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Paperback. Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of Ancient Greece and Rome.This work considers how erotic experience is understood in classical texts, and what ethical and philosophical arguments are made about sex? Editor(s): Nussbaum, Martha C.; Sihvola, Juha. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBG; HBLA; JFCX; JFSJ; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226609157
ISBN
9780226609157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; HRA; JFC; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226616018
ISBN
9780226616018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 380 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; HRK; JFC; JMTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226618555
ISBN
9780226618555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.51

Paperback. This text presents eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta are some of the writers included. The importance of children and community in the literary tradition of African womanism is assessed. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226620855
ISBN
9780226620855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226639673
ISBN
9780226639673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Explores what it means to be a subject in the historical and poetic imagination of a southern Moroccan society. Incorporating poetic texts, legends, social spaces, folktales and conversations, this book is a synthesis of dissonant, often idiosyncratic voices from the Maghribi post-colonial present. Num Pages: 398 pages, 1 colour plate. BIC Classification: 1HBM; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226645322
ISBN
9780226645322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

Paperback. Arguing that attention to Shakespearean wordplay reveals unexpected linkages, not only within and between plays but also between the plays and their contemporary culture, this book combines feminist and historical approaches with attention to the "matter" of language as well as of race and gender. Num Pages: 402 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226645858
ISBN
9780226645858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226647494
ISBN
9780226647494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.52

Paperback. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HRA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226653129
ISBN
9780226653129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 484 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226661018
ISBN
9780226661018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.09
€ 44.25

Paperback. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during the Victorian period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of the social body. Readings of Disraeli, Gaskell and Dickens are included in the discussion. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; JFCX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226675244
ISBN
9780226675244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 229 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1958
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
3rd Impression 1958
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226676333
ISBN
9780226676333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. A study of the Belyuen community of northern Australia, showing how it draws identity from deep connections between labour, language and the landscape. Povinelli's findings challenge Western notions of "productive labour" and long-standing ideas about the role of culture in subsistence economies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226676746
ISBN
9780226676746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

paperback. Series: Midway Reprints. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226706702
ISBN
9780226706702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.01

Paperback. A study of moral education in American universities that examines the consequences of the 19th-century debates over the purpose and pursuit of higher education, and the modernization efforts of the academic reformers of that era. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFCX; JNA; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226710204
ISBN
9780226710204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.69

Paperback. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 718 pages, 38 halftones. BIC Classification: JFCX; JMC; PDA; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 230 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
718
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226712000
ISBN
9780226712000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.22
€ 49.99

Hardcover. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age. This title tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built a chronological scale that has made it possible to reconstruct the history of nature itself. Translator(s): Venerella, John. Num Pages: 481 pages, 12 halftones, 27 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFCX; RBGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 32. Weight in Grams: 796.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
481
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226712871
ISBN
9780226712871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 27.05

Paperback. Translator(s): Goldhammer, A. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226723563
ISBN
9780226723563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. Translator(s): Biebuyck, B. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226730066
ISBN
9780226730066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.09
€ 44.25

Paperback. In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell. Num Pages: 200 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; JFC; JFD; JKVM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226732183
ISBN
9780226732183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

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