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Small States and EU Governance: Leadership Through the Council Presidency (St. Antony's) מאת Simone Bunse Small States and EU Governance shows that the EU’s rotating Council presidency and small states’ capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of its nature and...

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Angela Carter מאת Linden Peach This second edition reviews Carter's novels in the light of recent critical developments and offers entirely new perspectives on her work. There are now extended single chapters on Carter's most widely-studied novels, including The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus

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Youth Leadership in Sport and Physical Education מאת Tom Martinek The emerging field of youth development has recently focused on fostering leadership qualities. Embracing the idea that children are capable of being leaders when given the chance, Martinek and Hellison describe actual programs that have been developed. These programs become the basis for a ...

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The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture מאת Bernice Murphy An examination of the way American suburbia has been depicted in Gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day, in which Bernice Murphy demonstrates that Gothic depictions of suburbia provide an intriguing glimpse into the way modern American society vi...

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Breaking the Code of Project Management מאת Alexander Laufer An examination of how to refigure project management to be more effective, particularly in terms of leadership. Contrary to the traditional wisdom of project management, planning and doing are not separate and sequential activities, but rather occur in tandem and interact in a dance of gi...

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The Europeanization of National Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change in European Crisis Management (Palgrave studies in European Union Politics) מאת Eva Gross This book analyzes changing national preferences towards the EU CFSP and ESDP by providing detailed accounts of British, French and German crisis decision-making in FYROM, Afghanistan, Lebanon and DR Congo. While transatlantic relations remain important, crisis management under the EU labe...

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Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness מאת Emilie Morin Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles, most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde practices remain bound to the exig...

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Erich Fromm: Explorer of the Human Condition (Mind Shapers) מאת Annette Thompson How can we conduct loving relationships with partners and productive interactions with clients or pupils? This is an introduction to Fromm's thought-provoking answers to these modern dilemmas which made him one of the most widely read thinkers of the 20th century. Ideal for students of His...

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To Begin the World Over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad מאת John C. Hulsman Lawrence of Arabia is best remembered for the Oscar-winning film about his life. But there is a different T.E. Lawrence,  a man who applied his unique experiences and extensive knowledge of the Arab world to a political vision for nation building in the Middle East that holds many lessons f...

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The Russell/Bradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth Century Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosphy) מאת Stewart Candlish In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentiet...

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Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England מאת Sarah Covington Wounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England explores the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness in mid-seventeenth century English literature. This book demonstrates the ways in which writers attempted to represent the politically and...

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The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of their Complete Correspondence (The New Middle Ages) מאת Mary Martin McLaughlin She began their passionate and complex correspondence by calling him "...her heart's love..." while he referred to her as "...the singular joy and only solace of a weary mind." The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization ...

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Consumer Credit in the United States: A Sociological Perspective from the 19th Century to the Present מאת Donncha Marron It is commonly imagined that in recent years the rampant growth of consumer credit has lured American consumers into a crippling state of indebtedness, a state that has upended old cultural values of Puritan thrift and stimulated a frenzy of consumption. Drawing on the sociological conc...

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Security, Territory, Population (Lectures at the College De France) מאת Michel Foucault Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the Collège de France between January and April, 1978. Taking as his starting point the notion of  "bio-power," introduced in his 1976 course Society Must be Defended, Fo...

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Women and Madness: Revised and Updated מאת Phyllis Chesler Feminist icon Phyllis Cheslers pioneering work21/2 million copies soldrevised and updated for the first time in over 30 yearsThis definitive book was the first to address critical questions about women and mental health. Combining interviews with patients with an analysis of womens roles in history,...

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Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Heroine of Disinterest מאת Virginia Cope This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. Cope shows how the disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experien...

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Created Equal: Voices on Women's Rights מאת Anna Horsbrugh-Porter The Palgrave Macmillan/Amnesty International series illuminates the greatest human rights issues facing the world today. From human trafficking to poverty, terrorism to freedom of expression, this dynamic and accessible series encourages debate about the s...

