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Hardback. From the mid-17th to the mid-19th Century, millions of Korean men trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the state military examination (mukwa). This book provides a comprehensive socio-political history of the mukwa system. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 2 maps, 7 line illustrations, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025028
- ISBN
- 9780674025028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.59
€ 45.99
€ 37.59
Paperback. This study examines the collective progression of Islamic politics between points of dissent and positions of power. It brings about a more a serious understanding of Islamic politics by critically tracing the pathways by which Islamic politics has been transformed in the Middle East and Asia. Editor(s): Teik, Khoo Boo; Hadiz, Vedi; Nakanishi, Yoshihiro. Series: IDE-JETRO series. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JPA; KCP; KCS. 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
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349488414
- ISBN
- 9781349488414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.49
€ 118.49
Paperback. Editor(s): Archer, Steven N.; Bartoy, Kevin M. Num Pages: 222 pages, 12 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 391.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441941664
- ISBN
- 9781441941664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardback. Interpretations of the past are under constant critical scrutiny in archaeology. This book advocates centering the materials that make archaeology, in the hopes of reinvigorating dialogues about the historic past, and archaeological contributions to its understanding. Editor(s): Archer, Steven N.; Bartoy, Kevin M. Num Pages: 222 pages, 12 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387342184
- ISBN
- 9780387342184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Paperback. Draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give readers an intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. 6 halftones. Series: Studies in Jewish History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195130928
- ISBN
- 9780195130928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.18
€ 32.18
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474415088
- ISBN
- 9781474415088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.11
€ 32.99
€ 29.11
Paperback. Features some of Scotland's 'finest exports' to America including killers, conmen, scandalmongers and blundering military men. Reveals the dastardly deeds of the emigrant Scots who shamed their nation. A new and surprising insight into an untold aspect of Scottish/American history. Num Pages: 240 pages, 50 illustrations including portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1KBB; HBJD1; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 241 x 15. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Whittles Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849952637
- ISBN
- 9781849952637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.76
€ 21.99
€ 21.76
Hardback. This book provides philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship: the study of religion and dance. In the first part, LaMothe investigates why scholars in religious studies have tended to overlook dance, or rhythmic bodily movement, in favor of textual expressions of religious life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ASD; HRAB; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 24. Weight in Grams: 559.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224036
- ISBN
- 9780823224036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.72
€ 87.72
Paperback. An account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms, based on studies of the mythologies of the Gimi, from the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 halftones, 1 map, 12 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HBJM; JFHF; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226293813
- ISBN
- 9780226293813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.29
€ 52.99
€ 40.29
Hardcover. In doing so, the book highlights the conjoined history of broad transnational processes and local political change. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 226 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801899829
- ISBN
- 9780801899829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.51€ 61.49
€ 68.51
€ 61.49
Paperback. Clavius was influential throughout Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This book uses his own publications, as well as archival materials, to trace the central role he played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Num Pages: 314 pages, 17 half-tones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226469294
- ISBN
- 9780226469294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 36.58
€ 47.99
€ 36.58
Hardcover. Since the 1980's, Marilena Chaui's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chaui's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context. Translator(s): Conde, Maite. Series: Theory in the World. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; GTE; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109001
- ISBN
- 9780230109001
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardback. This is the first study in English to comprehensively examine property law in Imperial Russia, focusing on the struggle to define the scope of individual noble property rights and what that process reveals about the limits of noble freedom within the Russian state. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492637
- ISBN
- 9781611492637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.35
€ 123.35
Hardcover. Libanius was a major figure in the fourth century East as an intellectual, a professor of rhetoric, and the friend of the emperor Julian. This book intends to remedy to that, and focuses on some unfamiliar aspects of Libanius' personality and the way he saw the world of the fourth century. Translator(s): Cribiore, Raffaella. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 147. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382523
- ISBN
- 9781781382523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.85
€ 139.85
Paperback. This book provides an English translation of 12 orations (mostly unknown) of the sophist Libanius who had an important school of rhetoric in Antioch (Syria) and was one of the most influential figures in the fourth century. Translator(s): Cribiore, Raffaella. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 147. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382530
- ISBN
- 9781781382530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.77
€ 37.99
€ 33.77
Paperback. Du Bois's debates about African American schooling, and the rapid growth of Jewish day schools among a community previously known for its deep commitment to secular public education. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JNFR; JNL; JNM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420585
- ISBN
- 9781421420585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.18
€ 32.99
€ 30.18
Hardback. Bigger's larger goal is to align the primacy of the Good in Plato and Christian Neoplatonism with the creator God of Genesis and the God of love in the New Testament. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 34. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223503
- ISBN
- 9780823223503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.27
€ 109.27
Paperback. Editor(s): Bishop, Robert; Atmanspacher, Harald. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 40. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845400842
- ISBN
- 9781845400842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.95
€ 27.95
Hardback. This landmark study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain, establishing a compelling analysis of the Atlantic slave trade's aftermath. Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; HBJK; HBTS; LBBR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785333316
- ISBN
- 9781785333316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.40
€ 153.40
Hardback. Taiwan's relationship with China is one of the most fraught in East Asia, a key issue in the island's domestic politics and a major obstacle in Sino-American relations. This book explores the roots of the conflict in the post-war period and examines how the Nationalists consolidated their rule. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 1FPCW; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744577
- ISBN
- 9780804744577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.61
€ 80.61