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Paperback. Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Zone Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299175
ISBN
9780942299175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.65

Paperback. Focuses on one of the most remarkable examples of gothic art to have survived, a unique functioning table decoration. Series: Cleveland Masterwork. BIC Classification: ACK; AGC; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 222 x 15. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
GILES
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907804946
ISBN
9781907804946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.68

paperback. Examines contact stories from indigenous and newcomer populations from New Zealand and throughout North America. This book argues that we are in the contact zone, struggling to understand the meaning of contact between indigenous and settler populations. It is suitable for scholars and students in Canadian history and First Nations studies. Editor(s): Lutz, John Sutton. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 1MBN; HBJK; HBJM; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
UBC Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774812634
ISBN
9780774812634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Hardback. Examines contact stories from indigenous and newcomer populations from New Zealand and throughout North America. Focusing on misunderstandings embedded in the stories of "first contacts" and these narratives' contemporary relevance, production, and performance, this book introduces different tools for understanding the genre. Editor(s): Lutz, John Sutton. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774812627
ISBN
9780774812627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.69

Paperback. In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HBTB; HPC; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 4. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802063489
ISBN
9780802063489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.34

Hardback. List of tables and figures; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Note on Shetland dialect; Map; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Pasts, peoples, selves; 2. Stories; 3. Place; 4. Work; 5. Culture; 6. Sexualities; 7. Power; 8. Reflections; Bibliography; Index Series Editor(s): Sharpe, Pamela; Summerfield, Penny; Abrams, Lynn; Beattie, Cordelia. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 figures, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719065927
ISBN
9780719065927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.53

Paperback. An exploration of the myth and the reality of the creation of Yellowstone National Park and how these ideas reflect the history and culture of the Gilded Age Num Pages: 146 pages, 28 illustrations, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: 1KBBWD; 1KBBWM; 1KBBWY; HBTB; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234734
ISBN
9780803234734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.51

paperback. After an analysis of original Old Burmese and other primary sources, the author discovered that four out of the five events considered to be the most important in the history of early Burma, and believed to have been historically accurate, are actually late-nineteenth and twentieth-century inventions of colonial historians. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 231 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMB; HBG; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896802018
ISBN
9780896802018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.32

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780932885289
ISBN
9780932885289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.67

Paperback. Rather than focus on the departures of the sixteenth-century Reformation from medieval traditions, the essays in this volume explore one of the most remarkable yet still under-studied chapters in its history: the survival and transformation of mysticism between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Editor(s): Poor, Sara S.; Smith, Nigel. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBLH; HRCC9; HRCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038984
ISBN
9780268038984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 42.12

paperback. Surveys over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. Series Editor(s): Clayton, John; Collins, Steven; Lange, Nicholas de; Graham, William. Series: Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 300 x 29. Weight in Grams: 494. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034321
ISBN
9780521468282
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

Paperback. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Murdoch Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KRF0008966
ISBN
9781740452557
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

The first mapping of the sacred geography ("mythscape") of the Northern Arawak-speaking people of the northwest Amazon, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and Baniwa sacred narratives Num Pages: 408 pages, 18 photographs, 7 illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803243941
ISBN
9780803243941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.16

Hardcover. Used hardback in good condition with dustjacket, some shelf wear. Ex library with usual markings.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Elsevier/Nelson Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1981
SKU
KRF0039733
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 50 b&w illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816673841
ISBN
9780816673841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. Provides readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. This book reconstructs a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive, makes this a critical and urgent work of history. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBLH; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
25 Rev ed
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195175370
ISBN
9780195175370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.65

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752419510
ISBN
9780752419510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.58

Hardcover. Good clean copy in dust jacket. DJ has some wear and tear but remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Burd Street Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0000688
ISBN
9781572490239
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Num Pages: 384 pages, 82 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBWQ; JWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670. Behind Enemy Lines in France and Burmah with the Special Operations Executive. 384 pages, 82 black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBWQ; JWH. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 26. Weight: 686.
Publisher
Independent Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781872836850
ISBN
9781872836850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

Paperback. Heavily scored copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Some warping to covers and pages but remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Adams Media Corporation
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0008956
ISBN
9781558506176
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing some light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Times Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0005985
ISBN
9780812925326
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Times Books
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KMK0003390
ISBN
9780812925326
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Presents the stories of the war: a firefight where the resistance came from 'men in black'; a night spent chain-smoking in the guard tower counting the tracer bullets being fired over the city; and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; BGHA; HBG; HBLW3; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy showing light shelfwear to covers and page edges, remains in good condition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KSG0009499
ISBN
9780552154376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'My Vietnam' is Dave Morgan's story. A typical 20 year old, he was forced into extraordinary circumstances in Vietnam. The Vietnam War would expose Dave to an omnipresent danger and sheer terror that would impact him forever. Dave's story focuses on his time as a soldier and his return psychologically exhausted to a divided nation. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HBWS2; MMZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Big Sky Publishing Australia
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922132772
ISBN
9781922132772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

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