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Hardback. "Writing a book about one of the most complex books ever assembled is no easy task, yet Griffiths rises to the occasion.. This work will be widely and warmly received by medievalists everywhere."-Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 412 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; HRLB; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 770.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239607
ISBN
9780812239607
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Hardback. "The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard University Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JB; CFC; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240153
ISBN
9780812240153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.56

Hardback. No Place of Rest pursues the literary traces of the traumatic expulsion of Jews from France in 1306. Through careful readings of liturgical, philosophical, memorial, and medical texts, Susan Einbinder reveals how medieval Jews asserted their identity in exile. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812241150
ISBN
9780812241150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.98

Hardback. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812242560
ISBN
9780812242560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

Hardback. Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative, models a new method of studying Talmudic law, and fills out the picture of the cultural life of the rabbis who contributed to the Talmud. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 523.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812242997
ISBN
9780812242997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.78

Hardcover. Fictions of Conversion investigates the anxieties produced by the rapid and erratic religious, political, and cultural transformations in early modern England, which were often given shape in poetry, plays, and translations by the figure of the Jewish converso. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244823
ISBN
9780812244823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

Hardcover. Among the many contentious frontier zones in nineteenth-century North America, Florida was an early and important borderland where the United States worked out how it would colonize new territories. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; HBJK; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248364
ISBN
9780812248364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Hardcover. Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds shows how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1QSA; HBTQ; HBTS; JFFN; LAZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248401
ISBN
9780812248401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.64

Paperback. This is an examination of the lives of black people in Victorian England. Contributors to the book look at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture of the time and also at their lives as they experienced them - as workers, travellers, lecturers, performers and professionals. Num Pages: 252 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813532158
ISBN
9780813532158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.57

Paperback. Tom Johnson, Corey Flintoff, Tony Kahn, and Ted Koppel are some of the better known contributors of the 16 essays, some of which were presented at a spring 1998 lecture series at the University of Rhode Island. The anthology is designed as a bridge between working journalists and academics in the fi Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JP; KNTJ; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813802565
ISBN
9780813802565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.56

Paperback. Deals with the human/companion animal relationship and what happens when that bond is broken. This book acknowledges the significance of the relationship and the grief involved when a pet dies or is terminally ill. It covers multidisciplinary care that can be given by veterinarians, psychiatrists, social workers, philosopher-ethicists, and others. Editor(s): Kay, William; Nieburg, Herbert; Kutscher, Austin; Grey, R.; Fudin, Carole. Num Pages: 198 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHBZ; VFJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813813271
ISBN
9780813813271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.83

Hardcover. Presents readers with a comprehensive understanding of economic structure in small communities and urban neighborhoods of America. This work also demonstrates how local participation and knowledge can be used to identify problems, form solutions, and maintain community support for long-term goals. Num Pages: 363 pages, 86. BIC Classification: JFSF; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 185 x 26. Weight in Grams: 833.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
363
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813816371
ISBN
9780813816371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813821672
ISBN
9780813821672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.34

Hardcover. Addresses the growing concern about journalism ethics in the United States and worldwide. Essays provide insights into the motivations, techniques, and challenges of journalists everywhere. Editor(s): Atkins, Joseph. Num Pages: 253 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFM; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813821887
ISBN
9780813821887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.79

Paperback. Treating the Dental Patient with a Developmental Disorder provides a basic understanding of patients with developmental and intellectual disorders and offers help in communicating with and treating these patients. Editor(s): Raposa, Karen A.; Perlman, Steven P. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; MMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 242 x 13. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Iowa State University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813823935
ISBN
9780813823935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.17

Paperback. An ethnographical examination of self harm in teenagers Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP2; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814705070
ISBN
9780814705070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Focuses on the issues of Arab immigrants post 9/11 and the way they interact with global processes Num Pages: 242 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBL; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814707340
ISBN
9780814707340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. An exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countries Editor(s): Alba, Richard; Waters, Mary. Num Pages: 382 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814707432
ISBN
9780814707432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardcover. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, this book shows how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814708460
ISBN
9780814708460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.77

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814708675
ISBN
9780814708675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

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