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paperback. Beginning in 1835, British colonizers sought to promote modern, western knowledge in India, primarily through schools. Delving into a large archive of popular writings, and drawing on history, political science, and philosophy, the author considers western education in India from various perspectives. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341055
ISBN
9780822341055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.08

hardcover. An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Series: Culture and Communication in Asia. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, map ;. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415178556
ISBN
9780415178556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.90
€ 171.79

Hardback. When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period. Num Pages: 416 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674972261
ISBN
9780674972261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.33

Hardback. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. Series: Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067059
ISBN
9780674067059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.29

Paperback. A study of individual trajectories in an early modern global context Num Pages: 248 pages, , maps, figures. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Brandeis
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584659921
ISBN
9781584659921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.39

hardcover. A study of the social, political, economic and public health aspects of World War II in South Asia, with particular attention to colonial Eastern India. The conclusion deals with the long-term effects of the War, including its effects on political formations and on bureaucratic re-negotiation. Series: London Studies on South Asia. Num Pages: 258 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700714063
ISBN
9780700714063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.48

Hardback. Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages exposes a number of long-hidden "foreign" elements in Chinese culture that represent the legacy of the Tuoba, a former nomadic group originally from central Asia. Series: Encounters with Asia. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812243703
ISBN
9780812243703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.22

Paperback. Editor(s): Arias, Santa (Florida State University, USA); Merediz, Eyda M. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature (Paperback). Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; CF; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The Modern Language Association of America
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873529457
ISBN
9780873529457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 41.76

Paperback. Understanding Plato s Republic provides readers with an accessible introduction to the concepts of justice that inform Plato s masterwork, carefully explicating his main argument that we would be better off leading just lives rather than unjust ones. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405120180
ISBN
9781405120180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.74

Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 188 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148306
ISBN
9780231148306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.28
€ 47.04

Philosophers, analytic as well as continental, tend to feel uneasy about Ernst Tugendhat, who, though he positions himself in the analytic field, poses questions in the Heideggerian style. This book aims to present Tugendhat as an example of merged horizons, and to prove that any such labels impoverish philosophical research. Translator(s): Haskell, Michael. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231143882
ISBN
9780231143882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.20
€ 51.14

Paperback. Editor(s): Williams, Professor Paul. Translator(s): Crosby, Kate; Skilton, Andrew. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRE; HRLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540433
ISBN
9780199540433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.58

Paperback. Translator(s): Wallace, V.A.; Wallace, B. Alan. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
175
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Likely 1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781559390613
ISBN
9781559390613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.62

Paperback. Biography of Robert Carlton "Bob" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSB; DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823271467
ISBN
9780823271467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.61

paperback. A collection of sermons by rabbi Harold I. Saperstein, made between 1933 and 1980. This book illustrates the value of the sermon as a resource for understanding the challenges faced by American Jews at some of the most dramatic moments in the turbulent history of the 20th century. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780739102596
ISBN
9780739102596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRJP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 46. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hebrew Union College Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822963936
ISBN
9780822963936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

Paperback. Before the creation of the Agora as a civic center in the 7th century B.C., the region northwest of the Acropolis was a vast cemetery. Over 150 ancient burial places have been found by excavators, and a few of the more remarkable are described here. Series: Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book. Num Pages: 32 pages, b/w figs. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HDDK; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 81 x 99 x 2. Weight in Grams: 60.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
American School of Classical Studies at Athens United States
Number of pages
32
Condition
New
SKU
V9780876616130
ISBN
9780876616130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.89

Paperback. It is commonly recognized that the Cedars of Lebanon were prized in the ancient world, but how can the complex archaeological role of the Cedrus genus be articulated in terms that go beyond its interactions with humans alone? Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: HDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 175. .
Publisher
Archaeopress
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784913656
ISBN
9781784913656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 114.63

Paperback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347255
ISBN
9780822347255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.76

Paperback. .
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363194
ISBN
9780822363194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.98

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