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Hardback. An aristocratic member of a prominent Philadelphia family, Sidney George Fisher was a prolific man of letters. He kept a detailed diary that chronicled not only daily life in America's second city but also the key political, social, and cultural events of the 19th century. This book talks about the Fisher's diary written during the Civil War. Editor(s): White, Jonathan W. Series: North's Civil War. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: BG; DNJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 539.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227273
- ISBN
- 9780823227273
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Condition: New
€ 98.39
€ 98.39
Hardback. In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President US Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. This book argues that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPL; JPQB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 226 x 32. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227099
- ISBN
- 9780823227099
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Condition: New
€ 98.70
€ 98.70
Hardback. Seeks to articulate the evil that happened in Bosnia within the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This book understands evil via a neologism - as sociocide, the murdering of society. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; HPJ; JFFE; JWXK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227006
- ISBN
- 9780823227006
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Condition: New
€ 95.19
€ 95.19
Hardback. Offers the study of a largely ignored legacy. Scouring archives, discovering diaries, and memoirs in private houses and forgotten drawers, this title recovers the voices of the generation - bootblacks and poets, film directors and farmers, miners, anarchists, and seamstresses - compelled to tell their stories. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; BGA; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226788
- ISBN
- 9780823226788
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Condition: New
€ 113.30
€ 113.30
Hardback. John Romeiser has woven both the North African diary and Whitehead's memoir of the subsequent landings in Sicily into a vivid, unvarnished, and completely riveting story of eight months during some of the most brutal combat of the war. Series: World War II: The Global, Human and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BTM; HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226757
- ISBN
- 9780823226757
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Condition: New
€ 53.84
€ 53.84
Hardback. Examines the possibility of writing the other and explores whether an ethical writing that preserves the other as such is possible. This book also discusses what the implications are for an ethically inflected criticism. It examines how the question of the other engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality, and power. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226719
- ISBN
- 9780823226719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.44
€ 87.44
Hardback. Provides an account of Jacques Derrida's involvement in debates about the university. Derrida has long argued that philosophy simultaneously belongs and does not belong to the university. This book asks whether a broader tension between "belonging" and "not belonging" also forms the basis of Derrida's political thinking and activism. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JNMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 403.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226658
- ISBN
- 9780823226658
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Condition: New
€ 97.18
€ 97.18
The Drama of Possibility. Experience as Philosophy of Culture.
McDermott, John J.. Ed(S): Anderson, Douglas ...
Hardback. Traces the trajectory of the author's philosophical career through a selection of his essays. This work addresses specific issues in American thought and culture. It constitutes a mosaic of his philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience. Editor(s): Anderson, Douglas R. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 36. Weight in Grams: 891.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226627
- ISBN
- 9780823226627
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Condition: New
€ 122.20
€ 122.20
The Land, the Bible, and History. Toward the Land That I Will Show You...
Marchadour, Alain; Neuhaus, David
Hardback. Offers a Catholic view of the Holy Land in the debate that rages among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. This book analyzes the Promised Land - as concept, history, and contested terrain - in Catholic teaching and doctrine. It offers an analytical reading of the entire Christian Bible with reference to the idea of the Land promised by God. Series: Abrahamic Dialogues. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226597
- ISBN
- 9780823226597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.39
€ 98.39
Hardback. Develops a philosophy of life in opposition to the notion of "bio-power," which reduces the human to the question of power over what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life," mere biological existence. This book provides conceptual tools for intervening in issues such as the AIDS epidemic and life-support for the infirm. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226535
- ISBN
- 9780823226535
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Condition: New
€ 103.15
€ 103.15
Hardback. The battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. This work reconstructs the battle and its aftermath from the German-American perspective, military and civilian. It critically analyzes the performance of the German regiments. Series: North's Civil War S. Num Pages: 238 pages, 2 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226504
- ISBN
- 9780823226504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.68
€ 103.68
Hardback. What is it to be a Jew and a philosopher? How has the notion of "Jewish identity" been written into and across Jewish literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? This title addresses these questions, contrasting Derrida's thought with philosophical predecessors such as Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem. Editor(s): Bergo, Bettina. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226412
- ISBN
- 9780823226412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.02
€ 104.02
Hardback. Provides a comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Drawing on a range of sources, this book synthesizes political, military, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history. Series: World War II: The Global, Human and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 560 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUC; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226276
- ISBN
- 9780823226276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.98
€ 103.98
Hardback. Philosophers speak-or, rather, they respond to various forms of speaking that are handed to them. This book focuses on the communicative aspect of philosophical thought. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226184
- ISBN
- 9780823226184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.15
€ 97.15
Hardback. Exploring the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual worlds of contemporary thought, this book brings together the wide-ranging writings, across twenty years, of one of our most important philosophers, Wyschogrod. It also analyzes the negations of biological research and cultural images of mechanized and robotic bodies. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 592 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 37. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226061
- ISBN
- 9780823226061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.18
€ 133.18
Hardback. Explores Cavell's writings. This book states that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of "King Lear" turned into a nightmarish meditation on Vietnam, he found a more audible voice. Here, the poetry of ideas and presence of mind that animate Cavell's writing receive readings attuned to the spirit of their composition and its enlivening powers. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225965
- ISBN
- 9780823225965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.47
€ 87.47
Hardback. Challenging various assumptions about the relationship between language and politics, this book offers an account of aesthetic and economic thought since the eighteenth century. Providing a contribution to contemporary debates about culture and ideology, it is suitable for scholars of literature, history, and political theory. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 24. Weight in Grams: 491.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225873
- ISBN
- 9780823225873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.95
€ 95.95
hardcover. Brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of the methodological and theological perspectives. Editor(s): Hawkins, Peter S. Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823225712
- ISBN
- 9780823225712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.84
€ 109.84
Hardback. In this concise, clearly written book, Thomas and Michael Christofferson provide a balanced introduction to every aspect of the French experience during World War II. Series: World War II: The Global, Human and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 491.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225620
- ISBN
- 9780823225620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.51
€ 103.51
Hardback. Finally available in one volume, these ten classic essays by a leading scholar track the way key political, factional, and legal struggles, shaped by popular commitment to constitutional principles, affected the framing, interpretation, and enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. With a major introduction and updates throughout. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 316 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 579.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225538
- ISBN
- 9780823225538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.77
€ 119.77