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Hardcover. Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231412
- ISBN
- 9780230231412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. This book provides an innovative interpretation of Hans J. Morgenthau's contribution to international relations, and argues that the concepts of meaning, power as meaning imposition, disenchantment and re-enchantment are central to Morgenthau's theory. Series: International Political Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576070
- ISBN
- 9780230576070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPB; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231176507
- ISBN
- 9780231176507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.35€ 56.82
€ 72.35
€ 56.82
Paperback. Takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal "civil society," far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control, and are invested with new forms of biopower. Series: Commonalities (FUP). Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256020
- ISBN
- 9780823256020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. A study of Machiavelli's theory of politics and history which takes as its basis a radical theory of freedom as non-domination and a philosophy that gives priority to events over forms. Series: Commonalities (FUP). Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823255948
- ISBN
- 9780823255948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
Hardcover. Front Lines documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. The epic poems, chronicles, ballads, and autobiographies that these soldiers wrote at the front provide a critical view from below on state violence and imperial expansion. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; HPCB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248425
- ISBN
- 9780812248425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.79
€ 80.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Expanded and Updated Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807055007
- ISBN
- 9780807055007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.53
€ 33.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 301.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Orbis Books (USA)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570754029
- ISBN
- 9781570754029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.41
€ 27.99
€ 24.41
Paperback. Sequencing is often associatedwith the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and expectations around genomics." Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX; PDZ; PSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321223
- ISBN
- 9781349321223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and expectations around genomics. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; MBX; PDX; PSAK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250321
- ISBN
- 9780230250321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Paperback. When we talk about biomolecular sequencing, it is the relatively recent Human Genome Project that comes to mind. However, sequencing has a longer and more complex history which begins in the 1940s and is presented for the first time in this book. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 260 pages, 46 black & white illustrations, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBTB; MBX; PDX; PSAK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543325
- ISBN
- 9781137543325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardback. Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled. This text reveals Machiavelli's legacy to modernity as the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between the demands of freedom and the imperatives of morality. Series: Topoi Library. Num Pages: 355 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365334
- ISBN
- 9780792365334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.08
€ 201.08
Hardback. The essays in this book shed interdisciplinary and multicultural light on a hypothesis that helps to account for such an unexpected convergence of enlightenment and religion in our times: Religion has reentered the public sphere because it puts into question the relation between God and the concept of political sovereignty. Editor(s): Vatter, Miguel E. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823233199
- ISBN
- 9780823233199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.58
€ 118.58
Paperback. A newly discovered treatise by a major European writer Translator(s): Orringer, Nelson R. Series: Hispanisms. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252078026
- ISBN
- 9780252078026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.28
€ 27.99
€ 26.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 40 pages. BIC Classification: HRCR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 102 x 144 x 3. Weight in Grams: 30.
- Publisher
- Catholic Truth Society
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860829017
- ISBN
- 9781860829017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.82
€ 8.82
Hardcover. This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries. Series: Afro-Latin@ Diasporas. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRKT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485380
- ISBN
- 9781137485380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardback. This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under appreciation (Portuguese, Belgian, French, British, Dutch). Editor(s): Bandeira Jeronimo, Miguel; Costa-Pinto, Antonio. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1H; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394057
- ISBN
- 9781137394057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.10
€ 130.10
Paperback. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. BIC Classification: HBJH. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349675487
- ISBN
- 9781349675487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 139.82
€ 139.82
hardcover. Shows how fundamental Muslim legends of the nocturnal journey and of the ascension of Prophet Muhammed appear in Dante's writings. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415439190
- ISBN
- 9780415439190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.49
€ 77.49
Hardback. Presents a comprehensive interpretation of Hume's 'serious reflection' on religion from the perspective afforded by his philosophical project and its Enlightened ends. This title is intended for both scholars and general readers who are intrigued or troubled by religion and the issues 'of the utmost importance' which it raises. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 827.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 349
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370246
- ISBN
- 9780792370246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.52
€ 137.52