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Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JHB; JNB; PNN; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534289
ISBN
9781349534289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 46.09

Paperback. This unique volume addresses issues of gender in education by examining the work experiences and policies affecting women and teaching in Latin America, North America and parts of Europe, with a focus on the social construction of women teachers. Editor(s): Cortina, Regina; Roman, S. San; Roman, Sonsoles San. Num Pages: 287 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JNF; JNMT; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534340
ISBN
9781349534340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 47.15

Paperback. By the end of the Twentieth century, formal schooling - once the privilege of male elites - had become accessible to women, the working class and some ethnic minorities. The essays in this volume explore the historical origins of this transformation, analyzing struggles Australia, Canada, China, Columbia, India, the United States, and South Africa. Editor(s): Tolley, Kim. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; JHMC; JN; PGC; PNN; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 423.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534647
ISBN
9781349534647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 47.15

Paperback. An exploration of international privatization of higher education in post-communist Europe from two top scholars in the field. Levy and Slantcheva trace the ramifications of globalization in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in the former Soviet republics. Editor(s): Slantcheva, Snejana; Levy, D. Series: Issues in Higher Education. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JNF; JNM; PNN; RBGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534821
ISBN
9781349534821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 105.41
€ 88.05

Paperback. Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as poststructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 191 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRAB; HRAC; JHB; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534913
ISBN
9781349534913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. The Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer, spirit possession, and divination through dreams and visions. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAC; JFC; JHM; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349535507
ISBN
9781349535507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. In the first book in their series on Marxism and Education, Rikowski and Green use Marxist theory to examine the dialectic between race and power in education. The series is aimed at educationalists - teachers, researchers, policy-makers or administrators, as well as activists who consider the Marxist tradition a valuable and important resource. Editor(s): Green, A.; Rikowski, Glenn; Raduntz, Helen (University of South Australia). Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHB; JN; JPQB; PGC; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349535651
ISBN
9781349535651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 47.17

Paperback. This book explores the complex questions facing funding agencies and foundations as they grapple to understand and define gender equity in education. It covers different approaches funders use to define gender equity, target limited resources, and create collaborative relationships that will ultimately make schools equitable and engaging for all. Editor(s): Ginsberg, Alice E.; Gasman, Marybeth. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JNK; JPA; JPQB; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349535996
ISBN
9781349535996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 47.15

Paperback. This study explores the history of the New School that developed in the postwar period and its role in communicating antifascism to young people in the Soviet zone. Blessing traces how the decisions about how to educate young people after the National Socialist dictatorship became part of a broader discussion about the future of the German nation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; JNB; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536757
ISBN
9781349536757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HPC; HRAM2; HRAX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536818
ISBN
9781349536818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.42

Paperback. This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary times. The contributors propose a new, global understanding of commerce and culture, to reconfigure how we understand the way great cultures interact, and present a new constellation of diplomacy, literature, and geopolitics. Editor(s): Katz, Nathan; Chakravarti, Ranabir; Sinha, Braj M.; Weil, Shalva. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRA; HRAX; JFC; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537006
ISBN
9781349537006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American authors from the American Renaissance onwards. As well as many fascinating hitherto under-studied writers. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537327
ISBN
9781349537327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and global notions of the modern bureaucratic state. These notions have coexisted in Southeast Asia since the Sixteenth century and influence politics to this day. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HRH; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538423
ISBN
9781349538423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HPC; HPQ; JPA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538744
ISBN
9781349538744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. Writing against the grain of popular perception and moral panic, Pomerantz offers an intricate look at the importance of style for girls in school. Based on a year long ethnography in a Canadian high school, Pomerantz highlights style as a meaning-making practice that demands to be taken seriously. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSP; JHBK; JN; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539031
ISBN
9781349539031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This new work from Alan Block explores the contemporary discourses of education, scholarship and learning. The book offers a strong argument for the centrality of ethics in curriculum, scholarship and the classroom, and presents a powerful argument against the present emphasis on standards and quantitative accountability. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JHB; JNA; JNMT; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539161
ISBN
9781349539161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 46.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; JFD; JPA; JPS; KCP; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539246
ISBN
9781349539246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JMM; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539710
ISBN
9781349539710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. In this frank account of events, Sir Richard Packer, former Permanent Secretary at MAFF, details the facts of the BSE outbreak, how government responded to the crisis and how the press contributed to widespread public panic. He reveals how the decisions taken to protect public health were a combination of informed guesswork and sheer good fortune. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPQB; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349540280
ISBN
9781349540280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 241.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349540716
ISBN
9781349540716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. The end of the Cold War, the Revolution in Military Affairs, 9/11 and the War on Terror have radically altered the nature of conflict and security in the Twenty-first Century. This book considers how developments in technology effect the prosecution of war and what the changing nature of warfare means for human rights and civil society. Editor(s): Halpin, Edward F.; Trevorrow, Philippa; Webb, David C.; Wright, Steve. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPS; JPWL; JW; TGB; UKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349541232
ISBN
9781349541232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Paperback. This book applies state of the art econometric techniques to the daily issues arising in energy markets. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCH; THRB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349541492
ISBN
9781349541492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.25

Paperback. This book exploresthe economic challenges involved in managing hydrocarbon wealthin the Caspian region, and looks at how todesign anoptimal energy policy. The book drawson the Author's experience in dealing with the governments of the region, and herknowledge of the roleof major companies in the area." Series: Euro-Asian Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCD; KCL; KCN; KCP; KCS; THRB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349541607
ISBN
9781349541607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Paperback. This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer. The establishment of the NHS and better training for paediatricians, meant children were given access to experimental chemotherapy, sending cure rates soaring. Children with cancer were thrust into the spotlight as individuals' stories of hope hit the headlines. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; MBX; MQC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349541850
ISBN
9781349541850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

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