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Paperback. Ipsative assessment is a powerful new approach that provokes a radical rethink of the purposes and methods of assessment. This book presents a case for partially replacing competitive assessment with ipsative assessment, and it explores the possibilities and the challenges with research evidence and case studies. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JNC; JNM; JNMT; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349443352
- ISBN
- 9781349443352
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Condition: New
€ 126.58
€ 126.58
paperback. 'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and interviews the book provides a nuanced understanding of development in the turbulent late 1950s, a time when most colonies moved towards independence. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; JHB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349443611
- ISBN
- 9781349443611
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Condition: New
€ 138.66
€ 138.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444113
- ISBN
- 9781349444113
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, this book foregrounds cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society. Editor(s): McCormack, M.; Brooks, Rachel; Bhopal, Kalwant. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JNA; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444151
- ISBN
- 9781349444151
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Afric...
. Ed(S): Everill, Bronwen; Kaplan, J.
Paperback. Editor(s): Everill, Bronwen; Kaplan, J. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HBJH; JFC; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444199
- ISBN
- 9781349444199
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Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Paperback. This book examines, in Andean national contexts, the impacts of the 'Latin American multicultural turn' of the past two decades on Afro Andean cultural politics, emphasizing both transformations and continuities. Num Pages: 255 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHB; JHM; JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444960
- ISBN
- 9781349444960
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. This book explores the role of religion in the lives of Brazilian migrants in London and on their return 'back home'. Working with the notion of religion as lived experience, it moves beyond rigid denominational boundaries and examines how and where religion is practiced in migrants' everyday lives. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFC; JFFN; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445028
- ISBN
- 9781349445028
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Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
paperback. Setting education in its political context, this book offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JNA; JNB; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349445042
- ISBN
- 9781349445042
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Condition: New
€ 127.36
€ 127.36
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HPS; JHB; JPA; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445677
- ISBN
- 9781349445677
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Condition: New
€ 65.40
€ 65.40
Paperback. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 250 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY; JFC; JFSP; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445783
- ISBN
- 9781349445783
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHB; JHBC; JHBK; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445943
- ISBN
- 9781349445943
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ; JHBA; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446100
- ISBN
- 9781349446100
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Condition: New
€ 137.82
€ 137.82
Paperback. In this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics are added to the mix. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446186
- ISBN
- 9781349446186
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Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
The Political Economy of Television Sports Rights (Palgrave Global Med...
Evens, T., Iosifidis, P., Smith, P.
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; JFD; JHBS; KCP; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446292
- ISBN
- 9781349446292
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The entrepreneurial university has been tasked with making an impact. This collection presents professional-personal reflections on research experience and interpretative accounts of navigating fieldwork and broader publics, politics and practices of (dis)engagement primarily through a feminist, queer and gender studies lens. Editor(s): Taylor, Y. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446391
- ISBN
- 9781349446391
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Condition: New
€ 126.21
€ 126.21
Paperback. While tracing the historical emergence of the cafe as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafes, cafe as surrogate office, and cafe as site of exchange for news and views. Editor(s): Tjora, Aksel; Scambler, Graham. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR; JHB; JHBS; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446438
- ISBN
- 9781349446438
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Condition: New
€ 137.55
€ 137.55
Paperback. This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms including fashion, the secret and money as exemplifications of this method. The volume concludes with a reassessment of Simmel's relevance today." Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPS; JHBA; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446490
- ISBN
- 9781349446490
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Editor(s): Kearney, J.; Donovan, C. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBA; JKV; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446513
- ISBN
- 9781349446513
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Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76
Paperback. This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe. Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB; JP; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446582
- ISBN
- 9781349446582
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Communities throughout the world are increasingly diverse in their racial, ethnic and religious make up. Using examples drawn from over 50 countries in a variety of fields from economics to education, this book explores how governmental, economic and social institutions are adapting their policies to create more cohesive and peaceful societies. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JPA; JPB; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446612
- ISBN
- 9781349446612
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema. Editor(s): Sullivan, D.; Greenberg, Judith. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; JHBK; JMH; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446865
- ISBN
- 9781349446865
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Series: Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JKSN; JPA; JPS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447275
- ISBN
- 9781349447275
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Condition: New
€ 98.91
€ 98.91
Paperback. The rapid increase in adoption of modern 'connective' technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that the post-global moment offers African societies to develop and to relate, offering profound new insights into the processes of globalization. Editor(s): Bruijn, Mirjam de; Dijk, Ria van. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447497
- ISBN
- 9781349447497
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; JPS; JPVH; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447596
- ISBN
- 9781349447596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84