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Paperback. The spiritual and psychological insights of these essays were nurtured in a monastic milieu, but their issues are universally human. Thomas Merton lays a foundation for personal growth and transformation through fidelity to "our own truth and inner being". Series: Gethsemani Studies in Psychological & Religious Anthropology. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HRCR; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268008345
- ISBN
- 9780268008345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. Political elites submit to the mass media's formulas in the hope of salvaging some influence over their public images. The media thus colonize politics, and the politicians' self-interest turns them into accomplices. This book argues that the media transform traditional party democracy into a media democracy. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFD; JPHV; JPL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628448
- ISBN
- 9780745628448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.68
€ 24.68
Hardback. The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the world has put social democracy on the defensive. Its adherents lack a clear rationale for their policies. Yet a justification for social democracy is implicit in the United Nations Covenants on Human Rights, ratified by most of the worlds countries. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745641126
- ISBN
- 9780745641126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.17
€ 79.17
perfect. Series: Studien zur Sozialwissenschaft. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 489.
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Germany
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531130316
- ISBN
- 9783531130316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.23
€ 81.23
Paperback / so. Num Pages: colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 26. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531151793
- ISBN
- 9783531151793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.62
€ 56.62
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 227 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531154886
- ISBN
- 9783531154886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.34
€ 37.34
paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 209.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531160023
- ISBN
- 9783531160023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.73
€ 36.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Tughra Books United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597842891
- ISBN
- 9781597842891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR2; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 226 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Blue Dome Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935295594
- ISBN
- 9781935295594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Hardback. Offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of forestry "miracle" in Chile. This book narrates the century-long struggles among peasants, indigenous communities, large landowners, and the state over access to forest commons in the frontier territory. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBG; HBLW; JFC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822355984
- ISBN
- 9780822355984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
Paperback. A uniquely detailed portrayal of the formative years of Tanzania's first president and the influences that led him to enter politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; 3JJ; BGH; HBJH; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011503
- ISBN
- 9781847011503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.57
€ 33.99
€ 32.57
Paperback. Wearing a mask - putting on another face - embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. This book explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other". Num Pages: 246 pages, 121 colour and 100 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ANH; APF; HP; JFC; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292752474
- ISBN
- 9780292752474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.32
€ 43.99
€ 38.32
Paperback. Serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. In this edition, the author contextualizes More's life and within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance. Translator(s): Miller, Clarence H. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300186109
- ISBN
- 9780300186109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.27
€ 18.99
€ 15.27
Paperback. Offers a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island (Utopia) where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfillment is open to all. Translator(s): Baker-Smith, Dominic. Num Pages: 192 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442327
- ISBN
- 9780141442327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
€ 11.99
€ 10.22
Paperback. Paints a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony. This work is also an attack on the author's own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 10. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141043692
- ISBN
- 9780141043692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.45
€ 10.99
€ 9.45
Paperback. A unique edition of three early modern utopian texts, using a contemporary translation of More's Utopia and examining the Renaissance world view as shown by these writers. The edition includes the illustrative material that accompanied early editions of Utopia, full chronologies of the authors, notes, and glossary. Editor(s): Bruce, Susan. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537990
- ISBN
- 9780199537990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.95
€ 10.99
€ 9.95
Paperback. Inspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world. Editor(s): Logan, George M. Translator(s): Adams, Robert M. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 210 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393932461
- ISBN
- 9780393932461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.53
€ 17.99
€ 16.53
Hardcover. Editor(s): Juelskjar, Malou. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Danmarks Paedagogiske Universitetsskole Denmark
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788776842178
- ISBN
- 9788776842178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.35
€ 34.35
Paperback. A cultural studies examination of the 20th-century genre of dystopian fiction in the political and scholarly context of the evolution of science fiction studies and utopian studies since the 1960s. Num Pages: 406 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813397689
- ISBN
- 9780813397689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.69
€ 72.69
Paperback. China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. This book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 line illustration, 4 maps, 22 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362. Ethnic Classification in Modern China. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. This book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSL. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight: 350.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272743
- ISBN
- 9780520272743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.26
€ 40.99
€ 29.26