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Paperback. In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, which also serves as an introduction to Pierre Hadot's more scholarly works, Hadot explains that for the Ancients, philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life. Translator(s): Djaballah, Marc. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748360
- ISBN
- 9780804748360
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.59
€ 30.99
€ 27.59
Paperback. A journalist's extensive investigation in the areas of near-death experiences, supernatural interventions and guardian angels. Translator(s): Becker, Stephen. Num Pages: 376 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871318367
- ISBN
- 9780871318367
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Condition: New
€ 19.33
€ 19.33
Paperback. Translator(s): Cisney, Vernon W.; Smith, Daniel W.; Morar, Nicolae C. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472508591
- ISBN
- 9781472508591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16
Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, and mingled in the blood, sweat, and tears of humanity. Mixing literary analysis, history, biology, physics, economics, art history, political science, chemistry, and linguistics, this book talks about the everyday substance that rocked the world and brings zest to the ordinary. Translator(s): Mader, Mary Beth. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: HBT; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121989
- ISBN
- 9780231121989
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Condition: New
€ 55.36
€ 55.36
Paperback. Translator(s): Ruddick, Susan M. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 212 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816677412
- ISBN
- 9780816677412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.82
€ 30.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. Translator(s): LePain, Marc A. Series: New French Thought Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691125671
- ISBN
- 9780691125671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.61
€ 37.99
€ 27.61
Paperback. Argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. This book contends that, in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, we have, paradoxically, lost a sense of what it means to be human. It offers an analysis of the confusions and contradictions at the heart of the modern condition. Translator(s): LePain, Marc A. Series: New French Thought Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; HRC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691050256
- ISBN
- 9780691050256
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.83
€ 54.99
€ 39.83
Hardcover. Documents the history and culture of France. This book covers French manners, mores, and society. It concerns with conversation, cafes, songs, wine, gallantry, and places imbued with national symbolism such as Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur cathedrals. Translator(s): Jordan, David Peter. Num Pages: 480 pages, 126 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1179.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226591346
- ISBN
- 9780226591346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.58€ 88.41
€ 106.58
€ 88.41
Paperback. Where else .. can one learn about Carolingian furniture, medicine, dieting, birth control, astrology, .. drinking habits, or hygiene? A fine introduction to early medieval Europe."-International Historical Studies Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812210965
- ISBN
- 9780812210965
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.01
€ 37.99
€ 34.01
Paperback. "Invaluable to those who need to disentangle the complex family relationships of those who controlled much of Europe for so many centuries."-American Historical Review Translator(s): Allen, Michael Idomir. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812213423
- ISBN
- 9780812213423
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Hardcover. Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property - a true counter revolution, says the author, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674724594
- ISBN
- 9780674724594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 41.09
€ 48.99
€ 41.09
Hardback. How does France reconcile the modern movement toward pluralism and decentralization with a strong central governing power? This work offers a radical interpretation of the development of democracy in France and the relationship between government and its citizens. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024960
- ISBN
- 9780674024960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.81
€ 46.99
€ 38.81
hardcover. A translation of the theological essay by the French Jesuit Pierre Rousselot, first published in 1910. Controversial in its day, it is now described as a penetrating analysis of the act of faith. Also included in this volume is Rousselot's answer to critiques by Abbe Ligeard and Professor Harent. Translator(s): Donceel, J.F.; Dulles, Cardinal Avery. Num Pages: 117 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 117
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823212880
- ISBN
- 9780823212880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardback. We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry - not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and society? This title examines moral, political, and economic treatises of the period. Translator(s): Gage, Jennifer Curtiss. Num Pages: 168 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149271
- ISBN
- 9780691149271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.15
€ 53.29
€ 42.15
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Orbis Books (USA) United States
- Edition
- Modern Spiritual Masters Series
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570752483
- ISBN
- 9781570752483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.28
€ 20.99
€ 19.28
Hardcover. A translation of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's spiritual masterpiece, "The Divine Milieu". It addresses those who have lost faith in conventional religion but who still have a sense of the divine at the heart of the cosmos. Num Pages: 160 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903900581
- ISBN
- 9781903900581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.65
€ 72.65
paperback. In this work, Teilhard guides the reader back in space-time to experience the birth of our planet as it emprisons the human future in its globe and motion, then forward, through the emergence of life and the birth of thought and socialization. Num Pages: 282 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press U.K.
- Edition
- 2 ed
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902210308
- ISBN
- 9781902210308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.23
€ 37.99
€ 34.23
Hardback. An account of one of the more curious realities of contemporary French culture: the prominence accorded to "revisionism". This is an attempt on the part of a specific group to deny the existence of Hitler's Holocaust. The study reveals the underlying causes of revisionism and its influence. Translator(s): Mehlman, Jeffrey. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231074582
- ISBN
- 9780231074582
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.29
€ 93.29
Paperback. A compassionate book addressed to those who have suffered pain or senseless loss. Num Pages: 76 pages. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 181 x 6. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Paulist Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809121809
- ISBN
- 9780809121809
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.83
€ 10.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. Originally published as: Voyage a travers la mort, Le temoignage d'un exile Hutu du Rwanda. Translator(s): Taylor, Phil. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 213 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Baraka Books
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926824789
- ISBN
- 9781926824789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.73
€ 20.99
€ 18.73