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Hardback. Provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond. This volume focuses on the origins and evolution of Islamic political ideas and related subjects, covering central terms, concepts, personalities, movements, places, and schools of thought across Islamic history. Editor(s): Bowering, Gerhard; Crone, Patricia; Kadi, Wadad; Stewart, Devin J.; Zaman, Muhammad Qasim; Mirza, Mahan. Num Pages: 704 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: GBC; JFSR2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 211 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1598.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
704
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691134840
ISBN
9780691134840
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.42
€ 83.52

Hardback. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine articulates the ideas, methods, and practices of narrative medicine. Written by the originators of the field, this book provides the authoritative starting place for any clinicians or scholars committed to learning of and eventually teaching or practicing narrative medicine. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHBC; JWK; MBNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199360192
ISBN
9780199360192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.08

Paperback. Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. This book shows how schools and prisons became so intertwined. It tells what this mean for students, communities, and a democratic society? Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 b&w line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JKVP; JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 327.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281462
ISBN
9780520281462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.48

Hardback. Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. This book shows how schools and prisons became so intertwined. It tells what this mean for students, communities, and a democratic society? Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 b&w line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JKVP; JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281455
ISBN
9780520281455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.15
€ 73.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 24 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 42.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
PM Press
Edition
Second Edition, Second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604860436
ISBN
9781604860436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.68

Paperback. Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? This book presents a study of this puzzle of unequal participation. Num Pages: 480 pages, 14 line illustrations, 126 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674006607
ISBN
9780674006607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.27
€ 47.77

Paperback. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 304 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JHBZ; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691028200
ISBN
9780691028200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.15

Paperback. Editor(s): Bauer, Heidi. Num Pages: 176 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; JFFK; JPHF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914227106
ISBN
9780914227106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 118 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780970610676
ISBN
9780970610676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.76

Paperback. "Holt greatly extends and deepens our understanding of the emancipation experience when, for just over a century, the people of Jamaica struggled to achieve their own vision of freedom and autonomy against powerful conservative forces." -- David Barry Gaspar. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Num Pages: 552 pages, 25ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KJWJ; 3JH; 3JJ; JFF; JFSL1; JHBL; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 231 x 41. Weight in Grams: 756.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
552
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801842917
ISBN
9780801842917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.69

Paperback. An analysis of the changing circumstances of race and racism. This book questions the simultaneous veneration of black celebrities in politics, popular culture and sport, with the diminishing of the average African-American citizen in modern society. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674008243
ISBN
9780674008243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.74

Paperback. This book questions whether the best way to deal with religious diversity is to equalise upwards or downwards, what the obstacles to a more egalitarian religious pluralism are, and what we can learn from policies and practices in the Middle East and Asia. Editor(s): Triandafyllidou, Anna; Modood, Tariq. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR; JPA; JPFR. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474419093
ISBN
9781474419093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.55

Hardback. Editor(s): Modood, Professor of Sociology Politics and Public Policy and the Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship Tariq (University of Bristol). BIC Classification: HRAM2; JFC; JPA; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474419086
ISBN
9781474419086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.81

Paperback. Media analyst McChesney (communication, U. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) deconstructs how the media system works in the US so that citizens can see it isn't so mysterious and be inspired to take a role in reshaping the flawed policies that the system is built on. McChesney argues that the increasing Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583671054
ISBN
9781583671054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.58

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152723
ISBN
9780231152723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.15
€ 73.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152730
ISBN
9780231152730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.05

Paperback. Challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labour, is inherently a social and political good Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBL; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351122
ISBN
9780822351122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.68

Hardback. Challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labour, is inherently a social and political good Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBL; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350965
ISBN
9780822350965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.11

Hardback. Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed. Num Pages: 472 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 778.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400327
ISBN
9781421400327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.99

Paperback. Series: North American Religions. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479856763
ISBN
9781479856763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. This book culminates a thinking about the dynamics of institutionalized intergroup violence in northern India, covering the last three decades of British rule. Series: Jackson School Publications in International Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 30. Weight in Grams: 749.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295985060
ISBN
9780295985060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.52

Hardback. How Daniel Lerner's seminal work contributed to the overall professionalization of communication theory and sociology Num Pages: 226 pages, 6 tables. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439906248
ISBN
9781439906248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.32

Paperback. An ethnography focused on professional guinea pigs, healthy, paid research subjects who earn their living by participating in multiple Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348238
ISBN
9780822348238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JK; KJMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Monash University Publishing Australia
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781921867040
ISBN
9781921867040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.89

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