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Paperback. "The paradise of adventurers", Shanghai during World War II was suffused with dangerous glamour. Racketeers, cutthroats and con-men jostled for advantage as secret agents of the great powers waged a complex and sinister struggle for power. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784537647
- ISBN
- 9781784537647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
€ 16.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. A vibrant new history of twentieth-century Europe - covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic developments in a period of convulsive and dramatic change. Num Pages: 928 pages, 16pp b&w plates, 18 maps, 12 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWN; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1286.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 928
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198730736
- ISBN
- 9780198730736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.62
€ 45.99
€ 32.62
Hardcover. The Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint lists alphabetically every Greek word form found in the standard Rahlfs LXX text, along with a detailed parsing of each form. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCF1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 180 x 30. Weight in Grams: 968.
- Publisher
- Hendrickson Pub
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781565635166
- ISBN
- 9781565635166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 42.67
€ 47.99
€ 42.67
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554812158
- ISBN
- 9781554812158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 42.68
€ 44.99
€ 42.68
Hardback. Acting Out brings together two short books (the autobiographical I>How I Became a Philosopher and To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us) by Bernard Stiegler, the fruit of the discipline he developed in prison and of the passion he brings to his political, philosophical, and technical diagnoses of contemporary life. Translator(s): Barison, David. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758680
- ISBN
- 9780804758680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.50
€ 109.50
Hardback. The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming industries. Translator(s): Barker, Stephen J. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762724
- ISBN
- 9780804762724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.86
€ 139.86
Paperback. The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming industries. Translator(s): Barker, Stephen J. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762731
- ISBN
- 9780804762731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms a 'katastroph of the sensible'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652672
- ISBN
- 9780745652672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.40
€ 27.40
Paperback. Technics and Time, 3 furthers Stiegler's critique of technics, working (back) through Kant in order to examine the nature of "cinematic time" relative to phenomenology and hypertechnology. Translator(s): Barker, Stephen. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 191 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761680
- ISBN
- 9780804761680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.77
€ 33.99
€ 30.77
Hardback. In this important new book, leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and art in the contemporary world. Our hyper-industrial epoch represents what Stiegler terms a 'katastroph of the sensible'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652665
- ISBN
- 9780745652665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Paperback.
In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist andphilosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship betweenpolitics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652658
- ISBN
- 9780745652658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.39
€ 21.39
Hardback.
In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 232 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652641
- ISBN
- 9780745652641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.82
€ 59.82
Paperback. Max Weber famously argued that the rise of capitalism in earlymodern Europe was premised on the emergence of a distinctive set ofattitudes - including the pursuit of profit for its own sake -which he called the spirit of capitalism . Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 140
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745648149
- ISBN
- 9780745648149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.98
€ 21.98
Paperback. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own. Translator(s): Beardsworth, Richard; Collins, George. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 316 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 318
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730419
- ISBN
- 9780804730419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 283 x 34. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509506316
- ISBN
- 9781509506316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.17
€ 31.99
€ 31.17
Paperback. In this book of interviews, Bernard Stiegler discusses the reasons that motivated him to develop his philosophy of technics. Divided into four parts, Philosophising by Accident introduces some of the key points in Stiegler's argument about the technical constitution of the human, and its relation to politics, aesthetics and economics. Translator(s): Dillet, Benoait. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474408233
- ISBN
- 9781474408233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.70
€ 26.99
€ 23.70
Hardcover. Editor(s): Smith, Bernard; Wheeler, Alwyne. Series: Yale Center for British Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 b/w + 200 color illus. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 330 x 254 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1988.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300041187
- ISBN
- 9780300041187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.15€ 94.96
€ 118.15
€ 94.96
Paperback. Editor(s): Sheehan, Bernard W. Num Pages: 570 pages, notes, chronology, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1068.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 570
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865974166
- ISBN
- 9780865974166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.78
€ 24.99
€ 18.78
Paperback. Discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. This book contains essays, which form an exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000435
- ISBN
- 9780691000435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.84
€ 54.99
€ 39.84
Hardcover. The biography of an important medieval ruler who built a state in the west of the French Kingdom which provided a foundation for the vast Angevin empire later constructed by his descendants. The study shows how Nerra adopted Roman ideas and tactics in order to consolidate his power. Num Pages: 412 pages, 4 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; BGH; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 302 x 35. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520079960
- ISBN
- 9780520079960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.25€ 57.11
€ 73.25
€ 57.11