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Paperback. Celebrates the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. This book features a semiology of the cultural practice that begins with the character of the writer's voice and culminates in a customer's crossing the bookstore threshold, package under arm, on the way home. Translator(s): Wills, David. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 4 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230372
- ISBN
- 9780823230372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.53
€ 36.53
Hardback. In July 1964 when a Harlem riot shifted attention to the crisis in northern cities, African American intellectuals were thrust into the spotlight as interpreters of black urban life to white America. This book revisits the moment when black urban life became, for these intellectuals, "the topic that is reserved for blacks." Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725287
- ISBN
- 9780674725287
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.84
€ 54.99
€ 45.84
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Birlinn General United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841588018
- ISBN
- 9781841588018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.46
€ 19.99
€ 18.46
Paperback. Among the conflicts to break out during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, the most famous took place in the summer of 1969 in Nyemo, a county to the south and west of Lhasa. This book revisits the Nyemo Incident, which has long been romanticized as the epitome of Tibetan nationalist resistance against China. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267909
- ISBN
- 9780520267909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.47
€ 26.99
€ 20.47
Paperback. G A Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This title contains these papers that have shaped many of the central debates in political philosophy. Editor(s): Otsuka, Michael; Jollimore, Troy A. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148717
- ISBN
- 9780691148717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardcover. This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a fifteen-year-old German-Italian, who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and, later, as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in the Tonkin area, Vietnam. Editor(s): Dal Cengio, Vittorino. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Helion and Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909982093
- ISBN
- 9781909982093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.66
€ 33.99
€ 24.66
Hardback. Translator(s): Jacques, Richard.L., Jr. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164009
- ISBN
- 9780231164009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.55€ 42.10
€ 52.55
€ 42.10
Paperback. This is a translation of three works by Mirandola: "On the Dignity of Man", a document of early Renaissance humanism; "One Being and the One", a treatise on the relationship between unity and being; and "Heptaplus", an interpretation of the first verses of "Genesis". Translator(s): Wallis, Charles Glenn; Miller, Paul J. W.; Carmichael, Douglas. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRC; HRQA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872203969
- ISBN
- 9780872203969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.39
€ 18.99
€ 15.39
Paperback. For centuries the Historia Ecclesiastica of St Germanus (715-730) was the quasi-official explanation of the Divine Liturgy for the Byzantine Christian world. A detailed introduction includes an exposition of mystagogical catecheses and the development of an historicizing system of liturgical symbolism. Translator(s): Meyendorff, P. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 129 x 186 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- St Vladimir´s Seminary Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881410389
- ISBN
- 9780881410389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.48
€ 14.99
€ 12.48
Paperback. Uses philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule. Translator(s): Bowersock, G. W. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 133 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674030893
- ISBN
- 9780674030893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.71
€ 40.99
€ 33.71
Hardback. Talks about Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), one of the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, "On Elegance in the Latin Language", which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and "Dialectical Disputations", a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. Translator(s): Bowersock, G. W. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; CFA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025332
- ISBN
- 9780674025332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.73
€ 40.99
€ 33.73
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- St Vladimir´s Seminary Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881411775
- ISBN
- 9780881411775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.31
€ 17.99
€ 14.31
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691637150
- ISBN
- 9780691637150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.81
€ 158.81
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- V9780691608754
- ISBN
- 9780691608754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.85€ 42.40
€ 52.85
€ 42.40
Paperback. The author here is investigating and clarifying the premise that the distinctive nature of human consciousness is misrepresented by many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aim to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological and computational terms. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333800225
- ISBN
- 9780333800225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.60
€ 52.60
Hardback. Southeastern Colorado was known as the northernmost boundary of New Spain in the sixteenth century. By the late 1800s, the region was US territory, but the majority of settlers remained Hispanic families. Bonnie J. Clark investigates the unwritten history of this unique Hispanic population. Series: Historical Archaeology of the American West. Num Pages: 176 pages, 26 illustrations, 6 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; HBJK; HD; JFSL4; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803213722
- ISBN
- 9780803213722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.13
€ 58.13
Paperback. A collection of 11 essays, which examine the Esalen Institute's roots, the place of its beliefs in American religious history, and its influence. It is suitable for those interested in the history of American religion as well as those who regard this place as the epicenter of the human potential movement. Editor(s): Shuck, Glenn W.; Kripal, Jeffrey J. Series: Religion in North America. Num Pages: 344 pages, 3 b&w photos, 2 figures, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; HRQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 527.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217592
- ISBN
- 9780253217592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.95
€ 25.99
€ 23.95
Paperback. Sheds new light on the views and attitudes of Latin American writers during the Nazi era Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH; HBTZ1; JFSL4. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Brandeis University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611688566
- ISBN
- 9781611688566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.37
€ 42.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. Based upon a true story, this book tells of a Russian missionary bishop's trip to Siberia. During the teaching and baptism along the way, he learns that baptism without preparation is ritual devoid of content, and that indigenous cultures must be built upon as a foundation for Christian conversion. Translator(s): Prokurat, Michael. Num Pages: 136 pages, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: FC; HRCC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 215 x 10. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- St Vladimir´s Seminary Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881411188
- ISBN
- 9780881411188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.36
€ 14.99
€ 14.36
Paperback. A study on Descartes, that brings together essays on the topics of the ego and of God. It explores the alterity of the Cartesian ego. It closes with a careful delineation of the concept of causa sui and a detailed survey of the idea of God in seventeenth-century thought. Translator(s): Gschwandtner, Prof. Christina M. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227556
- ISBN
- 9780823227556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 42.80
€ 47.99
€ 42.80