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Hardcover. Highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to this day. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226304168
ISBN
9780226304168
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 79.10

Hardback. By looking at the activities of Taoist clerics in Peking, this book explores the workings of religion as a profession in one Chinese city during a period of dramatic modernisation. It focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 5 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HRAX; HRKN5; HRLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 35. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025059
ISBN
9780674025059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.30

Hardback. A history of an ancient Sahelian kingdom whose hinterland is now being laid waste by the Boko Haram insurgency. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849044745
ISBN
9781849044745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.90
€ 75.40

Hardcover. This is an authoritative reference for the field, edited by two of its most prominent scholars. The essays explain the historical role of spirituality from the founding of Islam, to the rise of Sufism, through to present day concerns. Num Pages: 596 pages. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
596
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470674208
ISBN
9780470674208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.69

Hardback. Pitts uses the trial as a lens through which to explore the inner workings of the court of Louis XIV, who rightly feared that Fouquet would expose the tawdry financial dealings of the king's late mentor and prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418247
ISBN
9781421418247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.27

Paperback. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816644568
ISBN
9780816644568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Hardcover. Translation of: Jaerusalem 1900: la ville sainte aa l'aage des possibles. Translator(s): Tihanyi, Catherine; Weiss, Lys Ann. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226188232
ISBN
9780226188232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.19

Paperback. Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral, The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. Thebook demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the problems and opportunities of living according to this philosophy." Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HPX; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336722
ISBN
9781349336722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.17

Spiralbound. 174pp
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Annamount Press
Format
Spiralbound
Publication date
1996
SKU
KON0819786
ISBN
9781872476100
Spiralbound
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.99
€ 5.49

Paperback. Dr. McNally critically examines well over 150 years of Oblate and general Catholic history in Canada's western-most province with special emphasis on the Native people and Euro-Canadian settlers. It is the first survey history of the Catholic Church in British Columbia. Series: The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Num Pages: 472 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; HRA; HRCC7; HRCX8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
443
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643469
ISBN
9780888643469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.19

Paperback. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Grub Street United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906502720
ISBN
9781906502720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.87

Hardback. Presents a detailed description of the operations to relieve Malta in 1942 and assesses the actual impact Malta had on the fight to deny supplies to Rommel's army in North Africa Illustrator(s): Zuber, Ted. Series: Twentieth-Century Battles. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 b&w illus., 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSM; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253006035
ISBN
9780253006035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.70

Paperback. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HRA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226653129
ISBN
9780226653129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. This illustrated volume talks about Scully's incalculable contribution. It selects twenty essays that reveal the Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. Editor(s): Levine, Neil. Num Pages: 400 pages, 313 halftones. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 258 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691074429
ISBN
9780691074429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 50.97

Hardcover. Num Pages: 269 pages, over 350 color/bw images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBWQ; JWTU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 219 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1834. illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBWQ; JWTU. Dimension: 287 x 219 x 32. Weight: 1842.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764337529
ISBN
9780764337529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.35
€ 69.07

hardcover. A fascinating and richly illustrated exploration into the most glorious and world-changing maps ever made. Num Pages: 256 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTP; RGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 336 x 262 x 26. Weight in Grams: 2200. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. Some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Third printing
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KRA0003166
ISBN
9780316997669
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 30.00

Paperback. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814794623
ISBN
9780814794623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Paperback. Taking poetry as an act of witness and restorative memory, this essay traces the development of poems relating to Ireland's Great Hunger from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Num Pages: 52 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 282 x 6. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Quinnipiac University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780997837445
ISBN
9780997837445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.02

Paperback. Translator(s): Tarantino, Elisabetta. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691175768
ISBN
9780691175768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.63

Hardback. Translator(s): Tarantino, Elisabetta. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Updated edition with a New afterword by the autho
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691161457
ISBN
9780691161457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

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