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Hardcover. Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFDT; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230362833
- ISBN
- 9780230362833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.47
€ 116.47
Hardcover. Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intellectuals. This book aims redresses this balance by studying these forgotten intellectuals creating a cultural and theoretical re-evaluation of the gendered phenomenon of the public intellectual in France. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; JPA; JPF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363069
- ISBN
- 9780230363069
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardback. A growing interest in the oeuvre of Hans J. Morgenthau and in re-readings of 'classical realism' increases the significance of his European, pre-emigration writings in order to understand the work of one of the founding figures of IR. This book is the first English translation of Morgenthau's French monograph La notion du politique from 1933. Editor(s): Rosch, Felix. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363083
- ISBN
- 9780230363083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFJ; JFSG; JFSP; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363335
- ISBN
- 9780230363335
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Political Communication and Cognition draws on a range of theories from communication psychology to explain how citizens receive communication about politics, how communication might make a citizen think and importantly what stimulates political participation, whether simply paying attention, chatting online or going to vote. Series: Political Campaigning and Communication. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JMR; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363625
- ISBN
- 9780230363625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and the EU - have been accommodated within that order, revealing that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a heteronomy. Series: Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPSD; JPSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363939
- ISBN
- 9780230363939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSM; JKSN; JKVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364158
- ISBN
- 9780230364158
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardback. This collection of essays by scholars with expertise in a range of fields, cultural professionals and policy makers explores different ways in which the arts and humanities contribute to dealing with the challenges of contemporary society in ways that do not rely on simplistic and questionable notions of socio-economic impact as a proxy for value. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; H; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230366657
- ISBN
- 9780230366657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
Hardcover. This book explores the changing nature of party competition in four West European countries. It pays special attention to how different ideological positions give rise to contradictory cues when parties engage with atypical election issues like the EU and immigration. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JPLM; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367746
- ISBN
- 9780230367746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Secrets and Democracy develops a new approach to understanding the centrality of secrecy to political life. From the ancient world to the modern, this book considers the growing importance of secrets, the dilemmas this poses to conceptions of democracy and the challenges that collecting secrets poses to publicity and privacy in the network society. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPVH2; JPW; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367777
- ISBN
- 9780230367777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Activists and academics look back over ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed - or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating. Editor(s): Kaldor, Mary; Moore, Henrietta L.; Selchow, Sabine. Series: Global Civil Society Yearbook. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 maps, 7 colour tables, 27 figures. BIC Classification: GTF; JPA; JPSL; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 247 x 17. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367876
- ISBN
- 9780230367876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. Excretion is a topic that is veiled in taboo. This book takes the reader on a fascinating tour of a variety of embarrassing processes, shameful disorders and disgusting habits, presenting cutting-edge science in a playful manner that will be accessible to students in psychology and the general reader. Num Pages: 184 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JHB; JMM; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368255
- ISBN
- 9780230368255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animal suffering. In this book, Dougherty defends radical possibilities for animal afterlife that allow a soul-making theodicy to apply to their case. Series Editor(s): Nagasawa, Yujin; Wielenberg, Erik J. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368484
- ISBN
- 9780230368484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.71
€ 149.71
Hardback. Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368699
- ISBN
- 9780230368699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action
Blitvich, Pilar Garces-Conejos. Ed(S): Lorenz...
Hardback. This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in Argentina and New Zealand, and talent shows in the UK and USA. Editor(s): Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368712
- ISBN
- 9780230368712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. Greta Kuckhoff belonged to the anti-Nazi group, 'The Red Orchestra'. She survived the War and spent the next thirty years working to commemorate their resistance. Using previously unpublished sources, this book traces the interventions of this key figure and raises provocative questions about remembering antifascism in contemporary Germany. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJP; JPFQ; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368750
- ISBN
- 9780230368750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948. He also examines the organization's prospects for managing global health security now and into the future. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; MBN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369313
- ISBN
- 9780230369313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.75
€ 149.75
Hardcover. Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain. This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art reflections on philosophical efforts to 'make sense' of neuroscience, as regards issue including neuroaesthetics, brain science and the law, neurofeminism, embodiment, race, memory and pain. Editor(s): Wolfe, Charles T. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369573
- ISBN
- 9780230369573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. Provides practicing social entrepreneurs, whether nonprofit or for-profit, with a guiding framework and practical recommendations for scaling. It is filled with ideas and examples to make it easier for practitioners to make major strides in resolving serious social problems involving, poverty, health, education, and the environment. Series: Social Entrepreneurship Series. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1; KJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230377288
- ISBN
- 9780230377288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.92€ 47.43
€ 53.92
€ 47.43
Hardcover. Through personal experience and a lively narrative, this book examines the difficulty of communicating in adversarial environments like Iraq and Afghanistan, the complexity of multi-linguistic communications, and the importance of directing American cultural power in the national interest. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Num Pages: 241 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390706
- ISBN
- 9780230390706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50