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Italian Military Operations Abroad: Just Don't Call it War
Ignazi, Piero, Giacomello, Giampiero, Coticch...
Hardcover. Peace support operations are one of the most important tools in the foreign policy of Western democracies. This book is a study of Italian military operations in the last twenty years. Italy's operations are examined through an analysis of parliamentary debates and interviews with leading policy-makers. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; GTJ; JPQB; JPS; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228917
- ISBN
- 9780230228917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.41
€ 128.41
Hardcover. Explores the history and challenges of nuclear energy development in China, across five main areas: politics, economics, environment, technology transfer and the nuclear fuel cycle. It emphasizes the political challenges in developing a set of long-term national strategies to ensure speedy, safe and secure nuclear energy development. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPQ; RNF; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228900
- ISBN
- 9780230228900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. In this wide-ranging study of the politics of memory in Northern Ireland, Brian Conway examines the 'career' of the commemoration of Bloody Sunday, and looks at how and why the way this historic event is remembered has undergone change over time. Drawing on original empirical data, he provides new insights into the debate on collective memory. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228887
- ISBN
- 9780230228887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. This book explores the work of transnational bureaucracy networks. These networks address global issues by creating rules -- transnational public law -- to be incorporated into national legal orders. As classical means fail to legitimize such activities, this book gives a practical account of viable alternative legitimacy mechanisms. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTN; JFFS; JPS; LB; RNP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228870
- ISBN
- 9780230228870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
The Migration-Development Nexus: A Transnational Perspective (Migratio...
Faist, Thomas, Fauser, Margit, Kivisto, Peter
Hardcover. This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective. Editor(s): Faist, Thomas; Fauser, Margit; Kivisto, Peter. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4, 3 black & white tables, 1 figures. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JPA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228573
- ISBN
- 9780230228573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical...
Campbell, Nancy, Ettorre, Elizabeth
Hardcover. This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not? Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFFK; JFSJ1; LNTM2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228559
- ISBN
- 9780230228559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. Military power needs to be financed and economic development is often shaped by military conflict, thus the interaction of military and economy, power and money is central to the modern world. This book provides an accessible introduction to the economics of the use of organized force, with a wide range of historical and current examples. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JWJ; JWK; JWLP; JWXF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228535
- ISBN
- 9780230228535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Hardcover. This is a comprehensive, practical and engaging book designed to help readers to recognise bullying behaviour at work and identify and select inter-personal strategies for handling bullying behaviour. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMJ; KJMV2; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228085
- ISBN
- 9780230228085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; CFB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230227965
- ISBN
- 9780230227965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This book sets out a fresh interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, it applies a fresh framework to a range of contemporary inequalities. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFJ; JHBA; JPA; JPF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230227170
- ISBN
- 9780230227170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.58
€ 161.58
Hardcover. This book, some 20 years after the publication of Robert W. Cox's seminal Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History, offers the reader an analytical and comprehensive overview of his work and illustrates the continuing relevance thereof for contemporary research. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224797
- ISBN
- 9780230224797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Drawing on case studies of budget groups in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia this book is the first comprehensive study of the impact and significance of civic initiatives aimed at enhancing budget transparency and the poverty focus of government expenditure priorities, arguing that it leads to greater democratization. Editor(s): Robinson, Mark. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JPP; JPQB; KCP; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224780
- ISBN
- 9780230224780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Drawing on international relations theory, law and historical analysis, this book compares European integration with the antebellum USA to assess what makes the EU viable despite contestation over the rules of the game of integration. It reveals that changing the system of representation is no shortcut solution for the EU's constitutional woes. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224506
- ISBN
- 9780230224506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond: International Assistance ...
Feeny, Simon, Clarke, Matthew
Hardcover. This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in the Asia-Pacific region achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The book examines the progress countries have made towards the MDGs and highlights the need to tailor the goals to individual country circumstances. Series: Rethinking International Development Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTF; JKSR; JPWH; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224438
- ISBN
- 9780230224438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Develops a new theory of 'identity' ecological modernization (EM), to analyse renewable history and policy development in many of the world's states which are leading the drive to install renewable energy. 'Identity EM' concerns how an industry has arisen allied to environmental NGOs to challenge the ascendancy of conventional energy technologies. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; KCN; KNBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224261
- ISBN
- 9780230224261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. A fundamental question for IR is whether the value system of liberalism can be universalized, or if, in fact, the illiberal reality of international politics systematically rules out such a universalisation. The book addresses this issue by focusing on the rise and fall of a specific liberal project supported by influential German intellectuals. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JPFK; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 12. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224223
- ISBN
- 9780230224223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. In recent years historians of psychoanalysis have come to view Freud's case of Anna O as a failure and have cast doubt on the very foundations of psychoanalysis itself. This new study challenges existing historical scholarship by providing an unparalleled review of the available evidence on the case and reaches new conclusions about its outcome. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMAF; MMJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270. Reopening a Closed Case. 216 pages. In recent years historians of psychoanalysis have come to view Freud's case of Anna O as a failure and have cast doubt on the very foundations of psychoanalysis itself. This new study challenges existing historical scholarship by providing an unparalleled review of the available evidence on the case and reaches new conclusions about its outcome. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: JMAF; MMJ. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 13. Weight: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224216
- ISBN
- 9780230224216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Simpson offers a reflective and theoretical explanation of the ways in which unionists conceive of the past in the present post-conflict environment. He considers the ways in which scholarly literature has often painted an outdated and inaccurate portrait of a highly complex people. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; GTJ; HBJD1; HBLW; JHMC; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224148
- ISBN
- 9780230224148
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardcover. Prozorov offers a radical reinterpretation of contemporary Russian politics in terms of Agamben's philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's conception of the end of history, that challenges the Hegelian thesis, Prozorov approaches post-communist Russia as a post-historical terrain, in which the teleological dimension of politics has been deactivated. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HPS; JHBA; JPA; JPFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224131
- ISBN
- 9780230224131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardcover. A lively account of the general election of 2008 and of its profound significance for Italy and beyond. It gets to grips with the complexities of Italian politics in an exceptionally clear way. Covering the background to the election, the campaign, the parties, voting and the outcome, it is comprehensive in approach and tells a fascinating 'story'. Editor(s): Newell, James L. Num Pages: 281 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPB; JPHF; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224070
- ISBN
- 9780230224070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37