Palgrave macmillan jul 2008 (145 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book offers original essays on the subject of evil in international relations. It considers questions of moral agency associated with the perpetration of evil acts by individuals and groups in the international sphere, and the range of ethical responses the international community has…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book studies ten dissident democratic leaders in Asia to show their vital role in democratic transformations. These explorationsof their political struggles reveal the powerful challenges and dangers that dissidents face, especially in learning to manage and negotiate the ambiguities and ten…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This books discusses the causes and mechanisms underlying obesity.Itdiscusses the factors that have contributed to the obesity epidemic, including social, cultural, medical, developmental, and politicalinfluences, on individuals and at group levels. It offers steps towards prevention and f…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. In this groundbreaking history of the YMCA, David Setran details it…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Twice unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Adlai Stevenson played a key role in American politics throughout much of the middle of the Twentieth Century. This collection of essays from Senator Eugene McCar…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The State Economic Handbook is a new annual reference book profiling the economy, demography, political environment, and business climates for each of the 50 states. This information, gathered from a variety of sources and clearly present…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Are world views once formed during childhood and adolescence stable over life or do they change when they come under pressure from new institutional contexts This book seeks the answer by revisiting an aged political generation growing up…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Chosen explores Judaism s key defining concept and inquires why it remains the central unspoken and explosive psychological, historical, and theological problem at the heart of Jewish-Gentile relations. Crisscrossing the twin cultural…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study offers a reading that avoids both literalism and sociological reductionism through a study of the Bible's intricate patterns of imagery. It will appeal to thoughtful people dissatisfied with the religious status quo and looking…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the successes and failures of George W. Bush as a War President. The author critically assesses the administration's key decisions in the war on terror and President Bush's vision of creating a democratic Middle East. 2…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on behavioral finance theory and contemporary experience, this book explores how bubbles form and subsequently burst. The author introduces a new concept of swings in market temperature defined by the extent of heterogeneity of op…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book analyzes recent alterations in African security politics, focusing on regionalization of civil wars, transnational aspects of African conflicts, African regional peacekeeping efforts, the privatization of security in Africa, and…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Where does the book belong Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these que…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theo…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Through an in-depth analysis of the Chilean labour market, social welfare, and state reforms, this book reveals the manner in which neoliberal reform in Chile has undermined the urban poor's incentives and ability to hold public officials…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At the crossroads of Northeast Asia, South Korea provides a critical vantage point for viewing changes in the region. This comprehensive review of the past quarter century covers its strategic thinking in regard to China, Japan, Ru…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This thoughtful and surprising book analyzes the effect of animal extremism on the world's scientists, their institutions, and professional societies. The Animal Research War traces the evolution of the animal rights movement, prof…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. The authorexamines various areas to make his argument: citizenship, the issue of minorities, electoral eng…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book compares rebel media use in three Mesoamerican rebellions: the Nicaraguan Revolution, the Salvadoran civil war and the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. Directly comparing media use in all three rebellions provides a…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Global politics is a crowded stage of players competing for power and authority. Who is in charge of what How do they stay in charge and what are the effects This volume raises these questions in case studies on regimes of torture…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book is about new dynamic forces that are driving change in Japan. It is developed around two key concepts of civil society and social capital. The focus is on pathways to Japan's social renewal that promotes stronger communiti…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book seeks to determine what is meant by 'evil' when used to describe actors and events in international politics. Focusing on the history of evil in western secular and religious thought, it reintroduces a classical understan…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The biblical text and its key figures have played a prominent role in the development of religious discourse on pressing socio-political issues. Slavery and continued discrimination were given theological sanction through the Old T…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One path towards development taken by a number of small jurisdictions is the establishment of an offshore financial centre. This text analyses the actual economic contribution for several small Caribbean economies and the impact to…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The tension between global and local impulses in world order are dramatically played-out in the arena of world law. This short volume develops a set of provocative theses: globalism is not new; it is neither legally inevitable nor…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history. 3…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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 st…