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Paperback. Offers a panoramic history of the American Catholic laity. This title tells the story of this ancient church from the perspective of ordinary Americans, the lay believers who have kept their faith despite persecution from without and clergy abuse from within. It focuses on the intricacies of prayer and ritual. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034884
ISBN
9780674034884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. Offers a provocative account of the history of American civil rights law. Covering the lost challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, this title shows how Brown only partially fulfilled the promise of civil rights. Num Pages: 384 pages, 9 halftones, 1 line. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; LAZ; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034693
ISBN
9780674034693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. Intends to decipher the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. This title examines the efforts of Germans to adjust to new racial identities, to believe in the necessity of war, to accept the dynamic of unconditional destruction - in short, to become Nazis. It presents a portrait of how ideology takes hold. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034655
ISBN
9780674034655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.92

Paperback. Showing how attempts to vindicate morality have tended to change the subject - falling back on nonmoral values or practical, first-person considerations - this title elaborates the interpersonal nature of moral obligations: their inherent link to our responsibilities to one another as members of the moral community. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034624
ISBN
9780674034624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. Drawing on misinterpreted lines of thought in the writings of Wittgenstein and J L Austin, this title argues that language is an inherently moral acquisition and that any stretch of thought, without regard to whether it uses moral concepts, may express the moral outlook encoded in a person's modes of speech. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034617
ISBN
9780674034617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.13

Hardback. Explores the classical antiquity that Glen W Bowersock has given us. This book contains topics that range throughout the ancient world from the second century BCE to late antiquity, from Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome to Egypt and Arabia, and from the Second Sophistic to Roman imperial discourse. Editor(s): Brennan, T. Corey; Flower, Harriet I. Series: Loeb Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 218 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033481
ISBN
9780674033481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.85

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033429
ISBN
9780674033429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
425
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033344
ISBN
9780674033344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.46

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033139
ISBN
9780674033139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.99

Hardback. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; HRKN; HRLF; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033047
ISBN
9780674033047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.73

Hardback. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed Sichuan papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
425
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032880
ISBN
9780674032880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.46

Hardback. Contemplates key moments in the philosophical reception and uses of Paradise, marked by the rise of critical and historical methods in the Early Modern period. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 162 x 242 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032859
ISBN
9780674032859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.64
€ 50.74

Hardback. On the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. This work examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JKSN1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 168 x 244 x 31. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032798
ISBN
9780674032798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.42
€ 71.43

Hardback. One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book, the author seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with a comprehensive analysis of the humanist's attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HPCB; HRQA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 35. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032699
ISBN
9780674032699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.58
€ 55.91

Hardback. On July 10, 1940, by a 570 to 80 margin, the representatives in the French parliament voted full powers to Philippe Petain, ending the Third Republic and paving the way for the collaborationist Vichy regime. This work offers a nuanced portrait of the individuals who determined the fate of France at this critical moment. Translator(s): Holoch, George. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 map, 48 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 784.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032613
ISBN
9780674032613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.66
€ 67.29

Paperback. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the 18th century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack, and insolvency was seen merely as an economic setback. This work focuses on this crucial transformation in early American society. Num Pages: 358 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; KCZ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032415
ISBN
9780674032415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.03

Paperback. Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. This book offers a view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other. Series: The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures in American Politics. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 207 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032309
ISBN
9780674032309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. Offers a different perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally brought down Sparta was in important ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League, accompanied by a general awakening of ethnicity in various areas of the Peloponnese. Editor(s): Funke, Peter; Luraghi, Nino. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 375 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031999
ISBN
9780674031999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.99

Hardback. Presents studies involved with Professor Greenewalt's excavations of the Sardis site in western Turkey. This volume includes essays, which span the Archaic to the Late Antique periods, focusing primarily on Sardis itself but also touching on other archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean. Editor(s): Cahill, Nicholas D. Series: Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports. Num Pages: 350 pages, 30 colour illustrations, 200 halftones. BIC Classification: HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 316 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Archeological Exploration of Sardis United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031951
ISBN
9780674031951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.60

Hardback. Buddhism in medieval Korea is characterized as 'State Protection Buddhism', a religion whose primary purpose was to rally support (supernatural and popular) for and legitimate the state. This book attempts to specify Buddhism's place in Koryo and to ascertain to what extent and in what areas Buddhism functioned as a state religion. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 2 maps, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 866.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031883
ISBN
9780674031883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.60

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