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Building Brand Value the Playboy Way מאת Susan Gunelius With $8000 and a dream to create a men's lifestyle magazine that he would like to read, Hugh Hefner put together the first issue of Playboy magazine on his kitchen table. Over half a century later, Playboy has grown to become one of most well known brands in the world, and Hefner rema...

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How Computer Games Help Children Learn מאת David Williamson Shaffer This book looks at how particular video and computer games--such as Digital Zoo, The Pandora Project, SodaConstructor, and more--can help teach our children and students to think like doctors, lawyers, engineers, urban planners, journalists, and other professiona...

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My Life with Che: The Making of a Revolutionary מאת Hilda Gadea Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, paints a personal portrait of the political icon, romantic wanderer, philosopher, doting suitor, and father. Ernesto Guevara and Hilda Gadea met in Guatemala as members of the political-exile community. Including "touching sections that demonst...

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The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power מאת Colin Imber A revised and expanded second edition of a highly-praised account of the structure of the government of the Ottoman Empire to the mid-seventeenth century. Colin Imber incorporates the latest research, and the text now also features a new chapter on taxation as well as an up-to-date Bib...

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As If It Were Life: A WWII Diary from the Theresienstadt Ghetto מאת Philipp Manes In 1942 German merchant Philipp Manes and his wife were ordered by the Nazis to leave their middle class neighborhood and go live in Theresienstadt, the only so-called "showpiece"  ghetto of the Third Reich. This model ghetto was set up by the Nazis as a front to show the world that the J...

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Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture: Britain and Ireland, 1660-1714 (British History in Perspective) מאת George Southcombe This essential volume offers students a number of highly focused chapters on key themes in Restoration history. Each addresses a core question or issue and uses a variety of sources to illustrate and illuminate arguments. The authors provide clear introductions to different aspects of the ...

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Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death: The Quest for Authenticity (INSEAD Business Press) מאת Manfred Kets de Vries The four main tenets of life are explored in this unique new book that examines the interface between psychology and management. Based on his own experiences as a clinician and psychoanalyst, the author provides insights into the issue of the life/work balance. ...

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An Introduction to Psychodynamic Counselling (Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy) מאת Laurence Spurling The first edition of this book explored the key assumptions, main theoretical ideas and principles of practice behind psychodynamic counselling. With an updated look at evidence-based practice, supervision and the different stages of counselling, this continues to be a key introductory tex...

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Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect מאת James Thompson This book explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards ...

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Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant מאת Christopher Hibbert With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction,  and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers,...

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Jia Zhangke's 'Hometown Trilogy': Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures (BFI Film Classics) מאת Michael Berry Michael Berry’s study of Jia Zhang-ke’s masterful trio of films, The Hometown Trilogy, offers a fascinating insight into the cinematic world of one of contemporary China’s most influential directors.  Berry focuses on Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000) and Unknown...

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Luxury Fashion Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques מאת Uche Okonkwo "Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends." These words, spoken by Gabrielle Coco Chanel in the early twentieth century, remain as true as ever in our current society. Luxury fashion has seeped into every sphere of our consumer society. It has become the norm to aspire t...

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Mergers and Acquisitions in European Banking (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions) מאת Franco Fiordelisi This book provides a detailed analytical assessment of merger and acquisition phenomenon in banking. It advances the prior literature focusing on some specific aspects that have been investigated by only limited previous analysis. It assesses the effect produced by M&A transactions on ba...

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Monetary Integration in the European Union מאת Michele Chang The creation of the Euro was one of the most ambitious projects undertaken by the EU. Nearly a decade on, the Euro has become a major international currency. This book takes stock of the Eurozone, both empirically and theoretically, considering historical, economic, political, and institut...

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Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process, Third Edition מאת James Watson The media is at the heart of cultural, social, political and economic events throughout the world. But how is the role and influence of mass media evolving? Who controls what the media tell us? What impact is new technology on the media as we know it? Building on the success ...

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Social Work: Themes, Issues and Critical Debates מאת Robert Adams The long awaited new edition of this hugely popular text has been heavily revised to reflect the current needs of students on the first year of their social work degree. With ten new chapters and a wealth of expert contributors, this text looks exclusively and in detail at the topics that ...

