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Paperback. For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. In 2011, the author lived in Ramallah in Palestine's occupied West Bank and taught in nearby Jerusalem. In this book, he offers a personal take on the conflict. Num Pages: 122 pages, 78 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF1; JPSD; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
122
Condition
New
SKU
V9780984201037
ISBN
9780984201037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.69

Paperback. When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices. This book looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars, and creative practitioners coming together to create, share, and maintain these alternative networks. Editor(s): Satinsky, Abigail. Series: SAIC - Chicago Social Practice History. Num Pages: 200 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AC; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780982879856
ISBN
9780982879856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.29

Paperback. Examines several aspects of Johnson's career through fresh perspectives and original interpretations. Editor(s): Horrocks, Thomas A.; Weinbrot, Howard D. Series: Harvard Library Bulletin. Num Pages: 140 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HPCB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 174 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library United States
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9780981885841
ISBN
9780981885841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. A collection of ten essays that constitutes the proceedings of a two-day conference which focused on three medieval manuscripts of Ambrosian chant owned by Houghton Library. It explores the manuscripts as physical objects and places them in their urban and historical contexts. Editor(s): Kelly, Professor Thomas Forrest; Mugmon, Matthew. Series: Houghton Library Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 120 color illustrations, 100 halftones. BIC Classification: AVGD; HRCL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 13. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780981885803
ISBN
9780981885803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.07

Hardcover. Beginning in 1900 and concluding with the events of 2001, this title offers a chronological history of Yale College in the 20th Century. Using excerpts drawn primarily from contemporary Yale College publications and from writings and books by Yale College graduates, it portrays the day-to-day life and times at Yale College during the last century. Num Pages: 556 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 363 x 81. Weight in Grams: 3956.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1ST
Number of pages
556
Condition
New
SKU
V9780976321408
ISBN
9780976321408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.84
€ 94.24

Paperback. Catches the culture of the medieval book at its height, not only in Bibles but in brevaries, lectionaries, commentaries and works of the Doctors and Fathers of the Church. Num Pages: 120 pages, 25halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGC; HRCG; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 217. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
Condition
New
SKU
V9780974396347
ISBN
9780974396347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.78

Hardcover. An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture. Editor(s): Weiss, Julian; Salih, Sarah. Series: King's College London Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23, 20 colour, 3 black and white. BIC Classification: HBLC1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
King's College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953983872
ISBN
9780953983872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.70

Paperback. The 2500-year-old tradition of Jainism offers a worldview seemingly compatible with the goals of environmental activism. This volume reflects the dynamic nature of the Jain faith and its willingness to engage in discussion on a modern social issue. Series: Religions of the World and Ecology. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: HRKJ; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945454342
ISBN
9780945454342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.85

Paperback. This text describes modes of resistance and regeneration by which communties maintain a spiritual balance with larger cosmological forces while creatively accommodating current environmental, social, economic and political changes. Editor(s): Grim, John A. Series: Religions of the World and Ecology. Num Pages: 822 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HRLP5; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 181 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1092.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
822
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945454281
ISBN
9780945454281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.10

Paperback. An analysis of the branch of early Christian apocryphal literature that examines the relationship between tradition and redaction, uses of language, and the fluid border between literary criticism and motif analysis. The work includes critical editions of two previously unpublished Greek texts. Editor(s): Bovon, Francoise; etc.; Brock, Anne Graham; Matthews, Christopher R. Series: Religions of the World. Num Pages: 414 pages, facsims. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HRCC1; HRCG9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945454182
ISBN
9780945454182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.57

Paperback. In this book, his first to appear in English, French sinologistFrancois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi--meaningdisposition or circumstance, power or potential--as a touchstone toexplore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate structureunderlying Chinese modes of thinking. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Zone Books
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299953
ISBN
9780942299953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Paperback. This volume traces the odyssey of truth "aletheia", from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. The book begins with an examination of how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. Num Pages: 232 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Zone Books
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299861
ISBN
9780942299861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.53

Paperback. Caroline Walker Bynum examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that allowed for the emergence of their own creative voices. Num Pages: 432 pages, 46. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRCC1; HRCC2; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Zone Books
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299625
ISBN
9780942299625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardcover. This text is an account of the changing roles of images in German medieval monasticism from the 12th-century to the Reformation. The author explores the interrelationships between the visual arts and female spirituality in the context of the "cura monialium", the pastoral care of nuns. Num Pages: 580 pages, 246 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACK; AGR; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 282 x 190 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1611.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
580
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299458
ISBN
9780942299458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Paperback. Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 528 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 808.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Edition
New ed of 2 Revised ed
Number of pages
538
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299199
ISBN
9780942299199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Zone Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299175
ISBN
9780942299175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.47

Paperback. In these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other's work. Translator(s): Mehlman, Jeffrey; Massumi, Brian. Num Pages: 112 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HP; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299038
ISBN
9780942299038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.72

Hardcover. Num Pages: 137 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939657797
ISBN
9780939657797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.11

Paperback. Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies. Num Pages: 127 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
East Asia Program Cornell University
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939657742
ISBN
9780939657742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 197 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939657551
ISBN
9780939657551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.53

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