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Paperback. The book ends with the 2003 OxyContin arrest of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, a cautionary tale about deregulation and the widening gaps between the overmedicated and the undertreated. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15, 11 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; JPA; MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418407
- ISBN
- 9781421418407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.18
€ 30.99
€ 26.18
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403991188
- ISBN
- 9781403991188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardback. The first single volume history of prisons in Britain from the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day Num Pages: 208 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBT; JKVP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780232836
- ISBN
- 9781780232836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.00€ 28.96
€ 35.00
€ 28.96
Paperback. What does it mean for a society to be so closely identified with both inflicting and withstanding enormous suffering? This work reconsiders Germany's past according to the themes of pain and prosperity, focusing on such topics as welfare policy and urban history. Editor(s): Betts, Paul; Eghigian, Greg. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739382
- ISBN
- 9780804739382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTB; JMQ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476138
- ISBN
- 9781349476138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
Hardback. Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history. It explores pain at the intersection of the living, suffering body, and the discursive cultural webs that entangle it in its specific moment. Editor(s): Boddice, Robert Gregory. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3J; HBLL; HBTB; MBX; MMBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372420
- ISBN
- 9781137372420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.88
€ 128.88
Paperback. Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349542604
- ISBN
- 9781349542604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.30
€ 63.30
Paperback. The music and poetry of the Irish people is to be found in this wonderful anthology that spans two thousand years of devotion. Emerging from oral culture, these prayers are charged with the language and rhythms of traditional song. Num Pages: 170 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ; HRLF9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- COIS LIFE
- Number of pages
- 170
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901176889
- ISBN
- 9781901176889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.61
€ 17.99
€ 13.61
Paperback. Schwartz's analysis of the Catechetical Homilies of Theodore of Mopsuestia explores the role of education and worship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization. Catechesis emerges here as invaluable for comprehending clergy's ability to initiate new members as Christianity gained increasing prominence within the late Roman world. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067035
- ISBN
- 9780674067035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.60
€ 27.99
€ 24.60
Hardback. The education of humanity is the key to 21st-century culture, social and practical life. The main concerns of education are perennial, but the continuous flood of inventions, technological innovations that re-shape life, demands a re-appraisal of the situation, such as only philosophy can provide. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 498 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 879.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 498
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363194
- ISBN
- 9780792363194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 261.51
€ 261.51
Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482966
- ISBN
- 9781611482966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.92
€ 154.92
Paperback. Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors, and chaplains across the United States and close observation of their daily routines, the author takes readers inside major academic medical institutions to explore how today's doctors and hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and spirituality. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLK; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226922119
- ISBN
- 9780226922119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.12
€ 33.99
€ 27.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB; HRQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142555
- ISBN
- 9780691142555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.39
€ 45.99
€ 33.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176086
- ISBN
- 9780691176086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. The transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. How did this monumental conversion come about? How did Christianity compare and compete with the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This work places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civic life. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141022956
- ISBN
- 9780141022956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.49
€ 25.99
€ 19.49
Paperback. This volume is full of exercises, meditations and discussion questions about Paganism for group or individual study. The text explores how the Pagan sacred year is arranged; what Pagans do in ritual; what magic is; and what Pagans believe about God, worship, human nature and ethics. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 191 x 18. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Llewellyn Publications,U.S.
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780738702223
- ISBN
- 9780738702223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.38
€ 21.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. From its origins to the present day, Owen Davies explores ideas about paganism that have existed over the last two millennia. He takes a chronological look at changing attitudes towards its beliefs, its practices, and its relationship with the Church. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, c.15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 110 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199235162
- ISBN
- 9780199235162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. Claims Paganism's place as a world religion, situating it as a religion, a behaviour, and a theology Num Pages: 239 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814797082
- ISBN
- 9780814797082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.85
€ 29.85
Hardcover. Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSY; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218390
- ISBN
- 9780230218390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3D; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910021750
- ISBN
- 9781910021750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09