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Hardcover. Since the 1980's, Marilena Chaui's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chaui's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context. Translator(s): Conde, Maite. Series: Theory in the World. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; GTE; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109001
- ISBN
- 9780230109001
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. State Power and Democracy is the first book to show that the Bush police state didn't commence when Bush was inaugurated. It proves, instead, that the seeds of an American police state can be traced all the way back to the founding of the republic. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109353
- ISBN
- 9780230109353
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Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109858
- ISBN
- 9780230109858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Num Pages: 228 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 244 x 23. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110243
- ISBN
- 9780230110243
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Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. Will China become a multiparty democracy? The author projects that within the next twenty years there China will march on the path of democratization. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPA; JPF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110830
- ISBN
- 9780230110830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardcover. This book discusses the question of soft power and public diplomacy challenges in East Asian context. Both concepts originate in the West, and in a sense this book can therefore be seen as an exercise in critically assessing soft power and public diplomacy in a different geographical and cultural setting. Editor(s): Lee, Sook Jong; Melissen, Jan. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; JPA; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110977
- ISBN
- 9780230110977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. This book analyzes how neo-liberal state economic policies and political reforms have impacted on state-society relations, economic and class configurations, social composition of power, social welfare and cohesion in post-military Nigeria; and points to key policy recommendations that may be crucial in redirecting the future of the country. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPF; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111707
- ISBN
- 9780230111707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJPR; JPA; KCLT1; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112797
- ISBN
- 9780230112797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.88
€ 53.36
€ 47.88
Paperback. This is the first book to be primarily directed at analyzing the evolving solution to the Kurdish problem in Iraq and Turkey. Although this solution remains cautiously fragile, it does represent a strikingly positive future that until recently seemed so bleak. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FBQ; JPA; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112872
- ISBN
- 9780230112872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HRH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113336
- ISBN
- 9780230113336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.43
€ 53.36
€ 47.43
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
€ 148.84
€ 148.84
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
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This forcefully argued book offers a provocative picture of the political, intellectual, and economic forces that have shaped the history of the United States, offering an extensive and in-depth critique of laissez-faire doctrine and a novel reformulation of the work of American System writers, Gibson traces America's rise to global supremacy. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114876
- ISBN
- 9780230114876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Paperback. The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the 'theories' of philosopher Michel Foucault Num Pages: 257 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114944
- ISBN
- 9780230114944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.12
€ 100.12
Hardcover. This book bridges the divide between formal and quantitative studies of deterrence by empirically testing and extending perfect deterrence theory. The author focuses on general deterrence, which relates to managing relations between states at all times, not only during crises. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115040
- ISBN
- 9780230115040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.51
€ 138.51
Hardcover. An important contribution to a much needed critical turn in the vast and still rapidly growing child soldier literature. Editor(s): Beier, J. Marshall. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JPA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115767
- ISBN
- 9780230115767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. Draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they adopt different policies for common problems. It compares the United States with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on financing medical care, France on abortion policy, and Japan on immigration. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116764
- ISBN
- 9780230116764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.43
€ 61.43
Hardcover. An exploration of the idea of government of peoples who freely accept liberal democracy and try to realize democracy in their common institutions, the author proposes an integrated 'original position' consisting in a hypothetical agreement of liberal democratic peoples and potentially mobile citizens. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116993
- ISBN
- 9780230116993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. A study of the major U.S. military interventions in unconventional war, this book looks at four wars that occurred while the U.S. was a superpower in the post-war WW II period and one in the Philippines in 1898. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JPA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119383
- ISBN
- 9780230119383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Many of the present problems of 'globalization' are mirrored in the historical expansion of the European state system. This title is a structured, comparative case study analysis of four regions and examines how these regions and their peoples were absorbed into the expanding European-centered state system from roughly the 1400s through to 1800. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120884
- ISBN
- 9780230120884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89