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Pragmatic Liberalism(2007) HUNTER, A.,MILOFSKY, C.This book analyzes the problems of U.S. politics and public policy and proposes a solution rooted in a deep American consensus that often goes unrecognized. The authors critique three dominant ideological perspectives - conservative, radical, and liberalVezava: Mehka70,86 € -
Economic Sanctions(2008) EYLER, R.This book looks at economic sanctions, using a political economy foundation. The author investigates the effectiveness of sanctions and the human suffering caused by them from a political and economic vantage, addressing political decisions, case studies,Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941(2007) DAVIDANN, J.This study explores U.S-Japanese relations in the interwar period to find that the seeds of the Pacific War were sown in the failure of cultural diplomacy and the growth of mutually antagonistic images. While most Americans came to see Japan's modernity aVezava: Mehka140,82 €
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Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics(2007) SALAITA, S.N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustraVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Governing Cities in a Global Era(2008) HAMBLETON, R.This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes require that we rethink governance and urban policy, and that we do so throuVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Whiteness, Otherness and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk(2007) TRABER, D.Traber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture.Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Importing Madame Bovary(2007) AMANN, E.After its succès de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert's Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary's journeyVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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American Political Poetry in the 21st Century(2007) DOWDY, M.Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to the present. He brings together a unique and diverse collection of poets, including an innovative sectioVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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China and Japan at Odds(2007)This book is a penetrating study of the long conflict between China and Japan. Drawing upon history, geopolitics and geoeconomics, this volume examines these important Asian powers at the bilateral, regional, and global levels. Contributors examine issuesVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Environmental Technology Development in Liberal and Coordinated Market Economies(2006) WONG, S.This book explores the role of institutions in policy-making and the states, role in promotion of technology, focusing on, environmental technology development. Case studies include wind power diffusion in the UK and Germany, waste recycling in a varietyVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction(2008) JONES, N.The first extensive study of gay and lesbian historical fiction, this book demonstrates how the highly popular sub-genre helps us understand gay and lesbian history. It shows not only why the sub-genre should be taken more seriously by historians but alsoVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory(2007) CEFALU, PAULThis book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern liVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James(2007) HALLIDAY, S.This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American authors from the American Renaissance onwards. As well asVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Lydgate Matters(2008)Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessionsVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Literary Modernism, Bioscience, and Community in Early 20th Century Britain(2007) GORDON, C.This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the comprehension and representation of the human body fundamentally shapes a variety of the period's communal andVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature(2008) DALLEO, R.,SAEZ, E. MACHADOPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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African Security Politics Redefined(2008) DOKKEN, K.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 the role of theVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Gender, Identity, and Imperialism(2008) COOK, N.An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relationsVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Identity and Change in East Asian Conflicts(2007)This book examines the changing national identities that are transforming East Asia - pushing China and Taiwan apart and toward a showdown, while propping up a weakened North Korea. Accomplished contributors analyze the dynamics and the U.S.'s policy respVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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New Deal Theater(2008) SAAL, I.New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asVezava: Mehka70,86 €
