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Hardcover. Through case studies set in different Asian countries, this book examines the efforts of public practitioners to develop the skills they need to act effectively and well in public life. In a time of evolving moral identity, Asian countries face laboratories of political transformation, with lessons for democratic practitioners everywhere. Series: Asia Today. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFM; JK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492043
- ISBN
- 9781137492043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardcover. A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes the scandal of empathy in Lipps and Strachey. Yet when all the philosophical arguments and categories are complete and all the hermeneutic circles spun out, we are quite simply in the presence of another human being. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492586
- ISBN
- 9781137492586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardback. Editor(s): Noonan, Norma Corigliano; Noonan, Nanette; Nadkarni, Vidya. Num Pages: 287 pages, 9 colour illustrations, 9 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JPB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492647
- ISBN
- 9781137492647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.09
€ 68.09
Hardcover. This book explains the connections between traditional performance (e.g. masked dances, prophecy, praise recitations), contemporary theatre (Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Tess Onwueme, Femi Osofisan, and Stella Oyedepo) , and the political sphere in the context of the Yoruba people in Nigeria. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; AN; JFSL3; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492784
- ISBN
- 9781137492784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Hardback. This collected volume examines the multifaceted contexts and experiences of Chinese students, teachers and scholars in Australia, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK and the US. It can serve both as an introduction to Chinese people's mobility and migration in Higher Education and as a thorough review for more knowledgeable readers. Editor(s): Dervin, Fred. Series: Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JNFR; JNM; JNSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492906
- ISBN
- 9781137492906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
hardcover. Though geographically far apart, Turkey and Australia are much closer than many would think. This collection provides a relevant, comparative and comprehensive study of two countries seeking to reconcile their history with their geography. Editor(s): Michael, Michalis. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1MBF; JPB; JPS; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493149
- ISBN
- 9781137493149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered: The Pre-Modern Poli...
Shih, Chih-Yu, Yu, Po-Tsan
Hardcover. This study offers a critique of international relations from the perspective of a pre-modern Chinese thinker, Gongsun Long. It explores both the potential and the danger of the post-Western quest for geo-cultural distinction. Series: Global Political Thinkers. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPDF; HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493200
- ISBN
- 9781137493200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Hardcover. In this book, Safinaz El Tarouty provides a detailed account of the role of Egyptian businessmen in the survival of Mubarak's regime until its collapse in 2011. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JPA; JPHX; JPZ; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493378
- ISBN
- 9781137493378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardcover. This is the first book to examine how and why museums are political institutions. By concentrating on the ways in which power, ideology and legitimacy work at the international, national and local levels of the museum experience, Clive Gray provides an original analysis of who exercises power and how power is used in museums. Series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research. Num Pages: 200 pages, 4. BIC Classification: GM; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493408
- ISBN
- 9781137493408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.22
€ 116.22
Hardcover. The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether or not democracy flourishes or withers in the 21st century. Using a number of case studies, including South Africa, this book evaluates what is at stake. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPHV; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493484
- ISBN
- 9781137493484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary studies, this book brings together the sociologies of racism and everyday life and presents the importance of thinking of racism and everyday life not just as 'act' and 'context', respectively, but as part of the making of each other. Num Pages: 74 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFP; JFSL; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493552
- ISBN
- 9781137493552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Hardcover. Border Shifts develops a more complex and multifaceted understanding of global borders, analysing internal and external EU borders from the Mediterranean region to the US-Mexico border, and exploring a range of issues including securitization, irregular migration, race, gender and human trafficking. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFM; JFFN; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493583
- ISBN
- 9781137493583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493781
- ISBN
- 9781137493781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardback. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; 3JJC; HRAX; JFSJ; JFSR1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 493.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493873
- ISBN
- 9781137493873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardback. This volume examines the challenges of governance in the North American Arctic. It examines the institutions of Alaska, the Canadian Far North, and Greenland developed within distinctive federal systems and how they are evolving to address contemporary issues of security, environmental protection, indigenous rights, and economic development. Editor(s): Berry, Dawn Alexandrea; Bowles, Nigel; Jones, Halbert, III. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MTN; JPRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493903
- ISBN
- 9781137493903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.04
€ 150.04
Hardcover. Japan's Foreign Aid Policy in Africa seeks to evaluate TICAD's intellectual contribution to and its development practices regarding Africa over the past 20 years. A central conclusion is that, while TICAD bureaucrats lacked agency to support Japanese companies in Africa, the model of emerging powers partnerships has expanded in Africa. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493972
- ISBN
- 9781137493972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardback. In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier China. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSL9; JHMC; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494078
- ISBN
- 9781137494078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardback. In the networked age, we are living with changed parameters of time and space. Mobile networked communication fosters a form of virtual time and space, which is super-imposed onto territorial space. Time is increasingly composed of interruptions and distractions, as smartphone users are overwhelmed by messages. Num Pages: 185 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494375
- ISBN
- 9781137494375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. This book offers a comprehensive examination of midterm elections from the lens of communications and media coverage. Using a wide variety of methods, this contributed volume covers the differences, similarities, and challenges unique to midterm elections. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPHF; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 619.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494528
- ISBN
- 9781137494528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.79
€ 67.79
The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing. How the Inte...
Patrick H. . Ed(S): Hutton
Hardback. Editor(s): Hutton, Patrick H. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494641
- ISBN
- 9781137494641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40