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Paperback. This text questions established ideas and proposes theories based on the author's comparative archaeological and ethnographic research. It seeks to provide students and general readers with an introduction to his ideas about understanding the human past. Num Pages: 260 pages, 68 line illustrations, 79 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 1HFMW; 1KB; 1MBF; HDA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, With a New Afterword
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520233393
- ISBN
- 9780520233393
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.60
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Paperback. To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. This work aims to take readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion and into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HRCC92; HRCV; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 59.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520233942
- ISBN
- 9780520233942
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
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Paperback. Shows that, around the time of Jesus' birth, there came into being a conception of 'catastrophic' messianism in which the suffering, humiliation, and death of the messiah were regarded as an integral part of the redemptive process. Translator(s): Maisel, David. Num Pages: 159 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QDAR; 3D; HRCG; HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234000
- ISBN
- 9780520234000
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
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Hardback. The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during WWII. This work traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization. Num Pages: 672 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1092.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234079
- ISBN
- 9780520234079
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Condition: New
€ 83.88€ 64.99
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Hardback. The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. This title examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion. Num Pages: 397 pages, 37 b/w photographs, 4 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234086
- ISBN
- 9780520234086
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Condition: New
€ 83.88€ 64.66
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Paperback. Explains how an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. This book discusses the process by which Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs). Translator(s): Kaufman-Lacusta, Maxine. Num Pages: 376 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 226 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234222
- ISBN
- 9780520234222
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Condition: New
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Paperback. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Num Pages: 417 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 417
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234246
- ISBN
- 9780520234246
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Hardback. Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life is explored in this history of the Paris Odeon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. The book traces the complete arc of the Odeon's short but highly successful life from ascent to triumph, decline, and closure. Num Pages: 348 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 11 tables, 13 music examples. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVGC9; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234451
- ISBN
- 9780520234451
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Condition: New
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Hardback. Traces the history of lining out from the time of slavery, when African American slaves adapted the practice for their own uses, blending it with other music, such as work songs. This book explores the role of lining out in worship and pursues the cultural implications of this practice far beyond the limits of the church. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 337 pages, 2 halftones, 25 music examples, 9 tables. BIC Classification: HRCL2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234482
- ISBN
- 9780520234482
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. This is a foreword of Syme that delivers biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 433 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 1QDH; 3D; HBAH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234796
- ISBN
- 9780520234796
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.14
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Paperback. Michael Meeker combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. Num Pages: 438 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FB; 1QDT; HBJF1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234826
- ISBN
- 9780520234826
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.89
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Paperback. Legal thought in America has always focused on the rules rather than on the persons affected by the rules. This text aims to restore the balance by taking a person-centred view of the law. The author shows how even great jurists have chosen the "masks of the law" over persons. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBT; LN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235236
- ISBN
- 9780520235236
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.98
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Paperback. Num Pages: 397 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235465
- ISBN
- 9780520235465
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.22
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Hardback. Presents a study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France - both by Gentiles and Jews themselves. This work offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 339 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 302 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235571
- ISBN
- 9780520235571
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Condition: New
€ 83.88€ 64.94
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Paperback. This work examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state. Series: Colonialisms S. Num Pages: 245 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235595
- ISBN
- 9780520235595
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€ 40.99€ 29.19
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Paperback. An examination of power struggles and ideological shifts in various social sectors where the public authority of religion has diminished, in particular, education, science, law and journalism. Together the essays depict a cultural and institutional revolution. Editor(s): Smith, Christian. Num Pages: 496 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBTB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235618
- ISBN
- 9780520235618
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.15
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Paperback. Lawyer, educator, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. This biography helps us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; BGF; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236721
- ISBN
- 9780520236721
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
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Paperback. Drawing on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs, this book reevaluates the roots, motivations, and goals of Roman imperial foreign policy especially as that policy related to warfare. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 line figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236837
- ISBN
- 9780520236837
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
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Paperback. History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation - the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE). This text provides an examination of this democracy transformed by war. Num Pages: 537 pages, 14 b/w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 525
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236851
- ISBN
- 9780520236851
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€ 46.99€ 33.61
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Paperback. Offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. The author sees Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity and not only - as it is widely believed - economic adversity. Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society. Num Pages: 293 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HRH; JFSR2; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition,Revised
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236905
- ISBN
- 9780520236905
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
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Hardback. Presents history of the Romanian Communist Party. This title traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members. Series: Society and Culture in East-Central Europe S. Num Pages: 395 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 33. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 395
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237476
- ISBN
- 9780520237476
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Condition: New
€ 83.88€ 64.66
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Hardback. Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 343 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237643
- ISBN
- 9780520237643
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Condition: New
€ 83.88€ 64.94
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Hardback. Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the centre of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals. From the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Invaluable in our understanding of the political and intellectual life of China. Series: Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237674
- ISBN
- 9780520237674
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Condition: New
€ 83.88€ 64.94
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Paperback. Though they are almost completely absent from the historical record, Palestinian women were extensively involved in the unfolding national struggle in their country during the British mandate period. This history studies the development of the Palestine women's movement between 1920 and 1948. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st PAPERBACK
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237902
- ISBN
- 9780520237902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.14
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€ 30.14