The Americas
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The Americas
Paperback. Examining noteworthy American novels including Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five, this book analyzes the anti-hero during the 1960s. Simmons argues these iconic figures became a way to advance 'counter-culture' politics and to deconstruct the traditional American hero. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473257
- ISBN
- 9781137473257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.55
€ 68.55
Gold, the Dollar and Watergate: How a Political and Economic Meltdown ...
Onno De Beaufort Wijnholds
Hardcover. The book examines the problems that Nixon faced during his presidential term, focusing on economics but the role of politics is also highlighted. The convergence of the gold-dollar crises, oil crises and Watergate imbroglio posed a unique political and economic threat to global stability. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; JPHL; KCL; KCP; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 614.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471352
- ISBN
- 9781137471352
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Condition: New
€ 123.56
€ 123.56
Hardcover. Presidential hopefuls frequently claim they are qualified because their job experience is the same as a great president. However they ignore the failed presidents who shared the same pathway. This book evaluates all the presidents systematically to determine how prior professional experience influences presidential performance. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPHL; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471048
- ISBN
- 9781137471048
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectual through their poetic rhetoric. Gwiazda's argument aims to revitalize the role of poetry and its social value within an era of global politics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470850
- ISBN
- 9781137470850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. This book explores Australia's role as a US client state and the subsequent consequences for Australian democracy. Examining whether neoliberal and neoconservative interests have hijacked democracy in Australia, Paul questions whether further de-democratisation will advance US economic and military interests. Num Pages: 124 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; JPHV; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469342
- ISBN
- 9781137469342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Hardcover. American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469229
- ISBN
- 9781137469229
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Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardback. Black Participatory Research offers an assessment of how shared racial self-identity, self-valuation, and experiences of oppression and difference shape the co-production of knowledge in increasingly popular participatory social science research methods. Editor(s): Drame, Elizabeth R.; Irby, Decoteau J. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHBC; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468987
- ISBN
- 9781137468987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.09
€ 154.09
Hardcover. Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468314
- ISBN
- 9781137468314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.04
€ 122.04
Hardcover. This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467355
- ISBN
- 9781137467355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendia looks at ways in which cultural producers adapted or developed strategies as resources for social actors to use for change. Num Pages: 198 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465375
- ISBN
- 9781137465375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry
Castellanos, Sara G.; Del Angel, Gustavo A.; ...
Hardback. Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KC; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465283
- ISBN
- 9781137465283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.24
€ 122.24
Hardcover. Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; KCB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465269
- ISBN
- 9781137465269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.37
€ 134.37
Hardback. Editor(s): Grivoyannis, Elias C. Num Pages: 331 pages, 138 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 606.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462961
- ISBN
- 9781137462961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.13
€ 155.13
Hardcover. This book provides evidence that Labour in Trinidad and Tobago played a vital role in undermining British colonialism and advocating for federation and self-government. Furthermore, there is emphasis on the pioneering efforts of the Labour movement in party politics, social justice, and working class solidarity. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 171 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462329
- ISBN
- 9781137462329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardcover. This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and denounce crimes against human, ethnic, cultural and economic rights. Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict. Num Pages: 222 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JMC; HRAM2; JFFE; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461834
- ISBN
- 9781137461834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.32
€ 122.32
Hardcover. This book analyzes the US army's use of the 'water cure' torture in the Philippine War and the ensuing political scandal that resulted. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137460752
- ISBN
- 9781137460752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJP; JFSC; JFSL4; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457189
- ISBN
- 9781137457189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.07
€ 101.07
Hardcover. This book analyses the life histories of Jamaican men involved in the UK drugs trade, including wholesalers, street dealers, specialist cooks, cutters, and growers. Employing a life history approach, their autobiographical accounts are examined to provide an in-depth and unique insight of their journeys into drugs and crime. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KJWJ; JFFH1; JFSJ2; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 227 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456649
- ISBN
- 9781137456649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.78
€ 63.78
Hardcover. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published work that empowered women. This book positions Cleveland in the historical context of the early twentieth century, when she helped shape female subjectivity and agency. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456526
- ISBN
- 9781137456526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
Hardcover. This book analyzes the way media describe presidential candidates' character and the degree to which this discourse maintains a preference for masculinity in our politics, using content analysis of major print new media outlets. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JPA; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456441
- ISBN
- 9781137456441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.99
€ 100.99
Hardcover. Chapters establish a productive dialog between Peru and social science theory, focusing on insituional weakness and exclusion (economic, social, gendered, racial). Editor(s): Drinot, Paulo. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455253
- ISBN
- 9781137455253
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardcover. This book focuses on Baldwin's experiences as a gifted black writer who fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual relationships. Baldwin's God is a 'mysteriously impersonal' force he calls love- 'something .. like a fire, like the wind, something which can change you.' Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454331
- ISBN
- 9781137454331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.98
€ 153.98
Hardcover. This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in each case. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 1KLSR; JPB; JPH; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453549
- ISBN
- 9781137453549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. Philip Hale (1854-1934) helped put Boston on the Transatlantic map through his music writing. Mitchell reconstructs Hale's oeuvre to produce an authoritative account of the role the Boston Symphony played in the international world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; AVGC6; AVRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 240 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453495
- ISBN
- 9781137453495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.98
€ 64.98