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Using Your Emotional Intelligence to Develop Others מאת Sheri Caldwell Emotional Intelligence (EI), the ability to perceive, understand, manage, monitor, and use both one’s own and others’ feeling and emotions to guide future thinking and action is one of the most important, and overlooked, qualities in determining success on the job, and in life. Peop...

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Trade Preference Erosion: Measurement and Policy Response (World Bank Trade and Development Series) מאת Bernard M. Hoekman This book provides the information needed to make informed assessments of the benefits of trade preferences to developing countries, the risks of these benefits being eroded by trade liberalization, and policy options for dealing with this problem. ...

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Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce מאת Christopher Hibbert With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini.  Mussolini was born on a Sunday afternoon in 1883 in a village in central Italy. On a Saturday afternoon in 1945 he was shot...

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The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism) מאת Matthew Beedham This Guide outlines the initial critical responses to the novels of one of the most popular contemporary authors and explores the key critical positions that have developed. Matthew Beedham explores the themes which are central to Ishiguro's work, such as issues of narration, memory and ...

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Julius Caesar (The Shakespeare Handbooks) מאת David Carnegie This introductory guide to the first of Shakespeare's mature tragedies offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of cr...

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A History of the United States, Third Edition (Palgrave Essential Histories) מאת Philip Jenkins This highly readable introductory guide provides a lucid and authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments. For this thoroughly revised and expanded new edition, Philip Jenkins reviews the events of the last f...

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Annual Abstract of Statistics 2009 מאת The Office for National Statistics The most comprehensive source of statistics in the UK, Annual Abstract of Statistics is a statistical encyclopaedia including over 10,000 series of data and covering key aspects of the UK's economic, social and industrial life. The data are presented in easy-to-read tables and sup...

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Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism) מאת Simon Avery This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two major nineteenth-century novels by the popular Victorian author Thomas Hardy, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery explores how different generations of readers and critics have responded to the text...

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Perception and Organization: Art, Music, Media מאת Alexander Styhre Drawing on a heterogeneous body of literature including art, music and media theory, as well as philosophical and historical studies of perception, this book demonstrates that everyday work in organizations is strongly shaped by and embedded in human perception. ...

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Polanski: A Biography מאת Christopher Sandford This dramatic account weaves together the rich and complex life of the celebrated and controversial film director, Holocaust survivor, and exile, based on a wealth of sources and new material. New revelations about Polanski's life include:

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Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason מאת Christopher Hibbert When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone become ruler of England and Scotland. Once shy and retiring, an awkward stutterer, he grew in stature and confidence under the guidance of the Duke of Buckingham; his marriage to Henrietta of Sp...

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Politics in Pacific Asia: An Introduction (Comparative Government and Politics) מאת Xiaoming Huang Using China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines as core examples throughout, this major new text provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and very accessible introduction to the politics of an increasingly significant and dynamic region of the c...

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Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) מאת Carl Mirra More than five years after the United States military and coalition forces invaded Iraq, the Iraq War remains a controversial and divisive subject throughout the world. This wide-ranging book, the first truly comprehensive oral history of the war, captures the diverse viewpoints of...

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The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts מאת Owen Davies The Haunted is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural context and examines why a belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant, socially relevant and h...

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Political Warfare against the Kremlin: US and British Propaganda Policy at the Beginning of the Cold War (Global Conflict and Security since 1945) מאת Lowell Schwartz This book provides a comparative study and holistic review of American and British propaganda policy toward the Soviet Union during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, ranging from the role senior policymakers played in setting propaganda policy to the West’s radio broadcasts to t...

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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 מאת Michel Foucault this liberal governmentality.  This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed:  "Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics". What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they...

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Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime (Early Modern Literature in History) מאת Patrick Cheney This book argues broadly that any historical narrative about republicanism needs to place Marlowe at the front of its genealogy, and that his interest in republican ideals is sustained from the beginning to the end of his meteoric career. More specifically, this study will nonetheless argue th...

