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Palgrave Macmillan English – One Tongue, Many Voices
This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. The authors examine the present state of English as a global language and the problems, pressures and uncertainties of its future, online and offline. They argue that, in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language.
£89.99
Palgrave Macmillan Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations among Youth in Schools
This book examines the formation of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs)—formal and informal—in public schools. These associations provide us with a way to think about intersectionality and tense encounters as spaces of possibility for new kinds of action, new kinds of learning, and newly emergent subjectivities. While such groups are not without problems, they enable a consideration of desire for connection across sexualities, genders, races, and knowledge. By examining subjectivity as a process of negotiation across and within differences in a particular institutional context, the traces of exclusions and gaps in these processes of identification become evident. New formations bear the imprint of exclusions that precede them but also work to fracture divisions, to push at intersections among subject positions, and explore desires for connection and change.
£67.49
Palgrave Macmillan British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910: Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women
Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egyptian women in their written and visual works. Images of Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British writers such as George Eliot and Edith Cooper came to represent female emancipation.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Holocaust and European Societies: Social Processes and Social Dynamics
This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments that led to the social exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent’s Jews. This volume therefore questions Raul Hilberg´s category of the ‘bystander’. In societies where the political order expects citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the population, there cannot be any completely uninvolved bystanders. Instead, this book examines the multifarious forms of social action and behaviour connected with the Holocaust. It focuses on institutions and persons, helpers, co-perpetrators, facilitators and spectators, beneficiaries and profiteers, as well as Jewish victims and Jewish organisations trying to cope with the dynamics of exclusion and persecution.
£89.99
Palgrave Macmillan Contemporary Publics: Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture
If the twentieth century has been dominated by discussions of the public, public life, and the public sphere, Contemporary Publics argues that, in the twenty-first century, we must complicate the singularity of that paradigm and start thinking of our world in terms of multiple, overlapping, and competing publics. In three distinct streams—art, media and technology, and the intimate life—this volume offers up the intellectual and political significance of thinking through the plurality of our publics. “Countering Neoliberal Publics: Screen and Space,” explores how different artistic practices articulate the challenges and desires of multiple publics. “Making and Shaping Publics: Discourse and Technology” showcases how media shape publics, and how new and emerging publics use these technologies to construct identities. “Commodifying Public Intimacies” examines what happens to the notion of the private when intimacies structure publics, move into public spaces, and develop value that can be exchanged and circulated.
£98.99
Palgrave Macmillan Waste to Wealth: The Circular Economy Advantage
Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.
£42.55
Palgrave Macmillan Children's Mobilities: Interdependent, Imagined, Relational
This book offers a critical and comprehensive analysis of children’s mobilities by focusing on its interdependent, imagined and relational aspects. In doing so, it challenges existing literature, which, in mobilities studies, tends to overlook the mobilities of marginalised social groups; in social science more generally, tends to immobilize children’s studies; and in children’s mobility studies has mainly focused on the ‘independent’ and corporeal travel of children. The book situates children’s mobilities in wider contexts, offering an interdisciplinary and critical perspective throughout and drawing on scholarship at the confluence of childhood and mobilities and a range of research to offer new insights that inform the field of mobilities and studies of childhood. In this way, the book aims at widening the perspective on children’s mobility towards the inclusion of diverse age groups and of the manifold forms of mobilities that are part of children’s lives, from an interdependent and relational point of view.
£100.00
Palgrave Macmillan Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba: To Not Die Alone
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life cycle from birth to death.
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Palgrave Macmillan Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo
This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucía Puenzo. Such tensions, Selimović argues, result in “affective moments” that relate to the films’ core arguments. They also signal these filmmakers’ novel insights on complex manifestations of memory, desire, and violence. The chapters explore how the presence of pronounced—but reticent—affect complicates emotional bonding in the everydayness depicted in these films. By bringing out moments of affect in these filmmakers’ diegetic worlds, this book traces the ways in which subtle foci on gender, class, race, and sexuality correlate in these Argentine women’s films.
