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Paperback. Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether. Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, contract theory has once again become central to the Western political tradition. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL3; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745640044
ISBN
9780745640044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.40

Paperback. This practical resource offers behavioural health professionals a nuanced view of diversity beyond race, culture, and ethnicity to include and interrogate intersectionality among race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, class, nationality, religion, and disability. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JKSN2; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 736.
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
5th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781506305752
ISBN
9781506305752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 162.47

Hardback. From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become a reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosophy and politics. How has imagination influenced our understanding of experience? This title uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HP; JFCX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021884
ISBN
9780674021884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.37
€ 115.76

Paperback. Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship - a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa. This title provides an analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of Afro-Atlantic World. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226019567
ISBN
9780226019567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. Offers a critical reading of The Cuba Commission Report, a massive testimony case that investigated the conditions of Chinese contract laborers in Cuba in 1874. From this case, this title traces the emergence of a 'coolie narrative' that forms a counterpart to the 'slave narrative'. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 Tables, 2 Halftones, 2 Figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KJ; GTB; JFC; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592135820
ISBN
9781592135820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.09

Hardcover. Introducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, this title focuses on Chinese labourers who worked side by side with African slaves in Cuba. This title presents an examination of writings by Chinese coolies that raises theoretical and methodological questions regarding freedom, race, diaspora, trans-nationalism, and globalization. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 tables, 2 illustrations, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592135813
ISBN
9781592135813
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Paperback. The Inkan empire did not have writing as it is usually understood. The Inkas kept track of information - including their social and political organization - on khipus, knotted cords of cotton or wool. This book offers a reading of the khipus of one Andean village, where villagers have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 368 pages, 55 photos (incl. 16 in color), 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1KLSX; HB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333906
ISBN
9780822333906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. This collection of 45 stories and legends embodies the culture, history and spirit of the Hispanic Southwest. The first chapter examines the origins and development of the stories. The book is illustrated with pictures of original paintings and sculpture by contemporary Latino artists. Series: World Folklore Series. Num Pages: 234 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLC; 1KLS; JFC; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 181 x 23. Weight in Grams: 738.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781563081941
ISBN
9781563081941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.29

Hardback. This volume of correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi opens in 1908 and closes on the eve of World War I. In their wealth of personal and scientific detail, the letters give us an intimate picture of psychoanalytic theory being made in the midst of an extraordinary friendship. Editor(s): Falzeder, Ernst; Giampieri-Deutsch, Patrizia. Translator(s): Hoffer, Peter T. Num Pages: 624 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJC; BGA; JFCX; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 944.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674174184
ISBN
9780674174184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.58
€ 100.72

Hardcover. Presents a comprehensive exploration of the Proportioned Script, an Arabic writing system attributed to the Abbasid wazir (minister) Ibn Muqla and the master scribe Ibn al-Bawwab that has dominated the art of Arabic and Islamic penmanship from the 10th century to the present day. Num Pages: 724 pages, 430 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBP; AKD; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 356 x 296 x 87. Weight in Grams: 7220.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Slp
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500517666
ISBN
9780500517666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.64
€ 104.99

Paperback. This book provides a comprehensive, critical study of the oldest and most famous argument for the existence of God: the Cosmological Argument. Professor Rowe examines and interprets historically significant versions of the argument from Aquinas to Samuel Clarke and explores the major objections that have been advances against it. Num Pages: 273 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB1; JFCX; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823218851
ISBN
9780823218851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Paperback. The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 38. Weight in Grams: 884.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745648729
ISBN
9780745648729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.55

Hardback. Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 black & white tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFS; JFMG; MFCC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230302594
ISBN
9780230302594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.44
€ 29.55

Paperback. .
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports United States
Number of pages
162
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780990976363
ISBN
9780990976363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. Explores the effects of political violence on children and young people in Northern Ireland. This title begins with a brief historical account of the Northern Irish conflict and the negotiated Belfast Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Editor(s): Muldoon, Orla. Series: Journal of Social Issues (JOSI). Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJP; JFSP1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Volume 60, Number 3, 2004
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405130479
ISBN
9781405130479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 386 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCM; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
McFarland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780786496082
ISBN
9780786496082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.91

Paperback. Outlines how the coalition government austerity program caused the cost of living crisis. The author recommends legislation that will make it difficult for governments to impose polices that are so blatantly in the interest of a wealthy privileged class. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JF; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Radical Read
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871204292
ISBN
9781871204292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

Hardback. Editor(s): Alvarez, Alvin N.; Liang, Christopher T.H.; Neville, Helen A. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781433820953
ISBN
9781433820953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.48
€ 89.15

Paperback. Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands! Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; WFB; WJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 275 x 16. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
IMPACT
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781440345166
ISBN
9781440345166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 20.63

Hardcover. Num Pages: 295 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KNDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 196 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1344.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774165719
ISBN
9789774165719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.29

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