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Hardback. This book tells the story of more than 150,000 Canadians who were subjected to conscription during the Second World War, and how their experiences shaped and were shaped by the decisions of the generals and politicians who guided the country's war effort. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History. Num Pages: 688 pages, 22 b&w photographs, 10 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JWL; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774830515
- ISBN
- 9780774830515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Paperback. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, this book provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change. Num Pages: 358 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520264298
- ISBN
- 9780520264298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. The extraordinary life story of an ambitious, thirteenth-century adventurer. Series: Irish Historical Monographs. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3H; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783271344
- ISBN
- 9781783271344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Edition
- 7th Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780136052012
- ISBN
- 9780136052012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 216.67
€ 216.67
Paperback. Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization. Series: African Studies. 278 pages, 10 b/w illus. This 2009 book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and its legacies for the post-colonial state. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJPG; HBJH; HBLW; HBW. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 15. Weight: 442.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521130905
- ISBN
- 9780521130905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.37
€ 32.37
Hardback. This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each. Editor(s): Boyarin, Daniel; Itzkovitz, Daniel; Pellegrini, Ann. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113748
- ISBN
- 9780231113748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.54€ 90.75
€ 117.54
€ 90.75
Hardback. Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736176
- ISBN
- 9780804736176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
Paperback. What kind of literature is the Talmud? This title suggests that both the Platonic and the Talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. It singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HPCA; HRJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069173
- ISBN
- 9780226069173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
Hardcover. Using Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, this title demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually monologic in spirit as well as shows that there are other elements that manifest genuine dialogicality. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069166
- ISBN
- 9780226069166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.03€ 79.61
€ 94.03
€ 79.61
Paperback. Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737043
- ISBN
- 9780804737043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. "Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism.. In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."-Jack Miles, Commonweal Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219869
- ISBN
- 9780812219869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church, the author argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412. Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. 272 pages. Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church, the author argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight: 414.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520203365
- ISBN
- 9780520203365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.01
€ 33.99
€ 25.01
Hardcover. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRQA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813934631
- ISBN
- 9780813934631
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.50
€ 83.50
Paperback. This work shows how women between the 12th and 16th centuries were able to carve out areas of influence by exploiting the institutional church and by manipulating religious precepts. Contributors argue that women's participation in religious life offered them access to power in all its forms. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226066394
- ISBN
- 9780226066394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823233953
- ISBN
- 9780823233953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.29
€ 36.99
€ 34.29
Paperback. Through this selection from his many books, journals, poems, and homilies, a chronicle of Fr. Berrigan's life and work unfolds from the early steps in his vocation, to his decision to cross the line and go to prison, his ongoing witness for peace, and his extraordinary commentaries on scripture and the life of radical discipleship. Editor(s): Dear, John. Series: Modern Spiritual Masters. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360. Essential Writings. Series: Modern Spiritual Masters. 288 pages. Editor(s): Dear, John. Through this selection from his many books, journals, poems, and homilies, a chronicle of Fr. Berrigan's life and work unfolds from the early steps in his vocation, to his decision to cross the line and go to prison, his ongoing witness for peace, and his extraordinary commentaries on scripture and the life of radical discipleship. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HRLK. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 14. Weight: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Orbis Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570758379
- ISBN
- 9781570758379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.84
€ 21.99
€ 20.84
Paperback. On September 11, 2001 Daniel Berrigan sat at his desk in upper Manhattan writing a commentary on the Book of Genesis. As he explored the goodness of God's creation, the terrible events of that day stopped him cold. Num Pages: 112 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Sheed & Ward
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580511292
- ISBN
- 9781580511292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.75
€ 33.75
Hardcover. Berrigan uses the story of Job to ignite our religious imagination and show us the way to effective protest and true faith. Continuing his series of livel reflections on Scripture, he inspires us to action and assures us of God's fidelity. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 158 x 34. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Sheed & Ward
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580510745
- ISBN
- 9781580510745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.06
€ 52.06
Hardcover. BIC Classification: HB. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674503892
- ISBN
- 9780674503892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.46€ 65.22
€ 70.46
€ 65.22
Hardcover. BIC Classification: HB. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674503885
- ISBN
- 9780674503885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.46€ 65.22
€ 70.46
€ 65.22