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Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 3JJ; AMX; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 238 x 27. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226417769
ISBN
9780226417769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 39.32

Hardcover. Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy - the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves - has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human freedom. This book uncovers dangers in the notion of autonomy as it was originally conceived by Kant. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226155487
ISBN
9780226155487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 39.37

Hardcover. Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. This title offers an account of how dramatic changes in institutions - the formal and informal rules that govern a society - resulted from the unprecedented economic development that took place during the Industrial Revolution. Series: Markets and Governments in Economic History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; KCZ; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014746
ISBN
9780226014746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. The Ascendancy of Theravada Buddhism is a comprehensive study of the advent of Buddhism in Southeast Asia, especially in Thailand during the first millennium CE. Num Pages: 336 pages, notes, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1FM; HRAX; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9789749511947
ISBN
9789749511947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBAH; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Tulika Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9789382381693
ISBN
9789382381693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 21.95

paperback. Kohima, 2007. A young man has just been gunned down in cold blood - the latest casualty in the conflict that has brutalized the people of Nagaland, in the neglected northeastern corner of India. This title traces the story of one man's life from 1937 to 2007. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9789381017029
ISBN
9789381017029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.89

paperback. Num Pages: 164 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: H; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Tulika Print Communication Services India
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9788189487447
ISBN
9788189487447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

paperback. Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. This book includes essays on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber, oranges, and tobacco, to offer an overview of plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand that exposes the many dimensions of environmental history incorporated in these institutions. Editor(s): Uekotter, Frank. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; RN; TVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Campus Verlag Germany
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9783593500287
ISBN
9783593500287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.50

paperback. Focuses on politics and the political as contested concepts; boundary disputes between the political and other spheres; the question of whether violence is a means, an object, or the end of political communication; and on a future agenda for writing political history. Editor(s): Steinmetz, Willibald; Gilcher-Holtey, Ingrid; Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard. Series: Historische Politikforschung. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Campus Verlag Germany
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9783593398068
ISBN
9783593398068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.41
€ 45.80

paperback. Comparing various European and American historiographies from the past two hundred years, this book provides insights into the establishment and cultivation of gendered power relations in different societies and outlines the devastating effects that exclusionary practices can have on each national canon. Editor(s): Epple, Angelika; Schaser, Angelika. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Campus Verlag Germany
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9783593389608
ISBN
9783593389608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.86
€ 43.47

hardcover. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 153 x 50. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9783037345450
ISBN
9783037345450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.45

Paperback. This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between civilians and war in Europe in the period 1618 to 1815, challenging familiar narratives of the rise of modern war and the nature of early modern warfare. Editor(s): Charters, Erica; Rosenhaft, Eve; Smith, Hannah (Newnham College, Cambridge). Series: Eighteenth Century Worlds. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380123
ISBN
9781781380123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.50

Paperback. A comprehensive assessment of Holocaust literature, from World War II to the present day Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 illus. (8 colour). BIC Classification: HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Brandeis
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611683585
ISBN
9781611683585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 32.82

paperback. Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. This title shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 tables, 1 map, 3 line art. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592136193
ISBN
9781592136193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages, 23 Halftones. BIC Classification: HREX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 39. Weight in Grams: 768.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590302361
ISBN
9781590302361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.16

hardcover. Max Weber's sociological theories of secularization have vastly influenced the study of Protestant belief. This work offers a multifaceted understanding of secularization within the broader context of nineteenth-century liberal Protestantism. It reconstructs Weber's original writings to highlight Protestant motifs. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HRCC2; HRCC9; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589661639
ISBN
9781589661639
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.38

Paperback. A collection of thirty essays from John Deely, a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. It tracks Deely's development as a pragmatic realist, featuring his early essays on our relation to the world after Darwinism and articles on logic, semiotics, and objectivity. Editor(s): Cobley, Paul. Num Pages: 465 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 34. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
465
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589661486
ISBN
9781589661486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.62

paperback. The granting of indulgences by the Catholic Church has long been infamous as one of the grounds for Martin Luther's revolt from the church in the sixteenth century. Modern scholars have usually characterized the medieval practice as a defective one. This title debunks this argument through an examination of indulgences. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589661363
ISBN
9781589661363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.80

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574889765
ISBN
9781574889765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.44

paperback. On Friday, October 7, 1988, the rescue operation of three young gray whales trapped in ice off the Arctic coast, cost more than a million dollars. Using the story as a touchstone for critical comparison, the author explores three major traditions of environmental philosophy: extensionism, ecofeminism's 'care' ethic, and Heideggerian Phenomenology. Illustrator(s): Mason, Charles. Series: Environmental Ethics, Values, & Policy. Num Pages: 210 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781566396165
ISBN
9781566396165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.12

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