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Paperback. A brief history of one of the most vibrant periods of European culture. Connects European culture of the period, including literature, art and philosophy, to broader themes of industrialisation, commercialisation and empire. Written in a very fluid and readable style and brings in a wealth of cultural examples. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745643601
- ISBN
- 9780745643601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.46
€ 23.46
Hardback. This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term decline in the incidence of homicide. Num Pages: 282 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745643779
- ISBN
- 9780745643779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Hardback. * Roberto Esposito is one of leading figures in a new generation of Italian philosophers. * This book criticizes the notion of the person and develops an original account of the concept of the impersonal - what he calls the third person. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745643977
- ISBN
- 9780745643977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.98
€ 68.98
Paperback. n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.
Much less well known is the fact that, up until 1979, Negri was a university professor teaching in Paris and Padova. Translator(s): Emery, Ed. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BJ; BM; HPS; JPVH; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644264
- ISBN
- 9780745644264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.12
€ 22.12
Hardback. fascinating new book on obesity which charts its cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day very engaging and on a very topical subject - this book should attract lots of review coverage and a trade audience Sander L. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644400
- ISBN
- 9780745644400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardback. This book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh approach, making novel links with conflict and coercion, and moving away from teleological emphases. Naval developments and warfare are included, as are social and cultural dimensions of military activity. Series: War and Conflict Through the Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644486
- ISBN
- 9780745644486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.01
€ 73.01
Hardback. Major new book from Susan George - a leading political commentator whose previous books have been massively influential and widely read and reviewed. Fascinating, thorough and often chilling account of this decades-long transformation of American society and political culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644608
- ISBN
- 9780745644608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Hardback. A succinct and highly readable overview of one of the most critical periods in IsraelOs short history. Covers from the founding of the State in 1948 to the Six-Day war of 1967: a time within which Israel fought three separate wars and saw its population double due to mass immigration. Num Pages: 340 pages, maps, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 36. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644660
- ISBN
- 9780745644660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.14€ 55.55
€ 65.14
€ 55.55
Paperback. A succinct and highly readable overview of one of the most critical periods in IsraelOs short history. Covers from the founding of the State in 1948 to the Six-Day war of 1967: a time within which Israel fought three separate wars and saw its population double due to mass immigration. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644677
- ISBN
- 9780745644677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.77
€ 33.99
€ 26.77
Hardback. * The book is a remarkable piece of modern history which tells the story - for the first time - of a speech that was written by Pope Pius XI in 1939 in which he was intending to speak out against Mussolini and the Fascists and condemn anti-Semitism. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644882
- ISBN
- 9780745644882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.52
€ 19.52
Hardback. This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable way, Paul Veyne suggests three possible explanations. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644981
- ISBN
- 9780745644981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Hardback. The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are shaping our world more than ever before. This book examines the forms of conflict that arise between the three monotheisms by analyzing the basic possibilities stemming from anti-Paganism, anti-Judaism, anti-Islamism and anti-Christianism. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745645063
- ISBN
- 9780745645063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Hardback. How can suffering and injustice be reconciled with the idea that God is good, that he loves humans and is merciful to them? Job's question runs through the history of the three monotheistic religions. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745645261
- ISBN
- 9780745645261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Hardback. The search for gold and for the mythical El Dorado gripped the imagination of the conquistadors from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Crossing over the Andes, they explored the unknown eastern forests and jungles, launching expeditions that were often disastrous and always disappointing. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 1KLSX; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745645520
- ISBN
- 9780745645520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.84
€ 72.84
Hardback. Although Islamic philosophy represents one of the leading philosophical traditions in the world, it has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves in the non-Islamic world. This text provides introduction to the major movements, thinkers and concepts within that tradition, from the foundation of Islam onwards. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745645988
- ISBN
- 9780745645988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Hardback. Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: We are all equal in the sight of God'. To be sure, this equality applies only to those who acknowledge God's existence. Translator(s): Livingstone, Rodney. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HRAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646183
- ISBN
- 9780745646183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Paperback. * Francois Jullien is a philosopher with a specialistknowledge of China and Chinese thought. He uses Chinese thought asa mirror to reflect on the West and as an invitation to think aboutdifference and otherness. * This book focuses on the idea of the universal and analysesdifferent ways of thinking about it. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646237
- ISBN
- 9780745646237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.93
€ 25.93
Hardback. Aesthetics is a historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646305
- ISBN
- 9780745646305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardback. Shortly before his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida expressed two paradoxical convictions: he was certain that he would be forgotten the very day he died, yet at the same time certain that something of his work would survive in the cultural memory. This text contributes to the preservation and continuation of Derrida's unique and powerful work. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 195 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646381
- ISBN
- 9780745646381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.45
€ 47.45
Hardback. Advocates a policy of gradual integration of Europe in which key decisions about Europe's future are put in the hands of its people, and a 'bipolar commonality' of the West in which a more unified Europe is able to work closely with the United States to build a more stable and equitable international order. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QFE; HPS; JPSN2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646404
- ISBN
- 9780745646404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.84
€ 72.84