Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349454087 ISBN 13: 9781349454082
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniature portraits, carvings, placards, masques, funerary monuments, and imprese. 248 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1137486481 ISBN 13: 9781137486486
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomystory of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on theCzech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. 276 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349439851 ISBN 13: 9781349439850
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the persistence of social violence and public insecurity in Honduras. Using a spatial perspective, the author looks at the Honduran state's security polices - known as Mano Dura - and the challenges authorities face. She points to the state's historical difficulty producing and ordering political territory and space. 180 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349446149 ISBN 13: 9781349446148
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents a comparative perspective to the study of European politics, focusing on the unique and transformative effect of European Union on the politics of its member states - in effect, the Europeanization of European politics. For no other world region is there a similar intensity of Treaty and other obligations on a set of neighboring states, nor a comparable depth of of supranational governance. The concept of Europeanism as an evaluative theme is used to explore this unique, sui generis, region, its states, and its political transformation in the 21st century. 272 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349445827 ISBN 13: 9781349445820
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that would be necessary if we are to achieve a good society. 296 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349295329 ISBN 13: 9781349295326
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomystory of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on theCzech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. 276 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349456381 ISBN 13: 9781349456383
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Exploring how restrictions on citizenship helped create conditions for political violence in Peru, this book recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean town were persistently overruled, thereby perpetuating antagonism toward the state and political centralism in Peru. 244 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349457051 ISBN 13: 9781349457052
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Detroit and Turin were both sites of significant political and social upheaval. This comparative and transnational study examines the political and theoretical developments that emerged in these two 'motor cities' among activist workers and political militants during these decades. 268 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349433497 ISBN 13: 9781349433490
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to pastoral power passively, they constructed fantasies and behaviors, redeploying or 'folding' it to create new forms of life and culture. Incorporating the work of Nietzsche, Foucault, Lacan, and Deleuze, Suzanne Verderber presents a model of the subject in which the opposition between interior self and external world is dislodged. 216 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349343188 ISBN 13: 9781349343188
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 assesses New Labour's policy towards secondary education in Britain. It shows that, in many respects, New Labour education policy was a continuation of the policies pursued by the education ministers of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. 204 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349463086 ISBN 13: 9781349463084
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a close philosophical reading of King Lear and Timon of Athens which provides insights into the groundbreaking ontological discourse on poverty and money. Analysis of the discourse of poverty and the critique of money helps to read Shakespeare philosophically and opens new reflections on central questions of our own time. 284 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349460141 ISBN 13: 9781349460144
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Meltdown that led to the Great Recession and the Giant Oil Spill. The author uses stress-testing to identify weaknesses within the 'system,' and examine the response to disaster. 212 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349446416 ISBN 13: 9781349446414
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume identifies, problematizes, and discusses issues specific to the design of educational programs for teacher candidates from working class, ethnic- and language-minority, and immigrant backgrounds, taking as its starting point the distinctive, complex perspectives that these candidates bring to the university classroom. 224 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 134945947X ISBN 13: 9781349459476
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this gripping book, Dr. Samli makes the case that the US economy is shifting for the worse, tilting towards a finance-driven economy, and argues that investing in innovation will bring us out of the recession and back to a successful, market-driven economy. 188 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349451959 ISBN 13: 9781349451951
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers an interdisciplinary and accessible approach to issues of global migration in the twenty-first century in 13 essays plus an appendix written by scholars and practitioners in the field. 252 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349458864 ISBN 13: 9781349458868
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is not just an update to studies of Middle Eastern policy and diplomacy, but an in-depth analysis that covers the United States' foreign and strategic policy from the days of President Roosevelt to President Obama and Pakistan's security and strategic planning since its inception to 2011, under the shadow of India and Afghanistan. 272 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 113727199X ISBN 13: 9781137271990
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using nine case studies and an overview of recent changes at the institutional level, the purpose of this book is to examine the issues and experiences associated with the increased level of activity between the United Nations and regional organizations in their efforts to address conflict in Africa. 352 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1137331402 ISBN 13: 9781137331403
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines and analyzes Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America. It shows that America's cultural homogeneity, which is based on 'whiteness,' has important consequences for racialized ethnic groups in America. The question, then, of who is an American becomes overriding. Although racialized ethnic groups remain unassimilated into the dominant culture, the recognition and celebration of the non-dominant cultures are important for multiculturalism. However, non-dominant cultures are tied to cultural otherness. Cultural otherness is looked upon as Un-Americanness. For this reason, there is a need to move beyond multiculturalism. 'Postmulticulturalism,' then, would be the new possibility. 260 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349293032 ISBN 13: 9781349293032
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Consistency and Viability of Capitalist Economic Systems develops an original analytical framework to understand the relationship between the economic, political, and ideological structures, the external environment, and the process of reform that give rise to certain economic systems by establishing consistency. 300 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US Mai 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1349460982 ISBN 13: 9781349460984
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Saving Capitalism and Democracy tries to answer the difficult questions posed by intellectuals, the media, politicians, students and ordinary people concerning the crisis and how to avert an impending catastrophe. 220 pp. Englisch.