmatic designs; placebo designs; preference approaches; unequal allocation; economics; analytical approaches; randomization methods. It also includes a detailed description of randomization procedures and different trial designs. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JN; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537354
- ISBN
- 9780230537354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardcover. War is always defined in relation to something else: peace, society, civilisation, friendship or love. What is the relationship between war and its 'other'? Are they opposites or versions of one another? This book surveys four hundred years of thinking about the definition of war, from Hobbes and Clausewitz to Badiou and A iA ek. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFC; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537323
- ISBN
- 9780230537323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Small States and EU Governance shows that the EU's rotating Council presidency and small states' capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of its nature and influence in internal market and foreign policy issues. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPHL; JPSN2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490. Leadership Through the Council Presidency. Series: St Antony's Series. 312 pages, 11 black & white tables, 5 figures. Small States and EU Governance shows that the EU's rotating Council presidency and small states' capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of its nature and influence in internal market and foreign policy issues. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPHL; JPSN2. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 23. Weight: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537316
- ISBN
- 9780230537316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. In the bestseller A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom the authors described the problem, gave comprehensive views of how it looked from both sides, and presented the arguments for positive change. This book is all about the 'how to'. It takes all the arguments and analysis of the first book, and focuses on how to apply it and what to do. Illustrator(s): Shore, Barbara. Num Pages: 153 pages, 148 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537125
- ISBN
- 9780230537125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.06
€ 83.06
Hardcover. This book analyzes the extent to which the current political paradigm is capable of meeting the challenges of climate change. Placing the UK in comparative perspective, leading energy expert Catherine Mitchell argues for a new way of approaching policy towards energy and sustainability. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 247 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPQB; RNPG; RNT; THX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537118
- ISBN
- 9780230537118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.07
€ 205.07
Paperback. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of global governance from a gendered perspective. It not only furthers the emerging feminist theorizing on global governance, but also provides a theoretically informed and empirically based analysis of both institutions and transformative practices. Editor(s): Rai, Shirin M.; Waylen, Georgina. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFS; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537057
- ISBN
- 9780230537057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.57
€ 127.57
Hardcover. Sets out to explore the history of Palestinian nationalism by asking if there were historical antecedents of this identity prior to the twentieth century, and whether this nationalism existed on every social level. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; HBJF1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537019
- ISBN
- 9780230537019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor 'politics' is left untouched in the encounters explored in this volume, dispelling the notion of a separation of deconstruction from the everyday. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230536951
- ISBN
- 9780230536951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. This book examines comparatively the US and the UK governments' management of Y2K and considers the extent to which such management can be understood as responses to market pressures, public opinion and organized interests. It concludes by providing valuable lessons to those concerned about managing risk and critical infrastructure today. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JPP; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535879
- ISBN
- 9780230535879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Higher Education in the World 4: Higher Education's Commitment to Sust...
Global University Network For Innovation (Gun...
Paperback. From the series of thematic reports from the Global University Network for Innovation, this new report explores key issues facing higher education institutions today. This report is essential reading for university leaders, academics and policy-makers. Series: GUNI Series on the Social Commitment of Universities. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GBCY; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535558
- ISBN
- 9780230535558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.50
€ 76.50