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Society & culture: general

Hardcover. Following the pioneering efforts of Leo Strauss, Ralph Lerner and Daniel Elazar, among others, Jewish political philosophy gained its proper place alongside ethics and metaphysics in the study of the history of Jewish philosophy. Consisting of selected papers published in English, this book concentrates on the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 169 x 29. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235322
ISBN
9781936235322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.73

Hardback. An incisive exploration of why acts of mass annihilation take place and how people become mass killers Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBA; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 652.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300208726
ISBN
9780300208726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.91

Paperback. This book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous knowledge of the social sciences. Each chapter addresses a fundamental question about people in their various arrangements. Translator(s): Jackson, Beverley. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745625928
ISBN
9780745625928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.25

Hardback. This book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous knowledge of the social sciences. Each chapter addresses a fundamental question about people in their various arrangements. Translator(s): Jackson, Beverley. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745625911
ISBN
9780745625911
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.38

Paperback. To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1; JHBK; VFXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568211756
ISBN
9781568211756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.66

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; JFFA; RGBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 188 x 18. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781633212053
ISBN
9781633212053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 252.30
€ 169.83

Hardcover. This work, written towards the end of Al-Ghazali's career as a philosopher, advances the idea that reason can serve as a connection between the devout and God. Exploring the boundary between philosophy and theology, it seeks to understand the role of reality in the perception of the spiritual. Series: Brigham Young University's Islamic Translations S. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPD; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Brigham Young University
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842523530
ISBN
9780842523530
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.39

Paperback. This collection of forty 'hadith' by one of the most famous compilers of 'hadith' is generally regarded as the most popular anthology and the best introduction to the study of the Prophet's sayings. The Arabic original has been printed alongside the English translation. Translator(s): Ibrahim, Ezzeddin; Davies, Denys Johnson. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; HRH; HRLC; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
The Islamic Texts Society United Kingdom
Number of pages
132
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780946621651
ISBN
9780946621651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. Focuses on the 'woman question' in the Middle East, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. This book is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women. Editor(s): Abu-Lughod, Lila. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Second printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691057927
ISBN
9780691057927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.50

Hardback. Both an eye-witness account and serious scholarly inquiry, this book describes and analyses a people whose destiny will shape the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKP; HBJF; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849042925
ISBN
9781849042925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, tables. BIC Classification: HRCA; JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Jammu Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780970828019
ISBN
9780970828019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Offers an exploration of the indissoluble link between war and sexuality based on over the years of interviews by the well-known Lebanese expatriate teacher, critic, and writer. This book refers to sexuality as the physical and psychological relations of men and women, and examines Middle Eastern customs involved in defining such relationships. Editor(s): Accad, Evelyne. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; JFC; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814706152
ISBN
9780814706152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.24

Paperback. Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression. Translator(s): Dubois, Laurent. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363439
ISBN
9780822363439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.09

Hardback. Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression. Translator(s): Dubois, Laurent. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363323
ISBN
9780822363323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JH; JNZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 278 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119029830
ISBN
9781119029830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; A; JFC; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816629251
ISBN
9780816629251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.01

Paperback. A vibrant history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks-the epicentre of American cool. Num Pages: 432 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 228 x 35. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393353303
ISBN
9780393353303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.49

paperback. An examination of the tensions between racism and antiracism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation. It explores the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when the revolution began, until the intervention of American forces in 1898. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 illustrations, 2 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JH; HBJQ; HBTB; HBTV; JFFJ; JFSL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University North Carolina Pr United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807847831
ISBN
9780807847831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.00

Hardback. Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries, but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Num Pages: 230 pages, 11 photos, 2 maps, 2 tables, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; JFSL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845452292
ISBN
9781845452292
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
95
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571314383
ISBN
9781571314383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.42

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