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Paperback. Building on The New Age Movement (1996) and The Spiritual Revolution (2005), Spiritualities of Life serves to complete a trilogy of books that Paul Heelas has published with Blackwell. The primary aim of this volume is to explore the three main ways in which spirituality have been experienced, understood and valued in western settings. Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; HRLK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405139380
- ISBN
- 9781405139380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.92
€ 49.92
Paperback. Who first coined the word "alcohol"? Spirits and drink historians Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown know. They have been on a spirituous journey since they first launched their website Shaken Not Stirred: A Celebration of the Martini. Fifteen years of travel around the world, a few worn out library cards later, they hav Series: The Food Lovers' Library. Num Pages: 160 pages, Black and white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBT; WBXD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 181 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Clearview
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908337092
- ISBN
- 9781908337092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.37
€ 13.99
€ 11.37
Paperback. Tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. This book travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to debates over globalization. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white maps, integrated illustrations & 16 page plate section. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 420. How Trade Shaped the World. 464 pages, black & white maps, integrated illustrations & 16 page plate section. Tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. This book travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to debates over globalization. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; KCLT. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 38. Weight: 480.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843548034
- ISBN
- 9781843548034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.32
€ 26.99
€ 18.32
paperback. This is the story of two immigrants, William and Katherine Brueckmann, who started a new life in America's first industrial city, Paterson New Jersey Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve life for fellow immigrants, but their vision of a socialist America was never realized. Num Pages: 205 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JHMC; KND; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 9. Weight in Grams: 361.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823221349
- ISBN
- 9780823221349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.61
€ 41.99
€ 37.61
Paperback. A collection that not only explores many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the programme of competitive festivals in democratic Athens but also the broader religious, social and political contexts in which sport and festival flourished in ancient Greece. It shows how the values of sport pervaded Greek society. Num Pages: 416 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; HBTB; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125524
- ISBN
- 9781905125524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.91
€ 33.99
€ 28.91
Paperback. Focusing on the extent to which sport plays a part in the construction of Irishness, this book also makes a contribution to more general debates about the evolution of Ireland and the Irish as well as to international discussions about the relationship between sport and identity formation. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904558330
- ISBN
- 9781904558330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.84
€ 32.99
€ 27.84
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780736078863
- ISBN
- 9780736078863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.98€ 64.07
€ 64.98
€ 64.07
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843837886
- ISBN
- 9781843837886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.55
€ 56.55
Paperback. ". raises serious and urgent questions about the relationship between sport and the configurations of power in contemporary British society, and represents an overdue and welcome intervention in the field. " Stuart Hall ". richly detailed with masses of examples of what sport is and has been in our past. " City Limits. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745605074
- ISBN
- 9780745605074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.08
€ 27.08
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199688340
- ISBN
- 9780199688340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.60
€ 13.60
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752458397
- ISBN
- 9780752458397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54
paperback. This book explores the casting of China s earliest female Olympians as celebrities within the context of a national crisis, born of internal conflicts and external attack by Japan. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 348 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFSJ1; WSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824828
- ISBN
- 9780774824828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Hardcover. An extensive and fascinating history of the sporting lodge. Num Pages: 224 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: HBTB; WSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 201 x 23. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Publisher
- Quiller Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846891687
- ISBN
- 9781846891687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.96
€ 33.99
€ 28.96
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; WS. Category: (ES) Secondary; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403940742
- ISBN
- 9781403940742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.22
€ 50.22
Paperback. The battle to keep the nation fed during the Second World War was waged by an army of workers on the land and the resourcefulness of the housewives on the Kitchen Front. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 124 x 17. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752459462
- ISBN
- 9780752459462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.45
€ 17.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. A study of Sir Maurice Oldfield's life that portrays one of the UK's most important and complex spies of the Cold War era. He was the first Chief of MI6 that hadn't come from an upper-class background or studied at Eton or Oxbridge. Rather, he was a farmer's son from a provincial grammar school. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; HBJD1; HBTW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552171625
- ISBN
- 9780552171625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.66
€ 16.99
€ 12.66
Hardback. Everything you wanted to know about accordions in America--but were afraid to ask Series: Folklore Studies in Multicultural World. Num Pages: 304 pages, 35 color photographs, 34 black and white photographs, 1 line drawing, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVRN; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252036750
- ISBN
- 9780252036750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.39
€ 33.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages, Frontispiece, 17 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKS; HBJF; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789521
- ISBN
- 9780226789521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.94
€ 32.99
€ 25.94
Paperback. The story in words and pictures of Holland America Line's Art Deco masterpiece. Num Pages: 128 pages, 190. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JJ; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 247 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445650487
- ISBN
- 9781445650487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.75
€ 34.75
Paperback. Covers the SS United States' active service from 1952 to 1969 when she dominated the seas of Atlantic, sweeping all rivals before her. This title offers insight into the record-breaking liner, how she performed in the secret sea trials and her epic maiden voyage. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 250 x 10. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The History Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752479538
- ISBN
- 9780752479538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.87
€ 33.99
€ 28.87