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paperback. Considers the presence and use of texts in religious and political ritual in Early China. Through balanced attention to both the received literary tradition and the range of excavated artefacts, manuscripts, and inscriptions, this title reveals the rich and multilayered interplay of textual composition and ritual performance. Editor(s): Kern, Martin. Num Pages: 362 pages, 7 bw photos,. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987873
- ISBN
- 9780295987873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.39
€ 36.99
€ 34.39
Hardcover. This is the first book to study representations of the non-Western world in European modernist cinema. In offering new perspectives on the history of Soviet montage cinema and on the British documentary movement, it connects with the growing body of work analysing manifestations of orientalism, Eurocentrism and colonial discourse in the cinema. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 line drawings/halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; APF; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896047
- ISBN
- 9780859896047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.11
€ 143.11
Hardback. A collection of 50 of the most significant speeches from around the globe that demonstrably changed the modern world and analysis into the impact they had. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNS; GBCQ; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 251 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1038.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473640948
- ISBN
- 9781473640948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.77
€ 26.99
€ 18.77
Paperback. This work looks at why moral values enhance and solidify erotic and marital relationships. In the process, it challenges cynicism about marriage while remaining sensitive to the innumerable problems confronting couples. Its approach to marital love is both traditional and modern. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFC; JHBK; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700607679
- ISBN
- 9780700607679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.83
€ 30.83
Hardcover. From 1505 to 1689, Russia's Tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides and the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, this book offers an analysis of the show's role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia. Num Pages: 396 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804484
- ISBN
- 9780875804484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.43
€ 60.43
Paperback. Brings together primary and secondary documents related to the reparations movement in the United States. While the movement is united in its goal of "repairing" the injustices to African Americans that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow, this title reveals the range of opinions as to the form that repair might take. Editor(s): Martin, Michael T.; Yaquinto, Marilyn. Num Pages: 728 pages, 6 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; HBJK; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 42. Weight in Grams: 993.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 728
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340249
- ISBN
- 9780822340249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.62
€ 41.99
€ 37.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCR; HRJ; HRLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764228971
- ISBN
- 9780764228971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.67
€ 17.99
€ 17.67
Paperback. Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented "art" as we know it today. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; ABA; ACV; HPN; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106016
- ISBN
- 9780231106016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Hardcover. The Laveaus were free women of colour, prominent French-speaking Creoles who, from the 1820s until the 1880s, when one died and the other disappeared, fuelled gossip, fear, and fierce affection. Martha Ward explores the lives of this extraordinary mother and daughter, shamens who ruled the imagination of New Orleans. Num Pages: 246 pages, illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: HRK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578066292
- ISBN
- 9781578066292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.26
€ 31.99
€ 30.26
Hardcover. Editor(s): Oppenheim, A Leo; Reiner, Erica; Roth, Martha T. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 289 x 209 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1048.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago United States
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780918986153
- ISBN
- 9780918986153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.19
€ 77.19
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780918986139
- ISBN
- 9780918986139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.57
€ 85.57
Hardcover. Editor(s): Brinkman, John A. Num Pages: 441 pages. BIC Classification: HDD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1678.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781885923141
- ISBN
- 9781885923141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.10
€ 130.10
Hardcover. Editor(s): Oppenheim, A Leo; Roth, Martha T; Reiner, Erica. Series: Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the Univers. Num Pages: 435 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DB; HBJF1; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 211 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780918986108
- ISBN
- 9780918986108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.45
€ 98.45
Paperback. Este libro se enfoca en los elementos basicos de la educacion cristiana, presentando formas e ideas creativas para ensenar en las escuelas dominicales. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV2. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- CLIE US
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788476452967
- ISBN
- 9788476452967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.52
€ 12.52
Hardback. Cleansing Honor with Blood examines the daily experiences of interpersonal violence, the elaboration of masculine identities around honor and the practice of violence, and the contests for power and authority among free poor men from the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceara between 1845 and 1889. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804774567
- ISBN
- 9780804774567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.04
€ 82.04
Paperback. An interpretative racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from pre-Hispanic times to the present. It uses the concept of racialisation to describe the process through which Spanish, Mexican and US authorities constructed racial status hierarchies. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 389 pages, 50 b&w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292752542
- ISBN
- 9780292752542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.18
€ 34.99
€ 32.18
Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis Xiv´s Chapel at ...
Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds
Hardback. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Louis XIV's magnificent palace chapel at Versailles. The story of this carefully calculated dynastic shrine will interest all historians of the ancien regime. Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Art and Culture. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 293 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1384.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611491883
- ISBN
- 9781611491883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.36
€ 176.36
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810132382
- ISBN
- 9780810132382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.96€ 36.71
€ 54.96
€ 36.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226314600
- ISBN
- 9780226314600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 36.57
€ 45.99
€ 36.57
paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; HBJM; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315933
- ISBN
- 9780822315933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98