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Ancestral Roots: Modern Living and Human Evolution (MacSci) מאת Timothy Clack Human evolution explains how we have found ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Issues of modern living; depression, obesity, and environmental destruction, can be understood in relation to our evolutionary past. This book shows how an awareness of this past and its relation to th...

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Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits מאת Dimitra Fimi Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of Tolkien's imaginative vision and contextuali...

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Hybridization of MNE Subsidiaries: The Automotive Sector in India מאת Florian Becker-Ritterspach MNEs setting up subsidiaries in emerging markets face the ongoing question to what extent they can transfer their home-grown or global organizational models. This book looks at how the cross-border transfer of production models in MNEs is related to strategic choices of firms and different...

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The Enlightenment, Second Edition (Studies in European History) מאת Roy Porter The 18th-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance, and superstition, it formulated the ideals of thought, religion, and expression, the value of science, and the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers un...

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Will Israel Survive? מאת Mitchell G. Bard Since it first declared independence six decades ago, Israel has endured constant threats to its existence. Though the Palestinian conflict continues to hold the world's attention, it is in fact only one of the nation's long-term concerns. Aside from terrorists seeking to destroy i...

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Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age מאת Jeff Gomez For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, paper shortages, radio, TV, computer games, and fluctuating literacy rates, the bound stack of printed paper has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robus...

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The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment מאת Joanna Moncrieff This controversial book overturns the claim that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance, and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressa...

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A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans and the American Revolution (Studies in Modern History) מאת James B. Bell A War of Religion examines the impact of the establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686 and the strident objections to its presence from leading Congregational ministers. The men decried that the province had an established church, objected to the Book of Common Prayer, and challen...

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Nationalism in a Global World מאת Sam Pryke What can globalization studies tell us about national identity? This text looks at historical and contemporary debates to assess the key issues of nationalism and national identity, from economic nationalism to cultural homogenization. Setting issues in a global context and packed with exa...

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Sensory Marketing מאת Bertil Hulten The book covers the ongoing shift from mass-marketing and micro-marketing to sensory marketing in terms of the increased individualization in the contemporary society. It shows the importance in reaching the individuals' five senses at a deeper level than traditional marketing theories do....

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Sex, Technology and Public Health מאת Mark Davis Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the internet, and reveals concerns that sexually transmitted infections and HIV are associate...

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The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship) מאת Victoria Squire This critique of the securitization and criminalization of asylum seeking challenges the claim that asylum seekers 'threaten' receiving states. It analyzes recent policy developments in relation to their wider historical, political and European contexts and argues that the UK response ef...

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The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance מאת James A. Connor Painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, 28 years after Michelangelo completed the glorious and hopeful ceiling, The Last Judgment is full of stark images depicting the End of Days. James Connor uses the famous fresco as the lens by which to view the end of the Ren...

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Shakespeare and Youth Culture מאת Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. This volume deconstructs the underlying assumptions behind youth-culture Shakespeare and then analyzes specific “texts,” from 10 Things I Hate about You to The Bomb-itty of Errors, from The Sandman to Reviving Ophelia.  The authors explore the appropri...

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Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer (The World of the Roosevelts) מאת June Hopkins From 1912 to 1940, social worker Harry Hopkins committed himself to the ideal of government responsibility for impoverished Americans. This look at Hopkins' life and social work career broadens our understanding of the political and cultural currents that led to the Social Security Act of ...

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William Wordsworth - The Prelude (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism) מאת Timothy Milnes The Prelude is now seen as a central text in the Wordsworth corpus. This Guide identifies and gathers significant critical perspectives, interpretations and debates connected with the poem, contextualising and explaining criticism from the Victorian period right through to the prese...

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Working in Jamie's Kitchen: Salvation, Passion and Young Workers מאת Peter Kelly In the UK in 2002, the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver set out to transform a group of unemployed young Londoners into enterprising, passionate workers. Their struggles, and those that train and manage them, to develop a passionate orientation to work, highlight many of the challenges we all f...

