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Hardcover. Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.S., this volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Mexico understand their field's intellectual history, its present circumstances, and the relations among these intersecting domains with globalization. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JNF; JNKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114807
- ISBN
- 9780230114807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.37
€ 54.99
€ 44.37
Hardcover. In Hungary, as in all of "new Europe," liberalization is troubled. Using Hungary as an in-depth case study, Korkut demonstrates that, in squandering popular goodwill, credibility, and favorable circumstances after 1989, liberal politicians have found themselves vulnerable to conservative populist politics and the global economic crisis. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVH; JPFK; JPH; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114593
- ISBN
- 9780230114593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. The current emphasis on the greening of the world marks a beginning of a new concern for our relationship with our planet. This book states that we are entering into a new era - a transitional time in history in which the values of the industrial revolution are being replaced by a post-industrial consciousness. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114579
- ISBN
- 9780230114579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century, and how urban crises inform the dramaturgy of contemporary playwrights. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSG; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114531
- ISBN
- 9780230114531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.06
€ 54.99
€ 44.06
Hardcover. Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for students and instructors employing various approaches and media in the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114500
- ISBN
- 9780230114500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.76
€ 130.76
Hardcover. From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism. Editor(s): Burwick, Frederick; Douglass, Paul. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 267 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114487
- ISBN
- 9780230114487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardcover. By focusing on children and adults with disabilities, each contributor offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between us and them, encouraging art teachers, therapists, critics, and general readers alike to uncover their biases regarding the nature of art and education. Num Pages: 214 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114302
- ISBN
- 9780230114302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.78
€ 54.99
€ 43.78
Hardcover. Told through the voices of local community leaders, this book analyzes how communities respond to natural disasters and how outsiders contribute positively - or negatively - to their response, promoting debate on the role of aid and the media in times of crisis. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114289
- ISBN
- 9780230114289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Paperback. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 202 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114180
- ISBN
- 9780230114180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardcover. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 201 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114173
- ISBN
- 9780230114173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.71
€ 118.71
Hardcover. This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBWC; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114135
- ISBN
- 9780230114135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.67
€ 139.67
Paperback. Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASDL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114098
- ISBN
- 9780230114098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.38€ 52.02
€ 58.38
€ 52.02
Hardcover. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113800
- ISBN
- 9780230113800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Why did the United States begin to torture detainees during the War on Terror? This book presents a model of the political and institutional mechanisms leading to the official adoption of torture Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBW; JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113770
- ISBN
- 9780230113770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Discussing the most pressing global challenges, this book suggests ways for the Obama Administration to tackle them in a holistic manner. In particular, the book proposes effective measures for various problems like the war on terror, resolution of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and forging of better relations with the Muslim World. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113763
- ISBN
- 9780230113763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Paperback. Making use of existential philosophy, the experimental results of existential psychology, and his twenty-five years of clinical experience in existential psychoanalysis, Strenger shows how the commoditization of the self has led to a persistent fear of a life devoid of significance. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113756
- ISBN
- 9780230113756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.75
€ 138.75
Paperback. This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues. Editor(s): Lieberman, Robbie; Lang, Clarence. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; HBTW; HBWS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113749
- ISBN
- 9780230113749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.90
€ 61.90
Hardcover. Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113725
- ISBN
- 9780230113725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.62
€ 62.62
Hardcover. Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where Black masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and culture. It judiciously considers the anxiety that emerges from Black male negotiations with these constructions Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113718
- ISBN
- 9780230113718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.62
€ 118.62
Hardcover. Offering multilayered explorations of Hindu understandings of the Feminine, both human and divine, this book emphasizes theological and activist methods and aims over historical, anthropological, and literary ones. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113695
- ISBN
- 9780230113695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.10
€ 119.10