Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Paperback. The Iranian Talmud reexamines the Babylonian Talmud-one of Judaism's most central texts-in the light of Persian literature and culture, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview to the vibrant world of pre-Islamic Iran that shaped the Bavli. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; 3D; HBJF; HBLA; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223736
- ISBN
- 9780812223736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.76
€ 37.99
€ 33.76
Paperback. How we die reveals much about how we live. This book traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. It shows how over time, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFME. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133904
- ISBN
- 9780691133904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.27
€ 46.99
€ 33.27
Paperback. Every commentator, from the classical rabbi to the modern-day scholar, has brought his or her own worldview, with all of its assumptions, to bear on the reading of holy text. This relationship between the text itself and the reader's interpretation is the subject of Torah Through Time . Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jewish Publication Society United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780827608481
- ISBN
- 9780827608481
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.05
€ 30.99
€ 27.05
Hardback. Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Editor(s): Bashir, Shahzad; Crews, Robert D. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 halftones, 3 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKP; JF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674065611
- ISBN
- 9780674065611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.73
€ 47.99
€ 39.73
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 illus. BIC Classification: HRHX; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546. Religion and Society in Medieval Islam. 304 pages, 21 halftones, 2 line drawings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRHX; JFSR2. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight: 546.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231144902
- ISBN
- 9780231144902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.19€ 79.08
€ 104.19
€ 79.08
Hardback. EPUB Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFFD; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230798
- ISBN
- 9780230230798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.70
€ 139.70
Paperback. In this ethnography of contemporary youth culture in Iran's capital, Shahram Khosravi examines the practices of everyday life through which young Tehranis demonstrate defiance against the official culture and the parental generation. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: JFSP3; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 166 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812220681
- ISBN
- 9780812220681
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, 'Illegal' Traveller offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is 'a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context'. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFFD; JFFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 217 x 7. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230336742
- ISBN
- 9780230336742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.79
€ 50.79
Paperback. How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the 'war on terror'? This book presents the debate on the uneasy and potentially mutually destructive relationship between the Muslim world and the West. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 176 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848851979
- ISBN
- 9781848851979
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.24
€ 32.99
€ 27.24
Paperback. Editor(s): Akbarzadeh, Shahram. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349294695
- ISBN
- 9781349294695
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Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Globalization, Export-Oriented Employment and Social Policy: Gendered ...
Shahra Razavi, Ruth Pearson, Caroline Danloy
Hardcover. Editor(s): Razavi, Shahra; Pearson, Ruth; Danloy, Caroline. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403934857
- ISBN
- 9781403934857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Paperback. This collection of cutting-edge articles focuses on recent shifts in thinking about land rights, particularly as they relate to women. Leading feminist scholars in the field provide searching treatment of the long-neglected subject of gender and access to land. Editor(s): Razavi, Shahra. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFSF; JFSJ1; JPVH3; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405110761
- ISBN
- 9781405110761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.11
€ 34.11
Hardback. The Zina Ordinance is part of the Hadood Ordinances that were promulgated in 1979 by the military dictator, General Zia-ul-Haq. This work argues that the Zina laws help situate morality within the individual, thus de-emphasizing the prevalence of societal immorality. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1; JPVH1; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774812856
- ISBN
- 9780774812856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.34
€ 119.34
Paperback. Six candid interviews introduce readers to a class of Muslim women rarely acknowledged in the West. The book aims to shed light on the status, conflicts and social realities of educated Muslim women in Pakistan. They tell of the conflicts and compromises with family and community. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 368 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1; JFSR2; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629795
- ISBN
- 9780815629795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.72
€ 34.72
Hardback. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349949175
- ISBN
- 9781349949175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardback. Championship is the key differentiator between women who achieve leadership roles and those who don't. This book examines the reasons why championing works and why it is so important for female executive development in particular, and provides a user-friendly guide to develop workplace champions for female leaders in any organization Num Pages: 252 pages, 2 black & white tables, 12 figures. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJC; KJG; KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478931
- ISBN
- 9781137478931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739166512
- ISBN
- 9780739166512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.84
€ 135.84
hardcover. Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes the politics of state building and the implications for contemporary statehood and the global order. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251861
- ISBN
- 9780230251861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.00
€ 63.00
Paperback. Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes the politics of state building and the implications for contemporary statehood and the global order. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321483
- ISBN
- 9781349321483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Hardcover. Contributes to the interdisciplinary theory of 'word and image', and the history of the relationships between 'sister arts'. This title offers a fresh perspective of traditional Western art form as reflected in the eyes of a Hebrew survivor of twentieth-century Holocaust atrocities. Num Pages: 197 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSBH; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194505
- ISBN
- 9781845194505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.16
€ 128.16