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Paperback. In his final years, R.D. Laing (1927-1989) was arriving at lectures addled with hashish and brandy. Yet, earlier in the 20th-century he was an influential psychiatrist. Still, the author points out he was a man of contradictions, and mystery, and this text explores and searches into this mystery. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JM; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674953598
ISBN
9780674953598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.94

Hardcover. This volume reveals R.D. Laing's philosophical debts to existentialism and phenomenology in his theories of madness and sanity, family theory and family therapy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JMA; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674002173
ISBN
9780674002173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.64
€ 66.60

Paperback. This study offers an interpretation of the political battles that paved the way for reform in Iran. The author argues that the struggle for a more democratic Iran can be traced back to the revolution itself, and to the contradictory agendas of the revolution's founding father, Ayatollah Khomeini. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FBN; GTB; JPH; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
(hc and pb published simultaneously)
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226077581
ISBN
9780226077581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.62

Hardback. Students of democracy and institutional performance, both Latin Americanists and comparativists more generally, will find this essential reading. Editor(s): Brinks, Daniel M.; Leiras, Marcelo; Mainwaring, Scott. Num Pages: 432 pages, 19 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JPB; JPHV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 298 x 33. Weight in Grams: 742.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421414591
ISBN
9781421414591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.32
€ 64.81

Paperback. Students of democracy and institutional performance, both Latin Americanists and comparativists more generally, will find this essential reading. Editor(s): Brinks, Daniel M.; Leiras, Marcelo; Mainwaring, Scott. Num Pages: 432 pages, 19 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JPB; JPHV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421414607
ISBN
9781421414607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.39

Paperback. Global Democratic Theory is the first comprehensive introduction to the changing contours of democracy in today s hyperconnected world. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745680880
ISBN
9780745680880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.64

Hardcover. Global Democratic Theory is the first comprehensive introduction to the changing contours of democracy in today s hyperconnected world. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745680873
ISBN
9780745680873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.05

Hardback. This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each. Editor(s): Boyarin, Daniel; Itzkovitz, Daniel; Pellegrini, Ann. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113748
ISBN
9780231113748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.86
€ 89.47

"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism.. In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."-Jack Miles, Commonweal Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 816.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237641
ISBN
9780812237641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.21

Paperback. Offers an alternative to the Euro-American warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, this book reveals early rabbis - studious, family-oriented - as exemplars of manhood and the prime objects of female desire in traditional Jewish society. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 433 pages, 16. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSJ; JFSR1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
433
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520210509
ISBN
9780520210509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.19

Paperback. Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church, the author argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412. Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. 272 pages. Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church, the author argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight: 414.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520203365
ISBN
9780520203365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. This work shows how women between the 12th and 16th centuries were able to carve out areas of influence by exploiting the institutional church and by manipulating religious precepts. Contributors argue that women's participation in religious life offered them access to power in all its forms. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226066394
ISBN
9780226066394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.71

Hardback. Based on evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this book documents the mechanisms through which geographical and historical conditions - such as climate, access to water transportation, and early legal systems - impacted political and judicial institutions and economic growth. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 240 pages, 58 line illus. 48 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH; KCZ; LAZ; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136042
ISBN
9780691136042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.49
€ 42.14

Paperback. In What Do Women Want?, critically acclaimed journalist Daniel Bergner disseminates the latest scientific research and paints an unprecedented portrait of female lust Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JFSJ1; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 119 x 17. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782112570
ISBN
9781782112570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTV; HBW; JPFC; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
IMG Publications
Condition
New
SKU
V9780902869868
ISBN
9780902869868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. The turbulent story of the radical Left in the eloquent words of one of its foremost leaders Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA; BM; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Verso Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781781688182
ISBN
9781781688182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. In Ferraris for all, Daniel Ben-Ami argues that society as a whole benefits from greater affluence and action is needed to increase and spread global prosperity. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847423450
ISBN
9781847423450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.14

Hardcover. In Ferraris for all, Daniel Ben-Ami argues that society as a whole benefits from greater affluence and action is needed to increase and spread global prosperity. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847423467
ISBN
9781847423467
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.43
€ 46.46

Paperback. "With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism--and the culture it creates--harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a" Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Basic Books
Edition
20th Anniversary Ed
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465014996
ISBN
9780465014996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPFC; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801483097
ISBN
9780801483097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

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