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Hardback. This newly updated edition of What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam is the best single source for clearly presented, objective information about new developments and understanding of Islam, and for answers to questions about its origin and traditions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199794133
- ISBN
- 9780199794133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.76
€ 24.99
€ 22.76
Hardback. Based on the largest ever study of its kind, this book is the first to present the fascinating findings of the Gallup Poll of the Muslim World. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Publisher
- Gallup Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595620170
- ISBN
- 9781595620170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10
Paperback. This exceptionally successful survey text introduces the teachings and practice of Islam from its earliest origins up to its contemporary practice. John L. Esposito, an internationally renowned expert on Islam, traces the development of Islam and its impact on world history and politics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPDC; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 282 x 15. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190632151
- ISBN
- 9780190632151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.64
€ 121.64
Paperback. The second in a three-volume study, this volume explores colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. It shows how the relationship between the British evangelists and the Southern Tswana created complex exchanges of goods, signs and cultural markers which affected both Africans and Britons. Num Pages: 606 pages, 33 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBTQ; HBTR; HRCX7; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 192 x 231 x 40. Weight in Grams: 948.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 606
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114446
- ISBN
- 9780226114446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.69
€ 44.99
€ 34.69
Paperback. Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. Num Pages: 648 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBT; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469609737
- ISBN
- 9781469609737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.31
€ 56.31
Hardcover. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Blue Dome Press United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935295075
- ISBN
- 9781935295075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.08
€ 26.99
€ 19.08
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813527178
- ISBN
- 9780813527178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226435442
- ISBN
- 9780226435442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.26€ 90.12
€ 108.26
€ 90.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226435589
- ISBN
- 9780226435589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.78
€ 41.99
€ 32.78
hardcover. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, Valentin Volosinov and Mikhail Bakhtin, the book examines key issues for working-class studies including: the idea of the 'death' of class; the importance of working-class writing; the significance of place and space for understanding working-class identity; and the centrality of work in working-class lives. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230549203
- ISBN
- 9780230549203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. This book presents a history of AIDS control in Uganda, from the start of the epidemic in the early 1980s up until 2005. Uganda is well known internationally as an AIDS 'success story', both for its bringing down HIV incidence and prevalence over the 1990s, and for its innovative approach to scaling up the provision of antiretroviral therapy. Num Pages: 258 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; JFFH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104280
- ISBN
- 9780230104280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. States that Barack Obama's inauguration was a defining moment in the political destiny of this country, based largely on demographic shifts. This book tells about contemporary politics, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and about the changes happening in America, the ones that we live day in and day out as part of our personal lives. Series: Contemporary Political and Social Issues. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472114504
- ISBN
- 9780472114504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.72
€ 75.72
paperback. Explores the historical origins, present-day meanings and political potential of a global civil society. Series: Contemporary Political Theory S. Num Pages: 236 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFFS; JH; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0024725
- ISBN
- 9780521894623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Hardback. Explores the historical origins, present-day meanings and political potential of a global civil society. Series Editor(s): Shapiro, Ian; Hardin, Russell; Holmes, Stephen; Isaac, Jeffrey; Kiss, Elizabeth; Okin, Susan; Parijs, Phillipe Van; Pettit, Phillip. Series: Contemporary Political Theory S. Num Pages: 236 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFFS; JH; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521815437
- ISBN
- 9780521815437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Paperback. From the acclaimed author of BLAIR'S WARS comes a devastating new insight into how the power and democratic values of the West are under threat. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 214. Good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0305437
- ISBN
- 9781416526049
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic 'reform' and 'adjustment'. Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFA; JPWF; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631182474
- ISBN
- 9780631182474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.57
€ 37.57
hardcover. This book is a fascinating analysis of news management in the 1780s that sheds new light on the role of the press in early America. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780945612155
- ISBN
- 9780945612155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500292518
- ISBN
- 9780500292518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.31
€ 17.99
€ 14.31
Hardback. Examines modern Western cultural and social explorations of "other" forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable in the modern ethos. The author describes how the body seeks to go beyond the conventional pieties of modern "rationality" to uncover these "other" dimensions. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631211099
- ISBN
- 9780631211099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.24
€ 129.24
Paperback. Gives an account of the social and cultural aspects of modernity over the past two centuries. This work covers topics such as: the civilizing process, gender identity, sexuality, consumerism, city life, the role of popular culture and the media in structuring experience and aspirations, and the significance of 'modernism' in culture and the arts. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631196228
- ISBN
- 9780631196228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.08
€ 68.08