£71.10
Palgrave Macmillan The American Success Myth on Film
In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about success and work in America.
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Palgrave Macmillan Values and Choices in Television Discourse: A View from Both Sides of the Screen
The high-pressured, fast-paced environment of television production leaves little time for producers to reflect on how the potentialities of texts and images will be interpreted outside of the immediate broadcast imperatives. This volume brings together the producers and analysts of television in a formal and productive way.
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Palgrave Macmillan Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society
In the 1970s it seemed infectious diseases had been conquered, but today global epidemics seem to pose a new, more sinister, threat. This fascinating study explores these new infectious diseases, such as Swine Flu, SARS and AIDS, and the re-emergence of old threats, and discusses their role in society.
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Palgrave Macmillan Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America
Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America proposes, tests and analyses the liberal captured model. It explores to what extent to which globalisation, marketization, commercialism, regional bodies and the nation State redefine the media's role in Latin American societies.
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Palgrave Macmillan Digital Media and Society: Transforming Economics, Politics and Social Practices
Referencing key contemporary debates on issues like surveillance, identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet politics, Andrew White provides a critical intervention in discussions on the impact of the proliferation of digital media technologies on politics, the economy and social practices.
£62.99
Palgrave Macmillan The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology
This volume is the result of the 2012 International Economic Association's series of roundtables on the theme of Industrial Policy. The first, 'New Thinking on Industrial Policy,' was hosted by the World Bank in Washington, D.C, and the second, 'New Thinking on Industrial Policy: Implications for Africa,' was held in Pretoria, South Africa.
£89.99
Palgrave Macmillan NGOs, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort?
Since the book was first published, NGOs have continued to rise in prominence, but our concerns have been little redressed. The new Preface and Afterword to this IPE Classic provide an up to date review of the debates on NGOs and the development sector that consolidate on this argument and look briefly at some of the reactions it has received.
£49.49
Palgrave Macmillan Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination: Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds
Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature.
£34.99
Palgrave Macmillan Politics and Society in Contemporary Spain: From Zapatero to Rajoy
This edited volume examines the political, social, and economic developments in contemporary Spain, with a particular focus on the period of the Socialist government (2008-11), the 2011 elections, and the challenges facing Spain and the new Popular Party government.
£40.49
Palgrave Macmillan Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach
The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process.
£80.99
Palgrave Macmillan Online Video Revolution: How to Reinvent and Market Your Business Using Video
Online video expert, John Cecil provides a guide to successfully utilizing video in your marketing strategy by outlining tools and techniques for video creation and distribution. Online Video Revolution provides a holistic, metrics-driven approach which has been successful for Canon, Legalzoom, eHarmony and many more.
£35.99
Palgrave Macmillan Rethinking Gender, Work and Care in a New Europe: Theorising Markets and Societies in the Post-Postsocialist Era
Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the recent dynamic developments in women's work and care in these societies, and the socio-political determinants thereof. Considering their specific cultural, economic and historical development, it can be assumed that the trends and determinants of women's labour market trajectories in CEE countries differ significantly from those in the other European countries that have frequently made up the basis for established theories in social and labour market research. This being the case, can 'standard' theoretical approaches, mostly modelled on evidence from Western Europe, be transferred to the analysis of Eastern European countries? This edited collection scrutinises pivotal aspects of women's careers in Eastern Europe, providing a detailed overview of trends and determinants of women's employment in Eastern Europe, and reflecting critically on theoretical approaches in social and labour market research.
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Palgrave Macmillan Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections
In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterised by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through detailed readings of novels by famous American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Arthur Miller, alongside those by lesser-known British writers such as Frederic Raphael, Jonathan Wilson, Howard Jacobson and Clive Sinclair, certain common preoccupations emerge: Gentiles who mistake themselves for Jews; Jewish hostility towards Nature; writing (and not writing) about the Holocaust, and the relationship between fact and fiction.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean
This volume does four things. Firstly it examines the nexus between the illegal narcotics enterprise as a social phenomenon and political economy as a scholarly issue area. Secondly it explores the regional and global contexts of the political economy of illegal narcotics operations in the Caribbean. Thirdly it assesses some of the political economy connections and consequences of the enterprise in the region. Finally, it discusses some of the measures adopted to contend with the illegal drug challenge in the area.