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Business at a Crossroads: The Crisis of Corporate Leadership מאת Tom Lloyd Recent events suggest liberal capitalism harbours two dangerous seeds of self-destruction; growing inequality and a tendency for markets to spiral out of control. This book advocates the restoration to an earlier state of another sub-system of liberal capitalism, some of the features of wh...

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Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War (Studies in Military & Strategic History) מאת G. D. Sheffield Why, despite the appalling conditions in the trenches of the Western Front, was the British army almost untouched by major mutiny during the First World War? Drawing upon an extensive range of sources, including much previously unpublished archival material, G.D. Sheffield seeks to answer this quest...

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Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad מאת William R. Polk William R. Polk provides an informative, readable history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East. A former member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Council, Polk describes a country and a history misundersto...

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Inciting Change in Secondary English Language Programs: The Case of Cherry High School (Secondary Education in a Changing World) מאת Marilee Coles-Ritchie The way many secondary schools are structured limits the ability of immigrant English Learners to achieve academically and develop social networks, often resulting in hyper-segregated learning experiences. This book explores the journey of a group of teachers in a secondary school as ...

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Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History) מאת Julius Novick Clifford Odets. Arthur Miller. Paddy Chayefsky. Neil Simon. Jules Feiffer. Wendy Wasserstein. Tony Kushner. These leading American playwrights do not just happen to be Jewish: they are Jewish playwrights. They and other Jewish playwrights have written out of their own experience,...

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Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy (Global Public Diplomacy) מאת Philip Seib Proponents of American public diplomacy sometimes find it difficult to be taken seriously. Everyone says nice things about relying less on military force and more on soft power, but it has been hard to break away from the longtime conventional wisdom that Ame...

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Mastering Modern World History, 4th Ed. (Palgrave Master Series) מאת Norman Lowe This book covers the major topics of modern world history in a clear and concise style. After a general introduction, themes are developed in more detail, with headings, key words, and phrases underlined. With its easy to follow cross-referencing and helpful problem-solving approach, this text ...

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Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) מאת Lawrence Frank In this innovative book, now available in paperback for the first time, Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and Darwin's theories of evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe,...

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Ethics in Professional Life מאת Sarah Banks This much-needed text articulates the issues surrounding professional ethics using a unique virtue-based framework. It introduces core ideas, before examining a range of values and how these can be cultivated in practice. Importantly, the book retains an interprofessional feel by relati...

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Sustainable Success with Stakeholders: The Untapped Potential מאת Sybille Sachs This book shows managers how they can identify their stakeholders and cooperate with them in a mutually successful and satisfying way. It includes numerous examples from the case studies and from international firms, illustrating the stepping stones to a comprehensive stakeholder managemen...

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Custom-Built Leadership: Three Critical Decisions only You can Take מאת Robin Ryde The success of the modern day leader depends in no small part on their ability to bring clarity and purpose to a world that is otherwise swamped in a fog of information, complexity and change. Somewhere along the way between the innocence of the early twentieth century and the ma...

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Journey to Lean: Making Operational Change Stick מאת John Drew In the current climate attention has refocused on lean production. While books have looked at the principles of lean production and techniques, this book from McKinsey & Company, the world's most influential management consultancy, provides a unique approach, which is holistic in nature and argues t...

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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans מאת Dennis P. Hupchick The dramatic, tumultuous, and often tragic human events that erupted in the Balkan Peninsula following the collapse of communism between 1989 and 1991 have captured the Western world's attention throughout the past decade. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans provides 50 two-c...

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The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972 מאת Scopas S. Poggo This book is a comprehensive investigation, discussion, and analysis of the origins and development of the first civil war in the Sudan, which occurred between 1955 and1972. It was the culmination of ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, political, and economic problems that had faced the Sud...

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Science and Whig Manners: Science and Political Style in Britain, c.1790-1850 (Studies in Modern History) מאת Joe Bord Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. It...

