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Paperback. Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727280
- ISBN
- 9780804727280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727167
- ISBN
- 9780804727167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.81
€ 118.81
Paperback. This book explores the relationship of human bodies with natural and cultural environments, arguing that these categories are linked and intertwined. It argues for an environmentally sustainable and healthy relationship between the body and the earth." Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JHB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349308347
- ISBN
- 9781349308347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67
Hardcover. The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. This title offers an account of American religious history to highlight the biological body. It also offers a framework for explaining the richness, diversity, and endless creativity of American religious life. Series: Chicago History of American Religion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226025087
- ISBN
- 9780226025087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.69
€ 43.99
€ 34.69
Hardback. Series: The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; HREC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231162708
- ISBN
- 9780231162708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.02€ 57.47
€ 73.02
€ 57.47
paperback. "There are books few and far between which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity." Yaakov Garb, "San Francisco Chronicle"" Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226403182
- ISBN
- 9780226403182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.25
€ 34.99
€ 25.25
Paperback. Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique , this explores the nature of physical suffering. Num Pages: 400 pages, halftone frontispiece. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Number of pages
- 396
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195049961
- ISBN
- 9780195049961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.06
€ 24.99
€ 19.06
Hardback. Explores the range of contemporary thought concerning the body and aims to draw out its crucial implications for medicine. The book suggests that many of the problems often found in modern medicine are traceable to medicine's outmoded concept of the body. Editor(s): Leder, Drew. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 559.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792316572
- ISBN
- 9780792316572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.94
€ 132.94
Paperback. Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women. Series: Columbia Classics in Religion. Num Pages: 568 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCX6; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 756. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction. Series: Columbia Classics in Religion. 568 pages, illustrations. Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCX6; JHBK5. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 29. Weight: 740.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 568
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231144070
- ISBN
- 9780231144070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.39
€ 40.99
€ 29.39
hardcover. Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women. Series: Columbia Classics in Religion. Num Pages: 568 pages, map. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCX6; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 20th -20th Anniversary ed.
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231144063
- ISBN
- 9780231144063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.35
€ 155.35
Paperback. This book investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied subjectivity, providing phenomenological reflections on how the body is shaped by social forces. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPM; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 301 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781498513586
- ISBN
- 9781498513586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.91
€ 56.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485022
- ISBN
- 9780801485022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. Original publication and copyright date: 2011. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262525206
- ISBN
- 9780262525206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.64
€ 24.99
€ 18.64
paperback. According to Rudolf Steiner, the future Maitreya Buddha incarnated in a human body in the 20th century. Presuming this to be so, then who was this person? Adolf Arenson and Elisabeth Vreede, both students of Rudolf Steiner, made independent examinations of this question in relation to Steiner's personal mission. Translator(s): Wood, John M. Num Pages: 216 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: HRQC5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Temple Lodge Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906999193
- ISBN
- 9781906999193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.68
€ 19.99
€ 18.68
Hardcover. Translator(s): Engle, Artemus B. Series: Tsadra. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: HREC; HRES; HREX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 768
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559394291
- ISBN
- 9781559394291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77€ 50.46
€ 64.77
€ 50.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 227 x 33. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611801057
- ISBN
- 9781611801057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.12
€ 47.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. The discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty, one of the recovered texts was the collection "Bodhidharma Anthology". This text provides a detailed study and an annotated translation of the anthology. Translator(s): Broughton, Jeffrey L. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HREZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318. The Earliest Records of Zen. 198 pages. The discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty, one of the recovered texts was the collection "Bodhidharma Anthology". This text provides a detailed study and an annotated translation of the anthology. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; HREZ. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight: 284. Translator(s): Broughton, Jeffrey L.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 198
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520219724
- ISBN
- 9780520219724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.00
€ 33.99
€ 25.00
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
€ 14.99€ 12.48
€ 14.99
€ 12.48
Hardcover. In 1986, when drought brought the level of the Sea of Galilee unusually low, the two brothers Moshe and Yuval Lufan unearthed the timber frame of an ancient fishing boat. Archaeologist Kurt Raveh was to call the two-thousand-year-old boat of the very type Jesus used to sail the Galilee the most important discovery of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 104 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QS; HBTM; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 239 x 16. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652294029
- ISBN
- 9789652294029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 23.86
€ 34.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. From the poll tax to ID cards, a groundbreaking look at three decades of outrageous political mishaps Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780744056
- ISBN
- 9781780744056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.28
€ 16.99
€ 13.28