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Paperback. Rediscovering Aesthetics brings together prominent international voices from art history, philosophy and artistic practice who reflect on current notions, functions, and applications of aesthetics in their distinctive fields. Editor(s): Halsall, Francis; Jansen, Julia; O'Connor, Tony. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759915
- ISBN
- 9780804759915
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. This book criticizes theories, dominant today, that reduce the self to a simple illusion, proposing a new theory of the ego that allows us to better understand our existence and our relations with others. Translator(s): Vallier, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759892
- ISBN
- 9780804759892
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€ 37.99€ 33.73
€ 37.99
€ 33.73
Paperback. The Image of Law is the first book to examine law through the work of Gilles Deleuze, activating his thought within problems of jurisprudence and developing a concept of judgment that acknowledges its inherently creative capacity. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759854
- ISBN
- 9780804759854
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.73
€ 37.99
€ 33.73
Hardback. Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy is pioneering microanalysis of 59 Argentinean corporations between 1890 and 1930 that explains Argentina's failure to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances successfully modernized. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 14 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759830
- ISBN
- 9780804759830
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Condition: New
€ 86.52
€ 86.52
Hardback. Drawing on the original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and the author's fieldwork in Qin village of the Jiangsu province, this book examines the experiences of Chinese villagers during the collective and reform periods. Num Pages: 424 pages, 9 tables, 3 figures, 10 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759748
- ISBN
- 9780804759748
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Condition: New
€ 158.15
€ 158.15
Paperback. In The Arts and the Definition of the Human, Margolis introduces a novel theory of the human person or self as a historical artifact and argues that important topics in the philosophy of art, pictorial representation, and the nature of interpretation make no sense when separated from a "philosophical anthropology" along the lines he suggests. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759540
- ISBN
- 9780804759540
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
Hardback. In this book, Engel asks why and how Jewish history and the Holocaust came to be viewed as separate areas of academic study. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759519
- ISBN
- 9780804759519
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Condition: New
€ 80.56
€ 80.56
Paperback. A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 tables, 14 figures, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759496
- ISBN
- 9780804759496
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.17
€ 40.99
€ 40.17
Hardback. A collection of stories which show how the cold war affected various facets of life - East and West, urban and rural, in developed and developing nations, in the superpowers and on the periphery of the international system. Editor(s): Engel, Jeffrey. Series: Cold War International History Project. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 tables, 2 figures, 3 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759472
- ISBN
- 9780804759472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.54
€ 85.54
Paperback. These phenomenological studies on the philosophy of the image review contemporary image theory while defending the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Translator(s): Schott, Nils F. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 168 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 249.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759410
- ISBN
- 9780804759410
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.29
€ 26.99
€ 26.29
Hardback. This book explores a prominent medieval kabbalist's approach to prayer, meditative contemplation, and the transmission of mystical wisdom. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759137
- ISBN
- 9780804759137
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Condition: New
€ 86.00
€ 86.00
Hardback. Bronzes to Bullets tells the story of French statues and monuments that were melted down and shipped to Nazi munitions factories during the Second World War. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 tables, 1 figure, 41 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758895
- ISBN
- 9780804758895
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Condition: New
€ 86.52
€ 86.52
Paperback. A provocative examination of the property tax revolt of the 1970s that explains why contemporary American politics is now consumed with conflicts over big tax cuts. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: HBTB; JH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758710
- ISBN
- 9780804758710
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Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Paperback. This book is a history of the conflict-ridden privatization of communal land in the pueblo of Papantla, a Mexican Indian village transformed by the fast growth of vanilla production and exports in the second half of the 19th century. Num Pages: 408 pages, 21 tables, 7 figures, 2 illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758482
- ISBN
- 9780804758482
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.45
€ 33.99
€ 30.45
Hardback. Kottman's readings of the drama of William Shakespeare and others against two major treatises in political philosophy-Plato's Republic and Hobbes's Leviathan-contest the figural ground from which political philosophy emerges and suggests how a Shakespearean sense of the 'scene' might open up new avenues for thinking about politics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758345
- ISBN
- 9780804758345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.53
€ 81.53
Paperback. This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758338
- ISBN
- 9780804758338
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.85
€ 25.99
€ 25.85
Hardback. This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and the faithful maiden's own subjective point of view. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 tables, 16 figures, 5 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758086
- ISBN
- 9780804758086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.71
€ 97.71
Paperback. This anthology of philosophical essays explores the interpersonal and political contexts in and against which the films of ten major postwar filmmakers were made. Editor(s): Phillips, James. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758017
- ISBN
- 9780804758017
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Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Hardback. The Jacquinot Zone, in Shanghai, is the first example in history of a successful safe zone that provided protection and security to half a million Chinese refugees living in a battle zone during wartime. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF; HBWQ; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804757935
- ISBN
- 9780804757935
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.45
€ 38.99
€ 32.45
Paperback. The Messianic Reduction is the first study of Benjamin's early philosophy that takes into consideration the full range of his work, with particular emphasis on its complex relation to phenomenology, Kant and neo-Kantianism, and certain developments in mathematics. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757881
- ISBN
- 9780804757881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.17
€ 27.17