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Male Rape: The Emergence of a Social and Legal Issue מאת Noreen Abdullah-Khan Focusing on male-on-male rape, this book looks at the common myths surrounding this taboo issue, including the idea that 'men who rape other men must be homosexual' and that 'real men can't be raped'. It also reveals that men are not only raped in prison, as is commonly believed, and ...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (Literary Lives) מאת William Christie This literary life of the best-loved of all the major Romantic writers uses Coleridge's own Biographia Literaria as its starting point and destination. The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's ma...

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The Art of Stillness: The Theater Practice of Tadashi Suzuki מאת Paul Allain For more than forty years, Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theater, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions including his famous production of The Trojan Women, which subsequently toured around the world. An integral part of his...

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Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (Analysing Texts) מאת Nicholas Marsh This study focuses on how Frankenstein works: how the story is told and why it is so rich and gripping.  Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical and literary contexts and offers a sample of key criticism. ...

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China Counting: How the West Was Lost מאת Alex Mackinnon This new book complements the gap between studies of China by the West and Chinese studies of the West. The gap is interpretative and suggests that a cross-cultural understanding is only possible if both cultures perceive each other through opposing, rather than composite lenses.

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People Management in Turbulent Times מאת Prof. Adrian Furnham We have recently seen stock-markets plunge and governments bail out banks. People have been made redundant, and many others are very worried. Some of the short essays in this collection are part musing and part reaction to the recent economic situation, which hope to dispel nonsense and ...

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Asian Empire and British Knowledge: China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) מאת Ulrike Hillemann British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were criti...

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The Global Brand: How to Create and Develop Lasting Brand Value in the World Market מאת Nigel Hollis Rapid advances in modern technology present companies with quickly expanding marketing opportunities, but they also create an over-saturated business landscape that both helps and hurts brands. In this thorough investigation of brand strength in the accelerated modern business wo...

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Islam, Modernity, Violence, and Everyday Life מאת Ahmad Atif Ahmad This book questions the logic and basis of the comparisons between “Islamic” and “Western” values and cultures in today’s public discourse in the West. The book calls attention to inadequacies in discussions about Islam and modernity, violence in Islamic law and history, and the c...

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Research with People: Theory, Plans and Practicals (0) מאת Nigel Holt How do you measure human behavior? All of us observe human behavior everyday, but individual habits can make large research studies difficult to design and conduct. In this accessible introductory textbook, Holt and Walker survey a wide range of research methods and demonstrate how to...

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Zadie Smith (New British Fiction) מאת Philip Tew This book is an introduction to the work of Zadie Smith that places her fiction in a clear historical, critical and theoretical context, and explores her work in relation to contemporaneity and postcolonialism. Including an interview with the author, this guide offers an accessible reading...

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Syndicated Loans: A Hybrid of Relationship Lending and Publicly Traded Debt (Studies in Banking and International Finance) מאת Yener Altunbas This book examines the development of the international market for syndicated credits during the past three decades. It brings together practitioners' and academics' views on this form of financing and provides original answers to previously little-explored research questions: what determi...

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Communication in Social Work (Practical Social Work) מאת Joyce Lishman This timely new edition identifies the important skills integral to effective communication in social work. Based on the premise that good communication skills are essential to good social work, the second edition offers an extended account of its subject that pays more attention to the diverse cont...

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War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750-1850 מאת Isaac Land Although there have been military, social, and labor histories examining sailors, this book employs the methods of cultural history to systematically integrate Jack Tar, the common seaman, into larger narratives about British national identity. If, as it has been argued, “Britishness” wa...

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The First Black President: Barack Obama, Race, Politics, and the American Dream מאת Johnny Bernard Hill The First Black President is a critical and passionate reflection on the political and historical implications of an Obama administration concerning the issue of race in America.  Obama’s rise to political power has forever changed the contours of race relations in the country...

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Practising Social Work in a Complex World מאת Robert Adams This radically revised text is uniquely tailored to fit the needs of final year social work trainees. With an emphasis on refining and deepening professional skills, the text offers clear guidance on hot topics and higher order skills such as research-based practice and leadership.

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Havana: Autobiography of a City מאת Alfredo Jose Estrada Alfredo José Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr for ...