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Humanities
Paperback. This investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. Chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre-revolutionary France and 19th-century Britain and America. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFB; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631167334
- ISBN
- 9780631167334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Reilly, C. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; HBJD; JFSL; JHB; JHM; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349425464
- ISBN
- 9781349425464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Paperback. Explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, the author seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language in the erotically configured visionary imagination of the medieval Kabbalists. Num Pages: 792 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 792
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224197
- ISBN
- 9780823224197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.00€ 52.62
€ 53.00
€ 52.62
paperback. What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the 1950s and 1960s, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of the Telugu language. This title traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to language that lay behind these events. Series: Contemporary Indian Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 b&w photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPG; CFB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253220691
- ISBN
- 9780253220691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. An eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal answers one of the primary callings of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCR; JFSR; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341104
- ISBN
- 9780230341104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Explores S Y Agnon's theological and philosophical attitudes toward language, attitudes that to a large extent shaped his poetics and aesthetic values. Drawing on anthologies compiled by Agnon, this book examines his theoretical orientation and the ways he integrated into his poetics ideas about language that are rooted in Jewish theology. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSG; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- English ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632276
- ISBN
- 9780815632276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.82
€ 51.82
Paperback. Originally published in English: London; New Brunswick, N.J.: Athlone Press, 2000. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; CFF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472507211
- ISBN
- 9781472507211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.85
€ 26.99
€ 23.85
Paperback. Revised translation of essays elucidating the universal principles of Advaita Vedanta. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- World Wisdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780941532266
- ISBN
- 9780941532266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.85
€ 18.99
€ 17.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HRHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Blue Dome Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935295143
- ISBN
- 9781935295143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Hardback. This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and in the context of age-old metaphysical biases against body, history, time, and the mundane as these continue to shape our system of values and moral commitments. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804723879
- ISBN
- 9780804723879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.96
€ 116.96
Paperback. Inclusive language is a concern that resonates deeply with the sense of conversion and welcome to a community that is inclusive. This treatment is sensitive, respectful and is sure to raise consciousness. Num Pages: 78 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCL; HRCX4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Sheed & Ward
- Number of pages
- 78
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556124082
- ISBN
- 9781556124082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.09
€ 13.09
Hardback. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 251 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847669127
- ISBN
- 9780847669127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.89
€ 121.89
Hardcover. Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618763
- ISBN
- 9780230618763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Series: Studies in the History of Judaism. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Publisher
- Scholars Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555405380
- ISBN
- 9781555405380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.79
€ 103.79
Hardback. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739147139
- ISBN
- 9780739147139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.76
€ 144.76
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521140669
- ISBN
- 9780521140669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.38
€ 32.38
Hardcover. In a search for a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between gender, language and religious identity, this book gathers a global range of studies from the field of linguistics. It connects language use to both a religious and gender identity and shows how language works to unite, oppress, liberate or fracture the various participants. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; HR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517295
- ISBN
- 9780230517295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. This is a global collection relating applied linguistic research to the complexities of gender and religion. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; GTC; HRA; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355051
- ISBN
- 9781349355051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and scholars in Russian Studies. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; GTC; HBJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336685
- ISBN
- 9781349336685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.72
€ 65.72
Paperback. Editor(s): Hasselbach, Rebecca; Pat-El, Na'ama. Num Pages: 476 pages, (frontispiece John Huehnergard); 3 tables, 30 original illustrations, 30 linked mp4 video. BIC Classification: HDD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 297 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1474.
- Publisher
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781885923912
- ISBN
- 9781885923912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.94
€ 43.94