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Hardcover. This book sheds fresh light on developments in British nuclear weapons policy between October 1964, when the Labour Party came back into power under Harold Wilson following a thirteen year absence, and June 1970 when the Conservative government of Edward Heath was elected. Series: Nuclear Weapons and International Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFN; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTW; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300880
- ISBN
- 9780230300880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.44
€ 128.44
The Right Kind of History. Teaching the Past in Twentieth-century Engl...
Cannadine, Mr David; Keating, Jenny; Sheldon,...
Paperback. The fruit of a two-year research project, this ground-breaking book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentieth-century England, and a series of reflections and suggestions which will inform, feed into and influence the current and future debates about teaching in schools. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; HB; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300873
- ISBN
- 9780230300873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century Engl...
Cannadine, David, Keating, Jenny, Sheldon, Ni...
Hardcover. The fruit of a two-year research project, this ground-breaking book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentieth-century England, and a series of reflections and suggestions which will inform, feed into and influence the current and future debates about teaching in schools. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; HB; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300866
- ISBN
- 9780230300866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. This book examines how parties negotiate coalition deals at the subnational level using the examples of Germany and Spain. In such multi-level settings, parties are present at various negotiation tables often having to make difficult choices about their role in the coalition and the relative merits of being in government over the opposition. Series: Comparative Territorial Politics. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DSE; JPB; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300835
- ISBN
- 9780230300835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. This follow-up to Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World (Palgrave, 2006) seeks to understand why even well-intended efforts to resolve pressing international and global problems so often appear to fail spectacularly and what can be done to remedy this. The author analyzes four of the biggest global governance failures of the last few decades. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300828
- ISBN
- 9780230300828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Paperback. An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on 'the backstage' in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFD; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300750
- ISBN
- 9780230300750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland (Migration, Dia...
Lentin, Ronit, Moreo, Elena
Hardcover. This book analyzes the interaction between migrant activists and leaders and the state of the Republic of Ireland - a late player in Europe's immigration regime - against the background of an increasingly restrictive immigration regime. Editor(s): Lentin, Ronit; Moreo, Elena. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300620
- ISBN
- 9780230300620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback, queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Orr, Shelley; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300491
- ISBN
- 9780230300491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; JFSC; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300354
- ISBN
- 9780230300354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. The book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey, and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel with the Europeanization process, which has boosted the rhetoric of the Alliance of Civilizations in a way that culturalized what is social and political. Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300347
- ISBN
- 9780230300347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP1; JHBK; JMC; JNLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300330
- ISBN
- 9780230300330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This book analyzes racism in Communist and post-Communist contexts, examining the 'Red' promise of an end to racism and the racial logics at work in the Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, Cuba and China, placing these in the context of global racialization. Series: Mapping Global Racisms. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 black & white halftones, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1FPC; 1KJC; JFSL; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300309
- ISBN
- 9780230300309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.21
€ 127.21
Same Sex Marriages: New Generations, New Relationships (Genders and Se...
Heaphy, Brian, Smart, Carol, Einarsdottir, An...
Hardcover. Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300231
- ISBN
- 9780230300231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men confront this contradictory expectation. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JKS; JMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300217
- ISBN
- 9780230300217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India. Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300187
- ISBN
- 9780230300187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300132
- ISBN
- 9780230300132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. An exploration of how the Olympics are organised in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organisational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk - leading to changes in how the Games are governed. Series: Executive Politics and Governance. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPH; JPP; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300064
- ISBN
- 9780230300064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.10
€ 161.10
Hardcover. Viewing the rise of China from Japan's perspective, the author elucidates Japanese policy responses and their implications for regional institution building. It fills a gap in knowledge about the development of East Asian regional institutions and Sino-Japanese relationships. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; GTB; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300040
- ISBN
- 9780230300040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. What determines Europe's migrant policies and where does the EU fit into this picture? This book is a comparative analysis of the impact of the EU, if any, on the policies and politics of immigrant integration in its member states. It investigates whether the EU can be a force for good in this policy area. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QFE; JFFN; JPB; JPQB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299993
- ISBN
- 9780230299993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. EU internal security concerns such as migration, police and judicial cooperation are today part of EU foreign policy. This book shows how those concerns dominate the EU agenda towards Mediterranean countries. Adopting a rational-choice institutionalist approach, it explores EU policy and the strategic choices made after the 2011 Arab revolts. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPQ; JPSN2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299931
- ISBN
- 9780230299931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19