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Paperback. Featuring a rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, and Judith Butler, this book considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. It offers insight into the reasons why political passions are distributed to some people but not to others. It explains how psyches are shaped by power. Num Pages: 204 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: CFG; HP; JMA; JMH; JMM; JMRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309804
ISBN
9780226309804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.66

Paperback. Ranging from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins, this book shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority. Series: Making of Europe. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631205104
ISBN
9780631205104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.02

Hardback. The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. Series: Making of Europe. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631174653
ISBN
9780631174653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.34

Paperback. Explores the role narrative plays in human life. This book demonstrates how the ways in which people tell their stories can be indicative of how they construct their worlds and their own identities. It aims to uncover the underlying psychological processes in narrative texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 black & white tables, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: CFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415457958
ISBN
9780415457958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.61

Paperback. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and Austin, this bold yet subtle meditation contemplates the seductive promises of speech and of love, in a telling exchange among philosophy, linguistics, literature, and Lacanian theory. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; CFB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744539
ISBN
9780804744539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardcover. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, over 25 million Russian speakers ended up living outside their homeland. Some remained in the non-Russian former Soviet republics which became independent states, whilst others migrated. This book discusses language and identity of the Russian speakers outside Russia from a sociolinguistic perspective. Editor(s): Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara. Series: Russian Language and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748668458
ISBN
9780748668458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.71
€ 102.03

hardcover. Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FCZ; CF; HBJD; HBJF; HBTQ; HBTR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700708994
ISBN
9780700708994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 249.45

Paperback. Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, Ricoeur reveals the processes by which linguistic imagination creates and recreates meaning through metaphor. Translator(s): Czerny, R.; etc. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
454
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415312806
ISBN
9780415312806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.25

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
632
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415709811
ISBN
9780415709811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.64

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138245198
ISBN
9781138245198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.82

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138669246
ISBN
9781138669246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GJ; CFP; CJC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415486866
ISBN
9780415486866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.65

Paperback. .". not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." The Review of Metaphysics.". essential reading for anyone interesting in.. the new reader-centered forms of criticism." Library JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between open and closed texts." Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Edition
Midland Book ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253203182
ISBN
9780253203182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Hardback. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
Edition
Rev ed
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556080425
ISBN
9781556080425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.40

paperback. Describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. This book shows that to + infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposition to plus a deverbal nominalization, which spread first to purpose clauses, then to nonfinite environments. It challenges the reasoning that infinitives must have been nouns in Old English. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 20. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199208739
ISBN
9780199208739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 114.34

Hardback. This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and impact of mass literacy across Europe between 1750 and 1950. The volume outlines the main features of the comparative growth of literacy, and relates them to the later growth of electronic media. Series: Themes in History. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; CFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745614441
ISBN
9780745614441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.69

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199568369
ISBN
9780199568369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Simons, Herbert W. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: CFG; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 274 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 537.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226759029
ISBN
9780226759029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.83

Hardcover. Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoricA" - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions Editor(s): Meyer, Christian; Girke, Felix. Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture. Num Pages: 338 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598. Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture. 338 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Meyer, Christian; Girke, Felix. Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoricA" - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JHM. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 26. Weight: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857451125
ISBN
9780857451125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.97

Paperback. In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. aeo Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). aeo Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405112376
ISBN
9781405112376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99

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