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Palgrave Macmillan Behind Closed Doors in White South Africa: Incest Survivors Tell their Stories
The intent in this book is to tear away the veil of secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa by presenting five in-depth personal accounts of this heinous form of sexual exploitation as told by the survivors. Each of these accounts includes an analysis of important incest-related issues raised by the survivor's story. Another objective is to explore the connections between the often cruel sexual exploitation of girls by their white male relatives and the brutal exploitation of black people by white men in South Africa.
£44.00
Palgrave Macmillan An Evelyn Waugh Chronology
This chronology covers the whole sweep of Evelyn Waugh's varied and eventful life and career, including his numerous friendships, his active social life and his exotic travels. Drawing on Waugh's own letters and diaries as well as other sources, it provides accurate and detailed information in a highly accessible form. Its layout enables it to be used for checking specific items of information, but it can also serve as an 'alternative' biography.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Lesbian Premodern
Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation to premodern cultures.
£89.99
Palgrave Macmillan Troubling Muslim Youth Identities: Nation, Religion, Gender
This book explores the production of Muslim youth identities, with respect to nation, religion and gender in Pakistan, Senegal, Nigeria and Lebanon. As Muslim-majority, post-colonial states with significant youth populations, these countries offer critical case studies for the exploration of the different grammars of youth identities, and ‘trouble’ the perceived homogeneity of Muslims in local and global imaginaries. The authors offer rigorous and detailed accounts of the local, situated and contingent ways in which youth articulate their identities and sense of belonging, and the book reflects on the importance of affect, belonging and affiliation in the construction of youth narratives of identity as well as highlighting their political and contested nature. Troubling Muslim Youth Identities will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of development studies, social and cultural studies, gender, geography, education, and peace and conflict studies.
£71.99
Palgrave Macmillan A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower
In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used.
£109.99
Palgrave Macmillan The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China
Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns.
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Palgrave Macmillan Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits
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 contextualises his fiction.
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Palgrave Macmillan Public Policies for Human Development: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America
This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs) and their achievement in 2015. It looks at how to make public policies more conducive to support sustained growth and reduce the still widespread poverty and inequality in the region
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Palgrave Macmillan The Importance of Neglect in Policy-Making
De Vries argues that it is possible to explain when and in what direction policy change is likely to occur. He argues that what is neglected at present is likely to become dominant in policies of the near future. With the birth of a new policy generation a convergence towards meeting the dominant value of that generation will become evident.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Female Gothic: New Directions
This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.
£99.99
Palgrave Macmillan White Women Captives in North Africa: Narratives of Enslavement, 1735-1830
A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa.
£109.99
Palgrave Macmillan Turning Down the Heat: The Politics of Climate Policy in Affluent Democracies
This study analyses the politics of climate policy in a range of affluent democracies and at EU level in order to identify political strategies that would make it easier for governments to make major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions without sustaining significant political damage.
£80.99
Palgrave Macmillan Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture
Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.
£58.49
Palgrave Macmillan Marketing Competences and Strategic Flexibility in China
Today's China presents a unique setting for organizations. Through an examination of current Chinese business, this book addresses its business culture and environment. In particular, it considers how firms build distinctive capabilities of organizational learning and strategic flexibility to achieve superior customer-focused performance.
£80.99
Palgrave Macmillan Richard III
With interviews with actors and directors including Simon Russell Beale, Bill Alexander and Richard Eyre, along with detailed looks at productions at the RSC and elsewhere, this new edition of the play offers innovative ways of looking at and understanding Shakespeare, as well as student-friendly notes and summaries.
