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Hardcover. The first full-length biography of a premodern Japanese nun, The Princess Nun is the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshoji. The study incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; BGX; HBJF; HRE; JFSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674491977
ISBN
9780674491977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290. Restoring the Soul of a Woman. 240 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ1. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 14. Weight: 290.
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Repackaged ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764208492
ISBN
9780764208492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.52

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

€ 108.13
€ 83.75

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

€ 93.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR; JPA; KCA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349224418
ISBN
9781349224418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 193.69

Hardback. Examines the methodological development of the principles of Islamic political economy in its theoretical and applied aspects. This is carried out in a general equilibrium framework using the theory of social choice. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR2; JP; KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333535394
ISBN
9780333535394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.65

Hardback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333382448
ISBN
9780333382448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

Hardcover. A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relationships with W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson, this book tracks racial identity in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137484093
ISBN
9781137484093
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFMC; JKVP1; JMK; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137532411
ISBN
9781137532411
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.92

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

€ 38.74

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

€ 94.03
€ 73.24

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

€ 5.72

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

€ 42.99
€ 31.11

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

€ 19.28

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

€ 26.52

Paperback. The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; PDA; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137433091
ISBN
9781137433091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.89

Hardcover. Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animal suffering. In this book, Dougherty defends radical possibilities for animal afterlife that allow a soul-making theodicy to apply to their case. Series Editor(s): Nagasawa, Yujin; Wielenberg, Erik J. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230368484
ISBN
9780230368484
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.71

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

€ 40.99
€ 34.75

Paperback. This important contribution to the study of the problem of order, which figures prominently in today's globalization debate, focuses on the role of sovereignty. It advances arguments based on psychocultural perspectives and looks at postcommunist transformations and changes in political, economic and cultural orders at all levels of social life. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349533732
ISBN
9781349533732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.96

Hardcover. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403972446
ISBN
9781403972446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

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