Tous les livres numériques de Palgrave Pivot en PDF et EPUB

1642 Livre(s)


Meritocratic Education and Social Worthlessness Khen Lampert This book critically examines the socio-cultural role of achievement within education, arguing that the increasingly global demand for measurable standards of academic achievement is an expression of political ideology and the aggressive competitive reality of a... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-12-24 PDF 68,56 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Future of Foreign Aid R. Mallett , A. Sumner Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-income countries. As a consequence, they propose a series of practical, policy relevant options for future development... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-12-18 PDF 53,24 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Modernism's Second Act: A Cultural Narrative I. Nadel European modernism underwent a massive change from 1930 to 1960, as war altered the cultural landscape. This account of artists and writers in France and England explores how modernism survived under authoritarianism, whether Fascism, National Socialism, or Stalinism,... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-12-17 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing G. Atkins More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-12-17 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China C. Lynteris Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Narrating the Past through Theatre M. Bennett This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre both brings the past alive and also fixes it, but through the performance... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Emerging American Garrison State Milton J. Esman The constitutional structure of the American federal government is no longer providing responsible and effective governance. To overcome the current paralysis in government, to resume effective management of its crippled economy and of its global empire, a new pattern... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0 S. Fuller , S. Fuller Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously consider what a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be. Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 42,39 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Citizen-Consumers and Evolution Mikael Klintman This book develops a groundbreaking, novel approach to examining ethical consumer behaviour from the perspective of evolutionary theory, illustrating the deeply rooted potentials and limits within society for reducing environmental harm. Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 53,24 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Geopiracy Joel Wainwright Geopiracy is a study of the 'Bowman expeditions'—a project through which geographers, with funding from the US Army, are mapping the 'human terrain' of foreign lands. Wainwright offers a critique of human geography today that draws on contemporary social theory to raise... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Textual Imitation: Making and Seeing in Literature J. Hart Textual Imitation offers a new critique of the space between fiction and truth, poetry and philosophy. In a nimble, yet startlingly wide-ranging argument, esteemed scholar Jonathan Hart argues that recognition and misrecognition are the keys to understanding texts and... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,24 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth G. Atkins By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Instilling Religion in Greek and Turkish Nationalism: A “Sacred Synthesis” I. Grigoriadis The first comparative study to examine the role of religion in the formation of Greek and Turkish nationalisms, this book argues that the shift to an increasingly religious paradigm in both countries can be explained in terms of the exigencies of consolidation and the... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Moments, Attachment and Formations of Selfhood Kelly Forrest Using innovative empirical data, this book presents a unique approach to looking at moments, exploring the deeper meanings of why memories stand out and how they influence an individual's sense of self. Forrest challenges the privileged position of narrative coherence... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Live To Your Local Cinema M. Barker The digital broadcasting of performances to cinemas, or 'livecasting', burst onto the world scene in 2006. This book explores the reasons for its rise, examines the aesthetics of filming theatre and opera performances, and explores who the audiences are and what they... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 32,53 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Japan and Reconciliation in Post-war Asia K. Togo Taking a comparative approach and bringing together perspectives from Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan, this volume considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement, the height of Japan's post-war apology, and examines its implications... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,24 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Media, Myth, and Society A. Berger Using a cultural approach to classical myths, this book examines how they affect psychoanalytic theory, historical experience, elite culture, popular culture, and everyday life. Berger explores diverse topics such as the Oedipus Myth, James Bond, Star Wars, and fairy... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Fukushima D. Elliott The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 led Japan, and many other countries, to change their energy policies. David Elliott reviews the disaster and its global implications, asking whether, despite continued backing by some governments, the growing opposition to... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-30 PDF 84,39 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Being a Muslim in the World H. Dabashi What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage -... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-29 PDF 39,43 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Global and Transnational History A. Iriye It is no exaggeration to say that the study of history has been transformed significantly during the last twenty-odd years. Akira Iriye, the world authority on transnational history, examines the emergence and growth of global and transnational history, away from more... Editeur : Palgrave Pivot Parution : 2012-10-29 PDF 73,84 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
<< < 80 818283 >

Les livres numériques peuvent être téléchargés depuis votre librairie numérique ou directement depuis une tablette ou smartphone.

PDF : format reprenant la maquette originale du livre ; lecture recommandée sur ordinateur et tablette
EPUB : format de texte repositionnable ; lecture sur tous supports (ordinateur, tablette, smartphone, liseuse)

Votre support de lecture	Format	Application
Ordinateur	-EPUB -PDF	Adobe Digital Editions
Tablette et Smartphone Android	-EPUB -PDF	Adobe Digital Editions pour Android
iPad	-EPUB -PDF	Adobe Digital Editions pour Apple
iPhone	-EPUB	Adobe Digital Editions pour Apple
Liseuse	-EPUB	Module de lecture de la liseuse

Consultez l’aide pour en savoir plus.

Catalogue

Tous les livres numériques de Palgrave Pivot en PDF et EPUB