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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 20.99
€ 15.62
The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown. A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His W...
Saper, Professor Llc Doctoral Program Craig (...
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 33.99
€ 30.98