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The Americas
Hardcover. This book seeks to explain why weak states exist within the international system. Using the cases of Armenia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Lebanon, and Cambodia, the author argues that, if a state is weak and vulnerable, then it can practice an unexpected degree of relative autonomy unfettered by great powers. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUR; 1FBL; 1FMC; 1KJWVK; JPA; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543882
- ISBN
- 9781137543882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardcover. A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545787
- ISBN
- 9781137545787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Lenero, Juan Rulfo, among others. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546272
- ISBN
- 9781137546272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Cui, Shoujun; Perez-Garcia, Manuel. Num Pages: 266 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 21 colour illustrations, 7 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KL; JPS; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546913
- ISBN
- 9781137546913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.56
€ 154.56
The Brazilian Economy Today. Towards a New Socio-Economic Model?.
. Ed(S): Pereira, Anthony W.; Mattei, Lauro; ...
Hardback. Pereira and Mattei bring contributors together in this exciting volume to further understanding about the recent Brazilian Economic Development Model and discuss the related social conditions. The authors analyze both the political economy and social public policies to highlight new opportunities to create a sustainable development model. Editor(s): Pereira, Anthony W.; Mattei, Lauro; LeCouteur, Amanda. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549808
- ISBN
- 9781137549808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.36
€ 122.36
hardcover. Num Pages: 379 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 46 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; HBW; JPA; JWA; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 647.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 379
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549921
- ISBN
- 9781137549921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.17
€ 114.17
Hardcover. Pentecostal-charismatics in Latin America and among Latinos: communities that share profound historical, linguistic and cultural roots. This compilation brings together practitioners and academics with pentecostal-charismatic affiliations, who analyse from within the development of the movement among these diverse communities. Editor(s): Alfaro, Sammy. Series: Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; HRCC96. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137550590
- ISBN
- 9781137550590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.72
€ 143.72
Paperback. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book, now in paperback, explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFSK2; JHBK5; JHBS; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137550668
- ISBN
- 9781137550668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.51
€ 63.51
Hardback. Editor(s): Bender, Steven W. Num Pages: 300 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 5 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; JFFN; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137550736
- ISBN
- 9781137550736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.30
€ 144.30
Paperback. This collection examines the intersection between the products of the Disney Corporation and popular culture's fascination with the Middle Ages. Editor(s): Pugh, Tison; Aronstein, Susan. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 300 pages, 6 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137550880
- ISBN
- 9781137550880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 112.02
€ 112.02
Paperback. Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Through her letters and poems, Brantley identifies Dickinson's dialogue with John Locke's rational empiricism, Charles Darwin's evolutionary biology, Wordsworth's "natural Methodism," and Emerson's idealism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555595
- ISBN
- 9781137555595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Hardcover. American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive. Num Pages: 149 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFDT; JHBS; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555885
- ISBN
- 9781137555885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Hardback. Editor(s): Brisman, Avi; South, Professor Nigel. Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Num Pages: 308 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JKV; RND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137557049
- ISBN
- 9781137557049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.75
€ 186.75
Hardback. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KBB; 2GK; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJF; JPB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137557179
- ISBN
- 9781137557179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.78
€ 100.78
A Critical Pedagogy for Native American Education Policy: Habermas, Fr...
Knowles, F.e., Lovern, Lavonna L.
Hardcover. A Critical Pedagogy for Native American Education Policy is an application of critical pedagogical theory to historical and recent Native American educational policy. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137557445
- ISBN
- 9781137557445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardback. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; APF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559876
- ISBN
- 9781137559876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.21
€ 122.21
Hardback. This book describes and analyzes migration of individuals from central Mexico to a new United States community in New Jersey. Based on four decades of anthropological research in Mazatecochco and New Jersey Rothstein traces the causes and consequences of migration and who returned home, why, and how return migrants reintegrated back home. Num Pages: 95 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFFM; JFFN; JFFP; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 95
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559937
- ISBN
- 9781137559937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. In The Post-Liberal Imagination, Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism 'in a critical spirit' by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics. The book analyzes movies, television, and popular music to rethink the liberal views of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights in the Bush-Obama era. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137560322
- ISBN
- 9781137560322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardcover. Drawing upon Broadway musicals ranging from Irene (1919) to Gypsy (1959), Maya Cantu considers how Cinderella Broadway musicals from the 1920s through the 1950s adapted and transformed Perrault's fairy tale icon in order to address changing social and professional roles for American women. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 290 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; AVGM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561459
- ISBN
- 9781137561459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.27
€ 112.27
Hardback. Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561947
- ISBN
- 9781137561947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.47
€ 122.47