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Society & culture: general

Hardback. The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. This book features some 500 articles by a range of scholars, that investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Editor(s): Grafton, Anthony; Most, Glenn W.; Settis, Salvatore. Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library. Num Pages: 928 pages, 165 color illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; GBA; HBLA; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 213 x 64. Weight in Grams: 2694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
928
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035720
ISBN
9780674035720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.31
€ 75.54

Hardback. Explores the origins and causes of the litigation trend, its implications for academic freedom, and what lawyers, judges, and academics themselves can do to limit the potential damage. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JNA; JNM; LNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035676
ISBN
9780674035676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.23
€ 48.00

Hardback. Mixing idealism with violence, abolitionist John Brown cut a wide swath across the United States before winding up in Virginia, where he led an attack on the US armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry. But he was quickly captured and, after a short but stormy trial, hanged on December 2, 1859. This book provides an account of the trial. Num Pages: 384 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBWJ; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035171
ISBN
9780674035171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.16

Hardback. 19th century theories of race were meant to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of civilizations. What they produced instead were the modern foundations for prejudice and its politics. The author investigates the links between erudition and race, showing the affinities between the social sciences and the concept of 'race'. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034044
ISBN
9780674034044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.17
€ 53.68

Paperback. By emphasizing the dramatic results that investments in AIDS treatments in Africa can bring, this book provides lessons to nations about scaling up their own treatment responses, hope to individuals and communities confronted with the often devastating impact of AIDS, and inspiration to the international HIV/AIDS community. Series: Harvard Series on Population and Development Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JFFH2; MBN; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 254 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033450
ISBN
9780674033450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033139
ISBN
9780674033139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Hardback. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; HRKN; HRLF; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033047
ISBN
9780674033047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.34

Hardback. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed Sichuan papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
425
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032880
ISBN
9780674032880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 41.87

Hardback. An ethnography that describes life in the Uyghur suburbs of Yining, a city near the border with Kazakhstan, and situates that account in a broader examination of Uyghur culture. This book explores topics ranging from family life to market trading, from informal socializing to forms of religious devotion. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 12 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSL. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032828
ISBN
9780674032828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.10

Hardback. The more than two dozen Rai languages in eastern Nepal are linguistically highly varied. This title includes introductory chapters to Rai mythology and Rai grammar. It brings together different variants of myths from various Rai languages, presenting them with linguistic glossings in interlinear translations. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 196 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKN; CFB; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 18. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032729
ISBN
9780674032729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis, avian flu: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. How can we steer a path between willful inaction and reckless overreaction? This work explores how we might prevent these and other worst-case scenarios. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFC; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 202 x 23. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032514
ISBN
9780674032514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.10

Hardback. A study of visuality in early modern and modern China. It identifies three distinct constellations of visual concerns corresponding to the late imperial, mid-twentieth century, and contemporary periods, respectively. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031746
ISBN
9780674031746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.32

Paperback. A history of American immigration policies and the political and social factors that produced them. It shows how America has struggled to shape the immigration process to construct the kind of population it desires. Num Pages: 672 pages, 22 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFN; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 892.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674030749
ISBN
9780674030749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.68

Paperback. Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? This book offers an opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. Editor(s): O'Brien, Kevin J. Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 line illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JF; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674030619
ISBN
9780674030619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.74

Hardback. The sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy is an acute crisis that Catholicism has faced since the Reformation. This book documents how church and government policymakers responded to the problem of clergy sexual abuse only under the pressure of private lawsuits. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC7; JFFE2; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674028104
ISBN
9780674028104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.60
€ 50.03

Paperback. Bridging the space between "Apocalypse Now Redux" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," this work intends to break down barriers of ignorance and arrogance that have segregated art forms from each other and from the world at large. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 200 x 80. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027329
ISBN
9780674027329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.66

Paperback. Ranging across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California, this title places Native peoples squarely at the center of a story that chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027206
ISBN
9780674027206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.87

Paperback. Spinal cord injury, or SCI, is frequently sudden and unexpected. This book covers the causes of and prognosis for SCI through case studies, review common courses of rehabilitation, and answer the "what now?" questions - from daily routines to larger issues concerning sex, education and employment, childbearing, and parenting with SCI. Series: The Harvard University Press Family Health Guides. Num Pages: 360 pages, 10 line illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027152
ISBN
9780674027152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.66

Hardback. Ruth R Wisse is a scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and one of our public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. This book pays tribute to her with a collection of essays related to Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature. Editor(s): Cammy, Justin Daniel; Horn, Dara; Quint, Alyssa; Rubinstein, Rachel. Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 450 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025851
ISBN
9780674025851
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.81
€ 67.37

Hardback. From the mid-17th to the mid-19th Century, millions of Korean men trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the state military examination (mukwa). This book provides a comprehensive socio-political history of the mukwa system. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 2 maps, 7 line illustrations, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025028
ISBN
9780674025028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.10

Hardback. Constructs a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances on income distribution. This book shows how parties choose their platforms and compete for votes. It offers insights into how politicians exploit social issues to advance their economic agenda. Num Pages: 432 pages, 59 line illustrations; 99 tables. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024953
ISBN
9780674024953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.76
€ 89.79

Hardback. The decades following the French Revolution saw unprecedented political and social experimentation. This work offers a re-evaluation of the effects of the French Revolution, especially on women. It demonstrates that women remained highly visible in urban public life. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 274 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024595
ISBN
9780674024595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.72
€ 110.63

Paperback. Catharine MacKinnon has been very instrumental in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice". This collection talks about her clear and consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 738.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024069
ISBN
9780674024069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

Hardback. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, the essays in this book focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah, kabbalah and spirituality, childhood and popular religion. Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674023932
ISBN
9780674023932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.72

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