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Paperback. W. Wayne Farris has developed the first systematic analysis of early Japanese population, the role of disease in economic development, and the impact of agricultural technology and practices. In doing so, he reinterprets the nature of "ritsury " institutions. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8M. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674690059
ISBN
9780674690059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.31

Paperback. This is the first complete translation, with detailed commentary, of the surviving volumes of Beyhaqi's massive project. The historian's writings, dealing with the years 1030--1041, combine astute criticism and wry humor with an unobtrusive display of mastery of the learned literature of the time, both in Arabic and Persian. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 406 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QFM; 3H; HBJF1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062368
ISBN
9780674062368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.35

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060685
ISBN
9780674060685
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.59

Hardback. Part Regency mystery, part imperial history, this title presents a tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds - British aristocrats and Australian felons - bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone. It illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1M; BTC; HBJD1; HBJM; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674052789
ISBN
9780674052789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.19

Hardback. Tracing teachers' experiences in the Third Reich and East Germany, this title analyzes developments in education of crucial importance to both dictatorships. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTB; JN; JPFC; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050532
ISBN
9780674050532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.31
€ 60.65

Hardback. Explores interactions between society and environment in China's most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its nineteenth - century expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in the 1970s. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages, 11 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; KNAF; RNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035980
ISBN
9780674035980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.28

Hardback. Tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they were college classmates who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 818.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032583
ISBN
9780674032583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.95
€ 58.64

Hardback. South Korea is home to some of the largest evangelical Protestant congregations in the world. This book investigates the meaning of - and the reasons behind - a particular aspect of contemporary South Korean evangelicalism: the intense involvement of middle-class women. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031074
ISBN
9780674031074
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.26

Paperback. Beginning with Germanic invasions that undermined the Roman Empire and culminating with the establishment of the modern nation, this book explores the dynamic exchange between outsider and "native," liberally illustrated with interpretations of the foreigners drawn from a range of sources. Translator(s): Shugaar, Antony. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674030336
ISBN
9780674030336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.54

Paperback. Beginning with a Cuban Catholic ritual in Miami, this book takes readers on a theoretical journey toward an understanding of religion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027640
ISBN
9780674027640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. A study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' It adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the human quest for 'earning Paradise.' Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 2AHA; DSBB; HDDK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674023796
ISBN
9780674023796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.33

Hardcover. In 1911, when a professor took his students to tour Nanjing's shantytowns, one student was grateful as his eyes had been opened to the poverty in his own city. Years later, when another professor showed his students a film on the poor quarters of Nanjing, they demanded his expulsion. This book explores the reasons for these different reactions. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 424 pages, 35 b/w figures, 5 maps, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021327
ISBN
9780674021327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.50

Hardcover. Editor(s): Schowalter, Daniel N.; Friesen, Steven J. Series: Harvard Theological Studies. Num Pages: 486 pages, 108 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148. Weight in Grams: 870.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674016590
ISBN
9780674016590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.30

Paperback. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, this book explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. It also shows how selective consumption linked native societies and colonists and created transformative relationships for each. Num Pages: 480 pages, 43 b/w photographs, 52 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1QDA; 3B; HDDA; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1007.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520287570
ISBN
9780520287570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.94

Paperback. Maps a series of historical events - since the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. This book presents an examination of India as represented in department stores, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era. Num Pages: 230 pages, 48 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520252318
ISBN
9780520252318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.91

Paperback. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition, this book provides dazzling English renderings of works composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years. It presents the texts in their original languages alongside the English translations. Editor(s): Cole, Peter. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; HRJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 191 x 29. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300205695
ISBN
9780300205695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.74

Paperback. Editor(s): Sorensen, Clark W.; Arai, Andrea Gevurtz. Series: Center for Korea Studies Publications. Num Pages: 376 pages, 73 colour illustrations, 73 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; HPS; JHB; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 868.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295998428
ISBN
9780295998428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.64

Paperback. A grand overview of the New World's most recognizable but least understood ancient city--Teotihuacan, in the Valley of Mexico--which proposes a new model for the city's social and political structure. Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Num Pages: 230 pages, 131 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK; HD; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 508. Weight in Grams: 936.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292723092
ISBN
9780292723092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.45

Hardcover. In this collection of essays, first delivered as lectures in 1998, Peter Geach confronts some of the most difficult issues in philosophy. He addresses not only problems of logic and analytical philosophy, but also of epistemology and ethics, covering human nature, goodness, truth and love. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
0268042152 Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268042158
ISBN
9780268042158
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.14

Hardcover. The Choice of the Jews under Vichy is written from the joint perspective of a historian and a participant in the events he describes. An organizer of the communist faction of the Jewish resistance in France, Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. Translator(s): Sayers, Will. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040215
ISBN
9780268040215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.96

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