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Paperback. What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. This title explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDZ; PSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300171525
- ISBN
- 9780300171525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.88
€ 34.99
€ 25.88
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 574 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSB; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 574
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691650487
- ISBN
- 9780691650487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 289.13
€ 289.13
Hardback. Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture, and he draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PHR. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198793335
- ISBN
- 9780198793335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.09
€ 115.09
Hardback. This collection of original papers offers an important comparative-historical dimension to the debate by examining the historical roots of civil society in Germany and Britain from the 17th century revolutions to the beginning of the welfare state. Editor(s): Trentmann, Frank. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571811424
- ISBN
- 9781571811424
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.35
€ 179.35
Hardback. * This is the next book in the Key Concepts in Philosophy series focusing on the core and difficult topic of paradoxes. * An accessible and entertaining introduction to the study of paradoxes, in which the author provides a detailed examination of a wide variety of paradoxes. Series: Polity Key Concepts in Philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745649436
- ISBN
- 9780745649436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Paperback. * This is the next book in the Key Concepts in Philosophy series focusing on the core and difficult topic of paradoxes. * An accessible and entertaining introduction to the study of paradoxes, in which the author provides a detailed examination of a wide variety of paradoxes. Series: Polity Key Concepts in Philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745649443
- ISBN
- 9780745649443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.50
€ 23.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 119 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310518389
- ISBN
- 9780310518389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.14
€ 17.99
€ 17.14
Paperback. Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262525497
- ISBN
- 9780262525497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.45
€ 21.99
€ 16.45
hardcover. A collection of seventeen philosophical essays that systematically investigate heaven, or paradise, as conceived within theistic religious traditions. Editor(s): Byerly, T. Ryan; Silverman, Eric J. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; HRCM; HRCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198794301
- ISBN
- 9780198794301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.12
€ 175.12
Hardback. Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journey in contemporary North America Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with colorful companions Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 239 x 163. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470237694
- ISBN
- 9780470237694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.48
€ 26.99
€ 25.48
hardcover. Explores the many and complex reasons for the gradual erosion of the idea of heaven in the modern era. This work sheds light not only on the history of Christian thought, but on the process of secularization in the West. It also shows us the grubby soul of our materialistic and uncritically scientific society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 475. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033766
- ISBN
- 9780195160062
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
Paperback. A powerful tale of destruction, heroism and survival by the bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG. Num Pages: 464 pages, 3 B&W illustrated maps and 2x 8pp B&W picture sections - integrated onto text paper for s. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVT; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340837870
- ISBN
- 9780340837870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Offers an account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, the author creates a richly detailed political portrait of Santa Maria Tzeja, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 330 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246751
- ISBN
- 9780520246751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.04
€ 33.99
€ 25.04
Paperback. A study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' It adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the human quest for 'earning Paradise.' Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 2AHA; DSBB; HDDK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023796
- ISBN
- 9780674023796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.60
€ 19.99
€ 18.60
Hardcover. Num Pages: 502 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRE; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 219 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1276.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Orange Palm and Magnificent Magus Publications Inc Canada
- Edition
- Slp Rev Up
- Number of pages
- 502
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780968704837
- ISBN
- 9780968704837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.22€ 58.74
€ 82.22
€ 58.74
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRE; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Orange Palm and Magnificent Magus Publications Inc Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780968704820
- ISBN
- 9780968704820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.53
€ 48.99
€ 32.53
Hardcover. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRE; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 181 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Orange Palm and Magnificent Magus Publications Inc Canada
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780968704813
- ISBN
- 9780968704813
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.57
€ 48.99
€ 32.57
Paperback. Independence Day provided an opportunity for a diverse citizenry to share in a nationalistic revelry explicitly promoting political independence and republican government. This title explores how Fourth of July celebrations in the urban Midwest helped to define patriotic nationalism during the nineteenth century. Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois Univ Pr
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875806921
- ISBN
- 9780875806921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98
hardcover. Translator(s): Savage, Robert L. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CBW; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033645
- ISBN
- 9780801449253
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
Paperback. Translator(s): Savage, Robert. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501704352
- ISBN
- 9781501704352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.03
€ 22.03