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The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe. From Communism to ...
. Ed(S): McDermott, Kevin; Stibbe, Matthew
This book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, the volume examines the rapid dismantling of the communist regimes in the late 1980s and the transition to pluralism in the 1990s. Editor(s): McDermott, Kevin; Stibbe, Matthew. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJD; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085277
- ISBN
- 9780719085277
Condition: New
€ 163.40
€ 163.40
Hardback. Is common language conceptually prior to idiolectics? What is a theory of meaning? Does constructivism provide a satisfactory account of mathematics? What are indefinitely extensible concepts? Can we change the past? This book addresses these questions. Editor(s): McGuinness, Brian; Oliveri, Gianluigi. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 394 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328049
- ISBN
- 9780792328049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.08
€ 195.08
paperback. Includes essays that address concerns at the intersection of pragmatist philosophy and animal welfare. This title covers such topics as moral consideration of animals, the ethics of animal experimentation, institutional animal care, environmental protection of animal habitat, farm animal welfare, animal communication, and animal morals. Editor(s): McKenna, Erin; Light, Andrew. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253216939
- ISBN
- 9780253216939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.05
€ 24.99
€ 23.05
Hardback. A collection of essays devoted to Jacques Derrida's writing on Edmund Husserl's phenomenology. It gives a wide range of reactions to those writings, both critical and supportive, and contains many in-depth studies. Editor(s): McKenna, William R.; Evans, Joseph Claude. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 223 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792337300
- ISBN
- 9780792337300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Hardback. Efforts to evaluate the clinical encounter in terms of autonomous agents governed by rationally justified moral principles continue to be criticised. This work examines various models of the clinical encounter emerging out of these criticisms and explores the prospects they offer for theological and religious discourse. Editor(s): McKenny, Gerald P.; Sande, Jonathan R. Series: Theology and Medicine. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; L; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792323624
- ISBN
- 9780792323624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.26
€ 192.26
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century's two predominant approaches to the natural world in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Editor(s): McMurran, Mary Helen; Conway, Alison. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442650114
- ISBN
- 9781442650114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
Paperback. This book contains day-by-day prayers for students in college to help them in any situation they encounter. Editor(s): McNally, Thomas; Storey, William George, D.M.S. Num Pages: 223 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 124 x 15. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ave Maria Press United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594710186
- ISBN
- 9781594710186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.50
€ 12.50
Hardback. Editor(s): Merkt, Andreas; Nicklas, Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutics Tobias (University of Regensburg); Verheyden, Professor of New Testament Joseph (University of Leuven). Series: Novum Testamentum Et Orbis Antiquus/Studien Zur Umwelt Des Neuen Testaments. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783525593592
- ISBN
- 9783525593592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.23€ 119.22
€ 159.23
€ 119.22
Hardback. 'The Apocalypse of John' belongs to the most puzzling texts of the New Testament. Historical-critical exegesis has been stressing that the book above all wishes to give a message of hope and comfort for a community under threat. This book offers the proceedings of a conference that was held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2009. Editor(s): Merkt, Andreas; Nicklas, Tobias; Verheyden, Joseph. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783525539767
- ISBN
- 9783525539767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.13€ 82.46
€ 108.13
€ 82.46
Hardback. This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also at home in modernity. Editor(s): Meyer, Birgit; Pels, Peter. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HRQX2; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744638
- ISBN
- 9780804744638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.88
€ 150.88
This four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars offers a vivid portrait of Jewish history in German-speaking countries over nearly four centuries. This series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speaking lands. Editor(s): Meyer, Michael Andrew; Brenner, Michael. Num Pages: 422 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231074742
- ISBN
- 9780231074742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.98
€ 119.98
Paperback. An introduction to Vodou practices and beliefs, with a focus on Haiti. Editor(s): Michel, C.; Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAX; JFC; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533053
- ISBN
- 9781349533053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 153.78
€ 153.78
