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Paperback. People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. The author traces this complex notion of self from Plato's Greece to Seneca's Rome as she unveils divided selves, moral hypocrisy, and lustful Stoics - and offers fresh insights about seminal works. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226211725
- ISBN
- 9780226211725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.96
€ 32.99
€ 25.96
Hardcover. People in the ancient world thought of vision as an ethical tool and a tactile sense. Gazing upon someone was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility also introduced an erotic element. This title asserts that these links among vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge are key to the understanding of the self. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 185 x 30. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226038353
- ISBN
- 9780226038353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.93€ 78.49
€ 94.93
€ 78.49
Paperback. A prominent activist's guide to settlement in Canada "for the information of colored immigrants." Editor(s): Antwi, Phanuel. Series: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBTS; JFFN; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 60
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554813216
- ISBN
- 9781554813216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.71
€ 23.71
Hardcover. Hardback in good condition. With dustjacket. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- RANDOM HOUSE
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1970
- SKU
- KRF0039910
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. This biography does not present Edward II as a heroic or successful king: his deposition after a turbulent reign of nearly twenty years is proof enough that it went terribly wrong. Series: The Yale English Monarchs Series. Num Pages: 704 pages, 20 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1084.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300178029
- ISBN
- 9780300178029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.21
€ 29.99
€ 24.21
Hardback. Series: Political Economy of Islam. Num Pages: 332 pages, 41 colour illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 46 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBLA; HRH; KCS; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137517494
- ISBN
- 9781137517494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.80
€ 143.80
Hardback. Scholars have described the eighteenth century in China as a time of "state activism" and often associate the Taiping Rebellion and postbellum restoration efforts with the origins of elite activism. Seunghyun Han, however, argues that the ascendance of elite activism can be traced to the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns in the early nineteenth century. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674737174
- ISBN
- 9780674737174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Hardback. This book project is a cultural history of rice consumption in the city of Canton (now Guangzhou), China's southernmost metropolis. Special emphasis is placed on the qualitative dimension of the local food culture and the dynamic interactions between the local society and the modern state. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 tables, 6 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; JPRB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804772266
- ISBN
- 9780804772266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.32
€ 86.32
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442630345
- ISBN
- 9781442630345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.83
€ 53.83
Gandhi: Pioneer of Nonviolent Social Change (Library of World Biograph...
Sethia, Tara; Stearns, Peter N.
paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pearson United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780321333056
- ISBN
- 9780321333056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.49
€ 68.49
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 458 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691652115
- ISBN
- 9780691652115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 226.50
€ 226.50
Paperback. With hardly a day without a water-crisis story somewhere, Let There Be Water offers prescriptions on how countries, cities, and businesses can avoid the worst of it. Let There Be Water tells the inspiring story of how this all came to be. Num Pages: 2 maps, 2 8 page colour photograph inserts. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTB; HBJF1; JP; KFFR; RBK; RNF; TQSW; TVDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 22. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250115560
- ISBN
- 9781250115560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.27
€ 23.99
€ 20.27
Hardback. An essential look at the unknown story of how Israel has avoided the coming water crisis despite being mostly desert. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTB; HBJF1; JP; RNF; TQSW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Publisher
- St Martin´s Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250073952
- ISBN
- 9781250073952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.32
€ 34.99
€ 28.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158501
- ISBN
- 9780691158501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Paints a portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. Num Pages: 424 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBLL; JFFA; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2006, Third Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128009
- ISBN
- 9780691128009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.69
€ 52.99
€ 37.69
hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; 3JD; 3JF; DSB; HBJD; HBLL; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226278285
- ISBN
- 9780226278285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.42
€ 46.99
€ 36.42
Paperback. Argues that American cultural conceptions of religion and race during the 1950s played a crucial role in framing an ideology through which U.S. policymakers understood their options in Vietnam. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 392 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBWS2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334408
- ISBN
- 9780822334408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the US financed his tyranny. This book traces the tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers in 1963. Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742544482
- ISBN
- 9780742544482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.87
€ 54.87
Hardback. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; DS; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088412
- ISBN
- 9780674088412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.79
€ 45.99
€ 37.79
Paperback. A definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the depths of the insurgency. Num Pages: 464 pages, 12 maps and charts. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393338515
- ISBN
- 9780393338515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.46
€ 17.99
€ 16.46