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Society & social sciences
Hardback. This title seeks to develop a discouse on different cultures, philosophies and religions. The author approaches the study fo philosophy from a cross-cultural perspective allowing for fundamental similarities and illuminating differences between cultures. Series: Philosophy and the Global Context. Num Pages: 169 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692781
- ISBN
- 9780847692781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.12
€ 182.12
Paperback. An analysis of serious but subtle forms of oppression involving neither physical violence nor the use of law. It uncovers a set of underlying moral principles that account for the immorality of civilized oppression, and points to some of the implications for social and institutional life. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692750
- ISBN
- 9780847692750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.52
€ 62.52
The Princess and the Philosopher. Letters of Elisabeth of the Palatine...
Nye, Andrea; Elisabeth, Princess
Hardback. A collection of the translated letters of the 17th-century correspondent and friend of Descartes, Princess Elisabeth. Her questions provoked Descartes to think about ethics and the passions. The volume contains a running commentary on the historical, biographical and intellectual context. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BG; HPC; HPQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692644
- ISBN
- 9780847692644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.77
€ 183.77
Hardback. When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents quilty of murder for withholding that treatment? This text debates the issues of who is ultimately responsible for deciding such questions and how to accommodate Christian Science views and practices. Series: Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC99; JFM; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692620
- ISBN
- 9780847692620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.74
€ 147.74
Paperback. An examination of notions of paternity and maternity in culture, film, science and law. It studies the role of paternal responsibility, virility and race in such events as the Million Man March and suggests ways to conceive of self-other relations and the subjective identity at stake in them. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JHBK; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692538
- ISBN
- 9780847692538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.93
€ 30.99
€ 25.93
Paperback. Paul Ricoeur has developed a substantial and distinctive body of political thought. This study looks at the paradoxical character of the domain of politics and provides an approach to topics such as the relationship among politics, economics and ethics. Series: 20th Century Political Thinkers. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692378
- ISBN
- 9780847692378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.45
€ 68.45
hardcover. Paul Ricoeur has developed a substantial and distinctive body of political thought. This study looks at the paradoxical character of the domain of politics and provides an approach to topics such as the relationship among politics, economics and ethics. Series: 20th Century Political Thinkers. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692361
- ISBN
- 9780847692361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 206.90
€ 206.90
Paperback. The essays in America, the West, and Liberal Education attempt to advance our understanding of the proper purposes of liberal education in America by exploring the relationship between the free pursuit of truth and the practical ends embedded in a particular tradition or political community. Editor(s): Hancock, Ralph C. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNA; JNK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692316
- ISBN
- 9780847692316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.53
€ 77.53
Paperback. The exact place of the family in a healthy political community, and the appropriate way to sustain it, are profoundly complicated and difficult questions. The distinguished contributors to this book endeavor to provide some answers. Editor(s): Wolfe, Christopher. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; JPH; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692255
- ISBN
- 9780847692255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.04
€ 68.04
hardcover. The exact place of the family in a healthy political community, and the appropriate way to sustain it, are profoundly complicated and difficult questions. The distinguished contributors to this book endeavor to provide some answers. Editor(s): Wolfe, Christopher. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; JPH; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692248
- ISBN
- 9780847692248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.02
€ 188.02
Paperback. In this survey of Western attitudes and laws about abortion, Jeffrey Reiman argues that an overlooked clue to the solution of the moral problem lies in the unusual way in which we value the lives of individual human beings - namely, that we value them irreplaceably. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 10. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692088
- ISBN
- 9780847692088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardback. Lee Brown was an African-American labour activist who was jailed in the 1950s for protesting against the House Un-American Activities Committee. This is the story of Brown's life from his political awakening as a youth from the rural South to his rise to leadership, time of imprisonment and beyond. Series: Voices and Visions: People & Events That Made a Dfference in American Life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691913
- ISBN
- 9780847691913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.24
€ 32.99
€ 28.24
Hardback. This volume develops a general theory of social evolution and uses it to explain important evolutionary transformations in human history. It includes a discussion of the biological constraints acting on humans that have helped to push social evolution along similar lines all over the world. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691876
- ISBN
- 9780847691876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.43
€ 205.43
Paperback. Addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. It surveys the range of 20th-century sociology to deconstruct those nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. Series: Postmodern Social Futures. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691791
- ISBN
- 9780847691791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.30
€ 76.30
Paperback. This work seeks to incorporate the "postmodern" debate on the self with a philosophical exploration of identity and cultural formation, and the dynamics of social power underlying them. It analyzes the historical, social, political, religious and psychoanalytical dimensions of civilized life. Series: Postmodern Social Futures. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JHM; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691777
- ISBN
- 9780847691777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.21
€ 73.21
Paperback. An examination of euthanasia and the "right to die" in the context of social, legal and religious settings of a range of countries. The authors use public opinion data to illustrate the disparity between approval of physician-assisted suicide and the general illegality of the practice. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFME. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691678
- ISBN
- 9780847691678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.59
€ 64.59
Hardback. An examination of the strategies used by outsiders to usurp Hawaiian lands and undermine indigenous Hawaiian culture. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, it investigates Captain Cook's journals, Hollywood films and commercialized hula, to show how they displace native culture. Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian & Pacific Perspectives. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JFSL9; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- KDenn
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691401
- ISBN
- 9780847691401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.09
€ 162.09
Hardback. From coming-of-age rituals in South Africa to the impact of computers and popular magazines on girls in Japan and Germany, this collection of girls' voices from across the globe invites the reader to learn more about their varied girlhoods. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691364
- ISBN
- 9780847691364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.97
€ 185.97
Paperback. Series: New Social Formations. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691302
- ISBN
- 9780847691302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.19
€ 69.19
Hardback. Series: New Social Formations. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691296
- ISBN
- 9780847691296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.24
€ 162.24