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Berlusconi ‘The Diplomat’: Populism and Foreign Policy in Italy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. The authors examine the Italian position in the international arena and its foreign policy tradition, as well as Berlusconi’s general political stance, Berlusconi’s...

Finding the Voice of the River: Beyond Restoration and Management

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book addresses societal relationships to river systems, highlighting many unexplored possibilities in how we know and manage our rivers.

Brierley contends that although we have good scientific understanding of rivers, with remarkable prospect for profound improvements to river condition, management...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Middle America and the Caribbean

Macmillan Technical, 1995

Over 153 million people live in the Middle American and Caribbean culture areas, which are divided primarily between the Middle American mainland cultures and the Caribbean cultures of the West Indian islands and Bermuda.

Middle America is the region south of the United States and north of South America. It includes Mexico and Central...

Street Art and Democracy in Latin America (Studies of the Americas)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space for the sake of disseminating rage, claims or statements, they...

Free Will: An Introduction (Palgrave Philosophy Today)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Can we ever act freely if everything we do is determined by our genes, our upbringing and our environment? On the other hand, if everything we do isn't determined, is it just a matter of luck what we do? What are the requirements on acting freely: are they easily satisfied by ordinary people so long as they aren't coerced or manipulated...

Modern Diplomacy in Practice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This textbook, the first comprehensive comparative study ever undertaken, surveys and compares the world’s ten largest diplomatic services: those of Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Chapters cover the distinctive histories and cultures of the services,...

Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy – the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others. It investigates a broad range of case studies of languages and dialects which have for various reasons been...

Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (Mapping Global Racisms)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize

This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular...

German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way Out of the Cave

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Taking Plato’s allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation. Focusing on key thinkers in the tradition of European (and specifically German) political thought including...

Introducing UNIX and Linux (Grassroots)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

UNIX is an operating system which has seen substantial growth in its popularity over the last few years and is used by many universities and colleges, as well as in industry. Linux is a UNIX-like operating system for PCs which is freely available and has become a serious alternative to proprietary systems such as Windows. This book is a...

Creating Belonging in San Francisco Chinatown’s Diasporic Community: Morphosyntactic Aspects of Indexing Ethnic Identity

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents a much-needed discussion on ethnic identification and morphosyntactic variation in San Francisco Chinatown?a community that has received very little attention in linguistic research. An investigation of original, interactive speech data sheds light on how first- and second-generation Chinese Americans...

Building Blocks of Matter (MacMillan Science Library)

Macmillan Technical, 2003

The concepts and ideas of elementary particle physics are abstract, and they are typically expressed in the language of mathematics. However, the goal of elementary particle physics is very simple, and all the efforts of elementary particle physicists are directed toward that simple goal: to identify the basic building...

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