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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
€ 41.15
€ 41.15
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€ 34.09
€ 37.99
€ 34.09
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
€ 142.21
€ 142.21
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
€ 124.35
€ 124.35
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€ 37.06
€ 47.99
€ 37.06
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
€ 68.92€ 62.32
€ 68.92
€ 62.32
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€ 40.83
€ 52.99
€ 40.83
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
€ 89.38
€ 89.38
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
€ 23.99€ 21.92
€ 23.99
€ 21.92
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474415088
- ISBN
- 9781474415088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
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
€ 32.58
€ 32.58
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€ 38.10
€ 45.99
€ 38.10
Hardback. Translator(s): Kuster, Ted. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; GTF; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853459033
- ISBN
- 9780853459033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.39
€ 18.99
€ 17.39
Hardback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781481303675
- ISBN
- 9781481303675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.51
€ 85.51
Paperback. As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, this book illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBJF; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141979229
- ISBN
- 9780141979229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Written by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the work discusses the role European dependence on American support played in the history of European unification. Editor(s): Trachtenberg, Marc. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742521773
- ISBN
- 9780742521773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.80
€ 62.80
Hardback. Historians have commonly interpreted Britain's attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations. Series: Studies in British & Imperial History. Num Pages: 688 pages, 1 illustration, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; HBLW; HBWN; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785335785
- ISBN
- 9781785335785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.83
€ 205.83
Paperback. An examination of the complex inter-relationships between the Roman and Sasanid Empires, and some of their Arab allies and neighbours, during the last century before the emergence of Islam. Greg Fisher stresses the importance of a Near East dominated by Rome and Iran for the formation of early concepts of Arab identity. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 274 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: HBLA; HBLA1; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199679317
- ISBN
- 9780199679317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism. Series: Radical Thinkers. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Verso
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844672073
- ISBN
- 9781844672073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.65
€ 27.99
€ 24.65
Paperback. aeo This is Habermasa s long--awaited work on law and democracy. aeo It develops a distinctive account of the nature of law and an original concept of democracy. aeo As one of Habermasa s most important works, it will be recognized as a major contribution to current debates in social theory, political theory, and philosophy. Num Pages: 636 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JPA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1004.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 636
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620114
- ISBN
- 9780745620114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.43
€ 28.43