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Paperback. Covering both history and literature, Greece and Rome, this title features studies that range from the real nature of Athenian society to poets as diverse as Sappho and Juvenal, and all of them, without laboring any parallels, make the ancient world immediately relevant to our own. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520255074
ISBN
9780520255074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.13

Paperback. Develops a theory and framework to describe how archaeology can contribute to a more humane world. Recognizing that archaeology is an inherently political activity, this book builds on the history of archaeological theory and Marxist dialectical theory to point out how archaeologists can use their craft to evaluate interpretations of this world. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254916
ISBN
9780520254916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Offers a rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). This work focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254855
ISBN
9780520254855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Traces Herman Melville's response to an array of nineteenth-century writings that includes literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. This book shows how Melville raised with verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation. Num Pages: 206 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSK; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1 Reprint
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254558
ISBN
9780520254558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower and demographic stagnation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FBN; HBJF1; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254473
ISBN
9780520254473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.18
€ 64.45

Paperback. Investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's influence. This book provides a different perspective from which to assess China - how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Num Pages: 384 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 2 charts, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534. Might, Money, and Minds. 384 pages, illustrations. Investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's influence. This book provides a different perspective from which to assess China - how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JP. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254428
ISBN
9780520254428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.26

Paperback. In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. The strike became a movement for social justice that helped redefine Latino and American politics. Based on first-hand reportage and interviews, this book illuminates a moment of unusually significant social ferment. Num Pages: 225 pages, 26 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPK; HBTB; JPVH; KNAC; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254336
ISBN
9780520254336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.68

Hardback. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, this book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 3JH; HBTB; JFFS; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254244
ISBN
9780520254244
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.70
€ 57.54

Paperback. Considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. This book provides an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 343 pages, 34 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254176
ISBN
9780520254176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a array of sophisticated cultural production. This work examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
2Rev Ed
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254077
ISBN
9780520254077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, this title abandons the facile explanation that charity was a response to poverty and social unrest. It examines the social and economic changes that stimulated the fervor for doing good. Num Pages: 424 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; HBJF; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253636
ISBN
9780520253636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.18
€ 64.45

Hardback. Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open an interpretive view of Western European history. Num Pages: 196 pages, 12 color illustrations, 28 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AGR; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253483
ISBN
9780520253483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.18
€ 64.45

Paperback. A companion to "Luminous Debris", this title offers readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in the author's adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental vestiges to shed light on nothing less than the existential itself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLC; HDDM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253353
ISBN
9780520253353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.26

Paperback. Soon after Alexander Gardner's "Photographic Sketch Book" was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers would come to know the war. This study of a pivotal American historical document, approaching it from the perspective of visual studies as well as American literature and history. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 128 pages, 27 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJCR; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 49.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253315
ISBN
9780520253315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.89

Hardback. Chronicles the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. This biography provides a perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution, US-Iran relations, and Iran's nuclear program. Num Pages: 740 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; BGH; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 232 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1158. 740 pages, Illustrations. Chronicles the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. This biography provides a perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution, US-Iran relations, and Iran's nuclear program. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; BGH; HBJF1; HBLW3. Dimension: 164 x 232 x 29. Weight: 1144.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
740
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253285
ISBN
9780520253285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.18
€ 64.66

Hardback. Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law. 352 pages, Illustrations. Explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize 'us' and 'them' through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. This title illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSR1; JFSR2. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253216
ISBN
9780520253216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.18
€ 64.45

Hardback. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. This book presents the history of a horrific famine that took place and focuses on cultural responses to trauma. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253025
ISBN
9780520253025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.18
€ 64.99

Paperback. Offering a global overview of Islamic hagiography, this book describes the characters beyond the Qur'an and Hadith. It is suitable for approaching the vast geographical and chronological sweep of Islamic civilization. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251984
ISBN
9780520251984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Brings together the story of the orange industry - how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges. Num Pages: 402 pages, 31 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251670
ISBN
9780520251670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.19

Paperback. An analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images that links economic change to social and cultural change in the New Mexico. It charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 353 pages, 12 figures, 19 b/w photographs, 9 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251595
ISBN
9780520251595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.78

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