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Paperback. This book offers a fresh reading of the biblical story of Joseph, alert to, and explicit about current literary methodology. Joseph is sold south by traders; then his brothers must go down to barter for food; and finally all his kin relocate in Egypt to survive famine. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761805113
- ISBN
- 9780761805113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.78
€ 70.78
Hardback. This book offers a fresh reading of the biblical story of Joseph, alert to, and explicit about current literary methodology. Joseph is sold south by traders; then his brothers must go down to barter for food; and finally all his kin relocate in Egypt to survive famine. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761805106
- ISBN
- 9780761805106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.01
€ 116.01
Hardback. This work undertakes a philosophical analysis and study of the thought of John Paul II on inculturation and evangelization. It investigates the development of the Pope's thought on inculturation and argues that inculturation is the central theme that unifies the Pope's encyclical. Num Pages: 168 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCC7; HRCM; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761805021
- ISBN
- 9780761805021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.62
€ 103.62
paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761804963
- ISBN
- 9780761804963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.26
€ 83.26
Hardback. This text provides a survey of martyrs over the past 500 years with an emphasis on their "last words". The approach of the book is chronological, from the burning at the stake of Joan of Arc in Rouen 1431 to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv in 1995. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HRLK; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761804871
- ISBN
- 9780761804871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.35
€ 104.35
Hardback. This book explains how Duns Scotus's concept of 'Haecceitas'-thisness, or individuation-represents an insufficiently recognized yet central aspect of Aristotelianism, namely its denial of and flight from 'the play of difference' that was a core aspect of Plato's philosophy. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761804536
- ISBN
- 9780761804536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.87
€ 122.87
Hardback. Albert Williamson Goldsmid belonged to one of the oldest Jewish families in England. He became a colonel in the British army and emerged over the years as a champion of the Jewish renaissance in their ancient homeland. This biography details his life and British Jewish and Zionist politics. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BG; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761804260
- ISBN
- 9780761804260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.06
€ 126.06
Hardback. The Politics of the Spirit is an in-depth discussion of the impact of the Spirit upon the community called Church. Num Pages: 294 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB1; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761804253
- ISBN
- 9780761804253
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.66
€ 131.66
Hardback. Presenting the masked theatre of Thailand as an ideal model of a performance structured and expressive human activity, this book suggests that performance, as a genre of aesthetic and religious import, may be further regarded as a significant theological agenda for Christian ritual praxis. Num Pages: 192 pages, 27 photographs, appendix, index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; AN; HRCM; HRCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761804154
- ISBN
- 9780761804154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.27
€ 104.27
Hardback. NOTE: Series number is not an integer: XVI Series: Studies in the Shoah Series. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761803751
- ISBN
- 9780761803751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.70
€ 132.70
Paperback. Asking the question, "What is distinctive about the action of any religion's claimed disciple?", this book delves into the fact that all religious leaders and followers utter words of information or of instruction, but the standard must come only from watching what the leader does. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761803645
- ISBN
- 9780761803645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.12
€ 88.12
Hardback. Asking the question, "What is distinctive about the action of any religion's claimed disciple?", this book delves into the fact that all religious leaders and followers utter words of information or of instruction, but the standard must come only from watching what the leader does. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761803638
- ISBN
- 9780761803638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.87
€ 123.87
Hardback. These essays explore various topics in European history ranging from a study of the medieval Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds to an essay on the issue of the restoration of the Kaiser prior to Hitler's assumption of power. The volume places a special emphasis on Austrian history. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761803164
- ISBN
- 9780761803164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.58
€ 130.58
Paperback. his book investigates the feminine traditions of the Hebrew Bible in a readable manner, pertinent to contemporary times. It is unique in its focus on the experiences of biblical women and not how they were perceived within a patriarchal context. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRJ; HRLC1; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761802808
- ISBN
- 9780761802808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.92
€ 72.92
Hardback. Based on the foundation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and related writings of Bertrand Russell, Truth and Knowledge explores the basic problems of knowledge through the process of developing a theory of truth, uniquely the author's own. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HP; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761802686
- ISBN
- 9780761802686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.20
€ 109.20
Paperback. NOTE: Series number is not an integer: VIII Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; HBLW; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761802679
- ISBN
- 9780761802679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.99
€ 64.99
Paperback. This is a study of the development of Christian thought and the doctrine of providential evolution. It examines a school of clergymen and demonstrates how they came to endorse Darwinian biology as early as 1884 in Britain, therefore placing the history of the principle in its English context. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HRAB1; HRCM; JFCX; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761802426
- ISBN
- 9780761802426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.59
€ 82.59
Paperback. This text focuses on the history of the Prussian army from the Thirty Years War to the unification of Germany in the Franco-Prussian War. The author uses an entertaining format to describe the rise of militarism in Prussia. Num Pages: 378 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761802068
- ISBN
- 9780761802068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.52
€ 95.52
Paperback. An introduction to the lives and thought of three significant thinkers: John MacMurray, Bernard Lonergan and James Fowler. This study shows how their work is helpful in interpreting human lives and the world in which we live. It also includes key quotations from their writings. Num Pages: 236 pages, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPC; HRCM; HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761801825
- ISBN
- 9780761801825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.24
€ 76.24
Hardback. This historical and sociological analysis focuses on the African-American higher education system. Its central themes concern university structure, bureaucracy and transplantation. It also provides an analysis of all factors which have affected both African and African-American higher education. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761801757
- ISBN
- 9780761801757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.38
€ 103.38