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paperback. Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations. Editor(s): Raymond, J. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349362608
- ISBN
- 9781349362608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 150.06
€ 150.06
Hardback. Examines the ways in which Charles Sanders Peirce was and was not both an idealist and a realist. In this book, the authors find his realism turning sharply against the nominalistic conceptions of science endorsed both explicitly and implicitly by his nonpragmatist contemporaries. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 270 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823234677
- ISBN
- 9780823234677
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Condition: New
€ 108.84
€ 108.84
Paperback. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823234684
- ISBN
- 9780823234684
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Condition: New
€ 48.75
€ 48.75
Paperback. Blackmore explores the big questions on the nature of brains, minds, and consciousness, through twenty lively and engaging interviews with some of the best-known personalities from the worlds of science and philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: HPM; JMM; JMR; JMT; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192806239
- ISBN
- 9780192806239
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.15
€ 17.99
€ 14.15
Hardcover. Offering 12 interviews with postcolonial thinkers in the social sciences and humanities, this collection features theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Paul Gilroy. Topics range from Bob Marley to the Black Panthers, Fanon to feminism, and anti-apartheid to the academy, uncovering thought provoking adventures about resistance and empowerment. Editor(s): Sian, Katy P. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465658
- ISBN
- 9781137465658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Paperback. Shares a conversational approach to evangelism. This title addresses: what makes old models of witnessing ineffective in today's culture; why evangelism must start with relational pre-evangelism; and how to ask questions, listen attentively, and understand what someone believes. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvest House Publishers,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780736950831
- ISBN
- 9780736950831
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.03
€ 17.99
€ 17.03
paperback. This work is an impassioned engagement with the fundamental ideas of possibly the most important philosopher of the last century. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349427024
- ISBN
- 9781349427024
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Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Hardcover. This work describes the interplay between peasant religious life and the broader social and cultural transformation of late tsarist Russia. Chulos challenges existing conceptions of religion in Russia and sheds light on the development of modern national identity. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HRCC2; HRCC8; JFSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875803173
- ISBN
- 9780875803173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.58
€ 62.58
Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance
. Ed(S): Roco, Mihail C.; Bainbridge, William...
Paperback. Editor(s): Roco, Mihail C.; Bainbridge, William Sims. Num Pages: 468 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MQW; PDA; PHFC; TBN; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 741.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048162796
- ISBN
- 9789048162796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 182.63
€ 182.63
Paperback. An exploration of the tensions between maintaining tradition and encouraging innovation and participation in the faith community, offering a model that bridges the gap drawn from the Quaker experience. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC97; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780227175361
- ISBN
- 9780227175361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.49
€ 39.49
Paperback. In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, this text aims to debunk this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, 31 halftones, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226769363
- ISBN
- 9780226769363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 36.58
€ 47.99
€ 36.58
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 3JF; HRCX8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801441103
- ISBN
- 9780801441103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.70
€ 89.70
Paperback. Series: Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268037406
- ISBN
- 9780268037406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.10
€ 42.99
€ 42.10
Hardcover. Analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems - situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. This book is useful for philosophers, linguists, social scientists, and legal theorists. Num Pages: 232 pages, 46. BIC Classification: HP; JMAL; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631232568
- ISBN
- 9780631232568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.90
€ 132.90
Paperback. Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Num Pages: 232 pages, 46. BIC Classification: HP; JMAL; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631232575
- ISBN
- 9780631232575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.18
€ 40.99
€ 39.18
Paperback. In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien regime more broadly." Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465941
- ISBN
- 9781349465941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.19
€ 54.99
€ 43.19
Paperback. Drawing on data from the Reuters Corpus, this book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts. The book focuses on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, 12 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; HPL; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400736559
- ISBN
- 9789400736559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardback. Drawing on data from the Reuters Corpus, this book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts. The book focuses on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, 12 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400712874
- ISBN
- 9789400712874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26
Paperback. Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the Red Years at the end of the Sixties and both were Maoists, but while Badiou was focusing all his attention on China, Milner was already taking his distance from it. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745682174
- ISBN
- 9780745682174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.71
€ 21.71
Hardcover. Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular was known derisively as the Ghulat ('extremists'). Series: Shi'i Heritage Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HPDC; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784538958
- ISBN
- 9781784538958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 43.78
€ 52.99
€ 43.78