£9.04
Palgrave Macmillan Living on the Wind Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
Scott Weidensaul follows hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, Bar-tailed Godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000 miles nonstop across the Pacific from Alaska to New Zealand, and the Myriad Songbirds whose numbers have dwindled so dramatically in recent years.
£17.10
Palgrave Macmillan The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined the location of many mass gravesites with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian Holocaust. Compiling new archival material and many eye-witness accounts, Desbois has put together the first definitive account of one of history's bloodiest chapters.Published with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
£15.99
Palgrave Macmillan Haiti: The Tumultuous History - from Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation
In the aftermath of January's horrific earthquake, the world's attention is focused on Haiti. In this full narrative history of the Caribbean nation, historian Philippe Girard offers insight into Haiti's complex and layered past, showing that its current state as the poorest country in the western hemisphere was not inevitable. This highly readable and accessible history takes the reader back two hundred years to a time when Haiti was so prosperous it was known as the Pearl of the Antilles. Haiti was the only country in the Americas to pull off a successful slave revolution, yet today its survival is completely dependent on foreign aid. As all eyes turn to watch what happens to Haiti, author Girard provides the necessary context for envisioning its future - including a detailed account of the quake's consequences, an assessment of the benefit and cost of an American intervention, and commentary on what Haiti must do to rebuild for a brighter future.
£14.62
Palgrave Macmillan The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education
As homeschooling expands and parents assume greater control of their children's education, this is a guide on how to apply the foundations of classical learning - either in home schooling or as a supplement to classroom-oriented education. Leigh A. Bortins, offers the tools and resources parents need to implement this in the home.
£13.99
Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Indias Economic Development 5000BC to 2024AD Volume II
1. The Gupta Empire 400AD to 600AD.- 2. Chalukya and Kamataa: King Pulakeshin 543AD to 753AD.- 3. The Pallava Dynasty -275AD to 897AD.- 4. The Chola Dynasty 846AD to 1215AD.- 5. The Delhi Sultanate 1226AD to 1526AD.- 6. The Mughal Dynasty 1526AD to 1857AD.- 7. The British East India Company and The British Raj 1757AD to 1947AD.- 8. An Independent India 1947AD to 2020 AD.- 9. Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan African Philosophic Sagacity in Selected African Languages and Proverbs
1: Introduction and Discussion of Oruka's Philosophic Sagacity.- 2: Logic in Selected African Languages and Proverbs.- 3: Moral Philosophy in Selected African Languages and Proverbs.- 4: Political Philosophy in Selected African Languages and Proverb.- 5: Social Philosophy in Selected African Languages and Proverbs.- 6: Theory of Knowledge in Selected African Languages and Proverbs.- 7: Metaphysics in Selected African Languages and Proverbs.- 8: Philosophy of Beauty in Selected African Languages and Proverbs.- 9: Conclusions and Recommendations.
£109.99
Palgrave Macmillan Apes and Monkeys on the Early Modern Stage 16031659
1. The Renaissance Animal: Critics and Contexts.- 2. The Renaissance Monkey.- 3. Somewhat Like A Man': Apes, Boy Players, Women.- 4. Vir-tue: Being a Man.- 5. Bacon's Antimasquing Baboons.- 6. The Memorable Masque, 1613.- 7. Beaumont and Fletcher (with Shakespeare).- 8. Apes, Indigeneity and the Early Modern Travel Narrative.- 9. A Brace of Court Apes: James Shirley's Masques.- 10. Sir William and His Apes: Davenant, monkeys and the staging of disorder.- 11. The End of the Antique Measures.
£109.99
Palgrave Macmillan Twenty-first Century Feminism: Forming and Performing Femininity
This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contested, complex, and frequently problematic.
£44.99
Palgrave Macmillan At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings
This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.
£44.99
Palgrave Macmillan Is Fairtrade Fair?
Evaluates the capacity of Fairtrade® labeling to enhance the livelihoods of marginalized producers in developing countries. It looks critically at the evolution of fair trade values and markets, including its somewhat controversial engagement with conventional businesses, and problematizes the role of the "ethical consumer."
£40.49
