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Hardback. The book views religious violence as a special type of social action and analyzes the world views and scripts of modern militant religious communities as well as those of their opponents. Translator(s): McNeil, Brian. Num Pages: 296 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768726
ISBN
9780804768726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.22

Paperback. This ethnographic analysis of violence that broke out in a South African gold mine soon after apartheid ended in 1994 shows how violence comes to be blamed on ethnic differences retrospectively-and often wrongly. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 b&w photos, 2 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJPR; HBTV; JFFE; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348535
ISBN
9780822348535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.32

Paperback. A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awareness that Southeast Asia is amongst the world's most troubled areas. This book analyses local terrorism and state state repression in this populous, strategically important region. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBTV; JPWL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 211 x 26. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Monash Asia Institute Australia
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876924379
ISBN
9781876924379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.14

Paperback. Editor(s): Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies Robert (University of Exeter UK); Kristo-Nagy, Istvan (University of Exeter). BIC Classification: HRHT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474417938
ISBN
9781474417938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.30

Paperback. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Warren Brown examines the norms governing violence within medieval societies from the sixth to the fourteenth century, over an area covering the Romance and the Germanic speaking regions of the continent as well as England. Series: The Medieval World. Num Pages: 344 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; GTJ; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Pearson
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405811644
ISBN
9781405811644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.11

Hardback. 'The Apocalypse of John' belongs to the most puzzling texts of the New Testament. Historical-critical exegesis has been stressing that the book above all wishes to give a message of hope and comfort for a community under threat. This book offers the proceedings of a conference that was held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2009. Editor(s): Merkt, Andreas; Nicklas, Tobias; Verheyden, Joseph. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9783525539767
ISBN
9783525539767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.10
€ 81.92

Hardback. Violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of the nature of state-making itself. Editor(s): Pansters, Wil G. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804781589
ISBN
9780804781589
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.63

Paperback. What is the relationship between the British colonial project and English literature in India? In this historical study, Prem Poddar shows how colonisers and the nationalists who suceeded them tended to inhabit the same discursive space. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBF; GTB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772887678
ISBN
9788772887678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.23

Hardback. Examines Pentecostal conversion as a force of change, revealing new insights into its dominant role in global Christianity today. Series: Religion in Transforming Africa. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; HRCC96; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
James Currey
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011527
ISBN
9781847011527
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826353955
ISBN
9780826353955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.28

Paperback. The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history. This book recovers and reconsiders the origin and role of these men, and of colonial soldiers more generally. Series: New African Histories. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFG; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821420898
ISBN
9780821420898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.75

Paperback. Series: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HB; 1HBA; HBJD; HBJH; HBLL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053281
ISBN
9780674053281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.69

Hardback. First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JHBS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719086847
ISBN
9780719086847
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.46

Hardback. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication', which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; BTC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520260702
ISBN
9780520260702
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.47
€ 46.33

paperback. This work looks at the changing concept of the purity of women brought about by the rise of Christianity. Rejecting Roman feminine virtue in its pure, but fertile form, Christianity claimed a moral superiority in its ideals of romance, and portrayed women seeking more spiritual goals. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HRCC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674939509
ISBN
9780674939509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.00
€ 35.59

Num Pages: 216 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBB; HRCM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 457.
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801433337
ISBN
9780801433337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.38

Focuses on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. This title explores various aspects of the civilian experience in Virginia including transportation and communication, wartime literature, politics and the press, higher education, patriotic celebrations, and early efforts at reconstruction in Union-occupied Virginia. Editor(s): Robertson, James I.; Davis, William C. Series: Virginia at War. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813125626
ISBN
9780813125626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Dementi Milestone Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780996915731
ISBN
9780996915731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.83

Hardback. Charts the resurgence of Virginia's Democratic Party in the 1980s and the Republicans' efforts to turn back the gains made by Chuck Robb and Douglas Wilder. This book closes with Democratic Tim Kaine taking the governor's seat and George Allen and Mark Warner poised to enter the 2008 presidential primaries. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 183 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742552104
ISBN
9780742552104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.52

Paperback. Editor(s): Kierner, Cynthia A.; Treadway, Sandra Gioia. Series: Southern Women : Their Lives and Times. Num Pages: 436 pages, 34 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820342658
ISBN
9780820342658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.71

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