Paperback. Argues that systems of white privilege are a significant factor in maintaining evil systems of racism. Editor(s): Mikulich, Alexander; Cassidy, Laurie M. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCM; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 231.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Orbis Books (USA) United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570757006
- ISBN
- 9781570757006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.18
€ 30.99
€ 25.18
Paperback. This volume is a collection of essays by colleagues, friends, and students of William M. Sumner in appreciation of his outstanding contribution to Iranian archaeology, especially to our archaeological knowledge of Fars, a center of Iranian civilisation. Editor(s): Miller, Naomi F.; Abdi, Kamyar. Series: Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931745055
- ISBN
- 9781931745055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.17
€ 30.17
Hardback. This volume is a co-operative venture of the Global Ecological Integrity Project and the Earth Charter Initiative. Many chapters originate from an international conference held in June 2000, in which representatives of the Earth Charter Initiative took part. Editor(s): Miller, Peter; Westra, Laura. Series: Studies in Social, Political and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPQ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742512856
- ISBN
- 9780742512856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.76
€ 188.76
Paperback. This volume is a co-operative venture of the Global Ecological Integrity Project and the Earth Charter Initiative. Many chapters originate from an international conference held in June 2000, in which representatives of the Earth Charter Initiative took part. Editor(s): Miller, Peter; Westra, Laura. Series: Studies in Social, Political and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPQ; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742512863
- ISBN
- 9780742512863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.86
€ 64.86
Hardback. This volume is a further step in the dialogue between psychology and religion. The central question is how psychology's understanding of human nature might be informed, altered, or expanded by historic Judeo-Christian perspectives. Editor(s): Miller, William R.; Delaney, Harold D. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; HRJ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 263 x 187 x 29. Weight in Grams: 903.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591471615
- ISBN
- 9781591471615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.54
€ 44.99
€ 39.54
Hardback. Editor(s): Mills, Barbara; Fowles, Severin M. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 888 pages, 116 (66 b&w line art, 45 b&w halftone). BIC Classification: 1KB; HDA; HDD. Dimension: 248 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 888
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199978427
- ISBN
- 9780199978427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 271.32
€ 271.32
Hardback. Editor(s): Mills, James H.; Sen, Satadru. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; VX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843310327
- ISBN
- 9781843310327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.83
€ 132.83
Hardback. Presents an overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. This work explores how these communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social service, and the passing along an ethnic identity to the next generation. Editor(s): Min, Pyong Gap; Kim, Jung Ha. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 224 pages, references, index, glossary. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HR; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759100824
- ISBN
- 9780759100824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.14
€ 157.14
Hardback. The essays in this volume provide a multi-disciplinary analysis of the ways in which our loyalties to democracy and the environment confront and mutually reinforce one another in theory and practice. Editor(s): Minteer, Ben A.; Taylor, Bob Pepperman. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JPHV; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 183 x 26. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742515222
- ISBN
- 9780742515222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 211.98
€ 211.98
Hardback. Editor(s): Misereor. Num Pages: colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HRLM3; JHB; KC; PD; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 12. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Birkh?user United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764358273
- ISBN
- 9783764358273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.64
€ 73.64
Paperback. Jewish Polity and American Civil Society is a study of the civic and political engagements of American Jews as mediated by their communal and denominational institutions. The book explores how the various branches of the organized Jewish community seek to influence public affairs. Editor(s): Mittleman, Alan; Sarna, Jonathan D.; Licht, Robert A. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HRAX; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742521223
- ISBN
- 9780742521223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.62
€ 78.62
Hardback. A study of how Jews have grappled with the presence of religion, both their own and others, in American public life. It surveys historical Jewish approaches to church-state relations and analyzes Jewish responses to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Editor(s): Mittleman, Alan; Sarna, Jonathan D.; Licht, Robert A. Num Pages: 392 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRJ; JFSR1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742521230
- ISBN
- 9780742521230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.34
€ 180.34