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Paperback. The author attempts to dispel what he believes to be the myth of modern Japan, and finds that it is not the extraordinary success it is frequently claimed to be. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JH; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333545683
- ISBN
- 9780333545683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.93
€ 38.93
paperback. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; KCD; KCL; KJC; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349422326
- ISBN
- 9781349422326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. The values of traditionalist Islam are often portrayed as inherently hostile to those of a modern, pluralistic society. This book shatters many of these stereotypes. Jonah Blank provides a first-hand account of the Daudi Bohra to show how a premodern clerical elite has embraced modernity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRH; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226056777
- ISBN
- 9780226056777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This study of Howl elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246775
- ISBN
- 9780520246775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.31
€ 31.99
€ 23.31
Paperback. Editor(s): Roffe, Jonathan. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPS; JFC; PSTS; RN; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349497751
- ISBN
- 9781349497751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Paperback. Bringing together many of today's key scholars of verbal charming, these essays cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia. As the most comprehensive collection of research on charms, charmers and charming available in the English language, it forms an essential reader on the topic. Editor(s): Roper, Jonathan. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD; HBTB; HRAC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362509
- ISBN
- 9781349362509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 182.72
€ 182.72
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786990365
- ISBN
- 9781786990365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.07€ 64.09
€ 101.07
€ 64.09
paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816614684
- ISBN
- 9780816614684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Shows how politics and aesthetics merge in American film noirs made between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s; their oft-noted uncanniness betrays the fear that un-American foes lurk within the homeland. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350064
- ISBN
- 9780822350064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 maps, 46 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVU; HBJD; JFCA; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231182706
- ISBN
- 9780231182706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. His chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being tackled? How exactly is the solution meant to work? Does it succeed? If not why not? What can be learned from its success or failure? Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199266289
- ISBN
- 9780199266289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.86
€ 84.86
paperback. The last pagans or the first modern Europeans? A consice history of the Vikings Series: Brief Histories. Num Pages: 288 pages, family trees. BIC Classification: 1DN; HBJD; HBLC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222. The last pagans or the first modern Europeans? A consice history of the Vikings Series: Brief Histories. Num Pages: 288 pages, family trees. BIC Classification: 1DN; HBJD; HBLC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222. Very good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Robinson London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0024734
- ISBN
- 9781845290764
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? "Just Being Difficult?" provides learned and thoughtful analyses of the entire question of how critical writing relates to its intended publics and to audiences beyond them. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliog references, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804747103
- ISBN
- 9780804747103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.60
€ 30.99
€ 27.60
Hardback. Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore argues that, far from confirming humane values, literature more often than not violates them. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745627632
- ISBN
- 9780745627632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.85
€ 79.85
Hardback. Filled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century. Series: Literary Modernism Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292723399
- ISBN
- 9780292723399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Paperback. Gives us a key to understanding modern life in our increasingly mediated and globalized world Editor(s): Gray, Jonathan; Harrington, C. Lee; Sandvoss, Cornel. Num Pages: 412 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814731826
- ISBN
- 9780814731826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.61
€ 30.99
€ 27.61
Paperback. Language and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. This work examines the neurological evolution of our emotional repertoire and implications for current social behaviour and argues that our ability to use a wide array of emotions evolved long before spoken language. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 line diagrams 1 half-tone 8 tables. BIC Classification: CFA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737203
- ISBN
- 9780804737203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. A collection of visual arts regeneration strategies mobilized by local and national governments attempting to brand their cities in regional and global markets for lucrative industries, tourism and heritage recognition. It offers analyses of the history of regeneration policies and practices with a focus on the use of architecture and art. Editor(s): Harris, Jonathan; Williams, Dr. Richard. Series: Tate Liverpool Critical Forum. Num Pages: 347 pages, 200. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 176 x 19. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846316401
- ISBN
- 9781846316401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.94€ 70.61
€ 71.94
€ 70.61
Hardcover. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403971289
- ISBN
- 9781403971289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.89
€ 67.89
Paperback. Jonathan Israel's radical new account of the late Enlightenment highlights forgotten currents and figures. Running counter to mainstream thinking, he demonstrates how a group of philosophe-revolutionnaires provided the intellectual powerhouse of the French Revolution, and how their ideas connect with modern Western democracy. Num Pages: 1088 pages, 16 page plate section. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HPCD1; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1588.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 1088
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199668090
- ISBN
- 9780199668090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.27
€ 36.27