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Paperback. This book explores the regulation of intimate relationships today. It uses fascinating and at times salacious material as well as historical and contemporary legal-political sources. Addressing questions ranging from whether a virgin can be a party to adultery, to whether a man can be a wife each chapter deals with changing themes of conjugality. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537266
- ISBN
- 9781349537266
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€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Paperback. The first extensive study of gay and lesbian historical fiction, this book demonstrates how the highly popular sub-genre helps us understand gay and lesbian history. It shows not only why the sub-genre should be taken more seriously by historians but also how it implicitly works to ameliorate divisions between Christianity and homosexuality. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537242
- ISBN
- 9781349537242
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€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537167
- ISBN
- 9781349537167
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€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Paperback. Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to the present. He brings together a unique and diverse collection of poets, including an innovative section on hip hop performance. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537143
- ISBN
- 9781349537143
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. This book explores the role of institutions in policy-making and the states, role in promotion of technology, focusing on, environmental technology development. Case studies include wind power diffusion in the UK and Germany, waste recycling in a variety of countries, and green automobile technology in the US and Japan. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; KCP; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537105
- ISBN
- 9781349537105
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JFC; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537082
- ISBN
- 9781349537082
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary times. The contributors propose a new, global understanding of commerce and culture, to reconfigure how we understand the way great cultures interact, and present a new constellation of diplomacy, literature, and geopolitics. Editor(s): Katz, Nathan; Chakravarti, Ranabir; Sinha, Braj M.; Weil, Shalva. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRA; HRAX; JFC; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537006
- ISBN
- 9781349537006
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Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. An in-depth look at the AIDS crisis in Russia and Eurasia. Editor(s): Twigg, Judyth L. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFF; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536986
- ISBN
- 9781349536986
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Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
paperback. This book is a penetrating study of the long conflict between China and Japan. Drawing upon history, geopolitics and geoeconomics, this volume examines these important Asian powers at the bilateral, regional, and global levels. Contributors examine issues including oil feuds, the Taiwan factor, and implications for U.S. interests in Asia Pacific. Editor(s): Hsiung, James C. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536955
- ISBN
- 9781349536955
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. This book uses the concept of universal human rights to explore the relationship between the individual, society, and truth. To answer the question of how we say something universally true about human beings while lacking the philosophical means to do so, the author explores the changing relationship between truth and politics from Plato to Locke. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536931
- ISBN
- 9781349536931
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Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Paperback. N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536870
- ISBN
- 9781349536870
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Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536795
- ISBN
- 9781349536795
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Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Paperback. This study explores the history of the New School that developed in the postwar period and its role in communicating antifascism to young people in the Soviet zone. Blessing traces how the decisions about how to educate young people after the National Socialist dictatorship became part of a broader discussion about the future of the German nation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; JNB; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536757
- ISBN
- 9781349536757
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Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJH; JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536726
- ISBN
- 9781349536726
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Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. After its succes de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert's Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary's journey abroad and asks why the novel was given such import in foreign literatures." Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536689
- ISBN
- 9781349536689
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Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
paperback. This is a study of the struggle for the restoration of legitimate power in Uganda following the 1986 National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) liberation battle led by President Yoweri Museveni. It addresses the empirical consequences of legitimacy on power relations and how this affects democratization and economic progress. Num Pages: 299 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536665
- ISBN
- 9781349536665
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This study examines certain key elements of the "making" or "inventing" of Lima as Peru's viceregal capital. Through analysis of seventeenth-century ceremonies of state and local religious rituals, this book asserts that colonial Lima was culturally diverse and its rich population more integrated than historiography would suggest. Series: Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536641
- ISBN
- 9781349536641
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Condition: New
€ 138.49
€ 138.49
The Uses of Institutions. The U.S., Japan, and Governance in East Asia...
. Ed(S): Ikenberry, G. John; Inoguchi, Takash...
Paperback. This book explores the ways that institutions play a role - or fail to - in Japanese and American approaches to regional governance in East Asia. It uses recent studies on the logic and dynamics of institutions to determine the logic of order within the East Asia region. The central focus is on bilateral and multilateral regional institutions. Editor(s): Ikenberry, G. John; Inoguchi, Takashi. Num Pages: 254 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPP; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536627
- ISBN
- 9781349536627
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book looks at the relationship of literary criticism to the social construction of race in Brazil. Isfahani-Hammond considers Gilberto Freyre's model of master/slave synthesis and examines what "multiculturalism" means after the turn of the century. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 205 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFSL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536580
- ISBN
- 9781349536580
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This volume draws on insights from a diverse group of scholars and practitioners on issues of justice and law and integration, identity and economic development, cultures and community building, and power and peace. The authors reveal the complexity of global justice as a contested ideal. Editor(s): Friman, H. Richard. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536542
- ISBN
- 9781349536542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95