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Hardcover. An examination of why and how Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East, and why Italian efforts ultimately failed. Offering fresh insights into Fascist Italy's foreign and colonial policies, this book makes an important contribution to the complex history of relations between Europe and the Arab world. Num Pages: 269 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FB; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231603
- ISBN
- 9780230231603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230972
- ISBN
- 9780230230972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPFQ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230835
- ISBN
- 9780230230835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the current international financial crisis. Editor(s): Schwartz, Herman M. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; KCP; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230811
- ISBN
- 9780230230811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.04
€ 127.04
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the current international financial crisis. Editor(s): Schwartz, Herman M. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; KCP; KFFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230804
- ISBN
- 9780230230804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.29
€ 128.29
Paperback. Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Barry. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 black & white halftones, 32 tables, 29 figures. BIC Classification: CF; JNKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418. Theories and Practices. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. 328 pages, 3 black & white halftones, 32 tables, 29 figures. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Barry. Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CF; JNKD. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230637
- ISBN
- 9780230230637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.42
€ 126.42
Hardcover. Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; JNKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230620
- ISBN
- 9780230230620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Hardcover. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN; AVGM; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444. Music, Masculinity and Mayhem. 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN; AVGM; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230491
- ISBN
- 9780230230491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230477
- ISBN
- 9780230230477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. Immigrants, Literature and National Integration explores new means of facilitating integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, and examining the relation between immigrant literature and integration, this book explores integration in an interdisciplinary fashion across both the humanities and social sciences. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230453
- ISBN
- 9780230230453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. This fascinating book, now available in paperback, examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings -- including key works such as including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island - in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; HB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2006 ed.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230323
- ISBN
- 9780230230323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. Examining the erosion of people's democratic rights and the potential catastrophic dangers of neglecting civil liberties, this book explores the endemic danger of the enlarged power of the state and the central role of Government in undermining personal freedoms through the use of state force in the name of the protection of security. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVC; JPVH; LAQ; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230293
- ISBN
- 9780230230293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230286
- ISBN
- 9780230230286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This book provides a guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture. Developing an approach based on the '7 Ps' of research, this text navigates a pathway through the research process that will be invaluable as a teaching tool and to experienced and inexperienced researchers alike. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230231
- ISBN
- 9780230230231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229945
- ISBN
- 9780230229945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, contains readings of international postmodern dances, exploring the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity and reading dances 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual, able-bodied, male norm. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JHBA; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229792
- ISBN
- 9780230229792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Hardcover. Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and the Jewish immigration to Palestine. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229778
- ISBN
- 9780230229778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229662
- ISBN
- 9780230229662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of psychoanalysis in Germany under the Nazis, and psychoanalytic theories of anti-Semitism, this book examines the significance of the Jewish connection with psychoanalysis and what this can tell us about political and psychological resistance, anti-Semitism and racism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1; JMAF; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229525
- ISBN
- 9780230229525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Counter-Terrorism, Aid and Civil Society: Before and After the War on ...
Howell, Jude, Lind, Jeremy
Hardcover. The book critically examines the effects of the War on Terror on the relationships between civil society, security and aid. It argues that the War on Terror regime has greatly reshaped the field of development and it highlights the longer-lasting impacts of post-9/11 counter-terrorism responses on aid policy and practice on civil society. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JPS; JPVH; JPWL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229495
- ISBN
- 9780230229495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92