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Hardcover. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110458
ISBN
9780230110458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.73

Hardcover. Focusing substantially on the relation between the concept of constitutionalism and Islamic Law in general and how such relation is specifically reflected in the Shiite jurisprudence, this volume explores the juristic origins of constitutionalism, especially in the context of 1905 Constitutional Revolution in Iran. Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJ; HRAX; HRH; LAFS; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110731
ISBN
9780230110731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69
€ 97.22

Hardcover. The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an anti-Semitic villain nor a 'lamb without stain.' Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSV; 3JJ; HBTZ1; HRCC7; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110793
ISBN
9780230110793
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69
€ 56.51

Paperback. The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an anti-Semitic villain nor a 'lamb without stain.' Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSV; 3JJ; HBTZ1; HRCC7; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110809
ISBN
9780230110809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 110.94
€ 40.29

Hardcover. Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111448
ISBN
9780230111448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 33.34

Hardcover. The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monster hunting in the late 20th century, but the more important relationship between the professional scientists and amateur naturalists who hunt them--and their place in the history of science. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; PDX; PDZ; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111479
ISBN
9780230111479
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.18
€ 46.64

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary volume addresses the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the revitalizing effect it had on Germany to the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities, and forming a new European identity. It also considers how the fall was represented by the media. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112162
ISBN
9780230112162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.48

Hardcover. The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 319 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; ANB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112445
ISBN
9780230112445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.26

Hardcover. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSC; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422. Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-fashioning. Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century. 252 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSC; DSK; JFC. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112711
ISBN
9780230112711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 41.71

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

€ 50.84
€ 46.64

Hardcover. Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ANB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113381
ISBN
9780230113381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.00

Hardcover. In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 276 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 2AGZ; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113626
ISBN
9780230113626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.71

Hardcover. An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before the Cold War. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HBE; 1QDB; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTQ; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113640
ISBN
9780230113640
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 43.83

Hardcover. Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113688
ISBN
9780230113688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.66

Paperback. This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues. Editor(s): Lieberman, Robbie; Lang, Clarence. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; HBTW; HBWS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113749
ISBN
9780230113749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 35.01

Paperback. Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond. Editor(s): Nabavi, Negin. Num Pages: 201 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114692
ISBN
9780230114692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 27.83

Hardcover. An analysis of how since the end of te 19th-century advertising agencies and their housework product clients utilized a remarkably consistent depiction of housewives and housework, illustrating that that although Second Wave feminism successfully called into question the housewife stereotype, homemaking has remained an American feminine ideal. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFDV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114890
ISBN
9780230114890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 46.91

Hardcover. This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low crime to a high-crime society, treating six different types of misdeed as representative of phases in the evolution of crime to argue that lawbreaking must be explained by connecting all types of offenses to their social and economic contexts. Num Pages: 243 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JKV; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114906
ISBN
9780230114906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 43.83

Paperback. This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of dissent. Editor(s): Fahlenbrach, Kathrin; Klimke, Martin; Scharloth, Joachim; Wong, Laura. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 261 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBLW3; HBTB; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114999
ISBN
9780230114999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 32.38

Hardcover. By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ANH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115071
ISBN
9780230115071
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.49

Hardcover. Analyses the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of 'order and progress', and how they shaped their lives rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. This study is intended for scholars, students, and general audiences interested in additional views of colonialism, modernization, and diversified economies. Num Pages: 274 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLSG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115897
ISBN
9780230115897
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 43.83

Hardcover. This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular. Editor(s): Hellegers, Desiree. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBTD; JFFB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116573
ISBN
9780230116573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 43.83

Hardcover. Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological knowledge. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 284 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JJC; HRCX7; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116726
ISBN
9780230116726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 43.83

Hardcover. Analyzing a selection of popular British films and stars of post-WWII Britain, Boyce considers the profound anxieties and uncertainties the war had on British life and culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116894
ISBN
9780230116894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.18

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