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Paperback. Now available in a fully-revised and updated third edition, Islam: History, Religion and Politics, provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the core teachings, historical development, and contemporary public struggles of Islam. Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118972304
- ISBN
- 9781118972304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.63
€ 27.63
Hardcover. Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 382 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSB; HBJF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417199
- ISBN
- 9780674417199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.73
€ 54.99
€ 46.73
Hardback. Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? This book focuses on the follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded Age - and the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. Series: Western Histories. Num Pages: 286 pages, 12 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520289093
- ISBN
- 9780520289093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 36.36
€ 49.99
€ 36.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: HREZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 157 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sentient Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591811756
- ISBN
- 9781591811756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.49
€ 18.99
€ 17.49
Paperback. Translator(s): Bethenfalvy, Balint. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 870.
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583674499
- ISBN
- 9781583674499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.98
€ 33.99
€ 28.98
hardcover. While most studies of the Holocaust stop in 1945, the year of the liberation and the official end of the Holocaust, Tamas Stark follows the fate of the Hungarian Jews until the Communist takeover in the late 1940s. The author goes on to cover the enlarged, war-years territory of Hungary, and then to a detailed comparison of the destruction of Jewish communities and the emigration of the survivors. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880334495
- ISBN
- 9780880334495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.20
€ 52.99
€ 38.20
Paperback. This introductory guide presents all the essential information on Tibetan medicine, an ancient medical system which has been practised for over 2,500 years. It covers the theory, practice and historical background of the system, as well as including explanations of methods of diagnosis and treatments such as golden needle therapy and cupping. Series: Discovering Holistic Health. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPDF; HREX; VXHT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848191341
- ISBN
- 9781848191341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Hardback. The book provides a comprehensive application of narrative theory to video games, and presents the player-response paradigm of game criticism. Video Game Narrative and Criticism explains the nature of gameplay - a psychological experience and a meaning-making process in the fictional world of video games. Num Pages: 94 pages, biography. BIC Classification: H; KNT; U. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137525536
- ISBN
- 9781137525536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.75
€ 76.75
Paperback. Series: Belmont Mansion Novel. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FW; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 35. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764206245
- ISBN
- 9780764206245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.40
€ 19.99
€ 15.40
Paperback. Series: A Belle Meade Plantation Novel. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FW; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Zondervan United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310291060
- ISBN
- 9780310291060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.89
€ 18.89
Paperback. By the author of Destiny Disrupted: an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showing how Great Power conflicts have interrupted its ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Trade Paper Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610393195
- ISBN
- 9781610393195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.40
€ 20.99
€ 19.40
Paperback. Offers knowledge and insight to those who want to understand the movements and events behind the modern-day hostilities wracking Western and Islamic societies. This title clarifies how the Muslim world, sees the history of the world, and what they therefore make of our own version of events. Num Pages: 416 pages, 30 maps throughout. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781586488130
- ISBN
- 9781586488130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.31
€ 25.99
€ 21.31
Hardcover. An account of the great Shi'ite scholar-theologian. Series: Makers of the Muslim World. Num Pages: 149 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 149
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851683833
- ISBN
- 9781851683833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.02
€ 35.02
Hardcover. Series: Aquinas Lectures. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Marquette Univ Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874621716
- ISBN
- 9780874621716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.61
€ 19.61
Hardback. Drawing on research in anthropology, psychology, and a host of other disciplines, this book argues that cross-cultural variation raises serious problems for theories that propose universally applicable conditions for moral responsibility. It develops a way of thinking about responsibility that takes cultural diversity into account. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139937
- ISBN
- 9780691139937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.89€ 42.58
€ 52.89
€ 42.58
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269072
- ISBN
- 9781137269072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardback. Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour of how North American plants have come to our rescue and helped shape our culture and traditions. Num Pages: 256 pages, full colour photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; VXH; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 306 x 20. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612126609
- ISBN
- 9781612126609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.66
€ 21.99
€ 16.66
Paperback. This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new the distinctly modern." Editor(s): Clewell, Tammy. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459841
- ISBN
- 9781349459841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. In this enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States, Horn, herself a beekeeper, shows how the honey bee was one of the first symbols of colonization and how bees' societal structures have shaped our ideals about work, family, community, and leisure. Num Pages: 352 pages, 52 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFCA; WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813191638
- ISBN
- 9780813191638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.90
€ 30.90
Paperback. Series: Wiley Short Histories. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118951927
- ISBN
- 9781118951927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.58
€ 28.58