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Paperback. Offers an interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. This book focuses on a particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present and unveils a picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the world order. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; HRE; JFFE; JHBZ; JHMP; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691074603
- ISBN
- 9780691074603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.53€ 42.58
€ 53.53
€ 42.58
Paperback. Garfield translates Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika and provides a philosophical commentary. Mulamadhyamakakarika is the foundational text for all Mahayana Buddhism and is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy. Translator(s): Garfield, Jay L. Num Pages: 400 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HRE; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195093360
- ISBN
- 9780195093360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.15
€ 33.15
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214294
- ISBN
- 9780253214294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.56
€ 26.56
Paperback. For the first time, this book collects from Schoun's vast corpus his writings on Christianity, including selections from his personal correspondence and other previously unpunblished materials. Editor(s): Cutsinger, James S. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- World Wisdom Books United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780941532587
- ISBN
- 9780941532587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.68
€ 21.99
€ 20.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268035273
- ISBN
- 9780268035273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCS; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 238. Defending Your Life from Satan's Schemes. 144 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HRCS; HRCV. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 12. Weight: 230.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780800795429
- ISBN
- 9780800795429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.73
€ 19.99
€ 18.73
Hardcover. If someone who is rich and powerful comes to you for a favor, you don't persecute him you help him. Having such a person indebted to you is a great insurance policy. There was one nation that did treat the Jews as if they were powerful and rich. The Japanese never had much exposure to Jews, and knew very little about them." Num Pages: 287 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House Israel
- Edition
- 1st Gefen Ed
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652293299
- ISBN
- 9789652293299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.28
€ 25.99
€ 18.28
Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JPFQ; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801497292
- ISBN
- 9780801497292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 44.41
€ 49.99
€ 44.41
Paperback. Buddhist teacher and anthropologist, Joan Halifax, delves into the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRE; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 119 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Grove Press Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802140715
- ISBN
- 9780802140715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.81
€ 19.99
€ 17.81
Paperback. Translator(s): Riley, Gillian. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; HBTB; WBT; WMPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 226. 176 pages. A new edition of classic early 17th-century food writing, by an Italian refugee from the Inquisition in Venice, horrified by the English diet. He explains and promotes the use of fruit and vegetables, and the book contains both recipes and vignettes of his life in Italy. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; HBTB; WBT; WMPF. Dimension: 188 x 143 x 14. Weight: 224. Translator(s): Riley, Gillian.
- Publisher
- Prospect Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903018644
- ISBN
- 9781903018644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.64
€ 19.99
€ 18.64
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Student/Stdy Gde
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877882589
- ISBN
- 9780877882589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.22
€ 9.22
Hardcover. In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. This book analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674724525
- ISBN
- 9780674724525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.80€ 56.83
€ 61.80
€ 56.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 66 b/w; 10 col. BIC Classification: HBLW3; HBW; HBWS1; JW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472824882
- ISBN
- 9781472824882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.73
€ 15.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. Examines the origins of contemporary diversity and conflict in the Catholic Church as well as the processes of ideological change. With insights into the American Catholic Church, the modern papacy, and the Latin American Church, this title is as much a political study of ideological dynamics as it is an institutional study of religious change. Series: New Directions in Cultural Analysis S. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 68. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KST0009606
- ISBN
- 9780520089228
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardback. The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFN; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774807302
- ISBN
- 9780774807302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. Eaten by tuberculosis, sustained by alcohol, John Henry "Doc" Holliday walked the streets. This dentist could be deadly when the drink wore off and someone crossed him. He was a gentleman and murderer, married to a prostitute but devoted only to the memory of his mother. This book presents a picture of Doc Holliday and his frontier world. Num Pages: 305 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- V9780803276086
- ISBN
- 9780803276086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.93
€ 21.99
€ 20.93
Hardback. Translator(s): Calichman, Richard. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231163866
- ISBN
- 9780231163866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.76€ 57.47
€ 73.76
€ 57.47
paperback. The Frontier of Leisure examines the centrality of leisure to the history of Southern California, and how the region's tourist resorts and residential recreation influenced the nation, from ranch houses and the landscape of postwar suburbia to relations of labor and race, and the place of nature in everyday life. Num Pages: 336 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Usa United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199891924
- ISBN
- 9780199891924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.20
€ 53.20
Paperback. For most of the front pages that follow, my inspiration has been twofold - to elaborate some touching story from my everyday life experience, however banal, and use it as a stepping stone to illustrate how we might more easily find God and be found by God in all things. Num Pages: 175 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- ATF Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781921511769
- ISBN
- 9781921511769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.80
€ 25.99
€ 19.80
Paperback. Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280. Women and Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War. Series: African Issues. 210 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTR; JFSJ1. Dimension: 216 x 171 x 13. Weight: 304.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Number of pages
- 210
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010407
- ISBN
- 9781847010407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04