Palgrave Macmillan Uk: 6973 books
Performing Exile, Performing Self
Drama, Theatre, Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his everyday life and his artistic work.
Humanity 2.0
What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first synthesis of historical, philosophical and sociological insights needed to address this question in a thoughtful and creative manner.
The Rise and Fall of COMSAT
Technology, Business, and Government in Satellite Communications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
After pioneering this technology and growing the market, COMSAT fell prey to changes in government policy and to its own lack of entrepreneurial talent. The author explores the factors which contributed to this rise and fall of COMSAT.
by R. Ayson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Offering a comprehensive account of the work of Hedley Bull, Ayson analyses the breadth of Bull's work as a Foreign Office official for Harold Wilson's government, the complexity of his views, including Bull's unpublished papers, and challenges some of the comfortable assertions about Bull's place in the English School of IR.
On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays
Selected Essays of G. C. Harcourt
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the lives and times of the Cambridge School of Economists, and the immense contribution that these thinkers, including the author, made to the discipline.
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist
Cambridge Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays.
Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics
Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book highlights the catalytic role of workers’ education in mobilizing political activism and women’s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers’ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on...
Criminal Actions and Social Situations
Understanding the Role of Structure and Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the technical – and problematic – issues of how intention...
War Trauma and English Modernism
T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation.
Stretching the Sociological Imagination
Essays in Honour of John Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles. Inspired by the eminent Glasgow-based sociologist, John Eldridge, it re-engages with the concept and shows how it can be applied to analyzing society today.
Pynchon and Philosophy
Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach.
by G. Patios
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it.
Writing Islam from a South Asian Muslim Perspective
Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam, Shamsie
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores whether the post-9/11 novels of Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie can be read as part of an attempt to revise modern ‘knowledge’ of the Islamic world, using globally-distributed English-language literature to reframe Muslims’ potential to connect with others. Focussing on...
Reason, Will and Emotion
Defending the Greek Tradition against Triune Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This powerful exploration of an important topic in philosophy of mind from ancient to contemporary philosophy presents an original argument against the current direction of debate and examines a wide range of philosophers from both continental and analytic traditions.