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Paperback. Andrea Capra reconstructs Plato's authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus. Capra maintains that Socrates's conversion to "demotic" music in the Phaedo closely parallels the Phaedrus and is apologetic in character, since Socrates was held responsible for dismissing traditional mousike. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417229
- ISBN
- 9780674417229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.62
€ 27.99
€ 24.62
Paperback. World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governments, and refugees that tried to rehabilitate Europe's lost children from the trauma of war, and in the process shaped Cold War ideology, ideals of democracy and human rights, and modern visions of the family. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HPQ; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674425064
- ISBN
- 9780674425064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.63
€ 34.99
€ 29.63
Paperback. Between Thucydides and Polybius focuses on the contribution of fourth-century authors such as Ephorus, Theopompus, and Xenophon to the development of Greek historiography. Essays examine the interface between historiography and rhetoric, while undermining the claim that historians after Thucydides allowed rhetoric to prevail over research. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBAH; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674428348
- ISBN
- 9780674428348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.53
€ 27.99
€ 24.53
Paperback. Averil Cameron refutes an argument by some scholars that Christians did not dialogue after a wall of silence came down in the fifth century AD. Cameron shows that in late antiquity and throughout Byzantium Christians debated and wrote philosophical, literary, and theological dialogues, and she makes a case for their centrality in Greek literature. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: AGR; DSBB; HBLA; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 6. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674428355
- ISBN
- 9780674428355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.60
€ 23.99
€ 20.60
Hardcover. The first full-length biography of a premodern Japanese nun, The Princess Nun is the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshoji. The study incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; BGX; HBJF; HRE; JFSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674491977
- ISBN
- 9780674491977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.30
€ 54.99
€ 46.30
Hardcover. Rise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. It tells the story of how Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state during periods of war and peace. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 270 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674491984
- ISBN
- 9780674491984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
Hardcover. Melek Ortabasi reassesses the influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), a folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. Only the second book-length English-language study of Yanagita, this book moves beyond his pioneering work in folk studies to reveal the full range of his contributions as a public intellectual. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; BGL; DSB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492004
- ISBN
- 9780674492004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.34
€ 54.99
€ 46.34
Hardcover. Hiraku Shimoda places the origin of modern Japanese regionalism in the tense relationship between region and nation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This study shows that "region," often seen as a hard, natural place that impedes national unity, is in fact a supple spatial category that can be made to reinforce nationalist sensibilities. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 180 pages, map. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492011
- ISBN
- 9780674492011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.91
€ 45.99
€ 37.91
Hardcover. Wai-yee Li examines the discursive space of women in seventeenth-century China. Using texts written by women or by men writing in a feminine voice, as well as writings that turn women into signifiers of lamentation or nostalgia, Li probes the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent moments of national trauma. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 625 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492042
- ISBN
- 9780674492042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.81€ 63.83
€ 69.81
€ 63.83
Hardcover. Using the new tools of GIS and social network analysis, Nicolas Tackett shows that the great Tang aristocratic families were more successful than previously believed in adapting to social and economic changes in the seventh and eighth centuries. Tang political influence waned only after many of them were killed during the three decades after 880. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 310 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: HBJF; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492059
- ISBN
- 9780674492059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.96
€ 54.99
€ 45.96
Paperback. The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. Kennedy follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBJM; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674503861
- ISBN
- 9780674503861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.90
€ 35.99
€ 30.90
Hardcover. In Defensive Positions, Noell Wilson shows how control of coastal defense by regional domains exacerbated the shogunate's inability to respond to major military and political challenges as Japan transitioned from an early modern system of parcelized, local maritime defense to one of centralized, national security in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 257 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 341 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504349
- ISBN
- 9780674504349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.79
€ 45.99
€ 37.79
Hardcover. Through an exploration of contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, Wei-Ping Lin paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. Analyzing these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework, she traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities. Num Pages: 217 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRA; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504363
- ISBN
- 9780674504363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.79
€ 45.99
€ 37.79
Hardcover. Volume 12 opens with John Adams's inauguration as president and closes just after details of the XYZ affair become public in America. Through private correspondence, and with the candor and perception expected from the Adamses, family members reveal their concerns for the well-being of the nation and the sustaining force of domestic life. Editor(s): Martin, Editor in Chief Adams Papers Sara (Massachusetts Historical Society); Taylor, Former Editor in Chief Adams Papers C James (Massachusetts Historical Society); Millikan, Assistant Editor Neal E (Massachusetts Historical Society); Norton, Assistant Editor Adams Papers Amanda Mathews (Massachusetts Historical Society); Woodward, Associate Editor Adams Papers Hobson (Massachusetts Historical Society); Sikes, Assistant Editor for Digital Projects Adams Papers Sara B (Massachusetts Historical Society); Lint, Series Editor of the Papers of John Adams Gregg L; Georgini, Assistant Editor Adams Papers Sara (Massachusetts Historical Society). Num Pages: 677 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 178 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504660
- ISBN
- 9780674504660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.97€ 91.86
€ 102.97
€ 91.86
Hardcover. No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment. Harold Holzer and Thomas Horrocks explore his writings on slavery, emancipation, racial equality, the legality of secession, civil liberties in wartime, and the meaning of the terrible suffering caused by the Civil War. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504837
- ISBN
- 9780674504837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.79
€ 45.99
€ 37.79
Hardcover. Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason were seen by the Greeks not as mythical figures but as real people from a bygone age. The people who shared this ancestry used it for many alliances of trade and war. This is a study of the political uses of perceived kinship. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 193 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; JHBK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674505278
- ISBN
- 9780674505278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.47€ 73.04
€ 80.47
€ 73.04
Hardcover. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: HR. Dimension: 212 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1966
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674518759
- ISBN
- 9780674518759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.03
€ 51.99
€ 43.03
Hardcover. Num Pages: 658 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 238 x 160. Weight in Grams: 1106.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 658
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674526600
- ISBN
- 9780674526600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.61€ 130.04
€ 145.61
€ 130.04
Hardcover. Num Pages: 812 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 237 x 163. Weight in Grams: 1324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 812
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674526617
- ISBN
- 9780674526617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.61€ 129.60
€ 145.61
€ 129.60
Hardcover. Num Pages: 748 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 237 x 158. Weight in Grams: 1180.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 748
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674526624
- ISBN
- 9780674526624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.61€ 129.60
€ 145.61
€ 129.60