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Hardback. Examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. This book also demonstrates the importance of gender, kinship, and sexuality to the making of democratic civic ideology. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG; JFC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115832
- ISBN
- 9780691115832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.20€ 68.78
€ 88.20
€ 68.78
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107176423
- ISBN
- 9781107176423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.15
€ 75.15
Tourists may want a life uncomplicated by technology, but would they be willing to drive around in horse-drawn buggies in order to achieve it?Trollinger's answers to important questions in her fascinating study of Amish Country tourism are sure to challenge readers' understanding of this surprising cultural phenomenon. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20, 4 maps, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; JFSR; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404196
- ISBN
- 9781421404196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.60
€ 66.60
Paperback. Reveals the dynamic relationship between welfare state and the history of women and health. This book demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's care giving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252072475
- ISBN
- 9780252072475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.76
€ 38.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195373196
- ISBN
- 9780195373196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.12
€ 21.12
Paperback. This study analyzes policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country, explaining the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on interviews with high-level Chinese officials, it pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions. Series: California Series on Social Choice & Political Economy. Num Pages: 412 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JPQB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520077072
- ISBN
- 9780520077072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 32.02
€ 43.99
€ 32.02
Hardcover. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 183 x 17. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608764044
- ISBN
- 9781608764044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.34€ 117.66
€ 169.34
€ 117.66
Paperback. From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. This book portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015064
- ISBN
- 9780691015064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.68€ 51.27
€ 64.68
€ 51.27
Hardback. Investigates the effects of victim-offender dialogue programs that allow victims of violent crime to meet their incarcerated attackers. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKV; LNFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814795521
- ISBN
- 9780814795521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.22
€ 92.22
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781450401869
- ISBN
- 9781450401869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.33€ 59.94
€ 62.33
€ 59.94
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
€ 76.95
€ 76.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNLC; JNSG2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- AAPC Publishing
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934575833
- ISBN
- 9781934575833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.69
€ 24.69
Hardcover. Waged for a just cause, World War II was America's good war. Yet for millions of GIs, the war did not end with the enemy's surrender. From letters, diaries, and memoirs, Susan Carruthers chronicles the intimate thoughts and feelings of ordinary servicemen and women whose difficult mission was to rebuild nations they had recently worked to destroy. Num Pages: 380 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: HBWQ; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674545700
- ISBN
- 9780674545700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.92
€ 47.99
€ 39.92
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813536712
- ISBN
- 9780813536712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.62
€ 41.99
€ 37.62
Paperback. Departing from earlier studies of kokugaku (which means "the study of our country"), this title considers how three of the more marginalized participants in the movement challenged its principal founder and engaged its fundamental concerns about what defines the Japanese nation and unifies those within it. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331728
- ISBN
- 9780822331728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.41
€ 36.99
€ 34.41
Paperback. A collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also about invisible landscapes - places of the heart that linger long after they have disappeared from the world outside. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 231 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299208646
- ISBN
- 9780299208646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.41
€ 24.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BGLA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925363
- ISBN
- 9780813925363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.41
€ 34.41
Hardcover. Available online or as a 3-volume print set, this authoritative reference work contains more than 300 entries covering all aspects of the multi-disciplinary field of adult development and aging. Editor(s): Whitbourne, Susan Krauss. Num Pages: 1656 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JFSP3; JMD; MFKH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 1656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118528921
- ISBN
- 9781118528921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 612.97
€ 612.97
Hardback. In this interdisciplinary study of Asian-white miscegenation from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century, Koshy traces the shifting gender and racial hierarchies produced by antimiscegenation laws and their role in shaping cultural norms. These laws thus turned sex acts into race acts and engendered new meanings for both. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747288
- ISBN
- 9780804747288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.22
€ 132.22
Hardback. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 312 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBBW; 2AB; DSB; HBJK; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803226999
- ISBN
- 9780803226999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.41
€ 60.41